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E.L. to face budget shortfalls in 2016

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

East Lansing will be spending more on expenditures this year than it will generate in revenue in terms of its general fund, creating a budget deficit primarily the result of increased city obligations to pensions.

The City of East Lansing formed a Financial Health Review Team which met for the first time Feb. 29 to discuss and assess the city’s financial standing during a five year period.

The city holds a fund balance, or money saved to be used in cases of emergency, that can offset any shortcomings revenue but that is generally frowned upon because it would indicate the city is spending more than it can afford.

Currently the city budgeted a total revenue of $34,752,715 but expectation forecasts for this year put the number at about $34,126,385.

Expenditures or costs, however, were budgeted at $36,045,985 and expected forecasts show the number to be as high as $36,070,990. This would leave the city short $1,944,605 in revenue compared to expenditures.

The Financial Health Review Team was formed by East Lansing City Council on Feb. 16. The team is tasked primarily with finding ways to fund a growing former city employee retiree population being owed pensions.

The city has more retirees than current employees meaning the retirees are pulling more money from the pension accounts faster than current city employees are putting in.

With about 26 percent of the city’s general fund revenue going toward paying past pension services, annual payments and health care costs the emphasis on boosting general fund revenue is becoming increasingly significant.

“In 15 years that could be 50 percent,” Mayor Pro Tem Ruth Beier, City Council liaison

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to the Financial Health Review Team, said.

But, her 50 percent estimate does hinge on what future general fund budgets will be.

Nonetheless, Beier still called pensions something that would “eat the general fund” in coming years.

Forecasts show the city ’s revenue will decrease by just more than $950,000 in 2017 but rise in the years following 2017.

Besides pension payments, the city faces challenges with an aging infrastructure, low property values, a decrease in the amount allotted to the city by the state’s shared revenue program, a decrease in gas and weight taxes and the state of the city’s recreational facilities.

In terms of the housing market, total property values in East Lansing sat at more than one billion dollars in 2009 but fell in the years following to more than $900 million by 2013.

Property values have increased since 2013 to $946,742,825 in 2015.

State shared revenue dipped from about $7 million in 2001 to just more than $4.76 million in 2010-11. It has been increasing since, though it currently sits at an estimated $5.17 million for 2016.

With decreasing general fund revenue the city will have to find new ways raise revenue or extract more revenue from current sources such as taxes and permits.

Losses in revenue will mean the city will have to make tough choices as to what it needs to spend on. A loss in revenue could signal a loss of money being spent on city funded service and city run programs. But all that remains to be seen depending on the Financial Health Teams future decisions.

The team is comprised of 11 members with many having ties to the city and backgrounds in either business, economics or municipal government.

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“The way we approached meetings and film with coach D, you know, he runs a tight ship.

It’s like playing for a pro team.

And now that I’m in the pros, I can see the similarities in the way he runs meetings.”

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‘The Rape Trail,’ a nickname for the River Trail, is a meritless term on campus, according to MSU officials

BY AKSHITA VERMA AVERMA@STATENEWS.COM

The River Trail path behind Holmes Hall and McDonel Hall is not a place many students want to be when the sun goes down.

The path is generally called “the rape trail”

by MSU students who live in the area.

While hundreds of students walk the path during the day and use it as a shortcut to their classes, many students tend to avoid the convenient path at night.

“It is creepy to walk there at night,” no-preference freshman Robyn Bankston said. “It is so close to the forest and the lights are spaced weirdly.”

Bankston, like many students, said she has heard of the nickname but is unsure if it is actually backed up by facts.

MSU police Capt. Doug Monette said a sexual assault was reported by an MSU student a couple of weeks ago. The report said it occurred on The River Trail.

“It was a late report,” Monette said. “The assault actually happened in 2008.” The police are currently conducting an open investigation into the issue.

Monette said before this, no sexual assaults have been documented in that area for many

years.

Because of the lack of facts behind the trail’s derogatory name, MSU officials are unhappy about the term.

