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S P OT L I G H T “Clyde just marches to the beat of his own drum but I figured out how to work with him. He’s kind of weird in that way but he’s a good dog.”

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Professor Ryan Claytor brings love for comics, grows culture at MSU

BY JOHN LAVACCARE JLAVACCARE@STATENEWS.COM

When studio art professor Ryan Claytor started studying for his master’s degree in art at San Diego State University, he was worried his preferred field — drawing comics —would not be considered artistic enough for graduate school professors. For his first semester, he pursued his lesser artistic interests, though he carried around a sketchbook to keep his cartooning skills fresh in his spare time. That sketchbook caught the eye of a professor.

Professors would look over his shoulder, catch a glimpse of the sketchbook and ask him if he wanted to pursue comics.

“So I would tell them about it, and they’d say, ‘Is this what you want to do?’ I’m like, ‘yeah.’

‘Well, why aren’t you doing it?’ ‘Because I’m an idiot,’” Claytor said. “I was, in retrospect, and if I could give myself any piece of advice, or an incoming student, is to do what you’re interested in doing.”

Claytor eventually switched over, studying comics for the rest of his graduate school career. He now teaches MSU students about comics as a subset of the studio art department of the Department of Art — Art History and Design.

Claytor teaches two comics classes, oversees a comics minor that is new for the 2016-17 academic year and is director of MSU’s annual comics conference, the MSU Comics Forum.

When Claytor arrived at MSU in spring 2009, he was teaching a brand new comics course and the Comics Forum was a much smaller-scale event than it is now, featuring just a few artists and a single keynote speaker.

In the years following, the academic pursuit of comics expanded. Claytor now teaches fundamental and intermediate comics courses in the studio art department and he has now teamed up with the Department of English to offer a comics minor.

The English department has run comics-based courses for years, graduate student Zack Kruse said. This spring, for example, graduate student Dave Watson is teaching a course on the Batman and Superman characters. Watson said student responses to the course have been positive so far.

“I generally expect, when I introduce people to a syllabus — particularly a syllabus in genre literature — that you’re going to lose a couple students from when class starts to when class begins,” Watson said. “That hasn’t been the case with this class, we’ve picked up a couple students as the class has gone on.”

In comics classes in the Department of English, readers must also have an artist’s eye for the visual side of the format, Kruse said.

“Comics are a visual narrative,” Kruse said.

“The stories are told, you know, through cartoon art, right? With that in mind, we have sort of an extra layer that we have to sort of pick apart and think about ... the choices that the artist is making to push the narrative forward.

We can’t solely rely on the writer’s dialogue.”

Along with coordinating the comics minor with the department, Claytor has also overseen the expansion of the Comics Forum since he became its director in 2010. The Comics Forum has expanded to include three dozen artists from around the world and added a second speaker from the world of comics. This year’s Comics Forum will be mostly held on Feb. 24-25, with a few events taking place in the week preceding and the week following.

Claytor said he aims to differentiate the Comics Forum from other comic conventions because it does not include any of the “peripherally-related things” that usually come with such conventions. He said the forum is based on showcasing the work of artists who are given the opportunity to present and sell their work for free, as long as it is pre-screened.

The forum also gives comic experts a no-frills forum to speak. This year, comic scholar

Media and Information senior Miranda McClellan works on comics during class on Feb. 13 at Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture Building. PHOTO: ZAINA MAHMOUD

Charles Hatfield and award-winning artist James Sturm will be keynote speakers.

The event will also include four panel discussions featuring comic scholars.

Claytor said he thinks the expansion in comics courses at MSU has coincided with a great-

er cultural acceptance of comics as a medium.

“I kind of feel like the comics medium is starting to come to a place where people understand that it’s more than capes and tights, it’s more than funny animals, it’s more than movie conversions of books,” Claytor said.

4 eateries could keep 50/50 grandfathered status

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

At the request of East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows, an ordinance draft put forth at the Feb. 8 Planning Commission meeting would allow four bars exempt from the city’s 50/50 rule to maintain their “grandfathered” status should they relocate within the downtown area.

The 50/50 rule is an ordinance enacted in 1989 which requires businesses that sell alcohol to generate at least 50 percent of their revenue from food sales.

Businesses self-report on a quarterly basis to show they’re compliant with the rule, City Manager George Lahanas said. Lahanas said the rule was instituted to prevent downtown East Lansing from having no restaurants and only bars.

“We really don’t have bars, we have restaurants, restaurants that serve alcohol,” Lahanas said. “What we want is a place where they’re serving food and alcohol, not a place that serves only alcohol.”

