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Food processing from a processor’s perspective

by Kaitlyn Casulli opinion@statenews.com

I’ll go ahead and admit it right away.

I’m considered a food processor.

As a graduate student in food engineering and a food scientist grad via my bachelor’s degree, I’ve had substantial opportunity to make some well-informed observations about what drives food processing.

I should note that I’m not here to bash

fear-mongering anti-food-processing propaganda. I’m merely here to give the other view, based on my pursuit of a second degree in the area.

Food processing serves several purposes, such as safety, convenience and preservation. It’s no surprise that the average consumer has become driven toward convenience with respect to food consumption. It seems like there is a new fast food restaurant under construction or an eat-on-the-go product hitting the shelves every time you turn around.

It is uncommon to find families that are entirely self-sufficient, meaning they produce everything they eat.

Most people are working 9-to-5 jobs with plenty of other obligations to fulfill in their personal lives. These are the

people who want food with minimal preparation that will last for weeks or months. There just isn’t always time to cook or go to the grocery store.

Instead of buying fresh fruits and vegetables, meats and grains, which can be cooked into a healthy dinner, time-pressed consumers are driven toward TV dinners. Then, when consumers read the ingredient list on the TV dinners, they find that there is a long list of chemical names that they are unfamiliar with.

Inevitably, the ingredients will be Googled and the consumer will probably find out that they are used in industrial processes, and when consumed in extremely large amounts, they may be harmful to health.

This then starts the aforementioned

fear-mongering.

In reality, the food industry is not out to kill off consumers by adding poisons to foods. The ingredients may be lethal at high doses; however, in small amounts, there is likely no negative effect on the body.

Even water can be lethal if too much is consumed. Every ingredient and processing step costs processors extra money, and no profit-driven food processor is going to survive by throwing away money by adding ingredients that don’t serve a purpose.

A great example of this is the grated cheese you get in bags. To keep the cheese from clumping, an anti-caking agent, calcium sulfate is added. Calcium sulfate has not been proven to be dangerous in small amounts, but it is

a food additive that many consumers have problems accepting.

It is quite easy to avoid, though! It is as simple as buying a block of cheese and grating it yourself at home. Processors would surely profit from cutting out adding additional ingredients and processing steps required to make pre-shredded cheese.

These are just a few examples of many concepts in the food industry that have been misconstrued.

The take-home message here is that eating is your decision, not the food industry’s. You don’t have to agree with everything the food industry does, and you don’t have to eat all of its products.

It just comes down to consumer education and bringing food preparation back to the kitchen.

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While the end of my second year approaches, I have been met with a feeling of panic. Where have these past two years gone?

What have I already missed out on? Is my resume impressive enough? Have I taken the time to really embrace the first half of what should be the best four years of my life?

I have deemed these existential thoughts to be my own version of a mid-life crisis — a mid-college crisis, if you will.

There are so many things that I have

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yet to do during my time at MSU. I’ve yet to pull an all-nighter, paint the rock on Farm Lane or take a picture on the infamous Fiji jet ski.

However, I have also had incredible experiences during my first two years that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It’s easy to dwell on missed opportunities, but regardless of how far you are through college, it’s never too late to try something new.

College is the time to explore new things and find out who you are, so if you feel that you’ve missed out on some crucial experience, go out and grab it. You’ll never know if breakdancing club is the thing for you unless you go out and try, and even if you hate it, knowing you tried is better than living with the unanswered “what if.”

Also remember that while many people look back on college as the best four years of their lives, many do not. It’s good to appreciate college for all of the opportunities and experiences it provides, but

don’t put unrealistic amounts of pressure on yourself. Instead, use your college experiences — and the lessons you learn — to make the coming years even better.

The most important thing to remember if you’re experiencing a crisis similar to mine is that you’re still just a college student. Sometimes we feel as if we are running out of time to do the things we want to do. If you’re like me and that’s the case, then slow down, take a breath.

Realize that while it may not feel like it, you still have time. You haven’t missed out on any crucial life experiences and you don’t have to have everything figured out right now.

Take time to enjoy your college years.

Don’t focus too heavily on the past or on the future. Live in the moment and appreciate those around you and you’ll find that regardless of your year, this isn’t the end of the best time in your life — it’s the beginning of great things to come.

