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The frustrating wait for marriage equality

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LETTER: ‘Thank you’ to MSU from former defensive back Trae Waynes Dear Spartan Nation: As I leave Michigan State to pursue my childhood dream of playing in the National Football League, I thank all of you who made my East Lansing experience so incredible.

Thank you coach Dantonio for molding me into the player and man I am today. I came to Michigan State with great dreams and goals and was able to attain most of them through your guidance and leadership. I was blessed to have played for you and know you prepared me both for my future in the NFL and life in general.

I am also so grateful that coach Narduzzi and coach Barnett invested so much time and effort in me as a player and as a person. I wish coach Narduzzi all the best at Pitt, where I know he will be a success. To coach Barnett, you were a father figure and tremendous role model to me and a true blessing to my family. Your candor and expectations of me were big reasons why I chose Michigan State, and our experience together exceeded all expectations. The Waynes family is eternally grateful.

The Spartan experience was so special because of my teammates — past and present. We gave our blood, sweat and tears to this program and, as a team, we certainly lived up to the high standards of Michigan State football. A special “shoutout” to former and current members of the “No Fly Zone” for setting such a high bar for me as a cornerback. Finally, thank you to the “Boyz” — and you know who you are. The mutual support we enjoyed on and off the field helped mold each one of us, and our friendships will continue long beyond Michigan State.

Thank you to our entire coaching staff as well as the trainers, managers and football operations staff, all of whom made valuable contributions to our football team’s success. We had a fantastic team at Michigan State and all of you helped me develop as a football player.

I will miss seeing all of you on a daily basis.

The Michigan State experience goes far beyond football. As such, I also want to express my gratitude to the professors, academic advisers, fellow students and friends, all of whom made Michigan State feel like my home away from home. I also want to assure all of you who helped me so much academically that I will earn my degree as soon as possible, and that will be as important to me as all of our great accomplishments on the field. I look forward to being a graduate of this great academic institution.

Finally, to the fans who packed Spartan Stadium every Saturday, I thank you for the unwavering support and love you have shown me throughout my career at Michigan State. You embraced and cheered for me always, and I’ll never forget the feeling I had running onto that field. I was so fortunate to meet so many fantastic Spartan families and fans across the country and you will always hold a special place in my heart. Although I hope to soon be drafted by an NFL team, I will always remember your special support and look forward to our paths crossing again. It was an honor to wear the green and white, and I will definitely be an active member of this community moving forward.

Go green! Go white! Spartan for life!

Trae Waynes #15

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COLUMN: the men’s basketball team has been confident this season

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30 Number of bikes student-run campaign Together We Rise hopes to gather for children in the Lansing foster care system. Read more on page 4.

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“When I go to any game, I don’t just sit. If I want to just sit, I’ll just stay at home. Somehow I think that my involvement contributes.”

Political science senior Connor Ralph takes the lead during the Accafellas’ performance at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Saturday at Wharton Center. The group placed second. Read more on page 5.

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News Simon outlines highlights of past year in State of University speech Kinesiology graduate student Samantha Deere holds Excellence in Teaching Citation presented to her by President Lou Anna K. Simon Tuesday at The Awards Convocation at Wharton Center. The graduate assistants given these awards received a certificate and $1,000 stipend.

By Ryan Squanda rsquanda@statenews.com

At Tuesday’s State of the University address, President Lou Anna K. Simon showcased the work the university has done during the past 160 years — including more recent projects like MSU Neighborhoods initiative, the healthy campus initiative and the increased focus on student success.

O n Tue sday a f te r no on, Wharton Center played host to MSU’s annual Awards Convocation, which recognized 10 faculty members for their contributions to education and research with William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Awards.

Simon also used the opportunity to acknowledge MSU Founders’ Day in part of her speech. “ T h at a s s u r e s t h at we have the power of great language,the power of great ideas, the power of connection,” Simon said. “The way in which we can listen to others and co-create solutions. The way that we can be that place that has the courage to reach out and listen, to be that place that has the courage to find the ideas necessary for this to be the kind of dynamic and inclusive society we’d all like it to be.”

Although Simon recognizes MSU has become a model university throughout the years, she said it’s no time to rest.

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“If everybody woke up every day and thought how you can make MSU a little bit better tomorrow than today, if all us got together (and) occasionally had those conversations where we said, ‘Where’s that thing around the curve?

Where’s that really big idea I’m going to be a part of?’”

Simon said. “ B e c au s e w he n p e ople know us through one part of us, they know all of us. And that’s the power of having a half-million Spartans around

the world. That’s the power of Michigan State.”

