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Chick-f il-A set to open Okemos location near Meijer in March

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDCOK@STATENEWS.COM

The newest location would be approximately three miles from MSU’s campus, a shorter distance than the Lansing Chick-fil-A, which is approximately nine miles away. As with other recent Chick-fil-A openings, a First 100 Campout event will be held, giving dedicated patrons a shot at a free chicken sandwich meal every week for a year. First 100 events often field scores of customers, camped out on restaurant’s lawn up to 24 hours before the opening, underscoring a fanaticism with Chick-fil-A’s chicken sandwiches.

A new Chick-fil-A location is tentatively set to open March 30 in front of the Okemos Meijer off Grand River Avenue. It will be the second franchise to open in the Lansing area.

Chick-fil-A’s have largely populated the southern United States with origins in Atlanta dating back to 1946, according to its website.

The franchise has since expanded throughout much of the continental United States. There are currently five open locations in Michigan.

Peter Menser, senior planner for Meridian “We’re really excited Township, said construction on the new loca- that Chick-fil-A is here in tion began in late 2016. The location has a Meridian Township and tentative opening date of March 30, though the opening could be pushed back until April. we’ll do all we can to “We’re really excited that Chick-fil-A is here support them.” in Meridian Township, and we’ll do all we can to support them when they open and through- Peter Menser, Senior planner Meridian Township out this process,” Menser said.

From left, Atlanta, Ga. residents Derrick Johnson and Shane Roberts install tiles on Feb. 6 at the new Chick-fil-A in Okemos. The construction is scheduled to be completed by March 30. PHOTO: ZAINA MAHMOUD

E.L., state weigh immigration ban implications

BY EUGENE KUTZ EKUTZ@STATENEWS.COM

President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees have been halted in the wake of several U.S. judges ordering an emergency stop to the Trump administration’s and Homeland Security’s actions.

On Tuesday evening, the 3-judge 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals of San Francisco listened to objections to the order by the states of Minnesota and Washington as federal government attorneys attempted to reverse the suspension placed on the order last Friday by Seattle’s U.S. judge James Robart.

The ban was active from the moment of its signing only a week after Trump took office

on Jan. 27, and calls for an emergency freeze on refugee entrance to the U.S. for 120 days and barred arrivals from seven countries for 90 days.

The countries listed are Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The chaos resulted in numerous legal challenges with concerns for all people from these countries, including international students at universities like MSU. Currently over 5,000 refugees have found refuge in Michigan, almost 1,700 of which are from Syria. Comparitavely, 133 MSU students hail from the seven banned countries.

During the ban’s enforcement, Gov. R ic k Snyder expressed a need to reach out

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to other governors and President Trump’s administration for clarification and dialogue.

The Governor said he supports “safe and secure borders” while citing Michigan as “one of the most welcoming states for legal immigration and properly vetted refugees.”

Meanwhile, Snyder’s Commission on Middle Eastern American Affairs, or CMEAA, voiced concern that the order was “tearing families apart and further displacing thousands of vulnerable refugees in desperate need of a place of refugee.”

Mayor of East Lansing Mark Meadows believes this executive order would impact the city, citing the concerns that world-university communities like MSU now have, where 12 percent of the student population is foreign-born and needs to travel at some point between their home nation and the campus.

Meadows believes such a ban would negatively affect the local economy, although he

admitted exactly how is hard to predict. A possible scenario Meadows conceived is if a student from a banned country becomes trapped in their home nation and defaults on their rental agreement with a landlord.

“Just the uncertainty will impact MSU, in a sense that students who maybe thought they would be coming here are reluctant to do so, and that may impact every university community in the nation,” Meadows said.

Michigan’s 23rd District Senator and MSU graduate Curtis Hertel Jr. said Michigan’s refugees are a vital component of the state and East Lansing.

“It’s important to the small businesses in our area and it’s important to our economy as a whole. So I think beyond the huge personal tragedies that are occurring, it also effects even greater the East Lansing area,” Hertel said.

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Turnovers frustrated MSU against U-M

Local church supports refugees

Attempt to remove tampon tax

The MSU men’s basketball team’s loss to U-M was the result of poor execution

Following Trump’s executive order, All Saints Episcopal Church reaches out to refugees

A bill was introduced to remove sales and use tax of feminine hygiene products

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“Going through the process of picking up the refugees from the airport until the time that they gain self-sufficiency, which means they have a job and things like that. I think as far as refugees that is the moment I knew I wanted to do something along these lines.”

