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MSU professor elected president of astronomers organization

MSU professor of physics and astronomy Megan Donahue, standing on the left, presents the findings of her research program to the Board of Trustees during a board meeting on Feb. 17 at the Hannah Administration Building. Donahue’s presentation touched on what clusters of galaxies reveal about the history and contents of the universe. PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

BY MILA MURRAY MMURRAY@STATENEWS.COM

Physics and astronomy professor Megan Donahue was elected president of the American Astronomical Society, or AAS, the largest professional organization in North America for astronomers. The election concluded on Feb. 2. While preparing for her duties as president, she still participates in student research at MSU. “One of the big jobs of the president is to be the face of the American Astronomical Society to other organizations, including Congress and congressional committees,” Donahue said.

Other duties include lobbying for science in Congress, running nation-wide meetings and the national astronomy publications, but she has hopes to establish other focuses as well.

“One thing I would like to do is to make sure that the enterprise that’s doing science in this country remains healthy,” Donahue said.

“There’s a lot more attention now to the problem of diversity in the sciences, there’s the issue of women in science and there’s also the even more severe issue of minorities in science.”

Being a member of the AAS and having been elected to office prior made her eligible to run for the presidency.

Donahue has also written a textbook and currently serves as a professor by running a research group with two graduate students, waiting for pending proposals for funding from the National Science Foundation.

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act with their environment,” Donahue said, “So one of my goals is to collect more accurate data about the gravitating massive of, not the black holes themselves, but the galaxies.”

Second-year graduate students Rachel Salmon and Dana Koeppe are working on a project with Donahue regarding the analysis of galaxy clusters called Archive of Chandra Cluster Entropy Profile Tables, or ACCEPT 2.

“Our end goal once we’ve completed that analysis is to post them on a database so that other people can use the analysis that we’ve done to help form their own research on galaxy clusters,” Salmon said.

Now that Donahue is so closely connected to one of the largest groups of astronomers in the world, Salmon and Koeppe said they believe this will enhance the astronomical research being done at MSU by groups such as theirs.

“I think it really helped get other people who might not have originally considered MSU to look at it a little bit more closely because we do have a really great program,” Koeppe said. “Having someone so well connected in the astronomy community is good to get our program looked at.”

Before taking the presidency, Donahue will first spend a year as the president-elect, but will continue to aid in student research at MSU with her leadership.

“Her connection in the astronomy world is definitely a good reason to work with her,” Salmon said. “But she’s also a very good adviser in terms of directing our research and helping us become better astronomers and developing us into people who can become better astrophysicists.”

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Cheerleading squad a lifestyle of athleticism

Applied engineering sciences senior Alex Peterson cheers during the second half of men’s basketball game against the University of Nebraska on Feb. 23 at Breslin Center. PHOTO: SUNDEEP

Members of the MSU Cheerleading Team prepare for a stunt during the MSU Cheerleading Team practice on Feb. 28 at Jenison Field House. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

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Jenison Field House has hosted many teams since it was built in 1940 ranging from volleyball teams to the men’s basketball team, including Earvin “Magic” Johnson’s championship run in 1979.

But on the third floor of the MSU landmark,

surrounded by concrete walls, gymnastics beams and two drinking fountains that look like they’ve never been renovated, lies another MSU team.

On the sidelines This team doesn’t compete for wins. It doesn’t try to score more points than the other team. It doesn’t get called for penalties. It doesn’t scout the other team days before a game.

Communication sophomore Jeff Snyder carries his partner during the second half of men’s basketball game against Iowa on Feb. 11 at Breslin Center. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY 4

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They do train just like their peers, day in and day out.

The team practices four times a week with separate lifting sessions and prepares for each game like their peers.

Members have to balance being an athlete at a Big Ten university and the academics that come with it. They are a team.

The MSU Cheerleading Team has been on the sidelines for each basketball and football game for this academic year and years prior.

Potential members have to go through a rigorous tryout process that occurs ever y year in April, with the final cut in front of a panel of three judges.