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Chinese students face barriers, adjustments and stereotypes Chinese students at MSU 2010-2015

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As the largest international student community on campus, Chinese students have an experience entirely different from others

By Michael Kransz mkransz@statenews.com

of fellow nationals on campus provides a way to mostly avoid these interactions with domestic students and develop an insular social life. And with such a large minority population comes numerous stereotypes.

The Chinese New Year is to Chinese culture what Christmas Eve is to those in the U.S., said supply chain management senior Jason Wang. So when his group-mates wanted to work Numbers and Stereotypes on their project that night, as opposed to the From fall 2010 to spring 2015, the Chinese undergraduate population night of the MSU-U-M basketexploded, increasing by nearball game, he found it difficult “Our Chinese ly 124 percent to the 3,697 stuto explain the event’s cultural students have dents it is now, according to significance.

Office of Planning and Bud“I try my best to fit in the an additional gets’ data. group, but somehow it still can challenge of Being a student among be hard,” Wang said. “(It’s) not having to decide MSU’s largest international quite language; (I) took the if they want to get student body is both a gift and language test.” a detriment, Office for InterFor ma ny Chinese st u- to know people national Students and Scholdents, conversing with and who are not from ars Assistant Director Liz Matunderstanding the vernacuthews said. lar of domestic students can China.”

When international students be a taxing experience — the Liz Matthews, Office for International Students and first arrive at MSU, the difslang, jokes and cultural refScholars assistant director ferences in how they adjust is erences used are rarely underminimal, Matthews said. But stood unless explained by the in the following first weeks, speaker or researched.

Many international students, including that’s when population size factors into social those from China, develop relationships with patterns.

“Our Chinese students have an additional their domestic counterparts. But while these cross-cultural communication barriers also challenge of having to decide if they want to exist for most international students, what get to know people who are not from China,” distinguishes the Chinese student population Matthews said. “Whereas our students who come from countries that are not so representis their numbers.

For some Chinese students, the high number ed, they have no choice.”

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At University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where the Chinese student population rivals that of MSU and east Asian languages and Cultures associate professor Gary Xu teaches, Xu said he’s observed similar patterns.

“They don’t have to go outside their own group to have a social life, to not feel lonely, to learn about the course requirements, to learn about everything,” Xu said.

One of the stereotypes surrounding Chinese students on campus is that they’re cliquey, that they stick to their own and rarely branch out to others, applied engineering junior Steven St. Pierre said.

But, having made friends with several Chinese students, St. Pierre has seen both the truth and falsehood of this stereotype, he said.

Awhile back he spotted a Chinese friend sitting in a dining hall with two fellow nationals and decided to eat with them. The entirety of the time they sat together, the two other Chinese students didn’t speak and were standoffish, he said.

St. Pierre attributed their behavior as a reaction to a not her stereot y pe f rom domestic students that Chinese students face — that Chinese students are unintelligent because of the way they speak. “(Domestic students) give them a lot of hell because they seem slow,” St. Pierre said. “But if you come to a new country, where everything is different, everything becomes a lot harder.”

Being from a small town in northern Michigan where the population is predominately white, construction management sophomore Jordan Jelinek said coming to MSU has helped him better understand other cultures.

In classes at MSU, Jelinek has made friends with several Chinese students. Through those interactions he said he came to a realization of what differences lay beyond the cultural distinctions, he said. “(The Chinese students) in my class, they’re not that much different from us,” he said.

But, he said, there are pervading stereotypes of Chinese students that deter domestic students from interacting with them — namely, that grouping all Chinese students as having wealth and luxury cars can make them seem stuck up.

Journalism senior Mandi Fu said the stereotype that Chinese students who study abroad are wealthy is one faced in China as well as in America.

And it’s a stereotype, she said, that only holds true for a minority of the Chinese population at MSU. “I would say probably 20 to

Supply chain management junior Yue Hu, left, and supply chain management junior Yiqi Ye give out tea samples for the Greater Lansing Chinese New Year celebration Saturday at Meridian Mall on West Grand River Avenue. Yue and Yiqi are both international students from China.

30 percent here are truly rich,” Fu said. “My mother is a teacher, and my father is in engineering. I only have a Honda car. And I’m happy.” lost in translation The only remedy for reaching out to domestic students and overcoming the available comfort of a large community of fellow nationals, or for what he calls taking the “first step,” is bravery, Xu said.

The bravery that Xu speaks of isn’t just triumphing over social anxiety, extending a hello or understanding the English language. It ’s the endurance to work past complex cultural linguistic barriers that, when attempting to cross for the first times, contain the possibility of embarrassment and misunderstanding.