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Business-preference freshman Eric Barber laughs with other club members during the MSU Tea Club meeting on Feb. 7 at The Union. “It’s a club to unite tea enthusiasts across campus, but at the same time, it’s also about having a chill environment where we can bring different people of different cultures – because tea is very multicultural,” Momin Samad said. Neuroscience senior Momin Samad is the vice president of MSU Tea Club, and the club meets at 7 p.m. every other Tuesday at Union. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

Hall of fame awaits for former kicker

BY CASEY HARRISON CHARRISON@STATENEWS.COM

After a five-year wait, former MSU kicker Morten Andersen will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

Andersen is the second kicker to ever earn a spot in Canton and will join LaDanian Tomlinson, Terrell Davis, Kurt Warner, Kenny Easley and current Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones as the Class of 2017.

Originally from Copenhagen, Denmark, Andersen came to MSU from Ben Davis high school in Indianapolis and played with the Spartans in 44 games from 1978-81 and named a Firstteam All-American in 1981. In his four seasons at MSU, Andersen made 126-of-130 extra point attempts and 45 field goals on 72 attempts for a combined total of 261 points at the collegiate level. Andersen was inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011.

Andersen played in the National Football League from 1982-2007, most notably with the

New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons and is the all-time leading scorer in the NFL with 2,544 points. Andersen was also named to seven Pro Bowls, a six-time All-Pro and the NFL All-Decade Team for the 1980s and 1990s.

Andersen, who also holds the all-time record in field goals made with 565 and games played with 382, will join the company of kicker Jan Stenerud and punter Ray Guy as the only specialists in the Hall of Fame.

Andersen is the second kicker to earn a spot in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He also holds the all-time record for field goals made.

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A look at bills, budget to affect public education in coming year

Gov. Rick Snyder addresses the audience during the State of the State Address on Jan. 17 at the Capitol in Lansing. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

BY EUGENE KUTZ EKUTZ@STATENEWS.COM

The 2017-18 session currently sees several bills introduced to Michigan’s House of Representatives that regard public schools. Some, however, see the number as minimal and symptomatic of a lack of interest in higher education.

Requiring tests for lead levels and contaminants in public school water -House Bill HB 4120 (2017-18) This bill would require testing levels of lead and other contaminants in water supplied to public schools.

The bill was sponsored by state Rep. Adam Zemke (D-Ann Arbor) and requires at least once every three years a supplier of water to public schools to collect samples from drinking faucets at the schools they supply.

These samples would then be analyzed for “lead and all other contaminants” for state drinking water standards.

Results of the samples would be made available to the department and to the respective public schools.

Prohibiting operation of public schools on for-profit basis -Senate Joint Resolution SJR D (2017-18) On Feb. 1, Michigan’s Senate saw the introduction of Senate Joint Resolution D, which seeks to prohibit the operation of public school on for-profit basis in the state constitution.

A joint resolution proposed by Michigan Sen. Rebekah Warren (D-Ann Arbor), SJR D proposes an amendment to the state constitution by pro-

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hibiting public schools from being operated on a for-profit basis or by a for-profit entity.

The legislature seeks to maintain and support a system of free public elementary and secondary schools and charges every school district with the education “of its pupils without discrimination on religion, creed, race, color or national origin.”

It states no public school will operate on a for-profit basis by its governing body, which also will not contract with organizations or entities to provide comprehensive educational, administrative, management or instructional services or staff unless they are also operated on a nonprofit basis.

The resolution says no public funds or property can be appropriated, paid or given public credit that were by the legislature or any other political subdivision or agency of the state, directly or indirectly to aid or maintain any private, denominational or other nonpublic, pre-elementary, ele-

“I’m hopeful that there’s going to be more money available to colleges and universities, in particular since really I don’t know how much longer families and students can afford to pay the tuition bills that they’re being hit with now.”

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It goes on to state that no payment, credit, tax benefit, exemption or deductions, tuition voucher, subsidy, grant or loan of public monies or property can be provided, directly or indirectly, to support the attendance of a student or employee of any person at a nonpublic school or at any location or institution where instruction is offered in whole or in part to such nonpublic school students.

However, the legislature grants funds being used to transport students to and from any school.

The amendment will be on the ballot for voters to decide at the next general election.

Equal school funding per pupil in K-12 -Senate Joint Resolution SJR A (2017-18) and Senate Joint Resolution SJR B (2017-18) -House Joint Resolution HJR D (2017-18) and House Joint Resolution HJR E (2017-18) On Feb. 2, the Michigan House of Representatives introduced House Joint Resolutions D and E by state Rep. Tom Barrett (R-Potterville), following Senate Joint Resolutions A and B by state Sen. Rick Jones (R-Grand Ledge) to the Senate at the end of January.

