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SIMON SPEAKS UP ON FEDERAL SEXUAL ASSAULT INVESTIGATION

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MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon looked to soften revelations of a federal investigation into Title IX sexual assault and violence complaints against MSU during the University Council meeting Tuesday.

Speaking on the investigation for the first time publicly, Simon described it as a “review,” and said she looks forward to working with the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.

This comes after a statement MSU spokesman Kent Cassella gave to The State News on Monday, in which he said that “MSU responded fully and appropriately to the incident under investigation.”

It remains unclear whether OCR is investigating one particular sexual assault incident.

In an email to The State News sent Monday, Department of Education spokesman Jim Bradshaw said the nature of the student focus groups and office hours for the MSU community were “related to OCR’s investigation of Title IX sexual harassment and violence complaints pending against the university.”

Simon stressed that MSU would not discuss the specifics of students who have gone through the judicial process, saying MSU is only “hiding” individual sexual assault cases.

“What that in short means is that because of FERPA and other rules we aren’t going to talk about individual cases that involve particular students,” she said. “We’re hiding individual cases because if you were a student having gone through the judicial process, however the case is resolved, we are not going to discuss specifics to that case.

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Senior guard Klarissa Bell, left, and freshman guard Tori Jankoska talk during the game against Minnesota on Monday during the game against Minnesota at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Gophers, 75-61.

DOUBLE trouble Despite young age, Aerial Powers and Tori Jankoska are shining on the court Impressive statistics

By Omari Sankofa II

Tori Jankoska and Aerial Powers are rapidly moving up the Spartan freshman alltime lists. Here’s where they currently stand:

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Points

6th most Powers (359) 7th most Jankoska (342)

Rebounds

7th most Powers (208)

Assists

Eighth Powers (63) Eleventh Jankoska (59)

3-point percentage Third highest Jankoska (.377) Fifth highest Powers (.340)

3-pointers made Second highest Jankoska (57)

Free throws made Third highest Powers (84) Eighth highest: Jankoska (65)

Free throws attempted Second most Powers (119)

Free throw percentage Seventh: Jankoska (.783)

SOURCE: MSU Women’s Basketball Media Guide

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erial Powers adores Miami Heat forward LeBron James, who’s been her favorite player since she was in eighth grade.

Similar to James’ days as a Cleveland Cavalier, No. 23 graces the back of her jersey. Powers makes an impact in several statistical categories, leading the Spartans in points per game (13.3), rebounds (7.6), steals (1.7) and ranks top 5 in virtually every other category.

But when asked whether her passion and ability to stuff the stat sheet is a result of watching James’ highlights as a middle schooler, she was quick to deny it.

“I’ve had a passion for basketball since I’ve been young,” the redshirt freshman guard said. “That’s not the reason why I have passion, why I get excited or hype. I have that within myself.”

The self-determination of Powers and fellow freshman guard and starter Tori

Redshirt freshman guard Aerial Powers goes up to the basket as Minnesota center Amanda Zahui B. guards Monday at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Gophers, 75-61.

Jankoska has been a major reason why the No. 21 women’s basketball team, currently tied for first place in the Big Ten with No. 16 Nebraska and No. 8 Penn State, has seen the success it has enjoyed this season.

As the first and second-leading scorers on the team, they have shouldered a lot of responsibility in their rookie campaigns.

It hasn’t always been the smoothest ride. There are pros and cons of relying on freshmen

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as a major source of production, head coach Suzy Merchant said.

“We’re a team that can play three freshmen,” Merchant said, referencing Powers, Jankoska and redshirt freshman guard Branndais Agee, who provides key minutes off the bench. “It can be a little bit of a bumpy road for sure, at times.”

The Spartans lost two winnable games toward the end of January and came up woefully short against Nebras-

ka on Feb. 8, a game that, had they won, would have put them in first place in the Big Ten. Regardless, Powers and Jankoska have had historically good freshman campaigns for the Spartans. They’ve each had a positive impact in their own, unique ways.

B1G aspirations Having earned four Big Ten Freshman of the Week honors, See FRESHMEN on page 2 u

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Self-defense class empowers students Trial challenging samesex marriage ban begins

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To empower men and women to fight back against sexual assault, student groups shared information and self-defense techniques on Tuesday.

In coordination with Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention and IM-Sports, the James Madison Student Senate hosted a sexual assault prevention class in Club Spartan.

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The event was meant to empower men and women and teach them how to fight back in dangerous situations Political science sophomore and member of the intervention team David Zettle said the resources shared at the event are meant to empower people who feel like they are at risk of being assaulted.

“You don’t want to feel that there’s nothing you can do,” Zettle said.

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Dietetics senior Darlene Hogan shows off self-defense moves Tuesday at Case Hall. The selfdefense class started with a discussion about sexual assault and red flags to look out for.