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the rule are The Peanut Barrel, P.T. O’Malley’s, Rick’s American Cafe and The Riv. These four have immunity from the regulation because they were in operation prior to its adoption and have not moved or expanded.

Meadows said none of the four would have trouble abiding by the rule as it stands, and allowing these businesses to keep their exemptions should they move will incentivize them to be open to future developments.

“As the ordinance currently sits, it prevents that from happening simply because these bars, if they move one inch, they lose their grandfathered provision,” Meadows said.

Meadows said his recommendation is not in anticipation of any specific developments, but the affected bar and grills are in prime locations the city hopes to redevelop in the future.

“Certainly we would hope that in the next couple of years the projects that we have currently pending in the downtown would result in more efforts to redevelop other parts of the downtown that these bars are actually located in,” Meadows said.

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Though the Planning Commission failed to recommend approval of the ordinance by a split 3-3 vote, East Lansing City Council will have the final say on whether or not it is adopted. Lahanas said it is uncertain when the ordinance will come before council, but it will in the near future.

50/50 has often been the subject of criticism since its inception. Mayor Pro Tem Ruth Beier said she is not a fan of the rule, and she supports Meadows’ recommendation because the threat of losing grandfathered status could stifle development.

“I’m not a real fan of it, I would rather just say no to a liquor license … we already have enough bars,” Beier said. “We’d be better off just making choices ourselves about what we want rather than having the rule.”

Lahanas said a common argument against 50/50 is it stops unique concepts from coming into market, but he said the rule encourages a diversity in services among the restaurants such as lunch hours.

“Let’s just say, for example, someone wanted to have a jazz bar in downtown, where they had

jazz music live every night, and they wanted just small hors d’oeuvres and wine,” Lahanas said.

“That might not be permitted under the ordinance, and maybe that would be a great idea because it diversifies and it’s focused on a different range of people, but that’s probably an example of one of the negatives to it is it doesn’t allow for a great flexibility of creative ideas.”

“I’m not a real fan of it, I would rather just say no to a liquor license … we already have enough bars.

We’d be better off just making choices ourselves about what we want rather than having the rule.”

Ruth Beier, East Lansing Mayor Pro Tem

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Meet MSU police’s K-9 handlers and their loyal, furry companions

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man Shepherds, Atkinson said.

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In a nondescript building in Lansing, the MSU Police Department K-9 Unit gathers with their nine dogs and seven handlers for eight hours of training every other week.

These drills range from practicing tracking to finding narcotics and drugs to practice aggression drills. “ T he r e ’s n e v e r a p e rfect dog,” K-9 handler Mike Cantrell said. “There’s always something to do better and that’s what makes it fun.”

Cantrell said he believes the K-9 Unit is one of the most desired units in law enforcement.

“If you love law enforcement, love being a cop ... and you love animals, it’s like combining the two things and creating the ultimate tool, ultimate team,” handler Adam Atkinson said.

Ever y dog specializes in either finding narcotics or explosives and seven of the dogs are dual-purpose dogs.

This means in addition to finding narcotics or explosives, they are also full patrol dogs.

Cantrell provides his dog, Koda, as an example.

“He’ll bite bad guys, tracks them, does building searches, anything with human odor, he’ll do,” Cantrell said.

Gauge is a single-purpose narcotics dog, so he only finds drugs and does not do tracks.

He is one of two dogs in the unit that are not dual-purpose, his handler Heckman said.

The MSUPD K-9 Unit has also has a vapor wake dog, Cora.

“A vapor wake dog, they see people as productive areas of searching,” handler Adam Atkinson said. “What would happen with a vapor wake dog if they were to detect an explosive on an individual, is they would actually trail that person as they were moving and then they would sit behind them. The term vapor wake comes from when we walk as individuals we have heat that comes off of us and it forms a heat plume that comes off in the shape of a wave and if you combine that with explosive odors or the vapors coming off of an explosive, it comes off in ... the wake of the heat coming off of the person.”

Labrador Retrievers are used as vapor wake dogs for two main reasons. Labs have strong noses and they tend to be less intimidating than Ger4

Meet the dogs All nine dogs in the unit have their own distinctive personalities.

“He’s a nut job,” his handler Heckman said. “Clyde just marches to the beat of his own drum, but I figured out how to work with him. He’s kind of weird in that way but he’s a good dog.”

The oldest dog in the unit, Clyde will celebrate his 10th birthday on May 11, and if Clyde stays on the road until May 12, he will have served MSUPD for 9 years. Heckman said he believes Clyde will retire in late spring or early summer.