“The first time you try out, you’re so nervous in front of those judges,” advertising junior Olivia Valley said.

MSU cheerleaders have to tryout year after year, even if they’ve made it a previous year.

Cheerleading and dance coach Elyse Packard said it’s a way to motivate her cheerleaders to “continue to progress.”

“Majority of the time, we do have people continue to make the team,” Packard said.

“Every once in awhile either that incoming talent is bigger and the skill set is higher, so they kind of take over some of that, but generally it keeps us on our toes.”

Performance and look Being on the floor of the Breslin Center or on the field of Spartan Stadium, the MSU cheerleaders are in the limelight of everyone in the stadium and arena.

Valley said trying out in front of the panel of three judges and the repetition of cheering at games helped prepare her for prime time.

“Standing in front of three people is very easy compared to standing in front of 75,000 at Spartan Stadium,” Valley said.

But to stand in front of 75,000 people or about 15,000 takes coordination from the male and female cheerleaders.

Cheerleader Jacob Micheal said his main job as a male cheerleader is to make sure his female counterpart doesn’t fall.

“No matter what I do, I make sure safety is the number one thing,” Micheal said. “It takes a lot of balance, so it’s working a lot of different muscles that I haven’t worked before.”

Micheal said he thinks the female cheerleaders have to focus more on the flexibility aspect of cheerleading.

But with the performance also comes the looks, where communication sophomore Jeff Snyder said is usually more focused on the women rather than the men.

“People are watching the girls, so you have to make sure you’re strong underneath her,” Snyder said. “If a girl drops, people are not watching the guy. They’re watching what you put up in the air, so you need to make sure you’re doing your best to make her look good.”

This is also seen on the female side. Business sophomore Lauren Kubiske said she agreed with Snyder and Micheal that everybody is looking at the women on top of the formations, not really the men on the bottom.

“We basically have to perform and look presentable all the time,” Kubiske said. “The guys

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“It’s not important to me to prove people it’s a sport, because I know I’m athletic and I know what it takes to do it and it’s hard as hell.”

Jacob Micheal, MSU Cheerleading Team member

are noticed, but it’s not like they have to do all their hair and makeup.”

Athleticism in cheerleading Whether it’s tumbles or baskets, there are aspects of cheerleading that aren’t seen and can’t be mimicked in other sports.

Snyder said the criticism he’s heard about cheerleading comes from other sports, especially the question of whether cheerleaders are athletes or not.

“People see what we do and they realize, it’s not easy,” Snyder said. “We are a varsity sport at State.”

Micheal said in high school, he would get “upset” at people who questioned whether cheerleading is a sport or not.

“Now that I’m in college, I don’t care,” Micheal said.

Micheal said he doesn’t really consider cheerleading a sport because of the true definition of what a sport is and what it entails, such as wins and losses or penalties.

Micheal does care about when people question the athletic aspect of cheerleading and said he gets angry when they disregard the athleticism in cheerleading.

“There’s a ton of stuff in cheerleading that everyone can’t do,” Micheal said. “It’s not important to me to prove people it’s a sport, because I know I’m athletic and I know what it takes to do it and it’s hard as hell.”

Valley said she does think there are athletic factors of cheerleading, such as stunting and tumbling, that aren’t part of the widespread cheerleading stereotype.

“I think when people think of cheerleading, all they think of is the waving and the dancing,” Valley said.

“But in reality, at practice, and even at games, that’s 10 percent of it and the rest is stunting and tumbling.”

Advertising junior Sam Bielecki said the people who don’t believe there is any athleticism that goes into cheerleading aren’t educated enough, but should be willing to hear the opposition’s argument.

A lifestyle “It’s more than just an athletic sport, it’s a lifestyle”

Bielecki said.

This lifestyle involves everyone on the team and forms a camaraderie that turns the squad into a family.

“If someone is having a bad day, you can come in and your best friends are here to cheer you up,” Kubiske said. “It’s just really cool knowing you’re on a team with people who have the same mentality, like, ‘Let’s do this, but let’s also have fun.’”