Psychology sophomore and member of the intervention team Taylor Dontje said learning selfdefense techniques may help prevent some sexual assaults but not

all.

“The more likely you are to fight back, the more likely somebody is to stop,” Dontje said. “The biggest thing we learned is that

the only way to prevent sexual assault is to not sexually assault others.”

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DETROIT — The signs and people outside of the federal courthouse in Detroit signaled one thing: the beginning of the DeBoer v. Snyder trial Tuesday morning.

The case involves adoption laws for same-sex couples in Michigan. In October 2013, Judge Bernard Friedman brought the issue of same-sex marriage to the fold.

From “we support traditional marriage” signs to handmade signs supporting equal rights, both sides of the debate were represented during the protest on Tuesday.

Inside the courthouse, DeBoer’s attorney Carole Stanyar began the morning with her remarks.

The prosecution is trying to prove children lead healthy childhoods in a family structure, no matter what gender the parents are. The concern for April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse stems

from if one of them were to be hurt or injured, according to an op-ed DeBoer recently wrote in The Detroit Free Press, because according to Michigan law only a single person or married couple can adopt a child, and same-sex marriage is banned in Michigan.

The Hazel Park, Mich., couple both have adopted children to become a part of their family, three children in all.

Under current Michigan law, if one of the two parents were to die the child that the deceased parent adopted would become an orphan and not necessarily given to the other parent.

“Children suffer anxiety after losing a parent,” Stanyar said.

“Children thrive when they are secure.”

Assistant Attorney General Kristin Heyse responded on behalf of the state of Michigan.

The state is arguing that the issue of same-sex marriage was decided during a vote in 2004 that showed 59 percent of MichSee MARRIAGE on page 2 u

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News brief Suspect arraigned for sexual assault, home invasion A man was arraigned on Tuesday for the alleged sexual assault and home invasion of an East Lansing resident.

Commerce Township resident Darcel Ricky Johnson, 17, was arraigned in 54-B District Court on charges of first degree criminal sexual conduct, criminal sexual conduct assault with the intent to commit sexual penetration, possession of marijuana and minor in possession, according to East Lansing police.

Police said a male suspect entered an East Lansing residence through an unlocked door Sunday, Feb. 23 at about 5:30 a.m. and sexually assaulted its female owner, who was asleep at the time.

Johnson is the suspect of an alleged sexual assault which took place early Sunday morning. The suspect was arrested shortly after in the 500 block of Forest Road. nolly dakroury

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Construction of the project is scheduled to start in three weeks on campus, according to university officials.

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Power has recieved four Big Ten Freshmen of the Week honors, while Jankoska earned her first Tuesday from page one

Powers’ ultimate goal for the season doesn’t seem out of reach: being named Big Ten Freshman of the Year.

“Aerial is the hardest working kid on our team, basically,” Merchant said. “We have a lot of hard workers, but she’s very driven. She sees the big picture, she’s here to win championships.”

Despite tearing the Achilles tendon in her left ankle in practice on Oct. 26, 2012, forcing her to miss the entire 2012-13 season, Powers is often the most active player on the court — drawing fouls, rebounding in

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Details of complaints made at MSU are still unclear — both the university and the Department of Education have declined to elaborate from page one

of the general reviews we’ve been doing in Academic Governance,” Simon explained.

At the University of Michigan, OCR is investigating one specific case, responding to two complaints made about

traffic and creating plays.

“She’s high energy, she gets steals,” junior forward Becca Mills said. “She’s the type of player that gets stats in every category, pretty consistent.”

She’s one of the most vocal players on the team. Powers wears her emotions on her sleeve, as she high-fived fans in the front row after hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer against Nebraska on Jan. 9.

A testament to her work ethic has been her improvement on the defensive end of the court.

Merchant said her defensive prowess was lacking earlier in the season, partially a result of missing extended court time with her Achilles injury. But she’s improved on that end of the floor by a wide margin.

Merchant said Powers simply wants to be the best player she can be.

“She’s very driven to be not only a good teammate, a good defender, but certainly the goto player that we need to win a championship,” Merchant said. “And we need that.”

Expanding her game Entering the season, true freshman and 2013 Michigan Miss Basketball winner Tori Jankoska had a well-deserved reputation as a sharpshooter.

As a senior at Freeland High School, Jankoska averaged 30.9 points, 7.0 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 4.8 steals to lead her team to a 22-2 record.

Unlike Powers, a starter from opening night, Jankoska initially served the role of sixth man for the Spartans, providing scoring off the bench.

Opportunity knocked for Jankoska when junior guard Kiana Johnson missed two road games against Virginia Tech and Florida State in December because of a heart infection.

Merchant inserted Jankoska as the starting point guard, and she responded with two of the worst games of her career.

Jankoska shot 4-of-24 in the two losses, dishing five assists and three turnovers.