Virtually identical, SJR A and HJR D seek to ensure an equal amount of per pupil funding during a 10-year period for all local school districts.

In the same way, SJR B and HJR E seek to revise the permissible uses of these school aid funds.

The revised SJR A and HJR D again seek to ensure all children in Michigan K-12 schools receive the same funding from the state within 10 years.

This time new language included in SJR B and HJR E maintains the creation of a school aid fund, provided with revenue from the 2 percent sales tax increase that was originally passed for this purpose.

Jones said both of these proposals are the result of Proposal A that was on the ballot in 2011, when a 2 percent sales tax increase was passed with the intent to correct the disparities affecting each child in K-12 education.

Yet the ballot proposal did not include the necessary language to secure this new tax revenue for K-12 funding, instead making a broader declaration of the funds for education.

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm discovered, Jones said, it was possible to take the revenue from the 2 percent tax raise, by first designating it for community colleges then taking it from their into general fund spending.

“That took money away from K-12,” Jones said.

HJR Proposal D would go back and fix the original promise of Proposal A to fix K-12 funding, Jones said.

“People were told that the additional two percent would go to fund K-12,” Jones said. “They were also told that eventually all schools would be equalized in per pupil funding. That has not happened.”

These two proposals would put this issue back on the Michigan ballot, giving the people a chance to vote for fixing what happened in 2011 by mistake, Jones said.

“I think this is important because a child in Lansing, a child in Detroit and a child in Marquette all should get the same state funding,” Jones said.

A lack of concern?

East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows said he isn’t familiar with any bills focused on higher education percolating in the 2017-18 session.

“I know that the governor had pitched the idea of grabbing some of the public education money for something he wanted to do,” Meadows said. “But the pushback was so strong from both sides of the aisle that he abandoned that attempt.”

Meadows said he believes there is some recognition by both parties that higher education and public education should receive more funding.

“I’m hopeful that there’s going to be more money available to colleges and universities, in particular since really I don’t know how much longer families and students can afford to pay the tuition bills that they’re being hit with now,” Meadows said.

Meadows cited the astronomical rise in tuition

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since the late 1960s.

“It’s really a burden that has fallen on families and students for too long a period of time,” Meadows said. “We need to fix this.”

Meadows described how politicians can become isolated from their local communities, really only engaging with the people they’re representing when they have to campaign every two years.

“I think what has happened is because the governor stripped local communities, especially local schools, of so much money at the start of his administration,” he said. “The effect of that has been seen in every school district. So when people on both sides of the aisle go out and they knock on somebody’s door, they often get some feedback on the lack of money in public education and I think that has affected both sides of the aisle in how they’re looking at this.”

“I think that any time we give funding to universities and colleges, we should demand that they hold down tuition costs.”

Sen. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge Jones said he believes funding should be appropriated to universities as long as they are held accountable for maintaining affordable tuition.

“I think that any time we give funding to universities and colleges, we should demand that they hold down tuition costs,” Jones said. “We shouldn’t give them money without requirements.”

More funding However, on Feb. 8, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder announced the new fiscal year 2018 state budget that looks to increase higher education spending.

Snyder recommended a 2.5 percent increase, or $36.6 million, which would raise university funding to $1.5 billion.

The budget also recommends increases in higher education funding for financial aid assistance like scholarship and grant programs, totaling $18 million.

A 10 percent, or $5.3 million, increase is included for the Tuition Incentive Program. The program supports about 18,500 students, aiding low-income Medicaid-eligible students with funding for an associate’s degree and up to $2,000 for baccalaureate work.

The Detroit Free Press reported under this proposal schools like Wayne State University and Lake Superior State University will net less than 2.5 percent, whereas schools such as Grand Valley State University and Oakland University will net more than 2.5 percent.

In a statement to the Free Press, Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson said they’re happy to see Snyder allocate funds for higher education. However, Wilson said the Carnegie Foundation’s formula used to determine a university’s performance is flawed, which measures public and Ivy League institutions against one another for the amount of research conducted.

“With this formula, Wayne State would actually receive more performance funding if it did less research, which would benefit neither the university nor the state,” Wilson said in the statement.

In a statement, Snyder said his administration has worked diligently each year to increase appropriations for higher education, and said this increase will restore higher education funding to previous levels.