Community director of Holmes Hall Nick Ballard declined to comment on the issue at all.

“It’s a very problematic term,” he said. “I don’t want to perpetuate the term. I don’t want to bring up the notion of ‘the rape trail’ anymore.”

Kat Cooper, director of communications for the Residential and Hospitality Services at MSU, said the term “the rape trail” is harmful and makes her sad.

“I do think it is a harmful perpetuation of a stereotype,” Cooper said.“The River Trail is a wonderful natural resource for the students and it is sad it’s called that.”

Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program, or SARV, Coordinator Kelly Schweda said she also thinks the name is ridiculous.

“It’s mythology like that that makes people think that a stranger will come out of the bushed and assault you when you’re jogging,” Schweda said. “We don’t hear about the ones between boyfriends and girlfriends even though those are much more common.”

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Denzel Valentine comes from a lineage of Spartan Basketball

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MSU senior guard Denzel Valentine has been around the MSU men’s basketball program since birth. He said he remembers going to MSU basketball games with his dad, and remembers his father showing him and his brother Drew Valentine old tapes of their dad playing as his father’s old MSU jersey hung on the wall.

Carlton Valentine, the father of Denzel and Drew Valentine, played at MSU from 1984-88.

Carlton Valentine came to MSU from Washington D.C., thanks in large part to then-MSU assistant coach Tom Izzo, who Carlton Valentine said was “instrumental” in recruiting him.

During his four years at MSU, Carlton, now the men’s varsity basketball coach at Lansing’s J.W. Sexton High School, went to the NCAA Tournament twice and was named captain during his senior year. Carlton led MSU in scoring and rebounding during his senior year, the 1987-88 season, averaging 13.3 points and 5.6 rebounds. Carlton also ranks fourth all-time at MSU in career field-goal percentage, shooting 65 percent from the floor for his career.

Carlton was a 6-foot-6 forward, which meant he would often get matched up against bigger opponents.

“I was a scrappy player,” Carlton Valentine said. “I would use my lower-body a lot to gain advantages to score — you know, my game was a post game. I had a pretty good jump-hook and I scored on a lot of garbage baskets, that was pretty much my game. I could make the midrange jump shot, I could probably shoot about 16, 17 (feet) and in consistently.”

Carlton went on to have a brief professional basketball career playing in the World Basketball League, a former minor league, as well as a team in Sweden for seven years, but he always knew he would find his way back to the East Lansing area and MSU. “I was prolonging the inevitable,” Carlton said. “I prolonged the inevitable for about six years, is what I did from about ‘88 to about ‘94, when I gave it up.”

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Carlton said beyond just telling his kids stories and showing them his old film from MSU, he took them all around and inside the program frequently when they were growing up.

Lansing J.W. Sexton coach Carlton Valentine accepts the MHSAA Class B Boys Basketball Champion trophy March 2011 at Breslin Center. Valentine is the father of senior guard Denzel Valentine. PHOTO: STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

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“I told both (denzel) and drew, ‘be multi-talented.’ ... Be able to do everything. don’t know your position, but know all five positions on a basketball court.’”

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Senior guard Denzel Valentine looks to pass during the second half of the game against Rutgers on Jan. 31 at Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Scarlet Knights, 96-62. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE

Carlton said he wanted them to experience the MSU family-like culture and not just hear about it.

“I had a lot of memorabilia hanging around … different trophies and awards I won at Michigan State around,” Carlton said. “So they were constantly surrounded by that stuff, and I took them to games, I took them to practices, I took them to Midnight Madness, I took them to the banquets. ... I would tell them stuff, but they had a chance to experience it for themselves.”

Carlton said he and now head basketball coach Izzo had a great relationship when Carlton played at MSU and Izzo was an assistant coach under Jud Heathcote. The strong friendship has continued since Carlton left MSU. Denzel said he knows he was blessed to be around an elite program like MSU growing up.