“During Virginia Tech and that stretch when (Johnson) was out and Florida State, I

U-M’s handling of rape accusations against former Wolverine football player Brendan Gibbons. Gibbons, a former kicker, was “permanently separated” from U-M in December.

Details of the complaints made at MSU remain a mystery, as neither the Department of Education nor MSU would provide insight into the nature or scope of the allegations.

At the meeting, Simon reaffirmed that MSU takes every sexual assault case seriously, and said she feels MSU has been “relatively straightforward with issues that campus is facing.”

“We have been working with the Steering Committee of Aca-

demic Governance on a variety of policy changes and approaches regarding sexual violence,” she said.

Simon also said academic governance has been submitting policy changes to OCR. OCR representatives will be on campus Feb. 27 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in room 112 Olds Hall and from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in room 13 of Olds Hall to inform the MSU community of the effectiveness of ongoing sexual violence training and programs currently available on campus, as well as the on-campus climate of safety.

Managing Editor, Lauren Gibbons contributed to this report.

decided that a family is best raised by a man and women.”

The first day of testimony saw two witnesses testify.

Dr. David Brodzinsky is a former professor of psychology at Rutgers University from 19742006. He had research interests in adoption and testified he has been an expert witness in adoption court cases many times. Professor Michael John Rosenfeld is an associate professor at Stanford University who teaches sociology.

Brodzinsky testified that although the parenting styles are different for men and women the levels of ability are not.

“Mothers are usually more warm while fathers tend to be more playful and boisterous,” he said. “Those are differences in style, not competence.”

In the field of sociology, according to Rosenfeld, scholarly consensus is a rare occurrence. In the case of children being raised by same-sex couples Rosenfeld testified there is a consensus.

“The scholarly consensus is that kids who are raised by samesex couples are at no disadvantage,” he said.

While the proceedings were going on inside, the protest was ongoing outside of the courthouse. Although the two sides are divided on one of the most hot button issues in America, today both sides said the protest remained peaceful.

Rex Evans of Free Will Baptist Church said his group, who is against same-sex marriage, was trying to execute their first amendment rights by orchestrating a peaceful protest.

“We kind of think of ourselves as God’s spokespeople,” he said.

“We aren’t out here to cause problems, we love them like anyone else.”

The group planned to be outside of the courthouse every day of the trial. Judge Bernard Freeman has set aside eight days to go through the witnesses in the trial.

Evans said the group also supported the view of the defense, that the state already voted on the issue in 2004 and voted against same-sex marriage.

“The people have already voted,” he said. “We’re here to support that.”

Melissa Daley and her group, One Love St. Clair County, were an equally prideful, but smaller, group of protesters that support April DeBoer and the prosecution.

Daley is the president of the community support organization that aims to provide support for people who feel they need it. She married her partner in Washington D.C. but hopes their union might be recognized in Michigan.

“We believe people have the right to live the life of their choosing,” she said. “We believe you should be able to love who you love regardless of sex.”

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Continued was not in the right mindset,” Jankoska said. “I didn’t even know how to play that position at the college level.”

After those two games, a light clicked on for Jankoska. She studied film, preparing for her next opportunity.

The opportunity came when Johnson missed a road trip to Ohio State on Jan. 26 for personal reasons. Johnson was suspended indefinitely after that game, and Jankoska has been in the starting lineup since.

She’s improved exponentially as a playmaker, having earned her first Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor on Tuesday. In the last two games, Jankoska has averaged 17.5 points, six assists and 2.5 steals.

She set career-highs with seven assists and five steals in the win versus Wisconsin last Thursday. One might

not have guessed Jankoska would be the lead guard come late February, but Jankoska, who shares point guard duties with senior Klarissa Bell, has proved herself capable of taking the reins when the Spartans needed it most.

“Once it came to the Ohio State game, I felt a lot better,” she said. “I actually watched Kiana do it for the first six or seven games of the Big Ten, so I had time watching and learning what to do from her.”

With the Big Ten Tournament slightly more than a week away, the freshmen realize they have to play bigger than their experience.

“We’re just playing within the system and making sure we’re playing with our teammates,” Powers said. “It’s not much about age when it comes to us. It’s just about playing and being competitive.”

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“I thought this would be a great way to take action and learn what to do in a situation that puts me in harm’s way.”

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Roma Cusumano, Chinese and comparative cultures and politics sophomore

One in four women are sexually assaulted on college campuses nationally, as are one in seven men

Students who attended learned how to assess their environment and utilize their confrontational skills.

The program covered definitions of rape, red flags indicating a possible sexual assault perpetrator and ways to stop an assault before it happens, among others.

Sexual assaults are prevalent on all U.S. university campuses. Dontje said one in four women are sexually assaulted on campuses nationwide, as well as with one in seven men.

Before showing self-defense techniques, dietetics senior Darlene Hogan dispelled myths about sexual assaults.

Hogan said more than 70 percent of sexual assaults occur between acquaintances rather than a stranger.