Micheal said the open atmosphere on the cheerleading team allowed him to make friends with “39 other people.”

“It was super simple,” Micheal said. “It was easy to make friends with them. I just showed up.”

Like any other varsity sport, the cheerleading team not only shows up to perform on the court, but off the court as well.

The MSU cheerleading squad has attended a wide variety of events, Packard said, ranging from the grand opening of new stores to volunteering with Auto-Owners Insurance.

“We’re really ... open to doing anything,” Packard said. “Really anything across the board that helps spread the Spartan spirit, we’ll do.”

For Valley, there isn’t one specific community event that stands out among the rest for her.

“I guess every single event that I’ve done, there’s been something about it I love,” Valley said. “Each thing has its good aspects.”

Packard also said there isn’t one specific event she prefers to do over others and she will do anything to get the cheerleading team out into the East Lansing community.

She said most of the time, somebody will ask the cheerleading squad to come as a surprise for a birthday, retirement or graduation.

“Just to see them light up because you’re wearing Spartan green and have that name across your uniform, they’re just excited to see you no matter what,” Packard said.

Advertising junior Olivia Valley, left, laughs with psychology senior Jacob Micheal, right, during the MSU Cheerleading Team practice on Feb. 28 at Jenison Field House. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

Nursing sophomore Lauren Kubiske, top, works on a stunt with nursing sophomore Jake Donazzolo, bottom, during the MSU Cheerleading Team practice on Feb. 28 at Jenison Field House. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

Communication sophomore Jeff Snyder motions to the crowd during the second half of the men’s basketball game against Purdue on Jan. 24 at Breslin Center.

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In this timeline are recent events of the sexual abuse allegations against Dr. Larry Nassar, a former MSU employee who worked for USA Gymnastics. He lived in Holt, Mich.

NASSAR

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Nassar is ordered to be held without bond on federal child pornography charges

ALLEGATIONS Here is what you need to know

DEC. 21, 2016 Former MSU softball player files lawsuit against MSU

JAN. 10, 2017 18 more alleged victims file lawsuit against Nassar.

UPCOMING COURT CASE:

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Federal criminal court case by jury begins on May 23 at U.S. District Court for Western District of Michigan Former MSU employee Larry Nassar looks to the court during the arraignment on Feb. 23 at 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. Nassar pleaded not guilty to 23 charges of criminal sexual conduct in Ingham County. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

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“Nassar ABUSED the TRUST of his patients and his PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY as a physician.”

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- FROM MSU PRESIDENT LOU ANNA K. SIMON’S “MESSAGE ON LARRY NASSAR”

“This guy is DISGUSTING, this guy is DESPICABLE, he is a MONSTER.”

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Former MSU softball player who came forward with accusations According to the lawsuit, Lopez was allegedly sexually abused

by Nassar more than 10 times between 1998 and 2001 during medical treatments for chronic back pain

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A few weeks after the Indianapolis Star ran the Nassar story, Denhollander, a gymnast of Louisville, Ky., filed a criminal complaint against Nassar with the Michigan State Police after seeing the story According to the lawsuit, when Denhollander was 15 years old she was allegedly sexually abused by Nassar

LARA suspends Nassar’s license to practice medicine as an “emergency action”

FEB. 14, 2017 Gymnastics coach Kathie Klages retires after allegations that she discouraged athletes from reporting sexual abuse by Nassar as early as 1997

FEB. 16, 2017 Catherine Hannum sends a letter to President Lou Anna K. Simon asking why former Nassar patients have not been notified of the charges against him

FEB. 23, 2017 Nassar arraigned on 36 charges in Ingham and Eaton counties

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East Lansing City Council member and founder and director of the East Lansing Film Festival Susan Woods poses for a portrait on Feb. 24, PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

A well-traveled individual, East Lansing City Council member Susan Woods speaks four languages and has lived in a myriad of cities in the U.S. and Europe throughout her life.

But for the past 26 years she has chosen to make East Lansing her home.