But while there are still improvements to be made, those honored by the MSU a d m i n i s t r a t i o n Tu e s d a y were made examples for the research and work they’ve

done as embodiments of the phrase “Spartans Will,” Simon said.

“It’s a real privilege for me to be a part of this University for so long, to watch it grow and develop,” Simon said. “And I have a list of

things I know it can be better at. Because I’m never satisfied. ... If I’m satisfied, then we’re not going to be as great as we would be in the future.

And that university that society would create, won’t be us and that would be a tragedy.”

Students hope to give bikes to foster kids A bike can symbolize physical activity or even a way to be eco-friendly. For others, a bike can symbolize hope.

The student-run campaign Together We Rise aims to give hope in the form of bikes to 30 kids in Lansing’s foster care system.

Environmental economics and policy senior Elizabeth Brajevich, the organizer of the fundraising campaign, said the group is working to reach their goal of buying 30 bikes by Feb. 20.

“We want to get 30 bikes in 30 days,” Brajevich said. “The bikes are offered at a subsidized rate of $50 a bike, and so our goal is $1,500.”

As of Monday, the organization had 15 bikes sponsored by campus organizations.

Brajevich said the reason the group is donating bikes to foster kids ages 8 to 18 is because of the potential long-term use.

“We like to give them a bike big enough that even if it’s kind of small for a 15-year-old they can still have,” Brajevich said. “So we kind of try to make it a long-term bike that you can use.”

Brajevich said organizations that wish to donate money to fund bikes can participate in building their own. Bike-building workshops will be organized in March for organizations to participate in the creation of them.

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they get to come together and they get to ride their bikes together,” James Madison sophomore Alexandra Stano said.

According to the Michigan Department of Human Services website, there are 13,000 kids in the state’s foster care system at any given time.

James Madison sophomore Amber DeJohn said bikes could be a way of helping kids break potential barriers.

“I have a friend back home who was actually in foster care for a long time,” DeJohn, a campaign volunteer, said. “Her first language is Spanish and not a lot of people from my area speak Spanish, so I think a bike is something that you don’t need to speak a language to ride.”

For Stano, a bike can symbolize freedom.

“The whole idea of a bike I think is really cool because ... when you turn 16 you get your driver’s license, you get your new freedom,” Stano said.

“For a kid I feel that getting a bike, specially getting training wheels off a bike and being able to just ride around, is just a new kind of freedom and I think every kid should experience that.”

A page for donation was created on the organization’s website, Brajevich said.

“It’s not really about making myself feel good ...

I’m volunteering and doing this because it’s all for the kids, so that’s the most important thing,” political theory and constitutional democracy senior Kevin Mills said. “When you give these bikes you give them an outlet, you give them something to do.”

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Two MSU a cappella groups advance to regional semifinals Both Capital Green and the Accafellas secured spots in the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Great Lakes Semifinal this past weekend, after performances at Wharton Center. Both groups will perform March 21 in Dayton, Ohio.

By Austin Koltonowski akoltonowski@ statenews.com

For two MSU a cappella groups, the 19th International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Great Lakes Quarterfinals results were aca-awesome.

This past Saturday, the championship was held at Wharton Center, where the top two spots and the teams heading to Dayton, Ohio for the ICCA Great Lakes Semifinal were MSU’s allmale vocal group, the Accafellas, and coed vocal group, Capital Green.

Since 1996 the ICCA has held competitions throughout the nation, giving hardworking a cappella groups the opportunity to showcase their talent.

Consisting of seven regions, each region holds four quarterfinals, in which the top two groups will advance to the semifinals with the hope to become regional champions and make it to the finals at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Conjuring a sold-out crowd, Saturday night consisted of nine a cappella groups representing five universities throughout Michigan. Combining artful humor, synchronized choreography and harmonic hymns, each group had 12 minutes to perform their set and impress the judges.

President of the Accafellas and media and information senior Alan Good has partic-

ipated in the competition for the past four years. Free of nerves, Good had confidence in his group’s success.

“Once I get into performance mode the nerves don’t really get there. It’s more of the adrenaline and really wanting to be out there,” Good said. “It’s a lot of trust and faith in our guys to really just buckle down and do what we need to do.”

Having four new members in a group of 10, the Accafellas prepare for the competition by holding three rehearsals a week combined with a number of gigs throughout the year. Normally private events, the group will always try and perform for charitable organizations. Music director and linguistics senior Andrew Lee highlights one event.

“This past semester, it was at IM Circle. It was the Up ‘til Dawn for (St. Jude), and we always make it a priority to do gigs like that,” Lee said.