Hogan also said rape can occur between two people

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regardless how much alcohol was drank and regardless of their relationship status.

Chinese and comparative cultures and politics sophomore Roma Cusumano recently took the on-campus housing survey and one of the questions struck her.

“I got to the question about how safe I felt on campus,” Cusumano said. “I thought about how terrified I’ve been walking back from the library.”

She said a friend mentioned the class and she knew it would negate some of those fearful feelings.

“I thought this would be a great way to take action and learn what to do in a situation that puts me in harm’s way,” Cusumano said.

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Attorney and Tallahassee, Tenn., resident Benjamin Crump speaks about the roles and issues that young lawyers face in fighting against laws such as “Stand Your Ground” Tuesday at Cooley Law School. Crump represented the family of Trayvon Martin during the George Zimmerman trial.

Trayvon Martin’s attorney comes to Lansing

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On the day before the second anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death, Martin family attorney Benjamin L. Crump gave a speech to law students at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, advising them to use their education to make the world a better place.

The Black Law Student Association at Cooley Law School hosted the event at 6 p.m. Tuesday evening.

In his speech, Crump drew attention to the “Stand Your Ground” law that protected George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who shot Trayvon Martin.

“It shouldn’t be called ‘stand your ground,’ it should be called ‘don’t miss,’” he said. “If you kill the person and you make sure they’re dead, your stand your ground argument has a much better chance of success.”

He chiefly discussed the com- dents to do the right thing when plications the law can cause nobody is looking. “(I took the case) before Lebwhen lawyers attempt to uphold ron put on the hoodie before it in the courtroom.

“This law is a terrible law,” practice, or Obama said ‘If I had a son he would look like he said. “(It) encourages people Trayvon,’” he said. to take the law into their Crump spoke own hands.” of Trayvon’s Crump encourmothaged the stuTrayvon er, Sybridents to Martin’s former n a Fu l“answer the ton, the b e l l ” w he n attorney spoke heartopportuniabout the break ties arise to she went improve the “Stand Your through lives of others. after TrayHe quoted a Ground” law von’s death, Chinese proverb and her words saying, “education at a rally in New is no good if you keep York about three it among the educated.”

“We need the leaders of com- weeks after Trayvon’s death.

“She said, ‘I simply want to munity, the créme de la crop, to answer the bell,” Crump said. thank you all for standing up for “You have an obligation to share my son Trayvon Martin. But he’s (your education) with them, to not just my son. He’s your son. help them fulfill their purpose He’s all our son. Because if it can happen to my son it can happen in life.”

Crump also advised the stu- to your son,’” Crump said.

Crump spoke not only of Trayvon, but of other recent youths whose deaths have been affected by the “Stand Your Ground” law, including Jordan Davis, who was killed by Michael Dunn for having his music too loud in his car.

Crump asked, “What’s the value in a man?”

If you ask Warren Buffett, he’ll tell you a value is the return of an investment, Crump said.

“I submit to you that there is no investment that we can make that can yield a greater return than young people.”

Second-year Cooley law student Jeremy Bowie found the speech informative, he said.

“He was there firsthand, he saw the emotion that Sybrina and Trayvon’s father went through,” Bowie said.

“A law student shouldn’t think of themselves as a lawyer,” he said. “They should see themselves as social engineers of change.”

Spring break is approaching, and with it comes hundreds of students vacationing in different places around the world.

To help students understand the importance of being safe while away from home, the Women’s Resource Center is hosting a two-day Spring Break Safety Fair.

Lydia Weiss, educational program coordinator of the center, said the fair is meant to bring information to students on how to protect themselves.

“The Spring Break Safety Fairs are great ways to gain information and have fun at the same time,” Weiss said.

The Spring Break Safety Fair is an interactive one.

Starting in the informational booths, students have the opportunity to talk to staff from the Olin Health Center, Women’s Resource Center, MSU Sexual Assault Program, MSU Police, MSU Safe Place and the Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program. At the end of their visit, students have the chance to answer some questions and then “buy” candy, T-shirts and other souvenirs with the fake money that they receive from the people in charge of the booths.

Human biology freshman Brianna Ferguson said she liked the concept of the Spring Break Fair in Snyder-

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Phillips Hall. “I learned the alcohol content in beer,” Ferguson said.

K i ne siolog y sophomore Michelle Masarira said she was going to her hometown, Berrien Springs, Mich., to spend time with her family.

“Most of the time I’m not concerned about safeness, but sometimes you get an iffy feeling,” she said.

During this recess, many students who go away to do community service in an alternate spring break trip are concerned with their safety.

“Safety should not be a concern,” said Eric Walton, financial coordinator of alternative Spartan breaks. “We spend a lot of time focusing on how to be prepared and what is the best plan of action if something occurs.”

Walton said that the teams that Alternative Spartan Breaks will send to the sites are fully trained to handle different situations.