Heckman said Clyde enjoys searching for explosives.

“Out of ever y t hing, his favorite thing is to find explosives,” Heckman said. “Scent work to him is just a game, it’s fun.”

In addition to Clyde, Heckman also handles another dog, Gauge.

Four and a half years ago,

“What would happen with a vapor wake dog if they were to detect an explosive on an individual, is they would actually trail that person as they were moving and then they would sit behind them.”

Adam Atkinson, K-9 Handler MSUPD did not have a narcotics dog. Gauge worked at the Southfield Police Department and he suffered a back injury. Southfield police decided he could still do narcotics work and because Heckman knew someone who worked at the police department, Gauge was donated to MSUPD, Heckman said.

“Gauge is a lover. He loves attention,” Heckman said.

“Gauge is really a good one for when you have kids around.”

Handling t wo dogs was unknown territory for Heckman. He said he was the first handler in the area to run two dogs. “ You’ve got double t he responsibilities because you’re

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MSU police officer Gary Heckman poses for a portrait with his K-9, Clyde, on Feb. 8 at the East Lansing Police Department K-9 training facility in Lansing. Clyde is a dual purpose dog and he specializes in explosives and patrol work. PHOTOS: NIC ANTAYA

taking care of t wo dogs.

You’ve got two dogs in your house, you’ve got two dogs in your vehicle, you’ve got two dogs to feed, two vet bills,” Heckman said. “I try to do everything together, but it’s easy now because they’re both older, they both know their jobs. It was a lot of work in the beginning.”

Heckman had to buy a different vehicle in order to fit two dog crates in it so he can transport both dogs to and from work. He now drives a minivan.

Atkinson is the only other handler in the MSUPD K-9 Unit with two dogs, Cora and Wolf.

Cora, the only vapor wake dog on the MSUPD force, joined the unit on Oct. 1, 2016.

“Cora’s personality is pretty much a on-the-go work, work personality,” Atkinson said. “I have not seen a dog or worked a dog that has not stopped as her. All she wants to do is work, work, work, work, work.”

Wolf’s personality is more laid back, Atkinson said.

“He has always had a great abilit y to transition from doing a demo with kinder-

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MSU police officer Kim Parviainen poses for a portrait with her K-9, Bane, on Feb. 8 at the East Lansing Police Department K-9 training facility in Lansing. Bane is a dual purpose dog and he specializes in explosives and patrol work.

Spotlight gartens and being off lead and rolling around and letting them pet him, straight into chasing down a wanted felon and barking at them and doing what needs to be done to apprehend them,” Atkinson said.

Atkinson and Wolf traveled to Alabama to pick up Cora and for the two dogs, a bond was immediate.

“When I brought them back to the hotel in Alabama, it was almost instantaneous,” Atkinson said. “Because Cora is so energetic, at night time she’s always in a kennel and because Wolf is so well-behaved, he’s free to roam the house and they sleep right next to each other, he won’t leave her side. They’ve grow a friendship ... I don’t ever have to worry about them together.”

At 16 months old, Jax is the youngest dog the K-9 Unit has ever had, his handler Jeff Kurtz said.

“One of the first things that caught my eye was how social he was, an extremely social dog,” Kurtz said. “He’s a stereotypical puppy. He’s got unlimited amounts of energy. He’s always bouncing off walls.”

Kurtz and Jax joined the unit seven months ago and it has been a learning process.

“I think that’s been the biggest adjustment, just trying to get used to having another living, breathing thing with you,” Kurtz said. “I spend a lot more time now training the dog, taking him with me on foot beat, kind of doing two things at once.”

With paws that are “too big for his feet,” Loki is three years old, still acts like a puppy and “lives up to his name,” his handler Sgt. Brandon Murphy said.

“He likes to think that (my kids) are toys but he’s not aggressive or anything, he just wants to play all the time,” Murphy said.

Work is always a game for the dogs, Murphy said.

“Everything we do with the dogs is fun. It’s all a game to

“After 10 years of doing this, I’m still amazed every time that they find anything to do with human odor or, for him, drug odor.”

Mike Cantrell, K-9 Handler them no matter what it is,” Murphy said. “Everything is fun, everything is for a ball.

That’s what they like the most, their reward at the end.”

Murphy said he believes the

ball Loki loves most is a kong.

“He goes through about two of those a month at home,” Murphy said. “They aren’t indestructible, even though the packaging says they are.”