And after advancing to the semifinals the Accafellas have little time to celebrate. Scheduled for four gigs the day after their victory, the Accafellas will perform at events ranging from a pompon state championship to a sorority house.

But as sweet as the success is, Good isn’t caught up in all the hype.

“Hopefully everybody just has fun. That’s mainly what we’re here for,” Good said. “We’re here to support all the a cappella groups that came here

Linguistics senior Andrew Lee takes the lead during the Accafellas’ performance at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Great Lakes Quarterfinal Saturday at Wharton Center. The group placed second advancing them to the semifinal held March 21, in Dayton, Ohio. PHOTO: KELSEY FELDPAUSCH

from all around Michigan and really just have fun, meet people and spread music.”

In the next stage of the tournament, the Accafellas and Capital Green will be performing March 21 in Dayton in hopes of becoming regional

champions at the ICCA Great Lakes Semifinal.

“We are thrilled to advance to semifinals. Our group has put a tremendous amount of time and effort into the preparation of our ICCA set,” Capital Green member and sup-

ply chain management senior Ashley Bronstein said. “Regardless of what our scoring sheets say, our group is so proud of the performance we gave and it has boosted our confidence and brought us even closer as a group.”

Online Check out the a capella groups in all their vocal glory in a video online at statenews.com/multimedia

Anti-Cancer Society sets sights on tocabbco ban After the university’s announcement to eventually ban the use of tobacco products on campus, the group, whose similar petition had gained traction online, is looking to partner with the university and student governments to move the process along Online To see just how close together the Anti-Cancer Society’s petition and the university’s announcement were, see a timeline at statenews. com

By AJ Moser amoser@statenews.com

After a student-written petition to have smoking banned from MSU’s campus gained serious attention via social media and word of mouth, the MSU Anti-Cancer Society planned to bring the results to the Board of Trustees. However, just before the meeting Provost June Pierce Youatt published a memo announcing a task force designed to make MSU a tobacco-free campus.

Tristan Worthington and Clare O’Kane from ACS were planning to present their petition with more than 1,500 signatures, as well as

research from the University Physician’s Office as an argument that MSU should become a tobacco-free campus.

“We originally planned to bring this information to the Board of Trustees’ attention,” said Worthington, who is the organization’s president. “But we changed our speech to better concern student support and working together for a smoke-free campus.”

Worthington and O’Kane were given six minutes to appeal to the Board of Trustees at the end of their meeting Feb. 6. They were also able to speak directly to President Lou Anna K. Simon, Vice President of Student Affairs and Services Denise Maybank

and Youatt.

Despite official efforts to make MSU tobacco-free, ACS will receive no official funding and still needs student support.

The Anti-Cancer Society will soon begin promoting the petition again, as well as holding fundraising events on campus.

“To get ASMSU and COGS representatives on board would speed up the process,” said Worthington. “We are going to start an email campaign to get (them) to come forward and commend our efforts.”

ACS leadership also met with David Weismantel, the university physician and head of the tobacco-free task force. we dne s day, F e b ruary 1 1 , 2 01 5

Weismantel revealed some of the details of the task force, including the three major subcommittees.

The Health and Wellness Subcommittee will handle promoting the dangers of smoking, while Enforcement and Regulation will officially deal with the implementation of new policies. There is also a Communication and Marketing Subcommittee that will spread awareness about the entire task force.

The Anti-Cancer Society noted the university has tried similar efforts before and failed, but believes with enough student support, MSU’s campus could be entirely tobacco-free by the end of the year.

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Spotlight Inconsistencies with free throws holding men’s basketball team back As of Monday, the Spartans are shooting 62.1 percent on free throws — the worst free throw shooting percentage in the Big Ten since the 2004-2005 season. Head coach Tom Izzo is determined to work on the team’s Achilles’ heel as the NCAA tournament approaches

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It’s one of the most routine plays in sports. Step to the line, receive the ball, dribble two or three times and shoot.

It sounds simple enough. But MSU’s inability to consistently knock down free throws has been the difference between being one of the better teams in the country or potentially being out of the tournament picture altogether.

As of Monday, the Spartans are shooting 62.1 percent on free throws. It’s not only the worst mark of an MSU team since the 2001-2002 season, according to the earliest stats available on ESPN.com, it’s the worst free throw shooting percentage in the Big Ten since the 2004-2005 season.

MSU has lost five games by five points or fewer this season, and poor free throw shooting was a factor in each loss. Most recently, the Spartans lost to Illinois at home Saturday, 59-54, after missing eight free throws in the first half and two key ones in the final minute.

Men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo was visibly angry after the Illinois loss. Frustration is mounting for both players and coaches, who are witnessing the season away with each missed free throw.