Spring Break safety has always been a concern among students and parents.

In 2009, 11 MSU students were briefly kidnapped during a Spring Break trip in Guatemala.

According to a previous report in The State News, the students, bus driver and organizers of the trip were retained for an hour and a half. “I thought the whole time they were going to kill us,” Zahkia Smith, one of the students participating in the trip, said in an interview at the time. “I wouldn’t let that stand in the way of exploring different cultures.”

The second fair will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in Shaw Hall.

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Simon discusses false alert, handling crises “Unfortunately, though there have been 10 programs offered to date for faculty, only 200 folks have showed up during this time.”

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A fter a text alert about a man with a gun at Bessey Hall sent students at the university in a whirlwind, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon encouraged the importance of reporting any suspicions.

“When you see something, you need to say something right away,” Simon said at Tuesday’s University Council meeting.

She said she has written to the individual who made the call and is glad the individual informed police officials of what he or she saw.

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From the initial call to police and from the text message alert, it took only nine minutes to respond and secure the situation, Simon said.

She also said the university will continue to work on improving technolog y, but there is no way the system will be perfect.

Simon said the university is doing all they can to keep people informed as soon as possible, but the only way to get

information out more quickly is to keep text message alerts short.

It is more important to have information out as soon as possible, even if it is “sparse” and “incomplete,” Simon said. She also said that it was important to implement more and better ways of educating faculty on how to handle this type of crisis.

“Unfortunately, though there have been 10 programs offered

to date for faculty, only 200 folks have showed up during this time,” Simon said.

Simon asked faculty members to put trust and patience into the university to inform them of dangerous situations.

Acting Provost June Youatt said she will be encouraging college deans to bring up workshops and materials for faculty members to review procedures in case of emergencies.

“I think it’s time that we devote some time to better preparing ourselves,” Youatt said.

Youatt said it was better to be informed of emergency procedures and never have to use them rather than be uninformed and stuck in a crisis.

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MSU Police Chief reflects on Monday’s shooter scare First, I would like to commend the State News on their quick posting of information regarding the call of a person with a gun at Bessey Hall on Monday, February 24.

Normally, I don’t think it appropriate for me to respond to specific incidents which occur on campus on a routine basis.

In this particular situation, I feel it is appropriate and important to address several points.

I applaud the individual who had the presence of mind to call 911 after observing an individual carrying a rifle into Bessey Hall. This type of involvement by citizens observing a potentially dangerous situation is important to providing a safer community. Her actions and description allowed for a rapid police response to this situation. After having had the opportunity to view the parade rifle observed in this incident, no reasonable person would have or should have drawn any conclusion other than a person armed with a rifle. This individual was later determined to be part of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, or AFROTC, but was dressed in civilian attire.

Our police officers were dispatched and on scene within two minutes of the call and made entry into the building in slightly over two minutes. The emergency text message was actually launched in less than four minutes from the time of the dispatch and advised people to secure in place. Within eight minutes the individual with the gun had been located and within 10 minutes the all clear was given.

The speed of response and dissemination of information was incredible by any standards that exist.

Current training for our police officers is for the first two officers on scene to make immediate entry to address the potential of an armed individual. All of our officers are issued and carry special equipment and continuously go through training to deploy to these situations as rapidly as possible. These are the current best practices in law enforcement.

Additionally, since August of 2013, MSU has trained more than 6,000 employees on active violence situations and conducted several full scale and table top exercises. We offer continuous training sessions and provide information in a headline banner on our website. MSU has one of the most robust timely alert systems available and is adding an additional system next month which will be one of only a handful of rapid notification systems in the country of its type. We currently launch these messages to about 68,000 devices.

While we continue to expand our capabilities, it is also essential that people be aware of what actions they can and should take in these situations and give some thought as to how they will react. In a community of over 65,000 people, it is impossible to reach everyone rapidly with precise and detailed information. We also have an ever-changing community, which provides even more complexities in the educational component of reacting to active violence situations.

MSU has and will continue to devote considerable resources to the emergency management of incidents. In this case, I am extremely proud of the student that called the police, of the professionalism of the responding police officers and the effectiveness of the timely warning system.

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I applaud the individual who had the presence of mind to call 911 after observing an individual carrying a rifle into Bessey Hall.”

We have more time in the day than we realize

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ver heard of the saying “make your own time?”

For me, that was a saying that I never took very seriously. After all, there are 24 hours a day and if my schedule gets packed with classes, work and extracurricular activities, chances are the sun in the sky isn’t planning on slowing down. Recently, college life for me has become incredibly fast-paced, making free time such a luxury.

Dealing with career expos and company presentations left and right for the past few months, I have discovered how precious of a commodity time is. With this in mind, I critically looked at my day-to-day activities and began to realize how much time I’ve been wasting.