While Loki goes through multiple kong balls ever y month, Bane usually goes through “three or four” a year, his handler Kim Parviainen said.

Contrary to his name, Bane is an extremely amiable dog.

“He really likes people and he’ll run around to everyone in the room,” Parviainen said.

“He’s very, very, very friendly.”

A dual-purpose explosives dog, Bane loves tracking bad guys, Parviainen said.

“We’ll run a scenario and put a pretend bad guy at the end,

“I think that’s been the biggest adjustment, just trying to get used to having another living, breathing thing with you.”

Jeff Kurtz, K-9 Handler or his favorite ball so once he gets to the end he’s like ‘oh my favorite toy, my favorite toy,’” Parviainen said. “They really think that we always know where the bad guy is and it’s a game, even though most of the time we don’t unless it’s a training scenario. But it kind of builds them up like ‘oh mom knows where that ball is’ or ‘mom knew it was there the whole time’ and it’s cool to see how much they want to make you happy.”

Koda can be profoundly loyal and friendly, Cantrell said.

“At home he’s a lot of fun to be around,” Cantrell said. “If someone were to knock on the door or come close the house, the hackles come up on his back and he’s just a completely different dog.

He’s protecting the house first and foremost and he’s a different dog. It’s a German Shepherd thing. They’ve got triggers, good dog one second, handful the next second. It’s what makes it fun.”

Justus tends to be a quiet and mellow dog, unless he’s at work, his handler Shaun Porter said.

“When it’s time to work you see the energy and excitement come out of him and he wants to go out and he doesn’t know he’s working, he thinks he’s playing,” Porter said.

Porter said he believes the idea that dogs take after their handlers, especially when they’ve worked together for a long time.

“I think I’m kind of the same way,” Porter said. “He’s a very social dog. He loves people. If you hear him barking around other people it’s not an angry ‘I want to go after this person

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bark,’ it’s a ‘hey there’s somebody outside and I think I should go play right now.’”

Handlers stories Every handler has unique stories from calls they have attended with their dogs, from tracking a suspect for more than two miles, to big drug finds.

“I did over a two mile track for a B&E suspect/parole absconder for Shiawassee County,” Heckman said. “That was just this last summer so he was an almost nine year old dog and he did that.”

For Parviainen, a track is also her favorite experience with Bane.

“I just remember I got back to the car and he jumped up in the car and he looked at me and he had a smile on his face,” Parviainen said. “I almost thought that I was going to cry because I was like ‘wow, a year and a half of work and you just found some guy that punched a girl in the head and could’ve killed her.’

That was definitely my favorite one .. we would not have found him if it was not for the dog.”

One time Koda found 10 grams of marijuana hidden inside the central heating vent of a car, Cantrell said.

“Usually if he points where drugs are, I can usually see it but these people put it in the vent of this car and I could smell it but I could not find it,” Cantrell said. “He kept pointing towards these vents in the radio area ... I looked as hard as I could down around the corner of the vent and I could just barely see a plastic baggie ... I turned the heat on really high and like 10 baggies came flying out. That was cool because I never would have found it. I had no idea where they were.”

Sometimes the teamwork is better than a specific track, Porter said.

“I think my most memorable would just have been a track,” Porter said. “I don’t have one that out trumps any of the others, working as a team, we’ve got a great crew working and they set up a perimeter and they have somebody and they’re locked down and we start the track. I trust my partner, the dog, to get on that track and .... that we can find the person at the end. Where, if the dog wasn’t there this guy would’ve never been found.”

Working in the K-9 Unit is a special experience.

“After 10 years of doing this, I’m still amazed every time that they find anything to do with human odor or, for him, drug odor,” Cantrell said. “I couldn’t imagine doing this job without a dog behind me.

After 10 years, no.”

The K-9 Unit is the best job in police work, Heckman said.

“I wouldn’t know how to be a cop without a dog anymore,” Heckman said. “I really wouldn’t. It’d be really, really weird.”

MSU police K-9 Jax poses for a portrait on Feb. 8 at the East Lansing Police Department K-9 training facility in Lansing. Jax is owned by officer Jeff Kurtz and is a dual purpose dog and he specializes in explosives and patrol work.

MSU police K-9 Cora poses for a portrait on Feb. 8 at the East Lansing Police Department K-9 training facility in Lansing. Cora is owned by officer Adam Atkinson and she is a vapor wake dog and specializes in tracking explosives.

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MSU police officer Shaun Porter poses for a portrait with his K-9, Justus, on Feb. 8 at the East Lansing Police Department K-9 training facility in Lansing. Justus is a dual purpose dog and specializes in explosive and patrol work.