Many Chinese are taught English at an early age and are required to display their knowledge before admittance into U.S. universities, he said.

But this learning and testing is often restricted to memorization of words and grammatical employment, not everyday situations where vernacular is encountered.

“I would say probably 20 to 30 percent here are truly rich. My mother is a teacher and my father is in engineering. I only have a Honda car.

And I’m happy.”

Mandi Fu, journalism senior

“They were taught to memorize the words but not to put them into actual use,” Xu said.

“Bars, streets, car dealerships, the basketball game — they have to be practiced in actual situations.”

For Fu, the hardest adjustment to studying in the U.S. has been understanding and mastering those subtle elements of everyday, domestic student speech — how a conversation is started, what topics are discussed and how to speak informally.

“It’s culture stuff, it’s not only the language,” Fu said. “Even though you’re good at language, you can’t really solve some cultural problems, which will make some problems and misunderstanding.”

The process has been gradual, she said, and it’s been aided by picking up conversations across campus, from the classroom to the dining hall. With her ability to better express her feelings and opinions in English, she said she’s more comfortable in talking in the language to native speakers.

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fact The Chinese undergraduate population at MSU has increased by 124 percent since fall 2010.

exchange of culture Cross-cultural communication barriers are a decisive factor for Chinese students in particular, chemistr y doctoral student Yongle Pang said, because there’s a safety net for them, a social life without new complications.

But these students, along with domestic students who only socialize within their own nationality, won’t experience the cultural exchange that can provide different approaches to shared problems, Pang said.

The use of words or phrases inappropriate for the context can often create misunderstandings that hinder Chinese students from developing bonds with domestic students, Wang said.

Awhile back, Wang and his friend were telling their food selections to dining hall workers, when his friend unintentionally came off harshly.

Instead of asking if he could have something, the friend told the worker only what he wanted, Wang said.

A lt hough ma ny domestic students intentionally, or uncaringly, do the same, Wang said the story highlights a trouble that many international students face. “(There’s) an uncertainty of how to act in the American way,” Wang said. “When acting inappropriately, (we’re) often directed but not told why. You want to teach him how to fish, not just give it to him. I think we really need that kind of help.”

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MSU’s Residential and Hospitality Services is looking for MSU Board of Trustees’ approval this summer to begin construction on a replacement for the Spartan Village Apartments, to be constructed on the corner of Kalamazoo Street and Harrison Road .

The inception for the new development came in 2008, when RHS decided Spartan Village Apartments needed to be closed because it had “exceeded their life expectancy and had become very expensive to maintain and repair,” according to RHS’s website.

The plan for replacement housing was cemented in 2013, when the MSU Board of Trustees granted RHS authorization to begin developing designs and strategies for a new student family housing complex to replace Spartan Village.

RHS is currently working in tandem with SHW Group and Encore Architects to evaluate the feasibility of such a project and to create designs for sustainable residences.

The new student family housing project will be built with an

eco-friendly approach and will model recent Brody Neighborhood renovations, said Kathy Collins, the director of Residence Education and Housing Services.

“We’re looking at using mostly sustainable materials and we want to implement a lot of windows like at Brody, so the design will be more energy efficient,” Collins said, adding the construction would not affect tuition costs whatsoever.

The planned student family housing will include 1,200 beds on site with townhouses, studios and office space, and will accommodate undergraduates, graduate students, international students and families.

“We’re really focusing on fostering a community feeling at the new development,” Collins said.

“With families and students living there we want everyone to feel welcome just like at Spartan Village.”

Tentatively, there will be green space for children to play outside, gathering areas, a marketplace, an MSU-run Starbucks on site and a community garden that will act as a way for residents to interact and add to a sense of sustainability.

Collins spoke at a recent Coun-

cil of Graduate Students meeting and reinforced the idea that this project will not raise tuition, and is being paid for by RHS, which is an auxiliary of MSU. While the aging housing is still in livable conditions, some residents are happy it will be replaced.

“If I have to compare with other parts of the country where I’ve been, here is less than where I was,” Spartan Village Apartments resident Seguibyam Joachim Kientga said.

While it is not clear yet where residents displaced by the construction will go, they are glad new housing will be available after Spartan Village apartments closes.

“The apartment I live in is in good condition, and I haven’t had any problems in it,” physics junior Andrea Roraback said.