I could imagine many of us are guilty of this. Instead of looking on Facebook for the latest notifications, I could be spending that time in the gym that I’ve been struggling to regularly visit. Why not turn that Youtube video into time spent looking for summer work

“I think the Counseling Center is doing the best they can, but I am not the only one who has been in a situation of having to find help elsewhere.”

— Kary Askew Garcia, State News reporter

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Read the rest online at All of this presstatenews.com/blog. sure has helped me realize that our schedules aren’t as busy as we make them out to be. We just make them harder on ourselves by not spending our time efficiently. For those who are opportunity to take the test of his English classes, and skeptical with that stateto get back into college. then spent four and a half ment, take my Statistics If it wasn’t for their years earning his bacheprofessor for example. devotion toward studying lor degree and He had to guest columnist at night while working Ph.D. For most take time from dawn to dusk of us, taking on manageout on the fields, they a class load of ment incredwouldn’t have shared the that weight is ibly serioustop three test scores in completely out ly during his the entire province and of the question. college years. been admitted to college.

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Will be interested if this goes back four years and involves athletes. Wow. That email was all PR and no sincerity. The University is shifting the issue of sexual misconduct to the student population when the blame in fact lies with the administration and its lack of responsiveness. Shameful.

SlowLoras, Feb. 25

It was OK, but it could have been better It was not helpful, or it didn’t reach me Total votes: 94 as of 5 p.m. Tuesday

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Theatre students to perform in New York

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Everybody dreams of being a movie star in New York.

Eight MSU students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program are on the track to finding that fame as they prepare for a showcase that they will perform for agents in New York.

On Monday night, the students did a local performance of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Showcase in the Auditorium.

The showcase included scenes, songs and a monologue. Scenes ranged from dramatic arguments and breakups to intimate love scenes. The performances had the audience gasping from both shock and laughter.

“We are going to represent Michigan State students in New York, and this show gives you an idea of what’s going to happen,”

Deric McNish, director of the program and an assistant professor of theatre, said in an email.

The showcase in New York, which is supposed to help students with getting signed, will take place on March 5.

Many of the eight seniors going to New York City are dedicated to their profession.

“The song I sang I had been practicing my whole life and I sang it in high school,” theatre senior Brittany Ann Nicol said. “It takes a lot of willpower, a lot of discipline, and a lot of hard work.”

To be a part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program, students have to audition, theatre senior Nathan Turland said. Once accepted, students are continuously given guidance.

“It’s a very rigorous program that doesn’t just allow you to focus, it pushes you,” Turland said.

Turland is part of the program along with his classmates. However, he did not perform on Monday

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as he is set to go to Los Angeles for his showcase.

This was Turland’s first showcase he’s seen, and he said it was great to see all the hard work put into the performance.

“The transitions were beautiful,” Turland said.

Theatre senior Julia Kathryn Hays said students plan on maximizing their time in New York by going on backstage tours and visiting operas.

Theatre senior Natalie Manz said the experience has prepared her for the future.

“Working on the project was helpful, because I am being shaped by my own peers. … Our acting abilities grow while we watch each other’s work,” Manz said.

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James Madison freshman Jeff Bullard gets his hair cut by Lansing resident Audrey Hyndman on Tuesday at Great Clips, 205 M.A.C. Ave. Hyndman has been working at the salon for about two years.

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Student creates nail polish line with help of Spartan Innovations

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When Simone Page went to Walmart last summer on the hunt for a new bottle of nail polish, she was appalled by the cost.

The OPI nail polish shade that she was interested in cost $8 per bottle. Page, a communication senior, started to think about how much she pays annually for nail polish and was disgusted.

Her disappointment fueled innovation when she came up with the concept of creating her own nail polish.

Page, along with her friend,

“We like the feedback we get from others, and it makes us want to continue (to create) more colors.”

Bria Watkins, a Lansing Community College student, began brainstorming ways to create their own nail polish line so they didn’t have to turn to more expensive brands.

The partners contacted Spartan Innovations, a company devoted to launching businesses.

Spartan Innovations provides the educational and financial support to innovators to help turn ideas into successful Michigan businesses.

Page and Watkins created a business plan and a bulletin board filled with various newspaper and magazine clippings and presented it to the board.

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Freshman forward Mackenzie MacEachern stands during a break in play against OSU on Feb. 7 at Munn Ice Arena.

MacEachern scored Friday against Wisconsin.

Scoreless games for hockey forward Mackenzie MacEachern before Friday’s Wisconsin game.

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Jankoska earns freshman recognition from Big Ten At 5-foot-8, freshman guard Tori Jankoska is hardly the most intimidating player on the MSU women’s basketball team.

But her offensive ferocity and skill on the court earned her a place on two Big Ten Player of the Week lists.

Jankoska was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week

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and one of three members of the Big Ten Player of the Week Honor Roll, following an impressive win against Minnesota on Monday night.