“As a state, we need to continue to invest in higher education to develop the talent that will fill the jobs of Michigan’s future,” Snyder said in the statement.

BILL BREAKDOWN Senate Joint Resolution SJR A (2017-18) Description: Revise permissible uses of school aid funds.

Categories: Constitutional Amendments, State Introduced: 01/26/2017 by Senator Rick Jones

Senate Joint Resolution SJR D (2017-18) Description: Prohibit operation of public school on for-profit basis in the state constitution.

Categories: Constitutional Amendments, State Introduced: 02/01/2017 by Senator Rebekah Warren

House Bill HB 4120 (2017-18) Description: Require testing for levels of lead and other contaminants in water supplied to public schools.

Categories: Water, quality Introduced: 01/31/2017 by Representative Adam Zemke

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Global studies in the arts and humanities senior Kaylah Jetton presents information during the No Lost Generation Initiative of MSU meeting on Feb. 2 at Berkey Hall. The group was discussing ideas for future fundraisers that would enable education and advocacy for different refugee populations. “We tend to, at regular meetings, bring up different refugee crises that are going on in the world and take action on them,” Jetton said. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

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Global studies in the arts and humanities senior Kaylah Jetton started the No Lost Generation Initiative in October 2016 in hopes a group of 15 to 20 people could help the refugee crisis through one event at a time.

“We bring education and advocacy to the global refugee crisis at large,” Jetton said. “We want to give a voice and educate students about what’s going on and how they can help.”

Jetton found her passion after she got involved with St. Vincent Catholic Charities, one of the major resettlement agencies in Mid-Michigan.

There, Jetton developed a personal connection with many of the refugees who came to America in search of a better life.

“I met refugees from all walks of life and helped them get a job, helped them find housing, enroll their kids in school,” Jetton said. “Going through the process of picking up the refugees from the airport until the time that they gain self-sufficiency, which means they have a job and things like that. I think, as far as refugees that is, the moment I knew I wanted to do something along these lines.”

Jetton said it can take one and a half to two years for refugees to get acclimated into American life. She said programs like the No Lost Generation Initiative are crucial, especially in today’s political climate.

“There isn’t a word that could honestly describe it, I could say sad, I could say difficult but there is really not a word,” Jetton said. “It is more than devastating to see the people that you helped navigate through American life, and to see them be forcibly be taken away from a country that they trusted in is what’s most disappointing.”

Jetton said she would like to become a foreign service officer and keep working with refugees while traveling abroad.

“The most rewarding part, I think, is definitely seeing them happy and thriving in a place where they feel safe,” Jetton said. “It has nothing to do with me personally, it is what happens with them.”

Jetton traveled to Japan in the summer of 2015, where she was able to put her Japanese skills to the test. She has been speaking Japanese since she was 5 years old. The 21-year-old encouraged people to study abroad, learn a new language and stay educated on issues with refugees.

“Find a group on campus, join No Lost Generation because you can only learn so much on the internet,” Jetton said. “Learning right now would be the best thing and then finding any campaign on campus that is promoting saving refugees, that is promoting their right to be here, be human and their right to safety.”

Interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Husn Abbasi works with Jetton in No Lost Generation as the special events director. Abbasi said she joined the group to help people.

“I couldn’t bear that I was just sitting there on social media posting things and not doing anything, so I like this club because it gives an opportunity to actually do stuff,” Abbasi said. “Any groups like this, it is just to help people, you know? We have this privilege and the ability to do these things and we should be going out and helping people with it.”

Neuroscience sophomore Hassan Karim said he joined because of the heightened tensions with refugees and said it is important to be involved.

“If you are trying to help someone, if you have more hands to help them, it gets done faster, also it’s good to spread the word,” Karim said.

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MSU men’s basketball struggles despite scripted offensive plays

BY CONNOR CLARK CCLARK@STATENEWS.COM

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — After a 29-point embarrassment from in-state rivals University of Michigan, MSU not only tied the record for the largest margin of defeat under head coach Tom Izzo, but the Spartans started the game lazy and sloppy — even when they had a script.

It might not be Shakespeare, but Izzo said the team comes prepared to play with three or four offensive sets ready.

Whether it is a staggered screen for fifthyear senior guard Eron Harris or a post-up by freshman forward Nick Ward, the script gives the team a general sense of direction to help start the game off strong.

The Spartans took their prepared script to battle, but it led to a catastrophic failure.