A lifelong film aficionado, Woods said she not only wants to make sure the arts are represented within the city, but that MSU and East Lansing are tied together more cohesively through community events.

Born in Coronado, Calif., Woods has lived in La Jolla, Madrid, San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. at various points in time.

While living in San Francisco, Woods said her roommate moved out and subleased half of her apartment to her future husband, now-MSU Department Media and Information Chair Johannes Bauer.

Two years later, they were married, and Woods then moved to Vienna for two years where they had a son.

When Bauer was hired at MSU, the family relocated to East Lansing. Woods then had a daughter, and deciding the area was the best place to raise her children. She finally planted roots.

“After all that peripatetic life, I’ve been living here for 26 years,” Woods said. “After having lived in so many great places, it was really hard to adjust to a small town environment, even with the university, but now I love it and I would always want to live here.”

Woods said she founded the East Lansing Film Festival in 1997 with a grant from the city, making use of experience she conferred from previously working at the San Francisco International Film Festival.

“I’ve known Susan for many years, and she, in fact, when I was first elected, Sam Singh and myself had the idea that we should have a film festival here, and we worked on that for awhile but it really didn’t take off until Susan moved to town,” Mayor Mark Meadows said. “She was very experienced with it and she’s really the reason why it has been so successful over these many years.”

Since then, Woods said the festival has expanded expo-

nentially, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Woods remains the festival’s director.

“It has just been this great economic boon for this area,” Woods said. “I have loved film since I was born, I’ve written screenplays, I’ve worked on productions and I always knew that I was going to be on the producing end. I don’t have interest in directing but I love producing, I love putting things together.”

Dave Bernath, owner of Flat, Black & Circular, said he met Woods around 20 years ago when the festival first started.

“We’re the only two who have been on it since day one,” Bernath said. “We’ve become friends, we dog-watch each other’s dogs, socialize, she’s a good person ... she’s very socially conscious and aware, and she’s trying to do the good thing and the right thing all the time.”

Woods said though she’d always been involved in her neighborhood, her foray into city politics was unplanned.

At a meeting of the Bailey Community Association board, which she once served on, Woods said a man named Mark Fisk was attempting to rezone a duplex, which residents disapproved of but she saw no issue with.

After voicing her opinions, Woods said Fisk, who had previously served as now United States Senator Gary Peters’ communications director during a run for attorney general in 2002, offered to manage her campaign for City Council.

“He just thought that I was this most logical, sensible person ... and said, ‘I’ll run your campaign,’ so I thought, ‘I’ll try it,’ and here I am,” Woods said.

Elected in 2013, Woods said she had no expectations going into her tenure on council and did not know the ins and outs.

Though it took her a year to settle in and learn the ropes, Woods said she found immediately that the city has a wonderful staff to help her through the processes.

Woods called getting to know the staff the most rewarding part of her experience on council.

“This staff is the most hardworking, dedicated, forward-thinking staff who also have a great sense of humor and who support each other,” Woods said. “I think they are the ones that make this city great.”

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MSU women’s basketball embarks on Big Ten Tournament journey

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The MSU women’s basketball team wrapped up the regular season with a 19-10 overall record and enters the postseason a No. 6 seed in the Big Ten Tournament.

The Spartans have a first round bye and will play the No. 11 seed Universit y of Wisconsin.

T he Wi scon si n Badger s finished the regular season 8-21 overall and 3-13 in the conference.

After a thrilling comeback victory over Penn State University on Senior Night Feb. 22, the Spartans went on the road to conclude the regular season, but fell in overtime to Nebraska, the No. 13 seed in the tournament.

“We were obviously very disappointed,” associate head coach Amaka Agugua said. “I think we have a young team and kids need to mature and know what ’s at stake and that we’re playing for March

and just a sense of urgency, I believe. But the thing is, you can’t dwell on it too much.”

Agugua said with nothing guaranteed in the postseason, the team will have to bounce back to earn a bid for the tournament crown.