“There are one or two things that it would be nice if they changed, but it’s nothing major.

I think they should keep Spartan Village open. It has a good location and the apartments are nice.”

Staff reporters Patrick Bade and Alyssa Smith contributed to this article.

MSU plans to replace current email system with Microsoft Office 365

By Ryan Squanda rsquanda@statenews.com

The days of MSU’s current email system are numbered, MSU IT vice president and chief information officer Joanna Young said during part of a presentation to the University Council Tuesday afternoon.

With thousands of freshmen expected to come to MSU next fall, changes will have to happen.

“That mail system is probably several years at the end of its life and is hanging on by a thread,” Young said. “We are in pretty much a crisis situation with this mail system. We can’t put those freshmen on this email system. It will break.”

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Recent grads still hope to leave Michigan According to a recent study, college graduates are more likely to stay in Michigan despite wanting to move

By Katie Winkler Kwinkler@statenews.com

Whether motivated by finances, career path or desire to travel, college graduates are leaving Michigan and heading to metropolitan areas in the Midwest.

According to a study done by City Observatory, college-educated young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 are moving to neighborhoods in and around some of the largest metro areas. The most popular of these include San Francisco, Denver, New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon.

In a survey of recent graduates done in February 2014, 62 percent stayed and lived in Michigan

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On average, the study said students tend to live about three miles away from these main cities.

Before February 2014, 2,525 recent MSU graduates were surveyed for the Career Services Network’s 2013 destination survey. According to the survey report, 62 percent stayed and worked in Michigan, while another 15 percent settled in other states in the Midwest and 23 percent moved outside of the Midwest. Illinois, Washington, California, Colo-

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“They want to have a nightlife environment, places to go out and eat that are unique, want lots of other young people around them.”

rado and New York are among the top states recent Spartans have moved to.

“I think most students prefer (big cities) ... sometimes it’s all determined by the location of the operations facility that they will be working at,” said Eric Doerr, the associate director of employer relations at MSU’s Career Services Network. “They can work for a global company, but sometimes, often times, production facilities are built in small-town locations, and that’s where you have to go.”

For out-of-state students like education senior Sarah Mammen, future plans include moving back home. She said she will complete her year of student teaching at a school in her home state of California.

“My parents kind of want me to stay in California, but the great thing about Michigan and California certification is that you can go to most states,” Mammen said. “If I decide that I want to go to a different state, which I kind of want to, I have that option.”

When weighing location options, Doerr said most students look at the “coolness” factors that differ from Michigan’s.

“They want to have a nightlife environment, places to go out and eat that are unique, want lots of other young people around them,” he said.

Which is why graduates gravitate to metro areas.

“If you’re young, this is your chance to travel,” Mammen said. “I think there might not be something against Michigan itself as a state, but just exploring different options and finding where you really feel comfortable.”

*Entering percentage is from the entering class four years earlier, and doesn’t account for drop-outs, fifth-year students, etc.

Graphic: Ryan Logan | Source: Office of Planning and Budgets, MSU Career Services

Even if students have a desire to travel outside of Michigan while they are in college, factors including job offers, economically stable areas and proximity to family might hold them back. Regardless, Doerr said, more students from MSU stay inside the state than leave.

In the first decade at the beginning of the centur y, Michigan was crashing economically, resulting in the reduction of available jobs.

Since 2010, the economy has been on the rise and Charles Ballard, professor and expert in economics, said this progress might influence college students to stay in the state after graduation.

“Michigan was not seen as a place for hunting for a job,” he

said. “Since things bottomed out five years ago, we’ve made decent progress — our economy has grown again, the number of jobs has grown. We are well below the number of jobs we had in 2000 but at least we are growing and adding jobs.”

With projects and campaigns in place to rebound Detroit and Michigan, such as Pure Michigan, young people are becoming more open minded and looking at Michigan a upbeat place to work.

Ballard said college students generally stay in urban areas, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Flint, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo and Royal Oak. These urban areas are “especially attractive to young college graduates,” he said.

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Melvin G. Leiserowitz, an MSU sculpture professor from 1964 to 1990 who designed and constructed the “Orpheus” sculpture in front of Wharton Center, died peacefully in his home in East Lansing Feb. 5, 2015.

Leiserowitz was not a famous sculptor while he taught at MSU, and in fact had begun sculpting as a hobby only a few years before, after one of his friends told him he was focusing too much on his work.