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Defense attorney Shannon Smith comforts her client, former MSU employee Larry Nassar, during the preliminary examination on Feb. 17 at 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. The preliminary examination occurred as a result of Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse of former patients and athletes. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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After a preliminary examination, Judge Donald Allen, Jr. has decided that People of the State of Michigan v.

Lawrence Gerard Nassar will move forward to trial.

The examination took place at the 55th District Court in Mason, Mich.

Nassar, a former MSU employee, is accused of sexually abusing his patients and other young women with whom he had contact.

Before the examination began, the prosecution and defense agreed to switch benches to put more distance between Nassar and his alleged victim.

Additionally, the prosecution requested the courtroom be closed to the media and the public during testimony from the alleged victim to protect her privacy. Allen did not grant the request, but acknowledged there was a large media presence.

“I’m getting a little nervous myself,” he said, pointing to the cameras.

Allen ordered the media not to publish the name of the alleged victim, or any other information that could be used to identify her.

The alleged victim’s parents were friends with the Nassar family, and the two families spent time together about once a week. During her testimony, the alleged victim accused Nassar of exposing himself to her and digitally penetrating her about once a week for several years, beginning when she was six years old.

The alleged victim says she was too young to understand what was happening at the time.

“I didn’t really know what to think of it,” she said. “He was an adult in my life.”

She didn’t realize what had happened until a friend told her about having been sexually abused, according to her testimony.

“Oh, shit,” she said. “That happened to me.”

The alleged victim described having a tumultuous relationship with her father. When she told him about Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse, he thought she was lying and sent her to therapy with retired MSU professor of clinical psychology Gary Stollak.

Stollak was called as a witness by the defense, and testified that after his 2010 retirement, all of his records “were gotten rid of.” He said he had no memory of this case.

The alleged victim testified that she knew she had to come forward when she saw media coverage of allegations against Nassar.

“I always said I would support anyone who came out,” she said. “I always said I would support them.”

Allen found the alleged victim credible, and decided the case will go to trial. Nassar immediately waived arraignment.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette released a statement on Friday after Nassar’s case was bound over for trial.

Schuette said, “I am grateful for the dedication of the Michigan State Police Department and the prosecutors in the Department of Attorney General for their continued hard work on this case. I admire the courage of the young woman who had to relive her terrifying experience and I am grateful that Judge Allen bound over Dr. Nassar on these extremely serious charges.”

Attorneys for the prosecution and defense declined to comment. The case was bound over to the Ingham County Circuit Court.

“I am grateful that Judge Allen bound over Dr. Nassar on these extremely serious charges.”

Bill Schuette, Michigan Attorney General

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Former MSU athlete, Nassar patient writes letter to President Simon

BY BRIGID KENNEDY AND MADISON O’CONNOR FEEDBACK@STATENEWS.COM

When she finally booked her first appointment with renowned and well-respected doctor Larry Nassar to help with her chronic pain, the first thing MSU alumna Catherine Hannum did was call her mom.

“I was like, ‘Mom, you’re not going to believe it, they’re finally letting me see this guy, he works with the U.S. Gymnastics team,’” she said. “I remember being so excited because it was built up to me by everyone in the Athletics Medical Department that he was brilliant and that he could help me.”

Hannum said it meant the world to her that she was going to have an appointment with Nassar as an MSU student-athlete on the rowing team. But Nassar, now a former MSU employee and physician, has been accused of sexually abusing his patients throughout his employment with the university. After learning about the allegations of sexual abuse against Nassar, Hannum sent an email to MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon detailing her interactions with Nassar. She was a patient of Nassar’s for four years and saw him about once a week.

“I was left alone with Nassar on a number of occasions,” Hannum said in the email. “It is increasingly clear to me that some of the treatments I received walked a very fine line between what was and was not medically necessary.”

Hannum said while she was not digitally penetrated by Nassar like some of his other victims have described, he did not respect her modesty or personal space and never used gloves or explained what he was doing during procedure.

“I often had to get my ribs readjusted, they would come out of place sometimes. ... He would have to manipulate that area, which makes sense, but he would sometimes put his hand under my bra without any warning or explanation,” she said. “I had also some back and leg pain that he treated and there was definitely an odd incident when he was taping the muscles on my rear end and lower back.”

Hannum said her other doctors always explained exactly what they were going to be doing and why, especially when the procedure involved “a hyper-personal area.” Nassar’s treatment style “was always very abrasive,” she said.