Drew said he remembers going to the games and going into the locker room after the game, and just how incredible it was for him to be able to have that type of privilege.

“I would say twice a year we would go to the basketball games and then not only get to do that, but get to go in the locker rooms after the games and get to meet the players

and hopefully get an autograph from some of our favorite players,” Drew said. “We were just two little kids that were with a former player and (the players) treated us like were the coolest little kids ever.”

LEARNING THE GAME

Carlton said he always taught Drew and Denzel to not be one-dimensional on the basketball court. Carlton said he sees young players get too caught up in how many points they score and don’t worry enough about other areas of their game. He didn’t want to see that happen to his children.

“I told both (Denzel) and Drew, ‘be multi-talented,’” Carlton Valentine said. “Be able to do everything, don’t know your position, but know all five positions on a basketball court.

So that was something I stressed to them, so they would know every position on the floor.”

Denzel didn’t ever necessarily think about being an all-around player, instead he just kept looking for ways to stay on the court and help his teams win games.

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as he cares about making the right play for his team to put them in a position to win.

Denzel was placed in basketball leagues with players two and even three years older than him growing up, which meant he and Drew could play on the team despite Drew being more than two years older than Denzel.

“He was a hustle guy,” said Drew, who is now an assistant coach at Oakland University. “He could make layups and stuff, he was really just like a hustle guy. Just brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm and just wanted to be out there on the court playing.”

When Denzel started playing at MSU, he knew he was not a pure scorer and if he wanted to get on the court and contribute as a freshman, he would have to focus on other areas of his game, such as passing or rebounding.

was the confidence,” Drew said. “As a freshman (Denzel) would take open threes. Sometimes so much so that commentators on the TV would question why he was shooting the shots that he was taking.”

During Drew’s two years at MSU, he said he and Denzel spent a lot of time in the gym, just working on Denzel’s jump shot.

“A lot of people, when they get in the gym they say ‘I want to get up this many shots’ or ‘I want to make 500 shots,’” Drew said. “Well no, we’re going to swish 200 shots. We’re going to have really quality reps that are going to force you to be consistent with your mechanics every time, and he’s really bought into that concept and really helped to become a more consistent shooter because of that.”

LEAVING HIS LEGACY

REFINING HIS GAME

After his freshman year, Denzel knew his passing and rebounding wouldn’t be enough.

He knew he had to continue to grow his game and start putting points on the board.

Coincidentally, Drew Valentine joined the MSU staff as a graduate assistant going into Denzel Valentine’s sophomore year, and Denzel said his brother played a very important role in the development of his game while the two of them were at MSU together.

“I pretty much talk to him after every game, and he tells me what I need to do right and what I did wrong. He’s one of the biggest parts of my development as a player, especially when he was here. He would teach me how to shoot better, be smart with the work-outs and things like that.”

Drew Valentine’s biggest impact on his brothers play was improving his long range shooting, as Denzel saw his three-point field goal percentage jump from 28 percent as a freshman to 37 percent as a sophomore, and now as a senior he’s shooting more than 45 percent.

Carlton said Drew going to MSU for Denzel’s sophomore and junior seasons was one of the best things that could have happened for Denzel. The respect he has for his brother, in addition to the work and time Drew was willing to dedicate to helping Denzel improve his play.

“I think that was huge because Drew is someone who Denzel has always admired,” Carlton said. “And always Denzel trusted him. ...

Drew had played four years of college basketball, scored over 1,000 points, played in the NCAA tournament twice, had a pretty accomplished career. Somebody who you watched growing up all these years, and now he’s on staff with you. I think it was huge because it helped Denzel with his player development.”

Drew also was the perfect person to help Denzel Valentine develop his jump shot because while he was at Oakland, he was roommates with the NCAA Division I record-holder for most three-pointers made in a career, former Oakland standout Travis Bader, who made 504 shots beyond the arc.