After finding sculpting to be his new hobby, Leiserowitz enrolled at The University of Iowa and was admitted as the oldest student in the art program at the time at age 38. He completed the program in two years and earned his masters of arts degree, according to his obituary.

Leiserowitz then came to MSU in 1964 to teach, before Wharton Center was even an idea.

During the time Leiserowitz was teaching at MSU, Dolores Wharton, wife of then-MSU president Clifton Wharton, hosted exhibitions at her home to display the artwork of MSU professors and advocate for a higher focus on arts in society.

“She started a program after Clif became president, where she would host exhibits of art from MSU professors, because she wanted to promote

the importance of the visual arts in East Lansing,” son of Melvin Leiserowitz, Bruce Leiserowitz said.

Melvin Leiserowitz quic kleiserowitz ly became familiar with Dolores Wharton through these exhibitions, and when a plan for a performing arts center arose, she commissioned him to design a structure fit for the front entrance.

The structure was designed in collaboration with the Whartons and was meant to be a piece that inspired deep thought, but the name “Orpheus,” who was a legendary poet, musician and prophet in ancient Greek mythology, was given to Leiserowitz by a friend, because he didn’t like to name his art pieces for artistic reasons.

“Mel never named his pieces because he didn’t want to influence how people thought about it. He wanted people to create their own meanings,” Bruce said.

The sculpture still incites thought today, and has also been used for things his father never could have guessed over the years, Bruce Leise-

rowitz said, such as a gathering area for sunbathing students or a spot for skateboarders to ride on the steel in warm months.

But Melvin Leiserowitz did see the piece as a part of the environment and encouraged people to walk through and experience it.

“It is an environmental sculpture and is meant to be walked thru (sic) and around,” Melvin Leiserowitz wrote in his notes while preparing to build the structure. “I wanted a piece that could be experienced from the outside.”

Melvin Leiserowitz’s other public works include sculptures at the Beth Israel Synagogue in Ann Arbor, Oakland University in Meadow Brook Hall, and the Horticulture Gardens and Kresge Art Building here at MSU. He was not only a great sculptor but had great passion and enthusiasm for what he did and for teaching, friend and former colleague Roger Funk said.

“Even when I went to visit him last August, he was still sculpting and was so enthused with his projects at the time. ... It was surreal,” Funk said.

Melvin Leiserowitz is survived by his wife Nancy Leiserowitz, children Gary, Bruce, Anthony, and Andrea, grand-children Erica, Toby, Alexander, and Sofia, brothers Alfred and Robert Leiserowitz and a sister Marie Leviton.

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MSU Formula SAE team’s engineering at motorsport level Austin Koltonowski akoltonowski@statenews.com

Resembling a professional Motorsport team, the MSU Formula SAE team endures similar work without all the glory.

“It’s basically Motorsport we’re not getting paid to do,” mechanical engineering senior and project manager Nicholas Decker said. “It’s a little more small-scaled.”

According to the team’s website, MSU Formula SAE team challenges students to not only fund the building of a small car, but to manufacture and race it as well.

Andy Gryczan, the current chief calibration engineer for Ilmor Engineering, an IndyCar engineering company, said that the biggest similarity between MSU Formula SAE and IndyCar racing is the aspect of a team.

“Really, when you see a car cross the finish line, it’s a huge team effort,” Gryczan said. “It’s just one person crossing the finish line, but in reality the total amount of hours and manpower to get there is crazy in both formula SAE and in Motorsport.”

The overall process of building a car from scratch teaches students the ins and outs of Motorsport engineering while going further by giving them hands-on experience.

The design stage resembles that of many Motorsport engineers, in which their job is to design parts to be as light as possible while maintaining the ability to withstand the high-speed forces on the track.

Another similarity is working under a deadline. In Motorsport, teams are constantly rushing to fix a problem before their next race.

Decker said he probably puts in around 70 hours a week at the shop, while being a full-time student.

“Throughout the whole process everything is going really fast and you have to make decisions quickly,” Decker said.

But what is most glorifying for the MSU Formula SAE team is when the wheels hit the track, highlighting their successes and acting as their own Motorsport team.

“It’s a constant struggle of keeping the driver cool and telling him what he needs to do better,” Decker said. “We have to take feedback from drivers and what we can do to make it better and see what exactly is wrong with the car.”