“I was as mad as I’ve ever been, I’ll be very blunt and honest with that,” Izzo said about his press conference after the loss Saturday.

“Because I think it’s ridiculous what we’re going through.

“If you win three more games, you’re 18 and whatever, five, you’re ranked in the top 15 in the country.”

Inexplicably bad from the line In shooting categories in the Big Ten, the Spartans have the fourth-best field goal percentage (47.1) and second-best 3-point percentage (39.1).

But when they step to the free-throw line, the deft shooting touch evaporates.

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than 10 games, five Spartans are shooting less than 60 percent from the line this season.

More concerning are the free throws missed by MSU’s key shooters. Junior guard Bryn Forbes and senior guard Travis Trice missed clutch free throws against Illinois Saturday that could’ve clinched the win. The players who should be steady from the line are coming up short in close games. The free throw problem has become a mental hurdle.

“We’ve lost one game in a blowout, one game,” Izzo said.

“So we got to be doing something right to be knocking on the door all the time. But I think we all know one thing we’re doing wrong, one thing. And is part of the mental toughness part of that? It might be.”

The Spartans are putting in extra time during practice to improve the free throw woes, but have yet to see results. According to Izzo, even a 3 percent increase in free throw percentage could drastically change the season for the better.

“It’s not effort-related things,” Izzo said. “Right now we’re not mentally as tough as you need to be. I voiced that early in the year, too. Some of that, we’re just going to have to have guys spending more and more time, and I don’t know, it’s going to happen, it’s going to come. There’s good enough free throw shooters to shoot well enough, there’s good enough 3-point shooters to shoot well enough, and like everybody else you hope it doesn’t come too late.”

Finding a solution Players struggled to come up with answers for MSU’s bad free throw shooting after the loss to Illinois.

Trice said they have done everything they could possibly do in practice to improve.

“Just knock them down,” Trice said. “We’ve done everything we can ­— worked on them and everything. So just gotta knock them down.”

Junior forward Matt Costello, a 70.4 percent shooter from the line, denied the Spartans are suffering from a lack of confidence. But players are frustrated.

“I don’t think the confidence is an issue, we all know we’re a good enough basketball team,” Costello said. “Players are just not playing well. It’s frustration more than confidence.

“We know (what) good shooters we are, we know we can make them. It’s just frustration, and that leads to other things.”

Players are rightfully frustrated. Beyond shooting, the Spartans are performing well in several other key categories. They are the best rebounding team in the conference (39.5 per game), boast a top-four scoring defense, and are holding opposing teams to 38.6 percent shooting, the stingiest mark in the Big Ten. This makes the free-throw line struggles even more

perplexing. Izzo has called the Spartans a good, but not great, team. If the Spartans were middle-of-the-pack at the line, it’s not outrageous to suggest they would be the second or third best team in the Big Ten and comfortably in the NCAA tournament conversation.

“If you think I am making too big of a deal about free throw shooting I kind of go by the theory that if there is a problem, keeping your mouth shut isn’t the way to fix it,” Izzo said. “You better address the problem and deal with the fact that it is a problem.”

On the bubble On one hand, it could be a source of comfort that MSU’s primary weakness is one that, in theory, should be straightforward to correct. On the other hand, there’s reason to believe that if the Spartans haven’t figured the free throw issue out by now, it will remain their Achilles’ heel for the remainder of the season.

“With the skill of the team we have, I wouldn’t think we’d still be dealing with this,” Trice said. “It’s something we have to correct, really. We’re running out of time, so we have to correct it.”

With a month remaining in the regular season, missing the NCAA tournament is a real possibility for the Spartans. MSU is one of the first four teams out of the tournament in CBS Sports analyst Jerry Palm’s latest bracketology, published Sunday.

Izzo’s streak of 17 consecutive NCAA tournament bids is the third-longest in the country, behind only Kansas (25) and Duke (19). Keeping the streak alive is a priority for Trice.

“It means everything, especially when our goals are what our goals are,” Trice said. “Not being in the tournament would definitely change that, so we’ll definitely get in. I don’t want to be part of that class is the first one not to make it.”

The 2004-2005 MSU basketball team, which made free throws at a 77.7 percent clip, struggled with making clutch free throws until tournament time. That Spartan team finished in the Elite Eight round.

Izzo isn’t hedging his bets on a dramatic turnaround in free throw shooting this season. But the Spartans understand one thing — making the tournament starts with making free throws at a more consistent rate.

“I don’t want to jump the gun on what to try until I make sure that some guys that refuse to understand they’re struggling a little bit get in here and work on it because that, to me, is the best way to remedy the problem,” Izzo said.