Drew said he knew his brother didn’t lack confidence in his ability to shoot the ball, but he also knew from working out with one of the best three-point shooters ever that Denzel needed more consistency in his shot.

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Denzel has already, in his three and three-quarters seasons at MSU, accomplished more than many collegiate players will accomplish in their entire careers. He has won a Big Ten Tournament championship and went to the Sweet Sixteen as a freshman, the Elite Eight as a sophomore and the Final Four as a junior.

Denzel and fellow senior Matt Costello now have 105 wins in their career at MSU, just 10 short of tying the record for a senior class, set by the 2001 senior class, which enjoyed three consecutive trips to the Final Four and a championship in 2000.

Denzel is now 17th all-time in MSU history in points scored at 1,520 and is fifth all-time at MSU in career assists with 573.

In addition, Denzel is a strong top-two contender for national player of the year this season, which Drew said he thinks is a perfect testament to just how hard and how far Denzel has come.

I’m impressed with the national success that he’s had,” Drew said. “I don’t think anybody, other than the guys that are one-and-done really expect to be the national player of the year. I don’t even think Denzel… I know he wanted to be All-Big Ten, All-American. So for it to be that late in the year and for him to have the success that he had, it’s just incredible. ...

It’s due to the hard work, but I knew that he would work hard and I knew he would continue to get better, but I didn’t know it would be on this level.”

Despite all of the personal accomplishments Denzel has earned and the national recognition he has gotten, he and his fellow seniors Bryn Forbes and Costello simply want to help push MSU over the top to take that one last step to be champions — no matter what he has to do.

“We talked about it a lot,” Denzel said about the seniors wanting to take the next step.

“That’s something we’ve often texted each other about, talked to each other about is what we can do this year. The sky’s the limit, got a lot of things to accomplish this year so we just try to grind it out everyday.”

Denzel will take the Breslin Center court for the last time Saturday when Ohio State University comes to town for senior day. Following the Spartans’ game against the Buckeyes, the team will travel to Indianpolis for the Big Ten Tournament.

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A line of more than one thousand people armed with only campaign buttons, signs of support and excitement braved the long lines to see Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speak at Breslin Center Wednesday night.

A youthful crowd filled the lower and upper bowls and

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cheered as Sanders took the stage.

“This campaign is listening to young people,” Sanders said.

With an audience of both young and old attendees, Sanders addressed a variety of issues.

In his speech, Sanders highlighted the key issues of his campaign, from LGBT rights to raising the minimum wage.

He also discussed the issue of

higher education and said students are being crushed by student debt, going on to say free college is common sense.

As he has stressed throughout most of his campaign, Sanders said millionaires shouldn’t dictate the directions of political campaigns.

Looking out at the packed Breslin Center, Sanders spoke at length about the power of young people and the power of the youth vote.

In order to create a change, Sanders said youth need to get out and vote.

“No real change has ever occurred in the United States from the top on down,” Sanders said. “Change comes about when millions of people look at the world” and decide to take action, he added.

Sanders’ speech at Breslin Center came off the heels of Super Tuesday, where Sanders won the support of multiple states.

Noting how his campaign has grown since it began, Sanders encouraged the attendees to stay hopeful.

“Keep your eyes on the prize and we can make extraordinary things happen,” Sanders said.

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Professor’s research helps explain false confessing

Cognitive neuroscience associate professor Kimberly Fenn poses for a portrait on Feb. 26 in a lab in the Psychology Building. Fenn conducted research inside the sleep and learning lab that shows a strong correlation between sleep deprivation and making a false confession. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

BY AKSHITA VERMA AVERMA@STATENEWS.COM

Recently, the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” has drawn people in with its look at a man who was convicted of a crime he allegedly didn’t commit.

This brings up the question, “why would an innocent person ever send themselves to prison?”

Nevertheless, there are many instances of innocent people falsely confessing to a crime they did not commit and reasons as to why a person would do this.

One MSU associate professor has recently found in her now-published research that sleepiness or sleep deprivation is directly correlated with falsely confessing to a crime.