MSU has not reached out to past Nassar patients, accord-

ing to Hannum’s letter. MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said he could not confirm whether the university had or had not reached out to Nassar’s previous patients.

“Since this investigation began, we have encouraged anyone who has information or was a victim of Nassar’s to come forward to police,” Cody said. “We’ve been saying that through public statements, public forums, on the web we’ve been doing statements — I’ve been saying that for six months — and media interviews, the president’s letter to the community, the statement we’ve been posting on our key issues site for several months — there’s been multiple ways we’ve been trying to push that message out.”

Hannum said she wouldn’t have known about the allegations against Nassar “for months” if a friend hadn’t reached out to her, and her former teammates are still learning of the charges.

“One of my teammates found out last week from the media,” Hannum said. “And this has been going on for how long? And last week, she found out.”

Hannum said she believes MSU has an obligation to contact Nassar’s former patients.

“It’s the school’s responsibility to have reached out to us and to ask us if we could provide information, if we were comfortable and did we need anything and could they provide us support, and nobody has done that,” Hannum said.

Hannum said many other former patients of Nassar’s have contacted her to say they haven’t heard from MSU either.

“I know that (MSU is) probably scared of litigations and lawsuits, but I think we deserve more than their silence,” she said.

Hannum said her relationship with Nassar is complicated because he was able to help her and manage her pain.

“I live in very severe pain every day, and to this day, I have not met another doctor who has been able to treat me and solve my pain problems the way he (had),” Hannum said. “Which is part of what is so traumatic for me, I think, because he did improve the quality of my life at the time.”

Hannum said she’s disturbed that MSU representatives might have been made aware of concerns about Nassar’s conduct on multiple occasions during the course of his employment.

“It is painful to live with the knowledge that a pred-

Defense attorneys Shannon Smith, left, and Matt Newburg converse during the preliminary examination on Feb. 17 at 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. The preliminary examination occurred as a result of former MSU employee Larry Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse of patients and athletes. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Former MSU employee Larry Nassar looks down before a preliminary exam begins on Feb. 17 at 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. The hearing occurred as a result of Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse of patients and athletes. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

ator was enabled by silent bystanders to have access to my body for 4 years, and to know that many of my teammates and athletic peers were put at risk and may have suffered at his hands,” Hannum wrote in the email to Simon. “It is most painful to me that my University has not had the integrity to reach out to Dr. Nassar’s former patients, apologize and offer its support to them.”

MSU women’s gymnastics coach Kathie Klages retired from her position on Feb. 14 after facing allegations that she was aware of Nassar’s alleged abuse as early as 1997 or 1998.

“I don’t know where in the line of people things got so mixed up. I know that Coach Klages vehemently defended him when the claims came out and even encouraged her athletes not to speak to the press,” Hannum said. “But I don’t know who else she worked with or who else in the athletic department really had heard these claims.”

Nassar was investigated by MSU in 2014, but continued to see patients at the university until September 2016.

Cody said he was aware of Hannum’s letter and her concerns, and said a member of MSU’s administration had responded to her. Hannum disputes his statement.

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tion,” she said in an email. “My coach, Matt Weise, called me this morning.

While it was wonderful to hear from him and have his support, his call does not qualify as the school addressing my concerns.”

Nassar’s federal criminal case trial by jury will begin on May 23 in Grand Rapids. Nassar is the defendant in a number of sexual abuse cases at the federal and district level. He is also the defendant in a federal child pornography case.

Editor’s note: The letter from Hannum was sent to The State News via email before it was made public.

“I was left alone with Nassar on a number of occasions. It is increasingly clear to me that some of the treatments I received walked a very fine line between what was and was not medically necessary.”

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Foul trouble, displacement deter Spartans in defeat against Purdue

BY CASEY HARRISON CHARRISON@STATENEWS.COM

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Nick Ward’s explanation for why the Spartans lost to Purdue on Saturday was candid.

“Foul trouble,” Ward said. “That was it.”

The freshman forward’s night ended prematurely after fouling out in MSU’s 80-63 loss to the Boilermakers at Mackey Arena, with a careerlow six points and two rebounds in 12 minutes.

Ward started for the Spartans but was benched less than two minutes into the game for fouling Purdue’s Caleb Swanigan, and with each foul called on the 6-foot-8 freshman, the frustrations augmented.

Ward fouled twice in the first half, limiting him to seven minutes through the first 20 minutes of play. Redshirt-sophomore forward Kenny Goins took over as the team’s big man for the remainder of the half, but also flirted with foul trouble into the second half.