“I can promise you this: If that changed, we would be talking a lot differently right now. And I’m not talking shooting 75 percent as a team. Just give me the worst in my era — prior to this — and we have three more wins, easy.”

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Maybe it’s a discipline only found in people from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, maybe it’s just a legend that has grown over time.

Either way, MSU’s free throw shooting woes don’t stem from their coach’s love of shooting them himself.

There is a legend that before practice every day, Tom Izzo shoots 100 free throws, usually making between 90 and 95, a far cry from his team’s average of 62.1 percent.

Izzo has said in the past that he is obsessed with shooting free throws because of a high school loss in which the pressure was put on him to make one free throw.

He couldn’t make the front end of a oneand-one, and it has stayed with him all these years.

Ever since that day in Iron Mountain, Michigan, Izzo has paid his dues by shooting 100 a day, and according to Izzo’s 2008 assistant coach Mark Montgomery, he never makes less than 95, one USA Today report said.

Despite this effort into his own free throw shooting, Izzo’s team still ranks last in the Big Ten in free throw shooting percentage.

“I’m as mad as I’ve ever been, I’ll be very blunt and honest about that,” he said. “Because I think it’s ridiculous what we’re going through.”

— GEOFF PRESTON

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Retired MSU teacher education professor Janet Alleman dances during a dance cam Saturday, during the game against Illinois at Breslin Center. photo: erin hampton

The crowd amps up when she is shown on the big screen. She stands up throughout the games dancing and spinning her scarf. Retired MSU teacher education professor Janet Alleman is an all-around Spartan fan.

“When I go to any game, I don’t just sit. If I want to just sit, I’ll just stay at home,” Alleman said. “Somehow I think that my involvement contributes.”

Alleman has attended every home men’s basketball and football game for as long as she can remember — even since the Spartans played at Jenison Fieldhouse. In addition to her spot in section 109 in Breslin, she travels to watch the team at the Big Ten Tournament every year and every time the team makes it to the Final Four. If MSU was to play the University of Iowa, her undergraduate university, her heart would be with the Spartans.

“I’m a turncoat from my alma mater because I’ve just been around (MSU) forever,” Alleman said.

After her husband died a few years ago, her niece, Amy Jamison, assistant director of Center for Gender Studies in Global Context at MSU, accompanies her to all of the home

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games.

Jamison said Alleman gets stopped on the street and at games at Wharton Center by people who do not know her, but have seen her on the big screen.

“I know that she loves that idea that she could be inspiring other people to show their pride and spirit,” Jamison said.

Years ago, Alleman heard men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo say, “The crowd can give us 10 points.”

This is when she pumped up her enthusiasm at the games.

She jokes this year it’s stretched.

“In my world, we take every seat out of Breslin and we’d all be standing up,” Alleman said. “I’m there to support that team and our winning. I’m not there to get on the big screen.”

Natural resources recreation and tour sophomore Kevin Rubino is an Izzone member and has seen Alleman on-screen at games and has spoken with her at their local YMCA. “She is very passionate about MSU basketball and she even told me she does her dancing at the games because other people aren’t being enthusiastic like they should,” Rubino said. “I think she’s a good representation of MSU and think we need more fans like her.”

It’s not just about athletics for Alleman. She considers herself a “triple A-er” — academics, arts and athletics.

She spent 20 years at MSU researching children’s thinking and teaching social studies education to both undergraduates and graduates.

“I loved every moment of my time (at MSU),” Alleman said. “The reason that I chose to make an exit was because my classes were going online — I am high touch, no tech.”

Her time at MSU ended in 2012 when she “refined” her career to becoming a teacher coach for local primary schools. She focuses on working with teachers in how they can become more effective in their classrooms and how to keep all students engaged.

“It isn’t work for me because it’s art,” Alleman said. “I have this belief that people have so much capacity and that one of my jobs, one of my missions, is to bring that out for them.”

She has enthusiasm that can’t be contained, Jamison said.

“It’s part of being a part of a great university — being an active participant. I’m not very good at being a bystander about anything. I approach everything with a lot of passion and intensity,” Alleman said.

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Casey Holland Features editor features@statenews.com @sn_features

MSU department braves the cold to make campus travel possible The Infrastructure Planning and Facilities staff work snow or shine to make it possible for students to make the frigid trek to class

Workers plow the snow Monday to prepare for the school week on MSU’s campus.

Infrastructure Planning and Facilities holds the campus’s landscape equipment.

By Zoë Schubot

MSU received two weekends ago, the call could come at an early hour.