Jankoska led the Spartans with 21 points, including four 3-pointers against the Golden Gophers. In two games last week against Minnesota and Wisconsin,

she averaged 17.5 points, six assists and 2.5 steals.

Against Wisconsin, Jankoska’s seven assists and five steals set personal and career highs.

She holds the highest average points per game on the team in Big Ten games with 13.8 points.

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MSU forging ahead after weekend Spartans now focused on little

By Robert Bondy rbondy@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

MSU hockey will take a step away from the Big Ten this weekend, with only one exhibition game against the USA National Team Development Program on the slate this week.

Head coach Tom Anastos addressed the media on Tuesday about the upcoming exhibition bout, as well as his thoughts on last weekend’s back-to-back losses at No. 6 Wisconsin.

Positives from weekend MSU struggled to find the back of the net in its two games in Madison, Wis., scoring only two goals in the series. That included MSU’s fifth scoreless outing of the season on Saturday.

Despite coming up empty in Saturday’s game, Anastos said he felt his Spartans played well enough to win, but just came up on the raw end of a few bounces and calls.

“I thought we played really well Saturday, thought we played a good game,” Anastos said. “Met many of our objec-

tives. We assess objectives every game and usually in the percentage of achieved objectives that we hit that night, we usually win the game and it was one of those nights we didn’t.”

Anastos added that his Spartans had more scoring chances than the Badgers in Saturday’s game, but just came up empty-handed.

New line jelling Another positive from this past weekend series was the g row t h bet ween t he new forward line of Mackenzie MacEachern, Lee Reimer and Greg Wolfe.

Anastos elected to mix up his lines during the Penn State series a couple weeks ago, moving MacEachern up from the all-freshmen line to play with seniors Reimer and Wolfe in the second game.

The change worked, with MacEachern scoring on Friday to break a 16-game goalless drought.

However, it was Saturday’s game that Anastos was more impressed with from the trio, leading him to plan to keep the line together.

“I thought all three of them had a jump, they seemed to have a little more cohesion,” Anastos said.

“They created a little bit more, so we’ll probably continue to keep them together a little bit.”

Injury update MSU didn’t just lose a couple games in its trip to Wisconsin, but also a key piece on the back end.

Junior defenseman R.J. Boyd went down before Friday’s game in warmups with a sprained ankle, missing his first two games of the season. And it looks like Boyd will miss even more time.

Anastos ruled Boyd out indefinitely, not knowing when he will return to the Spartan lineup.

Boyd is second in points for Spartan defensemen, with one goal and five assists this season.

Redshirt freshman defenseman Brock Krygier also went down on Friday with a leg injury, but returned to the lineup the following night.

details after loss to Western

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With a minor 0.225 difference, the gymnastics team lost to Western Michigan 195.0019 4 .7 7 5 o n Friday in Kalamazoo, Mich.

T he Spartans looked at the Wester n Michigan meet as Burt a confidence booster, senior Dani Levy said last week.

Although they reached their highest te a m s c or e of t he seaHolmes son, they now have to look at fixing the details that have been preventing them from winning some meets this season.

“We were pleased with the score being higher, but were disappointed on floor when we didn’t do as well as we wanted,” head coach Kathie Klages said.

Earlier in the season — on Dec. 20, 2013 — the team beat Western Michigan 144.250142.300 at a scrimmage at Jenison Field House, but the Broncos showed their new strength.

“Western improved massively since December. That night they were on point and deserved to win,” Klages said.

The winner was defined by a fall that hurt MSU’s score and kept the team from winning the meet, Klages said, despite the close scores.

“It was a situation that we counted a fall and they didn’t,” she said. “We’re just focusing on the little things now, like eliminating landing deducting — which we improved on at this meet.”

Sophomore Lisa Burt, who placed first in the all-around competition for the second time this season, said even though MSU didn’t win, the high score shows the team’s improvement from week to week.

“We knew what we had to do — our warmup wasn’t great,” Burt said. “We’re going in being more confident and energetic this week.”

Before the meet started, the Spartans had a fall during the warmup.

That was when sophomore Brittany Holmes found out she would be competing in allaround for the first time.

“It was the first time I placed and my first 9.825 ever. I was just excited, like ‘Finally, I did it,’” Holmes said.

Holmes’ third place in the all-around competition and second on beam helped the team post the 194.775 score.

With two falls on floor — by freshman Elena Lagoski and Levy — the team has to focus on the minor details of their routines.

“The big picture is fine, we just need to fix the little

details,” Holmes said.

Burt said that from now on, the focus is on having straight legs on, pointing their feet and sticking their landings.

“It ’s not just hitting our routines, we have to know we have it all together,” she said.

Teammate and junior Ashley Noll said that they kept the energy going, but that their confidence level dropped once they made mistakes in the meet.

“We’re focusing on competing like we practice,” Noll said. “We’re building to move forward and to do better this week.”

Because of the Spartans’ victory in December, Noll said the Broncos were probably nervous going into the meet, but came out strong at the end.