“I told Nick to keep fighting, I told Kenny to keep fighting because they were doing a great job on the bigs,” freshman forward Miles Bridges said. “But there’s really nothing you can do if you’re being called for touch fouls.”

Ward was called for his third foul 1:11 into the second half and threw his arms in the air in annoyance. In came Goins for relief, but he was handed two more fouls less than a minute after checking in.

After his fourth foul call, Ward was forced to play without any defensive authority. To stay in the game Ward had to avoid his typical playstyle.

“You have to be smart about that,” Ward said in reference to playing in foul trouble. “I got

two early fouls and then one early in the second half, then another one early in the second half. I can’t play defense how you want to play defense if you can’t play physical. I had to let them get position or else I’ll foul out right then and there. I tried to sustain as well as I could.”

Both Ward and Goins were issued fouls on soft touches and box out attempts — calls Ward said disrupted the flow of the game and weren’t called on both sides of the court.

“Let us play,” Ward said. “It’s going to be a physical game. If you’re going to call it on one end then call it on the other end. I wasn’t looking for a whistle at all.”

After the game head coach Tom Izzo said he was displeased and confused about the way touch fouls were called during the game, especially on the foul calls issued in the paint.

“I’m honestly frustrated by the way it gets called in there,” Izzo said during the postgame press conference. “That’s the only problem I have, I think they force you down and to me displacement is displacement and I think my guys were getting displaced, honestly.”

After the departure of Ward and Goins, fifthyear senior forward Matt Van Dyk was MSU’s only option as the team’s five man. It left MSU unable keep up with the scoring tandem of Isaac Haas and Vincent Edwards — who combined for 30 points — to compliment Swanigan’s 24-point performance.

The 7-foot-2 Haas held a clear size advantage through every matchup the Spartans presented and scored the bulk of his points from passes given to him in the paint.

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Junior guard Lourawls ‘Tum Tum’ Nairn Jr. (11) drives the ball up the court during the second half of the men’s basketball game against Purdue on Feb. 18 at Mackey Arena in West Lafayette, Ind. The Spartans were defeated by the Purdue Boilermakers, 80-63. PHOTO: ZAINA MAHMOUD

Ward said. “But you can’t do anything about it now.”

Ward and Goins, however, were just a part of the foul trouble that hindered the Spartans on Saturday. In all, 23 fouls were called on MSU compared to the 12 issued to Purdue.

A number of the fouls called on MSU were on the offensive side of the ball, leading to turnovers that stalled scoring chances and killed any signs of team rhythm.

“It hurts, especially when you’re down and you get a little bit of momentum and get some things going,” freshman point guard Cassius Winston said. “Then they keep going to the free-throw line, keep stopping the clock, keep adding one or two.”

Winston would go on to finish with three fouls.

Aside from the infractions, the Boilermakers finished the game shooting north of 50 percent with the majority of shots coming from inside the arc. Izzo said the game plan to start was to limit Purdue’s success from 3-point range after the Spartans allowed 11 triples against the Boilermakers in their first matchup of the season back on Jan. 24.

However, Izzo said to give the Boilermakers credit because they played a more complete game than the Spartans.

“They shot the ball 50 percent against us because they pound the ball inside, and after giving up all those threes the first half it’s kind of what we chose to do,” Izzo said. “They outplayed us in every aspect of the game and they deserved to win.”

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MSU Rodeo Club brings students together to bond, improve sport

BY IMANI FARMER IFARMER@STATENEWS.COM

Cowboys and cowgirls are not just people in Western movies — they’re also students at MSU. Members of the MSU Rodeo Club aim to do what they love while showing the details of their sport.

Rodeo is a sporting event that involves horses and other livestock animals in which cowboys or cowgirls show their skills.

According to the Friends of Rodeo website, different events in a rodeo include bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding and team roping.

The MSU Rodeo Club, which began in 1969, strives to keep the traditions and heritage of the American sport of rodeo alive.

Animal science senior Alycia Drwencke said this is her fourth year in the club.

“I grew up around agriculture and I grew up on a farm, so I had a lot of strong ties to animals and being involved with clubs that had animal involvement,” Drwencke said. “I had done a little bit of rodeo stuff in the past, so when I heard that MSU had a rodeo club I was really excited to get involved in it and learn a lot more about the sport of rodeo I hadn’t already known.”

The club does several different events throughout the school year, including the annual Spartan Stampede. It also hosts bonding events to help members of the group de-stress.