“Now, nothing’s promised and we’ve got to go out and earn our keep and earn the right to play another day,” Agugua said. “I think the mindset in the locker room is we’ve got to get over that loss, we got to learn from it, get better, we’ve got to get more serious with our preparation and get ready to go make a run in the tournament.”

Agugua said it’s key for the team’s veterans to step up and guide the younger players to have success in the postseason.

“We’ve got to be serious (about prac t ice) bec ause before the Nebraska game, I think all of the young kids weren’t as focused as they needed to be, so we put it on our veterans to take owner-

“I just think being consistent and just approaching this like we have to do well in the Big Ten Tournament in order to get in the NCAA no matter what.”

Redshirt-senior guard Branndais Agee (10), junior forward Kennedy Johnson (55), junior guard Lexi Gussert (24) and freshman guard Taryn McCutcheon (4) express emotion after the women’s basketball game against Penn State University on Feb. 22 at Breslin Center.

The Spartans defeated the Nittany Lions, 73-64. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

might upset them or whatever, we’ve got to be better at the things we do defensively, our principles, our fundamentals and sharing the ball Amaka Agugua, offensively because that ’s Associate head coach MSU women’s basketball (where) we’ve been successful this season.”

T he Spa rtans completed the regular season with a 9-7 Big Ten r e c or d a n d outscored their confere nc e opp o nents by an average of 76.1-69.9 per game.

M SU i s n’t a sure loc k for the NCAA Tournament, so Agugua said the team is looking at the Big Ten Tournament as a make or break situation to secure a berth in the NCA A Tournament. “ We k i n d Graduate student forward Taya Reimer (32) reaches for the ball during the third quarter of the women’s basketball of made our game against Penn State University on Feb. 22 at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Nittany Lions, 73-64. p at h a l itPHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

ship of the team and we’ve got to prepare,” Agugua said.

“When you prepare for the tournament, you don’t necessarily know who you’re going to be playing. It’s just a possibility, you might be playing one team and the other one

tle bit harder,” Agugua said.

“We didn’t control our own destiny. We’ve been a very up and down team, so we’re approac hing it t hat way.

We have to do well in the tournament.”

A huge part of MSU’s performance this season has been its inconsistency, which is one area Agugua said the team will look to improve.

“We have to prove to the NCAA committee and prove to people what kind of team we are trying to be, what kind of team we’ve become and we have to do that with some consistency,” Agugua said. “I think our inconsistency has been kind of like our Achilles heel. We’ll be great and the next game, we can be a lot different. So I just think being consistent and just approaching this like we have to do well in the Big Ten Tournament in order to get in the NCAA no matter what. That may not be the case, but that’s the way we’re approaching it.”

The Spartans’ lone senior, guard Tori Jankoska, enters the Big Ten Tournament with an MSU record 2,119 points and 3-point field goals with 305.

T he 5-foot-8 g uard was named a unanimous First-

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Team All-Big Ten selection on Monday. She has 653 points so far this season, 44 points away from breaking the record of 697 points in a season set by former MSU forward Aerial Powers.

Agugua said the types of shots Jankoska has been hitting have been an important factor in the team’s success this season.

“She’s always been a shooter and a scorer, but the types of shots she’s hitting now are insane really, and she’s been very clutch for us and kept us in numerous games this season,” Agugua said.

The associate head coach said Jankoska’s leadership has changed immensely and will be vital to MSU’s success in the Big Ten Tournament.

“I think where she’s evolved the most is her leadership on and off the court and just being more vocal and also distributing the ball,” Agugua said. “She’s always been someone that can pass the ball and get people involved, but now, especially because she draws so much attention, she’s setting other people up and we’re getting more people in double figures, and that’s helping us win some games down the stretch here.”

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Slobodnik-Stoll selected to Golf Hall of Fame

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

Since the inception of the MSU women’s golf program in 1973, at the helm has stood just two head coaches through four decades.

It’s a rare type of continuity — one now spearheaded by head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll. The credibility of MSU was again boosted when it was announced on Feb. 22 that she was named to the Michigan Golf Hall of Fame.