Gryczan said the biggest thing the team can do for a student is allow them to network.

“Talking to people at design shows could make you stand out for a potential spot in the future,” Gryczan said. “It’s come full circle. Some of the people that judged me I work with now.”

Mechanical engineering freshman Paul Schulman and sophomore Michael Bergh create a vacuum bag Tuesday, which will be used to form the wings of the race car in the formula shop on 2857 Jolly Rd. The MSU Formula Racing Team races the completed car at the end of the year in two competitions against schools from around the world. PHOTO: EMILY NAGLE

Online To watch a video of the MSU Formula SAE team working on their newest car, visit statenews.com/multimedia.

Meet two of the TEDxMSU student speakers from the upcoming conference

By Zoë Schubot zschubot@statenews.com

What do a neuroscientist and a criminal justice activist have in common? They’re both MSU students who will be speaking March 4 at the TEDxMSU conference held in the Cobb Great Hall of Wharton Center.

TEDxMSU is an event that was designed to inspire conversation and innovation among the MSU and greater East Lansing communities in an attempt to emulate the environment at a TED conference.

TED — which stands for technology, entertainment and design — is a nonprofit organization that works to spread ideas through motivational speakers.

Neuroscience graduate student Apryl Pooley and human biology junior Austin Martin, two of the speakers at the event this Wednesday, share some insight into their respective talks.

Apryl Pooley During her first year in MSU’s neuroscience program, Pooley was studying post-traumatic stress disorder when she came to realize she exhibited many of the symptoms.

After attempting to research further into the matter, she decided to take matters into her own hands.

As Pooley searched for a biological basis for her diagnosis, she came to a surprising conclusion.

“I realized that sitting in front of a microscope for 10 hours a day wasn’t going to help me recover,” Pooley said.

“So what I ended up doing was connecting with a bunch of groups on campus … and pooley I realized that … sharing my story and hearing other people’s stories, that was really what I needed.”

Pooley’s talk focuses on this idea that while scientists are searching for a kind of biological cure to diseases like PTSD, anxiety and depression, it is often forgotten that human support and interaction can work wonders in the recovery process.

Pooley recently wrote a book titled “Shadow Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Journey Through PTSD and Womanhood” that serves as the basis for her talk.

She said she is donating all of the profits from this book to the MSU Sexual Assault Program as a gift for their 35th anniversary this year.

Austin Martin After a summer spent researching the relationship between HIV prevention and treatment and mass incarceration, Mar-

tin realized there were many flaws with the re-entry period for the formerly incarcerated. That is, the period immediately following their release from prison.

In his talk, Martin will touch on martin these issues in the justice system, what can be done to reform them and what is at the core of good re-entry policies.

Through his talk, Martin said he hopes to encourage positive social change and the reform of these systems.

He said even if you don’t know someone who has been incarcerated, the functioning of the justice system is one of the ways to measure the health and progress of the nation.

“If one of America’s core institutions is a source of misery and disadvantage, it says something profound about each and every American citizen,” Martin said. “This is about the patriotic as much as it is about the personal.”

This is the first part of a threepart series. Read more next week in The State News.

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Sports Ice hockey heads to Minneapolis to face Minnesota

By Jonathon Chun jchun@statenews.com

Since their last meeting in early December, MSU hockey (1313-2 overall, 7-5-2 Big Ten) and No. 14 Minnesota (17-10-3 overall, 8-3-3 Big Ten) have been in the process of turning their seasons around.

The Spartans have gone 9-4-1 since their shootout win against the Gophers Dec. 6, while the Gophers enter the weekend series having gone 6-1-1 over their last eight.

Playing in an odd Thursday-Friday series, Minnesota enters the series in a firstplace tie in the Big Ten with 27 points. With MSU just two points behind them, the Spartans know the task and opportunity they have at hand. “(They) probably have been playing right now like a lot of people expected them to play,” head coach Tom Anastos said.

“To me, it’s not a surprise — really good team, depth, goaltending, dynamic offensively, their power play caused fits last time we played here and has been causing fits for everyone they play against, and they play a good brand of defensive hockey too.”

One of the key matchups this weekend will be the Gophers’ explosive power play against

the Spartans’ stingy penalty kill.

Minnesota boasts the nation’s most efficient power play (29.3 percent), while MSU ranks ninth in the country at killing penalties (87.5 percent).