“We know a lot of cases of false confessions and shady interrogation tactics,” Kimberly Fenn, associate professor of psychology, said. “The police will interrogate the suspect for many hours and will keep them overnight. The suspects and the victims end up being extremely sleep deprived.”

“We know a lot of cases of false confessions and shady interrogation tactics. The police will interrogate the suspect for many hours and will keep them overnight.

The suspects and the victims end up being extremely sleep deprived.”

Kimberly Fenn, cognitive neuroscience associate professor

According to The Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals, the causes for false confessions include eyewitness misidentification, government misconduct, unvalidated or improper forensic science and inadequate defense.

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night leads to false confessions. This, Fenn said, is extremely unethical.

“These tactics cause damage to the suspects and the victims,” Fenn said. “I don’t want to use the word ‘torture,’ but they definitely use unethical methods.”

Fenn recruited 88 participants for her twophase research study showing how sleep deprivation increased false confessions.

In phase one, Fenn had the participants come into the lab and perform some simple tasks on the computer.

The students were firmly told not to press the escape key on the keyboard, or they would cause the researches to lose all of their important data.

One week later, Fenn had the participants come into the sleep lab for phase two.

They were divided into two groups, those who would stay up all night and be sleep deprived, and those who would sleep through the night.

In the morning, Fenn falsely accused all of the students of pressing the escape key and causing the researchers to lose all of their data.

Of the students who slept through the night, only 18 percent falsely confessed to pressing the escape key.

Of the students who stayed up all night, 50 percent falsely confessed to pressing the escape key.

The results from the experiment showed being deprived of sleep strongly increases your chances of falsely confessing to a crime.

“Our results make intuitive sense,” Fenn said.

“It makes sense that sleep deprivation would lead to false confessions.”

Fenn said she doesn’t think her work will have any kind of impact on how law enforcement interrogates their suspects.

“Some of their strategies are designed to get dangerous people off the streets, and they believe that their tactics work,” Fenn said. “They believe that their tactics help them incarcerate dangerous people. They aren’t going to change them any time soon.”

“The one thing I think could actually happen, and I hope it happens, is that the police take into account the physiological state of the suspects and the victims,” Fenn said.

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A wedding at the MSU Alumni Memorial Chapel. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS

BY IAN WEDNROW IWENDROW@STATENEWS.COM

Sometimes, the most unassuming buildings on campus have the most impressive histories. It’s a safe wager that most Spartans know the histories of Beaumont Tower, Breslin Center or Spartan Stadium. What few realize is how close they are to a landmark with a unique past.

This under-the-radar landmark is the MSU Alumni Memorial Chapel. Established in 1951 and dedicated by former president John Hannah in 1952, the chapel functions as a haven for students and faculty alike to stop in and worship or pay respects to MSU’s fallen soldiers.

The origins of the chapel go back to the 1940s, when then-Alumni Association director Glen C. Stewart began gathering funds to construct a joint chapel and international center on MSU’s campus, then known as Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science.

The chapel was originally planned as a combination international center and chapel but the alumni association was unable to procure enough funds for both. They did, however, have enough to go ahead with just the chapel. Entirely funded through private donations from approximately 5,000 alumni and friends, construction totaled about $200,000, almost 2 million dollars today adjusting for inflation, according to the CPI inflation calculator provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For some time, MSU did have another chapel available to students, which was located in the area between the Beaumont Tower and Main Library. After it collapsed because of a failed reinforcement, the memorial chapel became even more necessary.

“It was a major part of the thinking behind those that did the planning, was that it would be a house of worship that would be for all people,” Steve Aikin, the chapel’s sexton, said.

Aside from its role as a house of prayer, the “memorial” portion of its title is central as to why it exists. Housed within the chapel is a set of tablets marked with the names of all former students of the university who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces.

These tablets were included with the original design of the building, and currently list names of MSU alumni wartime casualties starting from the Civil War and up until the Iraq War in 2003.