“My initial thoughts are that it’s a great honor to be recognized for doing a job and playing a game that I love,” Slobodnik-Stoll said.

The honor symbolizes the long, prestigious history of the program. The only preceding coach to Slobodnik-Stoll, Mary Fossum, earned her nod into the hall in 2002.

“It feels great,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “I feel like Mary is someone that I aspire to and have learned so much from and (am) still learning from.”

Midway through her 20th season, Slobodnik-Stoll has garnered a long list of

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accomplishments. She’s been to NCAA Regionals 17 different times along with the honor of five Big Ten championships.

In between the regular season, her teams have also won a total of 33 tournaments.

Despite all of her accolades on and off the green, Slobodnik-Stoll said she still strives to carry her vision as a mentor.

“There’s a lot on my bucket list,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “To start with coaching, just to continue the tradition that we’ve set here at Michigan State, which is being in a position to win a Big Ten championship or to win more, putting ourselves in a position to get into the match play portion for the National Championship.”

During her career, Slobodnik-Stoll has credited both Fossum and former Indiana University head coach Sam Carmichael as some of the biggest influences on her career.

However, the hall of famer said the two individuals who have shaped the way she thinks and feels out the world are the ones she’s closest to — her parents.

“Your parents are your parents,” Slo-

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bodnik-Stoll said. “As you get older you really start to realize again what they taught you. How you became, how you are, truly is because of your parents and the influences and opportunities they gave you.”

Traveling all the way from Spain, freshman Paz Marfa Sans admitted she had a tough time acclimating to the college life in a new country.

Amid the struggles, she said the strong relationship with Slobodnik-Stoll aided her as the newcomer aims for a reinvigorating spring.

“She’s been helping me a lot,” Marfa Sans said. “I didn’t have a good fall, being alone. She helped me a lot. Having a good relationship with her, I feel like, is the most important part.”

While the news spread — eliciting an almost overwhelming response from past and current alumni — it came during the middle of the season for the team. Gearing back and heading into a 10-day spring break trip, Slobodnik-Stoll said the team has a goal, which is to get back to the NCAA Regional Tournament.

Women’s golf head coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, right, talks with junior Sarah Burnham before a shot on Sept. 25, 2016 at Forest Akers West Golf Course. Slobodnik-Stoll has held the head coaching position at MSU for 19 years. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

“My immediate goal is to get this team back in a place where we’re going to make the NCAA Regional Tournament,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “We’ve battled some unforeseen injuries this year. There are no

excuses, there’s no asterisk by Michigan State, I’m not using that ... we need to really step our game up the next couple months and see if we can get back in that position. I believe we can.”

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Orchard Street Pump House offers intimate entertainment experience

BY LAURA BOHANNON LBOHANNON@STATENEWS.COM

Located on Orchard Street in East Lansing, Pump House Concerts provides an intimate listening room experience for concert-goers to enjoy music each month.

Dudley “Smitty” Smith, vice president of the board of the Orchard Street Pump House, said the venue creates a special environment for 50-60 people.

“First off, when the music starts, talking stops and people focus on the music,” Smith said. “It’s not a bar, it’s not a party, it’s a place to go listen to music in a very intimate environment.”

Just because conversation stops during a musician’s set doesn’t mean listeners need to be silent. Smith said listeners can sing along while the artist performs.

He said the musicians who perform at Pump House are mostly solo or duo singer-songwriters who perform Americana music.

The concerts are donation-based. There is a suggested donation of $15 to $20, but students can donate $10 if they identify as such, Smith said.

“It is donation-based, but 99.9 percent of the people who come donate,” Smith said. “All of that money goes to the musicians, 100 percent of what they sell their merchandise for goes to musicians.”

Smith allows musicians from out of town to stay in his house and he cooks them dinner the night of the show, he said.

Rachael Kilgour, a Minnesota singer-songwriter, performed at Pump House on Feb. 25 and performed at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum earlier in the day.

Smith said a lot of times musicians who play at the Pump House will play a typically free “companion concert” at the Broad earlier in the day.