“They put a little bit of pressure on, we had some backdoor, we had some lob plays that we thought were wide open we just didn’t execute,” Izzo said. “We script our first four plays and we screwed up all four. We script them for two days, we script them the day of

the game, we script them in the walkthrough and we screwed them all up.”

The first four possessions for MSU were: a missed shot from junior guard Lourawls “Tum Tum” Nairn Jr., an offensive foul on freshman forward Miles Bridges, a turnover by freshman guard Cassius Winston and a missed jumper by Ward.

“We have to execute, especially the first few plays because they’re written down,” Bridges said. “After that we just have to go off with what coach tells us to do, but if we write down plays we have to execute and we didn’t.”

As a team, MSU turned the ball over 21 times, Winston with six and Bridges with five.

A season phenomenon — waiting until the last few seconds of the shot clock before starting a play — reared its ugly head. U-M’s defense forced four shot clock violations in the first half.

“That’s our focus,” Winston said. “You can do all you want before the game, but if you’re not ready to play when the ball tips off a lot of things can go wrong and from the jump. A lot of little things went wrong and it built up.”

MSU and U-M have now split the season

series with one win apiece.

While MSU was riding a two-game winning streak, U-M was desperate to snap its twogame losing streak.

With the throbbing at the Crisler Center, MSU demonstrated another decline in its ever-changing roller coaster.

A common theme for the Spartans this season has been the inability to continue momentum on the road. The trend has continued on the big stage.

“It’s us against the world and we just have to rally together, and today we didn’t rally together,” Winston said. “Usually we do a good job of rallying together, having each other’s back, pushing through adversity, but today we just didn’t.”

Although Izzo mentioned the lack of practice time in the beginning of the travel-heavy schedule, the past few weeks have been nothing short of positive compliments about the team’s practices.

As the team slowly develops its identity, Izzo said translating practice to the game will be an important step.

“The last step you have to take to become a

good team — a real good team — is can you take practice to a game,” Izzo said.

Against U-M, Izzo said, nothing carried over from practice.

The Spartans (14-10, 6-5 Big Ten) will host the University of Iowa (14-10, 6-5 Big Ten) on Feb. 11. The game is set to tipoff at 6 p.m. and will be televised on Big Ten Network.

“We script our first four plays and we screwed up all four.

We script them for two days, we script the day of the game, we script them in the walk through and we screwed them all up.”

Tom Izzo, Head coach MSU men’s basketball

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MSU Triathlon Club trains, builds up to national championship race

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Three endurance sports of swimming, running and cycling all fuse together to form the MSU Triathlon Club.

With spring quickly approaching, the club is currently getting in gear for the prime of its season.

Students have a vigorous weekly practice schedule, with triathlon being a multiple-stage competition. The schedule includes swimming on Monday and Wednesday, running on Tuesday and Friday and biking on Thursday and Saturday.

Plant biology junior Lucy Schroeder said they’re currently training for Chippewa Challenge Indoor Triathlon at Central Michigan University and USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships.

They also participate in different events

throughout the year, including Run for the House in March, intramural swim meets, local triathlons in Michigan and the Heart Throb 5K in February.

However, the main event students train and prepare for during the spring semester is the USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships.

Nationals is an Olympic distance triathlon, which means there is a one-mile swim, 24-mile bike and a 10-kilometer run.

Grace Kendra, current president of the MSU Triathlon Club, said she joined the club during her sophomore year because she wanted to stay active and enjoyed the social aspects of the club.

“I wanted a way to stay active in multiple ways, other than just one,” Kendra, an anthropology senior, said. “I wanted that group and team dynamic and I thought that the triathlon team would be a great way to do that. I

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can swim, bike and run while meeting new people.”

She said nationals are a great way to compete against other athletes and triathlon clubs across the country.

“Colleges and universities from around the country, their triathlon teams come together and participate in this event and compete against each other,” Kendra said. “It’s a really cool way for different groups to get together and meet each other and compete.”

Biochemistry junior Helen Jeffers said she’s been a member of the club for two years and has been participating in triathlons with her family since she was in seventh grade.

“There’s a huge group of people who all have the same common goal of working out together and competing,” she said. “Everyone is working together, trying to improve with each other. We hang out with each other and it’s just super fun getting to know a bunch of new people.”

The club’s main focus and training centers around nationals in April. Jeffers said the ultimate goal of everyone in the MSU Triathlon Club is to go to nationals.

“All of our workouts are catered toward getting ready and getting physically fit to compete in nationals,” Jeffers said “That’s our main goal — get fit and go to nationals as a team.”

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