“I came in Saturday morning at 3 a.m. because While students stayed inside, safe from the brewing blizzard, Matt Bailey arrived to work it was starting to snow, and I was just basicalat 3 a.m. Jan. 31 before the snow hit he was ly driving around campus and watching to see preparing campus to be safe for student travel. where the snow got really bad. … I called in That weekend, East Lansing and other parts of our salt trucks and they came in around 4 a.m.

Michigan were bombarded with nonstop snow- Saturday morning,” Bailey said.

In addition to the emergency response team, fall, covering campus in a blanket of white and Infrastructure Planning and Facilities has a turning sidewalks into a slick ice rink.

Bailey is a supervisor in the Landscape Ser- staff of about 60 who work to keep the campus in tip-top shape despite vices department of the the inclement weather Infrastructure Planning and conditions.

Facilities at MSU. In terms of how they The department works go about tackling such to ensure student safety a large campus, Bailey in dangerous snowy condisaid that the team has a tions that could inhibit their set of areas that they prichances of safely making it oritize such as “the police to class or other important department, fire departevents.

People make up the team ment and t he dor ms Much like doctors, an for cleaning up the snow where t he k ids are,” emergency response team but that they aim to make comprised of eight Infrastructhe entire campus safe for ture Planning and Facilities staff members are on call to come in at any everyone.

If there is ever a doubt as to whether or not given time to begin the cleanup process.

As soon as the snow threshold passes one and their services are necessary, Bailey says that his a half to two inches, staff members receive a team would rather be safe than sorry.

If there is even a chance of conditions becomvoice message from Bailey or one of the other supervisors issued through an online service ing dangerous the team is ready to act.

“Every person on our staff has a given snow called Blackboard Connect.

The service allows them to send a mass mes- route that covers every road, every sidewalk, sage to the staff rather than calling them indi- every parking, every loading dock on campus,” vidually, and within 45 minutes they are all Bailey said. “So when I call a full push, everyhands on deck, each member having proceed- one knows where they’re going, and it’s all safety-oriented. (The main priority is) maked to their designated snow removal route.

In extreme cases, such as the snowfall that ing sure that the kids are safe.” zschubot@statenews.com

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Spartan Sur raising money for production of first EP

By Lauren Owings lowings@statenews.com

Creating a colorful combination of American pop, Indian classical and Bollywood hits, a cappella group Spartan Sur is preparing and raising funds to record their first ever extended play.

Vice president and world politics senior Charu Ganesh said Spartan Sur aims to bring their Indian culture to MSU students while blending with American styles of music.

“It’s very reflective of how our culture has been fused with American culture over the years,” Ganesh said.

After their first recorded single last year, the group has been putting all their efforts toward creating several tracks that will be representative of their style and spread their name in the music world.

To cover recording costs, Spartan Sur has reached out to the MSU community

for donations.

So far they have reached an astonishing amount of $1,556 of their $1,500 goal.

Ganesh said Spartan Sur has always had the dream of recording an EP, but a busy schedule made this goal difficult to attain.

This year, the group decided an EP would be their main focus.

“We’ve been talking about this for so long, and we’re finally raising the funds for it and setting the gears in motion,” Ganesh said.

She said the EP has motivated the group to accomplish a lot in very little time.

“Even three weeks ago we were having doubts. But we’ve really surprised ourselves, and we really worked harder than I’ve ever seen this group work,” Ganesh said.

She said while the members of Spartan Sur are very different, they are all passionate about music and love to sing.

“We’ve gotten so close over the years, and the group has seen a lot of important changes,” Ganesh said. “They’re like a family to

me at MSU.” President and neuroscience senior Joseph Aquino said Spartan Sur has given him 14 other people he can lean on and count on.

He said being a part of the group has given him memories he will look back on for the rest of his life.

Aquino said he enjoys sharing his passion for music with people who are as passionate as he is.

“Our mission with our music is to show everyone else how much we’re enjoying our music and to share our passion with as many people as possible,” Aquino said.

Ganesh said while Spartan Sur has a presence within the a cappella groups at MSU, they want to make themselves known outside of the MSU community with the release of their EP. “It’s about putting ourselves out there and getting on the map,” Ganesh said.

The group is now preparing for their first concert of the year, “Not Another Bolly-

wood Movie,” which will be Feb. 28 at Kellogg Center.

Public relations manager and nutritional sciences senior Aamir Bandagi said the purpose of Spartan Sur is different from most a cappella groups because of their focus on culture.

“We’re combining our cultures from being Americans and also what we got from our parents, and everyone loves that,” Bandagi said.

He said for him Spartan Sur is an outlet for creativity and a way to do a lot of musically unique things that he wouldn’t get to do anywhere else.