“They’ve got five guys out there that can move the puck pretty well, and they’re all smart players, especially at home where they’ve got a bigger ice sheet,” junior defenseman Travis Walsh said. “So I think they want to get teams running around a bit and then take advantage of that.”

Of the 12 power play goals MSU has allowed this season, five came in the two games against Minnesota at Munn Ice Arena.

“We didn’t do the best last time we played them here,” sophomore forward Joe Cox said. “I think one of the keys is to kind of just stay in the shot lanes, keep sticks as much in the passing lane as you can and just kind of ward them off. But they have a really lethal power play.”

Anastos said one of the keys to stopping “as good a power play” as he’s seen is to have the goaltender be the best penalty killer. With junior goaltender Jake Hildebrand, MSU has a good chance of getting exactly that.

Hildebrand leads the Big Ten in both save percentage (.926) and goals-against average (2.18).

Sophomore forward Joe Cox clears the puck away from the goal Jan. 24 during the game against Ohio State at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans defeated the Buckeyes 2-0. PHOTO: KELSEY FELDPAUSCH

Over his last eight games, Hildebrand has posted an impressive .952 save percentage and 1.59 goals-against average.

“We’re very confident in (Hildebrand),” Walsh said. “Obvi-

ously, he’s playing tremendously so we’re trying to rally around him and bring some more offense like we have been.”

MSU is coming off a weekend in which they split a series with

struggling Wisconsin. Anastos criticized the Spartans’ mental approach heading in to the series, but he doesn’t envision the same thing happening this time around.

“Without a doubt, I do think we’ll be ready,” Anastos said.

“Whether we’ll be good enough to win, you never know until you play, but I’m anxious to get out there.”

Gymnastics gets break after action-packed 10-day stretch

By Matthew Argillander margillander@statenews.com

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The gymnastics team earned some much-needed rest after competing in four meets in the span of just 10 days. The girls went 2-2 on this stretch but stayed pretty consistent throughout the period.

“I’m thankful (this stretch) is over, because it was a really tough thing to do,” head coach Kathie Klages said. “I will never schedule that way again. It was really tough. Four meets in 10 days is a lot, so I’m glad it’s over.”

In two of the four meets the Spartans earned a score of 194.850 — not quite what the team expected of themselves, but still a solid score. In the third meet, the team fell short to No. 15 Illinois. However, they posted their highest team score since 2008, scoring 196.325. “(Against Illinois) we had our highest score of the season and I think that should have built some great confidence into the team,” Klages said.

The team is on the cusp of competing for a top25 spot in the rankings. The No. 25 team Kentucky has a regional qualifying score, which determines national rankings, of 195.275.

The Spartans’ recent stretch has brought them to No. 26 with a 195.265.

The team has begun to get healthy with senior Alina Cartwright, one of the best competitors on the team, able to compete again. Cartwright won the bars competition, earning a career high of 9.900 in the team’s win over University of Illinois-Chicago on Sunday.

"(Cartwright) is an incredible addition to our squad, she had a superb fall training (and) we kept telling her to rely on that training you had all fall,” Klages said. “She was ready to go and you could see that in her bar routine. The first time she performed she matched her career high, and then she beat it and then she beat it again.”

Cartwright said she is excited about how she has performed thus far since her return. She is still hoping to compete on vault, where she feels her team needs her most.

“I’m very happy with my performance on bars because it used to be my weakest event, getting the 9.900 gave me a lot of confidence,” Cartwright said. “I’m hoping to come back on vault because I know that’s where my team needs me the most.”

The team will rest up this week after their tough stretch of competition. The girls’ next meet is a quad meet against Towson, Rutgers and Yale.

“Today is our first practice in the gym and we’re going to keep things light and really focus on quality over quantity, so they have very few repetitions in gym this week and we’re just going to really try to get them (to) focus in,” Klages said.

There will be a familiar face in the gym on No. 40 Towson’s side because MSU alumna Becky Schaller is an assistant coach for the Tigers.

“We haven’t competed at Towson in years and we have an alum that’s the assistant coach there, so I’m very excited about getting out to see Becky and see her team. They seem to have made a lot of improvement this year, so that’s exciting for me,” Klages said.

Geoff Preston Sports editor sports@statenews.com @thesnews_sports

MSU looks to win trap game vs. Minnesota Head coach Tom Izzo is hoping his team won’t overlook Minnesota with Wisconsin on the horizon

By Omari Sankofa II osankofa@statenews.com

With four games remaining in Big Ten play, it’s ideal that the men’s basketball team is playing its best basketball of the season. But with No. 5 Wisconsin around the corner, the Spartans will first have to face an athletic Minnesota team in what is a classic trap game.