There is also a special plaque dedicated to university aid workers that were caught in crossfire during the Vietnam War. During the dedication of this plaque in 1971, president John Hannah read its inscription aloud.

“Honored here are those Americans whose lives were lost under extraordinary circumstances while serving the cause of human advancement in U.S. economic assistance programs throughout the world,” the inscription reads. “Their sacrifice is not forgotten.”

Honoring such loss is not only engraved in the building, it’s part of the chapel’s literal structure. During its construction, the chapel received stones from famous European cathedrals that were damaged during World War II. Some of the more famous stones are ones from Westminster Abbey and St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and the Paderborn Cathedral in Germany. A hand-made brick from the old White House was also included in the design.

Not only is the chapel imbued with English stones, its architecture is influenced by Anglican styles, Aikin said.

“It’s long, it’s narrow, it’s high peaked. Very conducive to weddings because if you’re a bride you want to have a nice long aisle to come down on,” he said.

The allure of hosting a wedding in the chapel comes not only from its arches and aisles but also from its set of stained glass windows. Designed by Henry Willet, a friend of the chapel’s architect Ralph Calder, the windows depict various themes related to the university’s ethos as a learning institution and the chapel’s ethos as a non-denominational place of worship.

Windows on the chapel’s eastern wall of its nave are devoted to themes of work, community and leadership.

The east and west side window designs of the chapel itself are geared towards themes of prayer, charity, and sacrifice among others.

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Q&A with former Spartan, Super Bowl champion, Bennie Fowler THE STATE NEWS: YOU HAVE A SUPER BOWL RING NOW. HOW DOES IT FEEL?

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Bennie Fowler was a four-year scholarship player for MSU football, tallying 93 receptions and 1,341 yards with 11 touchdown receptions in his span of 44 career games.

After going undrafted, Fowler found a home in Denver and his hard work and improvement led to a spot on the practice squad for the Broncos.

In 2015, Fowler was rewarded again with a roster spot. This past season, he played in 16 games for Denver, hauling in 16 receptions for 203 yards.

The postseason gave Fowler a chance to showcase his talents in front of a national audience.

Though he only caught two passes for 35 yards, he had a crucial two-point conversion in the Super Bowl.

The 24-year-old wide receiver will be entering his second season in Denver, and with his determination and work ethic, he looks to be in line for a boost in playing time. Fowler met with The State News this past week for a Q&A session.

Bennie Fowler: It feels amazing. Just to achieve playing in Super Bowl 50 alone and then winning the game, it’s an incredible feeling. Everything that happened at (MSU), winning the Rose Bowl and this was a similar feeling.

SN: YOU CAUGHT A PRETTY BIG TWO-POINT CONVERSION IN THAT GAME AND THAT VERY WELL MIGHT BE PEYTON MANNING’S LAST PASS. HOW DID IT FEEL?

BF: It was great. I actually met Peyton when I was younger, and for him to be a teammate of mine now is kind of a surreal feeling with how great he is. (He’s) one of the greatest minds the game has ever seen, one of the greatest players the game has ever seen. Kirk (Cousins) had similar characteristics like Peyton, and Connor (Cook) did as well.

SN: WITH PEYTON’S POSSIBLE RETIREMENT LOOMING, HOW IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS BACKUP, BROCK OSWEILER?

BF: I have a great relationship with Brock. We Former MSU football player and current Denver Broncos wide receiver Bennie Fowler poses for a portrait on Feb. 19 at Skandalaris Football Center. Fowler caught a two-point conversion pass from Peyton Manning in Super Bowl 50. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

were both basically “twos,” as we call it, so we had a lot of reps in practice and the preseason together. I have a great relationship with him on and off the field. He’s a great guy.

coverage on the run. I appreciate those guys a lot.

SN: HOW MUCH FUN DO YOU HAVE WITH THE GUYS IN DENVER, AND IS IT SIMILAR TO MSU’S ATMOSPHERE?