Ganesh said the EP will be a product of their blood, sweat and tears at the end of the semester.

“As somebody who’s been here for years and seen it grow and evolve over the years, it’s really touching to me that so many people are coming together to help make this a reality,” Ganesh said.

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Sports COLUMN: Men’s basketball putting on an overconfident front

By John Neidhart

Javon Bess could miss remainder of season The freshman forward broke his foot earlier this season and has been experiencing pain in the same foot. Izzo said he thinks more will be known after Northwestern game

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Game after game, the song remains the same in the MSU locker room. Despite continually finding ways to lose games, the Spartans maintain that their confidence is high.

Most recently, junior guard Bryn Forbes echoed that mantra.

“I think we’re still confident, it just makes you mad to see the way it turned out, especially for guys that do this every day and make free throws every day and make shots every day,” Forbes said of the free throw debacle that unraveled Saturday against Illinois. “We’re not happy at all but we’re still confident. We know what we can do.”

There isn’t too much about MSU’s recent performances that suggest the confidence has translated to the court. Unfortunately for the Spartans, the game is played out of body.

The mark of a truly confident team would be executing in crunch time, something MSU simply hasn’t done. With a chance to defeat U-M in regulation just a few games ago, senior guard Travis Trice launched a three from the right wing — no good.

Hoping to tie Saturday’s game against Illinois at 57 with two seconds left, Trice once again pulled up from the right wing, only this time his three was tipped and came up short.

In two very important moments of the game, MSU settled. A confident team wouldn’t settle in those situations.

MSU has made 17 straight NCAA tournaments.

As bracketology predictions have been released, the Spartans have hovered around the 8-11 seed line, and with every loss, the streak is in greater danger of ending.

“We figured that (we’re) Michigan State and that we’re gonna pull it through,” Valentine said.

“I don’t know, I guess we gotta talk about it a little more and make it more important now.”

That quote suggests overconfidence, and once again, a disconnect between what fans and spectators are seeing on the court. How often have you watched the Spartans thinking, “They’ve got this and they know it?”

They don’t have the look in their eyes, they don’t have the killer instinct. Early leads have vaporized in minutes, and close games have turned into mad scrambles at the end.

Izzo, on the other hand, thinks that his players are losing confidence, but that’s been a result of seeing so many missed shots, both at the line and from 3-point range.

“I would say that when you struggle, if you’re a shooter and you struggle, you lose confidence, which kind of permeates throughout all parts of your game,” Izzo said.

Izzo attacked the issue of free throw shooting in his Monday press conference. He wasted no time in getting to the subject, and he noted that failing to confront it will lead to nothing.

“You better address the problem and deal with the fact that it is a problem,” Izzo said.

Izzo isn’t hiding from anything. If the Spartans want to right the ship, the players need to take the same approach. What they are saying doesn’t match what they’ve shown in games.

Perhaps they need to take a better look in the mirror because fans and spectators have been seeing completely different images.

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Freshman forward Javon Bess walks down the court Saturday, during the game against Illinois at Breslin Center.

Photo: erin hampton

“He’s got pain there and they’re trying to do everything they can to find out... but I don’t like where it’s headed and he’s definitely gonna be out for a couple of weeks.”

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By John Neidhart jneidhart@statenews

Heading into the season, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo had high hopes for freshman forward Javon Bess. Those hopes may have to be put on hold for another year.

Pain in the right foot that Bess had previously broken is threatening to end his season.

“But it just doesn’t look like it’s

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healed and it doesn’t seem right,” Izzo said. “He’s got pain there and they’re trying to do everything they can to find out … but I don’t like where it’s headed and he’s definitely gonna be out for a couple of weeks and that is almost 100 percent for sure.”

Izzo said more information will be known later this week when the team returns from its Tuesday night matchup with Northwestern.

Bess made his first start Jan. 17 at Maryland, but lingering injury issues pushed him to a smaller role over the next few games.

Bess was averaging 12.3 minutes, 2.7 points, and 2.9 rebounds per game. He saw action in just 12 of the team’s 24 games. Perhaps more important than any of his numbers, Bess played the game with a bit of an edge, something Izzo thinks the team lacks.

“So there’s a kid I told you from day one was starting and he was a kid that brought some toughness to a team that maybe doesn’t have as much of that,” Izzo said. “And he knows how to play.”

There will be no MRI for Bess because he already has a screw in his foot but X-rays and bone scans are options.

Obtaining a medical redshirt appears to be out of the question, primarily because of the number of games Bess has played and the timing of the injury.

Izzo has seen his fair share of injuries. Look no further than

senior forward Branden Dawson. How a player handles the injury, however, is the key.