MSU (19-8 overall, 9-4 Big Ten) will host Minnesota (16-12 overall, 5-10 Big Ten) Thursday night at 7:00 p.m. Despite the conference record, the Golden Gophers have been competitive in nearly every game. Nine matches have been decided by six points or less, seven of which were losses.

Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo, who has been on the wrong end of a number of competitive games, isn’t taking Thursday’s opponent lightly.

“When they lost those six at the start of the season, or whatever they lost, they were all very close games,” Izzo said on Wednesday. “I think that speaks volumes. That they are a very good team, and they’ve just been a little bit unlucky and just didn’t get the job done.”

The Golden Gophers — led by senior

Then-junior guard/ forward Branden Dawson guards thenMinnesota guard DeAndre Mathieu Jan. 11, 2014, at the Breslin Center.

MSU beat Minnesota in overtime, 87-75. state

guard Andre Hollins and redshirt senior forward Maurice Walker — are a big team that can give the Spartans issues in the paint. They are also the third best team in the NCAA in the steals category with 10.1 per game.

The high steal total shows Minnesota’s size and athleticism, two traits the Spartans have struggled with this season.

“They have some good young kids that they are starting, and they have started a bigger lineup, at least they have the last couple of games,” Izzo said. “With a 6-foot-9 wing guy, and those things can cause a problem for us.”

Izzo is pleased with the play of his seniors, forward Branden Dawson and guard Travis Trice. The pair have played phenomenally over the course of MSU’s four-game winning streak, and Izzo would like to see it continue.

“Trice is definitely stepped up,” Izzo said. “(Junior guard Denzel) Valentine has definitely been there, and Dawson is becoming the defensive player that will hopefully get the recognition he deserves in the league. Not only is he defending different positions, but his shot blocking has been phenomenal. He has done a great job of that.”

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Quick Reads Fundraiser slated to honor the late Lacey Holsworth Princess Lacey’s Legacy, a nonprofit organization looking to carry on the spirit of the late Lacey Holsworth announced it is holding its first fundraiser in March via Instagram.

The Legacy fundraiser will be held March 4 at Buffalo Wild Wings in East Lansing at 11 a.m. and will last until closing time at 2 a.m. the next morning.

The organization helps aid children who are fighting cancer through alternative therapies, so 20 percent of all proceeds will be donated to the nonprofit organization.

There will also be kids’ activities on site, including a photo

booth and a craft table.

Holsworth passed away last April after battling for two years with neuroblastoma.

During the final months of her young life, Holsworth won the hearts of MSU fans and became an inspiration to not only the MSU basketball team, but the entire college basketball world. Holsworth’s Twitter account even became the first account to be followed by famed ESPN analyst Jay Bilas, and he continues to follow the account (and no others) to this day.

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Town hall held to aid in mandatory reporting

By Rachel Fradette rfradette@statenews.com

As part of a plan to increase reporting, the Graduate Employees Union hosted a town hall meeting on Tuesday focusing on mandatory reporting for MSU employees.

Mandatory reporting requires MSU employees, specifying in the meeting teaching assistants, faculty and staff, to report all cases of sexual harassment and sexual assault to the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives and the police.

The meeting was led by a panel consisting of representatives of organizations that deal with sexual assault on and off campus including

the Sexual Assault Program, Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Team, Safe Place, University of Michigan’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center, president of GEU and an MSU special victims unit sexual assault detective. Two students were also on the panel.

Many employees needed clarification on the details of mandatory reporting and ways to help the victims who confide in them.

“I think this actual direction needs to be best again explained what this means for TA’s, are we supposed be listening in on people conversations?

What kind of agency do the students have in deciding to report it?” graduate student and teaching assistant

Kathryn Lankford said. “The ins and outs of it (mandatory reporting) I’m really interested in knowing because I care about my students.”

Several attendees voiced their uncertainty of mandatory reporting while the panel answered questions and offered advice when dealing with victims.

“We are undergoing a cultural shift here at the university and in colleges and universities across the nation,” said Safe Place panel representative Erica Schmittdiel. “Historically, people have not been held accountable for sexual assault on campus or off campus and that’s a problem and we are trying to change that.”

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