BF: I think Burbridge is going to be a great NFL receiver. Great hands, great body control and I know he’s ready for the next level. The progression that he had throughout his whole career at (MSU), he got better every single year, and him winning Big Ten Receiver of the Year this year is just a reflection of all his hard work.

BF: It’s very close. We are a tight-knit group, basically what we had at (MSU). You know, it’s like playing football with your brothers, and you see them everyday and enjoy conversation, so it’s a lot of fun.

SN: HOW MUCH DID MARK DANTONIO AND TERRENCE SAMUEL HELP PREPARE YOU FOR THE NFL?

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BF: I expect them to come in and make an impact. I actually saw those guys throw routes last week when I was up there. I’m very impressed with how young those guys are and they both got size and speed, so I’m excited for what they are going to bring to MSU football in the future.

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BF: The way we approached meetings and film with coach D — you know he runs a tight ship — it’s like playing for a pro team. And now that I’m in the pros, I can see the similarities in the way he runs meetings. Coach Sam with the way you can attack a defensive back’s technique, reading

SN: WHAT DID YOU THINK ABOUT AARON BURBRIDGE’S SEASON AND HOW DO YOU THINK HE WILL DO IN THE NFL?

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SN: HOW DID YOU WIND UP GOING FROM THE DENVER PRACTICE SQUAD TO CATCHING PASSES IN THE SUPER BOWL?

BF: I decided to go to Denver because I wanted the opportunity to play with Peyton and they had some great receivers. ... I got put on practice squad and pretty much learned from Demaryius (Thomas) and Emmanuel (Sanders), and used my practice like games. Going against great corners like Aqib Talib and Chris Harris Jr., that really enhanced my game. I was able to take that into the preseason and show how much I improved and that I could impact or help this team.

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Student finds empowerment in photography “I’m just a college girl with a camera that has a lot to say and feels a lot and wants the world to see that and I want to show them through the lens of a camera.”

BY DANIELLE DUGGAN DDUGGAN@STATENEWS.COM

“The first time that I realized how empowering a photograph can be was actually a photo I took the last day that my mom was alive,” professional writing and global studies junior Kristen Gmerek said.

For Gmerek, photographs are the closest things she has to holding onto some of life’s most precious moments.

“It’s a picture of my mom and my dad looking at each other, and I just remember wanting to take in that moment and remember it forever,” Gmerek said. “It’s just times like those that you realize how beautiful photography can be and how honest it can be.”

Gmerek said she thinks photography is the best platform to capture moments that can be life altering.

During her junior year of high school, she was given the opportunity to visit Africa for the first time. While there, she said she connected with one of the little girls at the orphanage she taught at.

“I just remember always wanting to just photograph her eyes and her presence, not in a way to exploit or extort her, but to remember how she made me feel and how she impacted that experience, and I just remember how powerful those photographs became for me,” Gmerek said.

Gmerek said she uses her camera to express what she’s feeling day-by-day and to highlight the beauty in others.

“I love bringing people into my life that impact me in some way, and sometimes it’s so amazing to be able to show them how beautiful they really are, but from the inside,” Gmerek said. “I’m really big on not a lot of brushing up and not a lot of over-editing and all of that post-production non-

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sense. I really love just capturing a moment really beautiful and raw, but also colorful and vibrant.”

Gmerek often photographs her sister, Elise Gmerek.

“I love shooting with my sister because it’s so effortless,” Elise Gmerek said. “She has such a good eye for photography that I trust her and just follow her lead.”

Having taken no photography classes, every moment Gmerek has captured thus far has been driven by instinct “It’s kind of funny how with photography it’s been just following that instinct and that passion to capture raw human emotion while trying to say something that can not only tell a story about what I’m going through, but can also counterpart what someone else might be going through as well,” Gmerek said.

Gmerek followed these instincts, which lead her to submit some of her work into multiple photography contests.

Her work was so well received that MSU’s Center for Language Teaching Advancement, or CeLTA, offered her a media internship.