“What you don’t know is every kid responds differently,” Izzo said. “Some it takes six weeks, we waited an extra week. Some it depends on how their gait is and the way they walk. What I didn’t like is I never felt – he always seemed to be favoring it. Sometimes when you do that you start walking differently and it creates a problem. I don’t see any long-term effect, if you say long-term a career like Russell’s (Byrd). But I definitely see a short-term effect.”

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Women’s Gymnastics welcomes back alumnae as they face rival U-M Alumni Night will welcome not only Spartan gymnasts from the past, but also the No. 5 team in the country. Head coach Kathie Klages said her team is going to have to be “darn-near perfect” to come away with the upset win

By Matthew Argillander margillander@ statenews.com

This Friday the women’s gymnastics team will take on rival No. 5-ranked U-M in front of a crowd of former Spartan gymnasts for Alumni Night.

“What we do is we invite the alumni all back we line them up on the floor and we find out a little bit about what’s going on in their lives and what’s happening,” head coach Kathie Klages said.

Klages said the team usually has an alumni dinner, but this year they hope to give the alumni a rivalry win.

“We’re going to have to be darn-near perfect (to beat Michigan). The exciting thing for us is there’s a possibility depending on how the week works out that we may get Alina Cartwright back in an event,” Klages said.

Senior Alina Cartwright, despite missing most of the season, is excited for the meet Friday and she is currently day-to-

day and may be able to compete sparingly.

“It should be really exciting because it’s our second home meet and this team, this year is very consistent and probably doing the best that I’ve seen in the four years that I’ve been here,” Cartwright said.

Cartwright is looking forward to see the alumnae get their recognition and it paints a picture for what the future has in store for the senior.

“It’s exciting to see all of the old team members come back and get recognized ... it’s cool because they’re older and they have their children with them and hopefully one day we get to do that,” Cartwright said.

Sophomore Elena Lagoski wants to show the alumnae how far the program has come in their absence and that it still has room to grow.

“It would be cool to show them how much the program has grown and how well it’s doing,” Lagoski said. “Hopefully they’ll love watching it and hopefully

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they think it has gotten better over the years.”

Cartwright is 0-3 in head-tohead meets against the Wolverines in her career as a Spartan and to earn a win over the gymnastics powerhouse, especially on Alumni Night, would be special to her and the team.

"Honestly (it) would probably be massive, I don’t even know how to explain a win over Michigan in front of the alumni it would actually probably be magical,” Cartwright said.

Klages loves to see her former gymnasts come back and see the team and said that Alumni Night is one of the best of the year.

“I think it’s really exciting because (the alumnae) set the ground-work for this program and have done so much to help this program succeed,” Klages said. “I find it to be one of my favorite nights of the year because you get to see so many people and you get to find out what’s going on in their lives. It’s a really special night for everyone involved.”

The gymnastics team cheer on their teammate, junior Lisa Burt, Jan. 24, during the Breast Cancer Awareness Meet against Minnesota at Jenison Fieldhouse. PHOTO: Hannah Levy

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Features Shen Yun dance performance coming to East Lansing With a mission to revive the 5,000 years of culture nearly lost in the midst of China’s communist regime, non-profit organization Shen Yun Performing Arts is coming to Wharton Center at 7:30 p.m. this Wednesday and Thursday.

According to their website, Shen Yun was formed in 2006 when several Chinese classical artists came together in New York with the desire to bring back the culture that was lost. The artistic freedom of the city allows the group to bring ancient traditions to the stage.

Shen Yun aims to keep ancient Chinese culture alive with music and dance performed by top artists from around the world. Every year they travel to some 20 countries and 100 cities to share the beauty of Chinese traditions.

This week the MSU community will experience a blend of heavenly realms, ancient legends and modern heroic tales.

The performance features some of the best classically trained dancers in the world, along with an orchestra which blends styles of East and West, all amidst animated backdrops.

According to the Shen Yun website, China was once known as Shen Zhou, or the Divine Land. The name describes a land where gods and mortals coexisted, and the belief that the divine brought a rich culture to the Chinese people.

Buddhist, Taoist and other disciplines thrived for thousands of years in Chinese society.

According to the Shen Yun website, the heavens were said to have transferred calligraphy, music, medicine, clothing and more to the people of the earth.

During government campaigns such as the Cultural Revolution, traditional beliefs and ancient treasures have been destroyed.

Though Shen Yun cannot be seen in China today, the non-profit organization has become an international phenomenon.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased on the official Shen Yun website.

Depending on seating, they can be purchased for as low as $50 and as much as $120.

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