Kilgour said there’s a difference between performing in listening rooms compared to other gigs. She said, “as an artist, it means a whole lot” to have a group of attentive people who are open to listening to her songs.

Even though there could be 30-70 people in the audience, Kilgour said it feels different. “(It) feels like a one-on-one experience with you and the artist,”she said.

Kilgour said she prefers performing in listening rooms like Orchard Street Pump House Folk singer Rachael Kilgour performs a song during her concert on Feb. 25 at Pump House at 368 Orchard St. in East Lansing.

because of the intimate atmosphere and also because it can be a therapeutic experience. Listening rooms provide a great opportunity for the audience to serve as a mirror to the artist. “(It) helps a person to feel less lonely,” she said.

Smith said he tells people if they pay to get in and don’t enjoy the show, he’ll give them their money back. However, he said no one has ever taken him up on that.

Kilgour said she sees an age gap in the audience of a lot of shows in listening rooms, but thinks listening rooms will gain more popu-

larity among young people.

“They’re great musicians, it’s hard to comprehend that this is not somebody’s cousin’s friend who played at their wedding, or something, who’s really good at karaoke,” Smith said. “These are nationally touring musicians from Austin and Nashville and places like that, that make their living doing this. They’re very talented.”

The Pump House serves more functions than putting on concerts, too.

“The Pump House is a city-owned, neighborhood-run community center,” Smith said.

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Tower Guard honors tradition through service

BY JONATHAN LEBLANC JLEBLANC@STATENEWS.COM

The Tower Guard E-Board poses for a portrait on Feb. 28 inside of Beaumont Tower. The Tower Guard was founded in 1934 by May Shaw and was only open to females until 1977. There are approximately 80 sophomore MSU students enrolled in the Tower Guard each year. Each member of the Tower Guard spends four hours per week helping students in the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities.

PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Up the narrow stairs and tight walls of the 89-year-old Beaumont Tower, the second floor of this MSU landmark is home to one of the most historic clubs on campus.

In 1934, the wife of former MSU President Robert Shaw, May Shaw, founded the MSU Tower Guard, which is held in the green and white room in Beaumont Tower.

“May Shaw saw a need on campus and she did what she could to fulfill it,” Marisa Thum, an animal science sophomore and president of MSU Tower Guard, said.

Originally a female honor society, the MSU Tower Guard helps students who are part of the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, or RCPD, by taking notes for them in classes, reading exams out loud, writing down answers and one-on-one tutoring.

All of these are part of the required 120 hours throughout the members’ sophomore year, which is the only year they can participate in Tower Guard.

Thum said she finds it interesting how the organization was exclusively for females until 1977, considering that a majority of organizations on campus first begin exclusively for males.

“Maybe that was part of what factored into her decision, that she felt like women needed an avenue and something they could help with that wasn’t so male dominated,” Thum said.

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Those who want to be part of MSU Tower Guard have to be in the top 5 percent grade-point average of their freshman class after the first semester and go through a thorough selection process.

One of the newest members of MSU Tower Guard, education sophomore Monica Isza, said she found out about MSU Tower Guard during Academic Orientation Program, or AOP, and decided it was something she wanted to pursue.

“The biggest thing for me was working with the RCPD students and helping them be able to become successful,” Isza said. “That’s a big part of what I want to do as a teacher ... I want to have an inclusive classroom and being able to work with RCPD students and get this experience will be more beneficial for me in the long run.”

Thum said she had no idea about MSU Tower Guard until she got a “big envelope” in the mail.

“I was like, ‘Am I in trouble?’” Thum said. “I opened it up and I was like, ‘Oh, this is something (I’d) actually really enjoy being a part of.’ It was a good surprise.”

The reason for a tough selection process, Thum said, is to make sure the best of the best are selected and can balance the 60 hours per semester workload their sophomore year with academics, even if there are people outside of the top 5 percent who are qualified.

Thum has been helping people her whole life, she said, as her brother has Sotos syndrome.

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