“They wanted to redeem themselves,” she said.

Despite the few mistakes on floor — their third event of the meet — Klages said her team stepped up at the last event.

“They finished strong on balance beam and they fought through the meet and the mistakes,” she said.

K nowing they can reach such a high score — and even higher if they fix the minor details — they will proceed the rest of the season with confidence and hard work.

“They’ll build confidence from finishing strong,” Klages said.

Denver will visit MSU and compete against the Spartans at 7 p.m. on Friday at Jenison Field House.

RELIGIOUS GUIDE Look for this directory in the paper every Wednesday and online at: www.statenews.com/religious Ascension Lutheran Church 2780 Haslett Rd., E. Lansing Between Hagadorn & Park Lake Rds. (517) 337-9703 Sunday Worship: 10am Sunday School: 9am Adult Bible Study: 9am ascensioneastlansing.org Congregation Shaarey Zedek 1924 Coolidge Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-3570 www.shaareyzedek.com Friday Evenings: 7:30 Shabbat Evening Service (Reform) Saturday Mornings: 9:00 Shabbat Morning Service (Conservative) Edgewood United Church, UCC 469 N. Hagadorn East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-8693 Sunday: 10am LGBTQ Celebrating, Justice and Peace Congregation www.edgewood.org First Baptist Church of Okemos 4684 Marsh Road Okemos, MI 48864 (517) 349-2830 www.fbcokemos.org Worship Celebration - Sundays at 10:45am Greater Lansing Church of Christ 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 898-3600 Sunday Worship: 8:45am Sunday Bible Study: 10:15am Sunday Evening: Small Group Wednesday Bible Study: 7:00pm www.greaterlansingcoc.org Hillel Jewish Student Center 360 Charles St., E. Lansing (517) 332-1916 Friday Night Services: 6pm September - April

Martin Luther Chapel 444 Abbot Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-0778 martinlutherchapel.org Sunday: 10:30am & 7:00pm “Wednesday ON FIRE” at 7:09pm One Community–Lutheran (ELCA)/ Episcopal (TEC) Campus Ministry 1020 South Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-2559 www.facebook.com/onecommunitymsu Thursdays: on-campus student worship 7:00pm (RM 111, Olds Hall) Sundays: 8:30, 10:45am (University Lutheran Church) Sundays: 8:00pm, 10:00am (All Saints Episcopal Church) Dec 24: 5:30pm, 9:00pm (University Lutheran Church & All Saints Episcopal Church) Dec 25: 9:30am (University Lutheran Church), 10:00am (All Saints Episcopal) Peoples Church 200 W. Grand River Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-6264 www.peoples-evolution.org Sunday Worship: 10:30am Tuesday: Love Life: 7-9pm Wednesday: Dinner at 5:30pm, Journey at 6:30 Quan Am Buddhist Temple, MSU Meditation Center 1840 N. College Road Mason, MI 48854 (517) 853-1675 (517) 347-1655 www.quanamtemple.org 7-8:30pm Every Thursday Red Cedar Friends Meeting (Quaker) 1400 Turner St. Lansing, MI 48906 (517) 371-1047 www.redcedarfriends.org Sunday: 9am, 10:30am Weekdays: 7:30am St. John Catholic Church and Student Center 327 M.A.C. Ave., E. Lansing (517) 337-9778 Sunday: 8am, 10am, 12pm, 5pm, 7pm Reconciliation: Mon, Wed, Fri: 11am to Noon www.stjohnmsu.org

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St. Paul Lutheran Church 3383 E. Lake Lansing Rd. East Lansing, MI (517) 351-8541 Adult Bible Study: 9am Worship:10am www.stpaul-el.org St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church & School 955 Alton Rd., E. Lansing (517) 351-7215 Saturday Vigil Mass: 4:30pm Sunday Mass: 9am, 11am Reconciliation: Saturday 3-4pm, 5:30pm www.elcatholics.org Trinity Church 3355 Dunckel Dr. Lansing, MI 48911 (517) 272-3820 Saturday: 6pm Sunday: 9:15 am, 11am http://trinitywired.com Unity Spiritual Renaissance 230 S. Holmes St. Lansing, MI 48912 (517) 484-2360 or (517) 505-1261 Sunday: 10:30am Wednesday: 6:30pm meditation Office: Monday-Thursday 9:30-12:00 University Christian Church 310 N. Hagadorn East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-5193 Non-Instrumental: 8:45am Traditional: 11:15am www.universitychristianwired.com University United Methodist Church MSU Wesley 1120 S. Harrison Rd. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 351-7030 universitychurchhome.org msuwesley.org Sunday: 10:30am TGIT: 8:00 Thursdays 9:00am Garden Service thru Labor Day Weis Lutheran Campus Ministry 704 Abbott Road East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 580-3744 www.msu.edu/~weisluth 6:00pm Saturday