Luca Giupponi, an education technology specialist at CeLTA, has become Kristen’s mentor.

He spoke highly of Gmerek’s skills and drive.

“I really like that I don’t have to push her to get

“Unspoken Fear” by Kristen Gmerek. Photo courtesy of Kristen Gmerek.

better because she’s actually a lot more motivated and driven than a lot of people I know,” Giupponi said. “I love that I can always trust her to deliver really high-quality content.

Gmerek’s work at her internship drove her to submit her work in another contest.

Being one of roughly 14,000 submissions, Gmerek said she expected very little when she entered her photo “Unspoken Fear” in the magazine Photographer’s Forum’s best of college and high school photography contest.

Two weeks later she received the news that her work had been chosen to move on to the next

round. Her and roughly 1/8 of the applications would also be moving on would be published in the magazine.

The magazine is distributed to college libraries and photography teachers all over the country.

Gmerek’s photograph was one of 100 to go on and win an honorable mention in the college student category.

“Knowing that I got here with inspiration from the outside world, but most importantly listening to myself and going with my gut, it’s really rewarding to feel that recognition,” Gmerek said.

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BY CONNOR CLARK CCLARK@STATENEWS.COM

Hoping to “Show love, spread love,” computer engineering senior Craig Stoddard created a tie-dye business called Kaleidoscopic Apparel.

The name’s inspiration came from his girlfriend, journalism junior Rene Kiss because of the psychedelic nature of the clothing.

Originally, Stoddard and Kiss decided to tiedye for a fun activity.

After a few tries, Stoddard realized his skill and said he enjoyed the bright pop of the colors.

Since starting eight months ago, he has sold shirts in countries across the globe including Australia, France and Sweden.

“My shirt selling experience has been surreal,” Stoddard said. “The thought of it becoming my career never hit me until I realized that my follower base on Instagram is about to peak 1,000 and my sales are nearly 300 plus (orders) in just a half year.”

Balancing school, a small business and a part-

time job has not been an easy task, but Kiss said her boyfriend has talent.

“Craig’s tie-dye technique is what makes Kaleidoscopic Apparel unique and recognizable,“ Kiss said. “The way he incorporates logos from different artists within electronic music really makes the brand stand out because he appeals to a large audience of the rave scene.”

With limited supplies, Stoddard said he can only make a few shirts a night.

Stoddard said once he graduates he will be able to produce a lot more apparel. The popularity of his clothes has allowed him to be able to support food and entertainment costs in the meantime. In addition to shirts, Stoddard’s products include tie-dye hats and pins.

Stoddard said the world is in a negative state right now. With help of his vibrant shirts, he is hoping to spread love to anyone and everyone.

In the future, Stoddard hopes to open a store in Grand Rapids or Holland, Mich.

“I am trying to put a mark out there and color up everybody,” Stoddard said. “Let’s start think-

“I have run into countless people at electronic music concerts wearing my shirts or claiming to know me as the ‘kaleidoscope guy’ on Etsy.”

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Kaleidoscopic Apparel is popular among festival crowds. Stoddard said he still can’t believe his clothing brand is being worn by fans at these festivals.

“I have run into countless people at electronic music concerts wearing my shirts or claiming to know me as the ‘kaleidoscope guy’ on Etsy,” Stoddard said. “It’s so surreal to have that hap-

pen to you, and it’s what makes me keep going.”

Pricing ranges from approximately $13 to $35 for shirts and $25 to $30 for hats, according to etsy.com. Customers can customize shirts with different logos as well.

“We’ll go to a show and people will come up to him wearing one of his shirts and be like ‘Hey, you’re Kaleidoscopic Apparel! Dude this is my favorite shirt!’” Kiss said.

Computer engineering senior Craig Stoddard folds a shirt on Feb. 26, at his home in East Lansing.

Stoddard makes tie-dye shirts when he is not in class or studying and sells them online.

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