“We will do a couple of different parades, like the MSU homecoming parade and the Lansing Silver Bells in the City parade,” Drwencke said. “We’ll also do some other community outreach events like school visits.

We’ll do things with 4-H or boy scouts and cub scouts and other organizations like that.”

Agribusiness management junior Claire Daugherty has been in the club for three years and said she has always had a passion for rodeo.

“I wanted to join because I’ve always been interested in rodeo and it was kind of hard finding ways to get

into it and more involved,” Daughtery said.

“When I came up to State and found out there was a rodeo club that completely jumped to my attention and I really wanted to join, further that passion and really get more into it.”

The club welcomes any students with an interest in the sport, even if he or she is not able to compete because they are not a member of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association, or NIRA. Current club president and animal science senior Morgan Bowers has been in the club for three years and said she knew she wanted to be a part of a rodeo team in college, so she transferred from a community college in the Traverse City area to come to MSU. “Within joining the team, I also got very actively involved in the club … I kind of actually gave up the competition side and took over more of the club leadership side,” Bowers said.

Bowers said rodeo has always been a passion of hers, like many of the other members on the club.

“I actually grew up around horses, and for as long as I can remember I wanted to be a barrel racer,” Bowers said. “It’s always just been a passion of mine, and that’s really what fueled my drive to do everything within the club. I just really enjoy the sport. It’s family friendly and my family would always travel with me when I would go to compete.”

Along with the club’s promotional events, demonstrations for girl and boy scouts, schools and parades, their biggest event is the Spartan Stampede. In its 48th year, the event took place Feb. 17-19 at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.

The event is completely run by students. The proceeds of the rodeo are used to cover travel costs from MSU intercollegiate rodeo competitors. Drwencke said the club uses it to show spectators what rodeo is.

“Throughout the four performances we have multiple different events, we have a vendor area and then we pretty much go through and showcase and highlight the sport of rodeo,” Drwencke said.

Bristow, Okla. resident Jesse Kinsman attempts to tie down a calf on Feb. 18 at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education during the Spartan Stampede.

The rodeo showcased premier athletes from the ranks of the International Professional Rodeo Association and MSU Rodeo Club. PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

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ADDY Awards critiques advertisers, students

BY JAIMIE BOZACK JBOZACK@STATENEWS.COM

For months, students in the Department of Advertising and Public Relations have been preparing advertisement campaigns and work to be submitted to the annual ADDY Awards.

After all their preparing, their work was placed into the hands of three judges who dedicated an 11-hour day critiquing work inside of the Lansing Public Media Center on Feb. 16.

The ADDY Awards are the advertising and marketing industry’s largest and most recognized competition held by the Mid-Michigan Creative Alliance, according to the American Advertising Awards website.

The judges included three big names in advertising: Andy Azula of The Martin Agency, Melanie Wiesenthal of Deerfield and Silverio Cuellar of Van Winkle + Associates.

Azula traveled from Richmond, Va. to East Lansing. His agency, The Martin Agency, works with clients including GEICO, Kozy Shack, Oreo, Discover Card and more.

He said while judging he looked for ads that conveyed an idea.

“We need to drive a response,” Azula said. “If our work is flat or forgettable it is a bit of a failure. We aren’t doing our job right then we don’t deserve the money that we

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are being paid. ...What I look for every day is what can I do today that is going to change someone’s mind?”

Azula said his advice to students who win or lose is to be optimistic and learn from the critiques.

“What I would like to say to people entering into the field is that relentless optimism is a key,” Azula said.

“Especially in our business that is so pessimistic, people kick each other so much and people are constantly hating on each other.”

Creative advertising junior Mary Jane O’Connor is a student participant in the ADDYs. She said she submitted work focused on copywriting campaigns she worked on in classes.

“I almost learn more at stuff like this, not so much a critique of my work but just seeing other people’s work and being inspired by that,” O’Connor said. “I think it’s really cool to see what everyone else is doing and kind of learn from them.”

O’Connor said assistant professor Henry Brimmer and academic specialist Lou Schiavone inspired her to submit to the ADDY Awards.

“He (Schiavone) is kind of a writing legend so I look up to him and work with him a lot,” O’Connor said. “Henry as well just, as a mentor and honestly a friend, he is awesome. I look up to both of them a lot and really care about what they think.”

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Creative director for The Martin Agency Andy Azula gives a presentation on Feb. 16 at Communication Arts and Sciences Building. Melanie Wiesenthal and Azula spoke at this event. The ADDY Awards represents creativity, design expertise and hard work. PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA