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MSU Mental Health Awareness Club continues to grow, offer support

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The Mental Health Awareness Club, or MHAC, at MSU’s meetings began with only about 15 members in attendance.

However, once an email was sent out advertising the club, the last meeting, featuring a guest speaker, had about 50 students filling the Union Lake Michigan Room to the point of seats running out.

Formed in November, the idea came to the president of MHAC, child development sophomore Alison Miner, and vice president, advertising sophomore Jameson Draper, when they were freshmen struggling to find a club that revolved around mental health.

“Like our name says, we want to bring awareness to the campus,” Miner said. “It’s (mental health) kind of less of a deal than it should be right now. I just feel like if you have a physical condition and you have a broken leg or a broken arm, you would get that treated and you’d probably get a doctor’s note … but with mental illness, if it’s depression, professors will be like, ‘Oh, you’re just sad, you can just get over it,’ but sometimes it’s harder than that.

That’s kind of what we want to do, make it more of a serious issue than just one that has a bad stigma with it.”

On Feb. 21, speaker and author Jonathan Citrin, who reached out to the club, was their first guest speaker and discussed the brain and how it thinks. The club is also hoping to have the director of the MSU Counseling Center speak later in the year.

“I find that we spend so much time, obviously, thinking,” Citrin said. “But we don’t slow down very often to think about how we think

and the types of thoughts we’re having and why we’re having those thoughts. And underneath that is the issue of control.”

During the presentation, Citrin put up a photo of a pencil and directed students to focus on it and attempt to turn off all thought and emotion. The purpose of the exercise was to show people firsthand how little control they have over their own thoughts.

“To put an image up and ask people to control their brain for 60 seconds, they get to feel how out of control they are,” Citrin said.

“It kind of breaks down that wall, that scary wall of admitting, ‘I don’t really have a lot of control over my mind.’”

Focusing on the image was difficult for the distracted students, Miner said.

“You’re not in control of your thoughts, which is what makes mental illness such an issue,” Miner said. “His whole point was to explain, if you can look within yourself and think about your own thoughts, then eventually you can train yourself to make coping mechanisms of your mental illness.”

Citrin also discussed multiple angles when trying to understand how the brain functions.

“The brain is so immensely complex,” Citrin said. “You could put a psychologist, a philosopher ... and a neurosurgeon all in a room together and still not come up with answers.”

At meetings, Miner and Draper focus on different mental illnesses and have covered anxiety and depression. Videos are shown during the presentation of these topics, and the videos are followed by an open discussion among members that lead to personal stories and struggles.

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ety and I’ve seen people I know struggle with mental health firsthand,” human biology sophomore Arielle Davidson said. “I’m a part of this club in order to just raise awareness and hopefully improve the counseling department here as well and just get rid of the stigma that surrounds mental health just in general.”

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“The more people that join and the more that the word gets out, the easier it’ll be for people to talk about their own issues even just with their friends,” Miner said. “It typically is a very personal thing for people to talk about their mental illness. … We think that talking about it is the best way to raise awareness and end the stigma of ‘mental illness isn’t as big of a deal as it truly is.’”

ASMSU awarded ‘Outstanding Student Government of the Year’

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Detroit resident Jonathan Citrin gives a presentation to the Mental Health Awareness Club on Feb. 21 at the Union. Citrin was a special guest speaker for the club, which aims to inform the community on the importance of mental health. PHOTO: ZAINA MAHMOUD

Representatives from ASMSU recently attended a conference at Texas A&M, where they were honored with multiple awards for its performance as a student government.

ASMSU received two awards, one for “Outstanding Student Government of the Year” and one for “Outstanding Achievement Award for Legislative Action.”

Regarding the award for “Outstanding Student Government of the Year,” a statement by ASMSU said, “The award was scored on the criteria of the development and implementation of innovative student services or programs for students on its campus; engagement with campus administration or other campus partners/programming areas to accomplish goals or fulfill missions.”

The statement also explained the work that went into the legislation ASMSU was awarded for.

“This included the involvement of passing legislation in ASMSU to support the legislation, gathering students at large to petition for the change, and further write op-eds to local news outlets about the importance of the issue at hand,” the statement reads.

ASMSU President Lorenzo Santavicca notified the ASMSU General Assembly of these awards during a meeting on March 2.

“I think it’s a testament to the work of the General Assembly with our staff and certainly with our executive board and class councils to really move forward on our collective student voice here at the university,” Santavicca said.

He said the recognition is especially rewarding

because of the panel who decides who receives the awards.

“The committee itself was comprised of advisers, students as well as some faculty members from Texas A&M,” Santavicca said. “The students and advisers were from other student governments that participated in the conference.”

Considering the current state of the university and the pressure that is on ASMSU at this point in time, Santavicca said the awards are even more meaningful.

“It means more to the General Assembly now than ever,” Santavicca said. “I think it means that their work is validated. I think it shows that you don’t have long meetings that you do just for the heck of it. I think it shows that individuals treasure the conversation, the debate, the discussion that really means a lot to our student body.”

ASMSU Vice President for Governmental Affairs Alex Noffsinger also spoke on the importance of the awards and how essential they are given the current climate at MSU. Noffsinger was involved in the work behind the awarded legislation. “(The award) was actually really rewarding, not just personally, but for the entire Gov. Affairs office to get recognized, everyone in ASMSU,” Noffsinger said. “It’s kind of such a cliche that it was a group effort, but it really was.”

Noffsinger said it was rewarding to see something he worked hard on be implemented.

“To see something that we spent a lot of time on in the fall, a lot of resources and man hours, to see that come to fruition and to see the legislature act on it and all of our efforts ... to see it really get codified is, again, really rewarding,” Noffsinger said.

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In 2004, Lou Anna K. Simon planned to leave MSU after 35 years as a student, professor and administrator at the university. Then, she was picked by the Board of Trustees to become the 20th president — and first female president — of MSU. She was inaugurated on Feb. 12, 2005 — the university’s 150th birthday and Simon’s 58th.

Now Simon, herself a first-generation college student, said she thinks of herself as an advocate for students and sexual assault victims in particular, though she admits students don’t necessarily see her in the same light.

“I was involved in setting up the (Counseling Center Sexual Assault Program) 25 years ago in a position that might have labeled me as an advocate, which no one will label me as now,” she said.

Much of Simon’s presidency is held in the balance between advocacy and criticism for inaction.

In 2013, Simon testified before the Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education to support additional investment in public universities. In February, she lobbied the state legislature against proposed income tax cuts that could result in further cuts to higher education.

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en’s Hall of Fame in 2016 for her work at MSU. Simon said she believes MSU has been on the leading edge when it comes to resources for survivors of sexual assault.

“Having a victims’ unit in the police was pretty revolutionary at the time,” she said. “The fact that all of our officers are trained … in being victim-sensitive officers is very unusual.”

Opposition Simon became the NCAA executive committee chair in 2012 in the wake of sanctions against Penn State University. Simon said she hoped to implement a new tiered violation system for the organization to better differentiate between major and minor offenses.

Her approach to discipline for Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct policy violations at MSU is similar. It’s what she calls “progressive discipline.”

“What we’re trying to balance is very dramatic action … about sexual assault/rape, and changing a culture about all the things that happen — words, phrases, tweets,” Simon said. “It’s not necessarily on the same order of magnitude as some of the other discriminatory behavior that we’re seeing.”

Simon has faced significant public scrutiny for MSU’s response to sexual assault on campus. That’s nothing new for a university president, she said.

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“I don’t think I created (Larry) Nassar, but I deal with it. I was an advocate, and now I’m responsible for the problems. It’s just the nature of the role.”

Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU President “We’re a big place, and we’re a complicated place, and presidents are the symbol of what’s right or wrong about a complicated place,” Simon said. “That’s just the nature of the job.”

Protesters at the Feb. 17 Board of Trustees meeting called for Simon to resign for allowing conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos to appear at MSU. “Those came out of really genuine feelings and ideas and a sense that they’re relying on us to fix them,” Simon said. “I understand why I’m a symbol of what they have to say, so I try to listen pretty carefully to what they’re saying and why and figure out what I can try to do about it.”

Student activism, like that of the group calling for her resignation, stems from the brevity of college, Simon said.

“You’re here for a relatively short period of time and you judge things from when you came to when you leave,” Simon said. “That’s the great thing about students, because you learn a lot from their perspective. Everybody comes in, they take for granted what we have and they want to figure out how to make it their own, fit social media, fit current expectations.”

Simon said she believes the turnover of students is good for the university.

“That’s why we’re a dynamic, really great place,” she said. “We’ve just got to figure out a way to be better tomorrow than we are today, along these multiple dimensions and in a resource-constrained environment.”

Rape culture at MSU? When it comes to sexual assault, Simon is quick to reject “rape culture” at MSU. “People might conclude these developments indicate a culture problem here at MSU,” Simon said at a recent Board of Trustees meeting. “Let me be clear: We are committed to creating a culture

of both accountability and safety and responsiveness regarding sexual assault and harassment. There is no culture of tolerating sexual abuse or harassment on our campus.”

Simon said she believes problems are inevitable at a school as large as MSU. “There’s no way you can have this many human beings in a space and have people not make mistakes,” she said.

Though Simon sees MSU’s sexual assault record as commonplace, she’s received a significant amount of criticism for it.

In 2010, 40 members of the Coalition Against Sexual Violence rallied at Simon’s office and said MSU hadn’t done enough about recent sexual assaults. In 2015, Simon was named as a defendant in a lawsuit that alleges she and other MSU officials failed to adequately monitor sexual assault investigations.

A 2015 investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, or OCR, found MSU mishandled a number of sexual assault cases, and the university was required to release a public anti-harassment statement and coordinate other changes with the OCR. Most recently, Simon and MSU have come under fire for failing to identify and fire former MSU employee Larry Nassar after university representatives allegedly received complaints during a period of 20 years. Nassar, who worked in osteopathic and sports medicine, has been accused of sexually abusing his patients and other young women with whom he had contact. He also faces a lawsuit for possession of child pornography.

“I don’t think I created Nassar, but I deal with it,” Simon said. “I was an advocate, and now I’m responsible for the problems. It’s just the nature of the role.”

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ciplinary policy similar to what she supported for the NCAA could help MSU better address sexual assault.

“I am currently not a fan of the equivalency sentencing guidelines, because that doesn’t give the variations of themes,” Simon said. “I’ve proposed … whether we should have clearer-cut guidelines for what’s the penalty when something happens.”

MSU’s Office of Institutional Equity will be meeting with student groups, including ASMSU and COGS, to discuss the possibility of changing disciplinary guidelines, Simon said.

Simon expects some debate over proposed President changes to disciplinary Lou Anna K. Simon speaks policy.

“If you’re an advocate, to reporters on March 28, an advocate for victims, 2016 at The you’re going to want

Changes ahead Simon has her own ideas of what needs to change at MSU. Most sexual assaults on campus occur between students who know each other personally, Simon said.

Those cases “get murky” because of the ties the students have to each other, like being in the same social circles.

“We have to have a way of dealing with them, but dealing with them in a learning environment so people can learn and grow, and those are all judgments,” Simon said. “They’re going to be imperfect.”

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those to be very harsh,” she said.

“If you’re thinking about them from the perspective of the perpetrator, you’re going to want them to be part of a learning environment where the property right of education has a pretty high bar for when you take it away.”

Simon said MSU will adapt to fit the needs of its students, though it will continue to receive criticism, too.

“One of the challenges of being a president is that getting better doesn’t mean that you’re bad,” she said. “It just means you need to get better.”

Ultimately, Simon said, MSU is more important than the president’s public perception.

“We have to just get through this for the institution, because the institution’s more important than any of us,” Simon said.

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Altmann embraces chance to serve both community and university

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When he’s not teaching psychology at MSU or enjoying a bike ride, Erik Altmann is a city councilmember who strives to understand and address the needs of his constituents.

Altmann was born and raised in Edmonton, Canada, and came to the U.S. for graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University.

Altmann said he was studying artificial intelligence, but in the process found a new passion.

“Along the way I discovered that human intelligence was a lot more interesting than artificial intelligence, and so I switched over to psychology,” Altmann said.

After his post-doctoral studies at George Mason University, Altmann decided to pursue a faculty position at MSU. Altmann has lived and worked as an MSU professor in East Lansing since moving with his wife in 2000.

“East Lansing and MSU combined were sort of the obvious winner,” Altmann said. “MSU was clearly going to be a great place to work, and I really like the land grant sort of ethic, and East Lansing looked like just a really great place to live, so it was a no-brainer … East Lansing is just the right speed for me. There’s just enough stuff to do, you can get your work done without being hassled, there is great people, great neighborhoods, love it.”

Altmann said his journey into politics is similar to those who do not expect to become involved; he began with discovering local government is important to the quality of life.

Altmann said his neighborhood had a noise pollution problem the council fixed when he spoke to them about it.

Altmann then began to attend council meetings frequently, following the work and learning more about local issues before realizing that work wasn’t getting done where he felt it needEast Lansing councilmember Erik Altmann poses for a portrait on March 2. Altmann is also a psychology professor at MSU. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

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ed to be. One thing led to another, and he campaigned, Altmann said. Altmann said the position challenges him, but allows him to make adjustments.

“I walked into a situation where everybody around me knew more about things than I did, and so what I had to learn was to basically approach everything as a question … If I’m just missing something then somebody can tell me what I’m missing, if I’m not missing something then we can figure out what the answer is to the question,” Altmann said.

For Altmann, council is an opportunity to play a role in helping to fix things for the city and its residents.

“One of the things I do on a week-to-week basis is I accumulate a list of issues that city residents bring to me, and I meet every other week with the city manager and I go in with a prioritized list of things that I think make sense to try to address,” Altmann said. “It really is a representative democracy, I am representing the interests of the people who voted for me, they bring me stuff and I filter it, bring it to the city and they do stuff about it. That’s been just a tremendous

amount of fun, but also interacting with city residents over issues that we have to decide … that’s been a really rewarding process.”

Altmann said the policy goals he ran on, such as the city’s revenue shortfall, development subsidies and removing blight, are still the ones he wants to address during his tenure.

Altmann said progress has been made through the destruction of some smaller Park District buildings and increased pushback against developer requests for subsidies, but work still remains in several areas.

“We can’t cut services anymore to balance our budget because they’re cut to the bone, we need to figure out a way to generate new revenues,” Altmann said. “We’re making progress on that issue, it’s just the hard decisions are still pending.”

Mayor Pro Tem Ruth Beier said it’s a joy to work with Altmann because he’s always prepared and thoughtful.

“What I like most about him is he’s willing to consider novel solutions to problems,” Beier said. “I think that adds to council.”

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MSU VITA offers free tax help for students and community members

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Tax season is here and for students, this time might induce frustration from filing forms or anxiety for those who have not filed taxes before.

One club on campus is here to help students with this task — free of charge.

MSU Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, or MSU VITA, consists of about 200 student volunteers who help students, individuals and families in the Lansing area with completing federal, state and local taxes.

Training includes the basics of taxes, handling the software and preparing for the IRS certification exam, which all volunteers must pass.

Vice president of external operations Mallory Woods is one of the site coordinators and

quality reviewer at the site this year.

“So those are basically the people who are in charge of the shift,” Woods, an accounting senior, said. “We have two site coordinators, typically per shift, and they are the ones who look at the returns after the basic preparers have gone through them, and we just make sure that all the numbers are in correctly, everything looks good to go before we send the client home.”

MSU VITA generally draws a lot of accounting majors who are looking to gain tax preparation experience, but as an organization they allow all majors to participate.

Woods said everyone goes through the same training to become a volunteer regardless of major or how long they have previously volunteered.

“We offer two options for training, both in the

fall and in the spring,” Woods said. “In the fall, we offer usually around three or four training sessions and in each one we go over the basics of taxes, basic principles of taxes … then in the spring, we offer one super long training that’s kind of a condensed version of all the training sessions that happen in the fall.”

Graduate student Cody Kahrs serves as director of training and said he joined the organization three years ago to see if taxation was something he wanted to pursue as a career.

As director of training, Kahrs deals with the volunteers and teaches them about the basics.

He said the majority of the volunteers are new and don’t know anything about preparing taxes.

“I teach them every year the basics to be able to prepare tax returns for our client base, and they also have to pass a test through the IRS, so I basically prepare them for that test as well,” Kahrs said.

President of the organization Natalie Buck-

le has been with VITA for three years and said she was interested in becoming involved on campus as a sophomore when she heard of the organization through her accounting classes.

Buckle, now an accounting senior, said she likes watching how the volunteers grow and work directly with the clients.

“Just being in it for three years I can see how much volunteers grow from once they first start … we train them and then it’s just awesome to see the progress they make,” Buckle said. “I just like working with the clients, mostly everyone who comes to us is thankful because obviously we’re providing them the service for free, but it’s nice to see when they don’t expect to receive a big refund, they’re always really happy and it’s just really good experience.”

For those interested in receiving help for their taxes, MSU VITA’s site is located at 1290 Deer Path Ln., East Lansing.

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The Spartans cheer on their teammates after a made shot by redshirt-senior guard Branndais Agee (10) during the game against Maryland in the semifinal round of the women’s Big Ten Tournament on March 4 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Spartans were defeated by the Terrapins, 100-89. PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

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On March 13, teams across the country waited for their names to appear in a bracket slot on ESPN. After going 9-7 during Big Ten conference play and wrapping up the regular season 21-11, MSU women’s basketball waited to be selected for the NCAA Tournament.

For 10 other Big Ten teams, their immediate futures lacked the appeal of the Big Dance.

However, the Spartans made it to the NCAA Tournament, selected as a No. 9 seed in the Stockton Region.

The Spartans are slated to play No. 8 Arizona State in Columbia, S.C. on March 17.

It was a celebration for the Spartans when they found out their seed Monday evening. While some ladies on the team were happy to see their name on the screen, others seemed surprised their name was called so soon, as the Stockton Region was the second to be selected.

Quickly after their celebration, the Spartans went right back to filling out their brackets to see who their competition would be.

“I’m excited, I’m excited to go down south,” senior guard Tori Jankoska said. “I haven’t watched much of Arizona State this year, I know I watched them a lot last year. They had a couple people that I knew from USA trials, but I’m excited to be in the tournament. It’s a blessing to be in.”

Head coach Suzy Merchant said she knew they were going to fall between an eight or nine seed for the tournament.

The main anticipation for her and her team was who and where they would play. Without having a set opponent this past week, practices have had high intensity.

This is the eighth time in nine years MSU has been chosen to play in the NCAA Tournament.

“You certainly want to be a team that is in the NCAA Tournament, you can’t win a national championship if you’re not in it,” Merchant said. “I think that’s certainly what we all aspire to, certainly here at Michigan

State in every sport. I’m excited about the draw, excited about getting on a plane and going down there playing in South Carolina.”

The last and only time MSU made a Final Four was in 2005, which culminated in an appearance in the championship game.

This year’s team has a lot of moving pieces with a freshman starting forward and point guard, along with a transfer graduate student among the mix.

“We’re all pretty excited, a lot them didn’t really know exactly what it meant to get into the NCAA Tournament, I think,” Jankoska said. “You know the way we finished the season, we’re playing your best basketball right now, you know really good for us. Just to be able to give them that experience going forward is really big for our program.”

Last year during the tournament, MSU was unable to host during the second round and made the trip to Mississippi State to play.

It was a close game against the Bulldogs, but the Spartans failed to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, falling 74-72.

If the Spartans defeat Arizona State March 17, they will likely move on to play the No. 1 seed in Stockton, the South Carolina Gamecocks in the second round.

Merchant said every tournament is different, but playing in hostile environments is something she can take away from last year’s game.

“We played down there at Mississippi State and they have great crowd attendance,” Merchant said. “They were super excited, they love women’s basketball down there.”

In a similar vein to last year’s atmosphere, Merchant said she expects an effort rivaling Mississippi down in South Carolina.

“You’re going to have the same thing in South Carolina,” Merchant said. “That Gamecock nation is legit and real and they love Dawn and what she’s done down there and that team. We’ve played in extremely hostile environments and some of those kids who were on this roster and played in that game understand that and will be able to handle that.”

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Student Book Store owners Brad and Greg Ballein also own the Grand River Avenue buildings that will be demolished to make way for one of the buildings. The Balleins are heavily involved in the development process.

The Chicago-based developer for the current incarnation of the project, under owner DRW.

Recent revisions

After a dispute with the city involving financing, the project’s site plan is being revised. Convexity has said the project will be scaled down to solely include the 12-story mixed-use space known as ‘Building A’, but another smaller building might be added later.

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The Park District project has undergone several major setbacks which have left the blighted buildings the project is intended to replace standing for more than a decade.

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PREVIEW: MSU hockey rematches Ohio State in Big Ten Tournament

BY COLTON WOOD CWOOD@STATENEWS.COM

After finishing the regular season with a 7-23-4 overall record (3-14-3-1 Big Ten), the MSU hockey team will begin the post-season as a sixth seed in the Big Ten Tournament and will face No. 3 seed Ohio State University in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament Thursday evening. This will be the fifth matchup this season between the two teams.

The Spartans went 1-3 against the Buckeyes this season, falling to Ohio State in a pair of one-goal games in the opening series Feb. 17-18 before proceeding the weekend sweep with a series split on the road March 3-4.

Thursday’s contest is the third time in four seasons the Spartans will face the Buckeyes in the quarterfinals of the conference tournament. MSU is 0-2 against the Buckeyes, falling in overtime in both games.

The Spartans have an all-time record of 88-64-8 at Joe Louis Arena and hold the edge in the all-time series against the Buckeyes with a 89-37-12 record.

“Ohio State’s got a good team,” head coach Tom Anastos said. “They’re playing with a lot of confidence. We played them a lot as of late. They had a very successful weekend out in Madison, and I think they’re deep up front, their goaltending has been consistent for them down the stretch.”

Buckeye head coach Steve Rohlik said MSU, who is coming off a loss and a tie against No. 1 seed Minnesota last weekend, has been playing great hockey recently.

“We’re trying to get prepared to play our best hockey game,” Rohlik said.

“Obviously, I’ve got a lot of respect for Tom and his program. Anyone that can look at what our two teams have done over the last few years, it’s been overtime or one goal games every

night. I would expect exactly the same Thursday.”

The Buckeyes finished the regular season first in the NCAA in total goals with 144 and power play efficiency, converting on 46 of 146 attempts on the man-advantage. Ohio State ranks third in the nation in goals scored per game with four.

“The biggest thing for us is we just got to continue to keep getting better in a lot of areas as far as our discipline, and I say that with our systems and what not,” Rohlik said. “We respect them. We understand they play hard.”

Redshirt-freshman defenseman Jerad Rosburg said the Spartans’ penalty kill efficiency will be key to advancing Thursday night.

“They have one of the best power plays in college hockey, so I think getting their power play under control and knowing how to defend it and trying to stop them, staying out of the box, being disciplined is going to be big,” Rosburg said.

“And then, they’re a very offensive team.

They like to fly the zone a lot and we’ve got to be prepared to make sure we keep track of everyone on the ice and not let anyone behind us and just play the way we can and when we win, we’re keeping things simple, getting pucks in the net.

So I think if we do those things, we’ve got a good chance to win.”

Senior forward Joe Cox said despite the feeling of a new season, the mentality and game plan of playing the Buckeyes is the same as it has been all season, especially preventing the Buckeyes’ power play success.

“Although we’re going to act like it’s a new season — obviously, we’ve played them four times — we kind of know their tendencies and everything,” Cox said. “And I thought the last game we played against them, I thought we actually did a really good job except for our penalty kill.”

Sophomore forward Mason Appleton

Senior forward Joe Cox (21) gets the puck from Wisconsin defenseman Corbin McGuire (3) during the second period of the men’s hockey game against Wisconsin on Feb. 3 at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans were defeated by the Badgers, 6-3. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

finished the regular season as the Spartans’ leader in points with 30 and goals with 12, while tying with freshman forward Taro Hirose for a team-high 18 assists.

With a goal and four assists during the last four games, the 6-foot-2 forward is averaging a point in each game through the last 11 contests.

The Green Bay, Wis. native is the Spartans’ active leading scorer against Ohio State with a goal and nine assists for 10 points in nine-career games. Meanwhile, freshman forward Sam Saliba’s four goals against Ohio State are the most of any current Spartan.

“I think Ohio State is a little more high-risk, high-reward than any other team in the Big Ten,” Appleton said. “And nothing against that — obviously, it’s worked out well for them — so they’re a team that’s going to cheat the zone here and there for offensive opportunities. I think we can take advantage of that with strong defense and then transitioning and create offense off of that.”

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Appleton said developing a layer of consistency is an instrumental part of the team’s success in the conference tournament.

“Definitely consistency is going to be big for our game,” he said. “We got to play three full periods. We can’t have a five minute lull or anything along those lines because usually those games don’t end up the way you want them.”

The Spartans have played each team in this year’s tournament four times this season. Anastos said the opportunity to play each conference opponent numerous times over the span of the regular season leaves MSU with no surprises during the preparation process.

“You’re certainly very familiar with those teams and as they are with you,” Anastos said. “So from a preparation standpoint, it’s not like there’s going to be a whole lot of surprises, and in a bracket type format like we’re in, it’s kind of easy to figure out who the potential opponents are that you’re going to play.”

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Student creates record label for local artists

BY JAIMIE BOZACK JBOZACK@STATENEWS.COM

Advertising senior Malik Patton grew up in Detroit with a love for hip-hop. Patton would spend hours listening to artists like Eminem, 50 Cent and Jay Z. Years later, the 22-year-old’s lifelong passion for music has come to life.

Patton currently operates his own record label with three other producers, who include Byron Reams, Thomas Smartt Woa and Josh Becker.

The label, Renegade Music Group, currently has three rappers signed.

The group is a full-service entertainment company, which does artist management, manufacturing and music production.

“My goal since I was young was to always be an entrepreneur no matter what it was,” Patton said. “I would say that is why music is the passion I have, but also entrepreneurship is what I have always known what I was going to do and what I wanted to do. That is why it’s such a perfect balance of the creation and the business side.”

The label’s three rappers are Ricardo Barnett, known as OKiR, Derrick Heningburg, known as D-Rock the Felon and Calvon Sheridan, known as Ace. The rappers are the basis for the record label.

“I just want to give people the platform to be the artist that they want to be and to move as free without the red tape of the industry,” Patton said. “It is hip-hop and rap based because that’s what I know, but the goal is of course to do everything.”

Patton currently works out of a studio in Livonia, Mich. and other home-based studios.

Growing up in Detroit inspired Patton through his journey of music. He said he wants to bring back what it means to be a musician in Detroit.

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“It’s not only doing something I love and that I am passionate about, it’s being able to make my dreams come true while being able to make my friend’s and people I grew up with and other people’s dreams come true,” Patton said. “The goal is just to make a world a better place through music by giving people that space for to feel like themselves.”

Joe Steinhardt, an assistant professor in the Advertising and PR Department met Patton last semester and Patton said he has been learning from him ever since.

Steinhardt currently owns and operates his own record label of 15 years based out of New Jersey named Don Giovanni Records.

The label includes artists such as Screaming Females and Laura Stevenson. Steinhardt said he believes in success through perseverance.

Advertising senior and music producer Malik Patton sets up his equipment on Feb. 28 at his home at 1530 Cambria “That is the thing about find- Dr. in East Lansing. Patton has a passion for music and wants to bring Motown style music back to life. PHOTO: JON ing success through persever- FAMUREWA ance,” Steinhardt said. “It is not so much about finding the biggest or the bright“He doesn’t need as much advice as he thinks a bright spot in my life,” Barnett said. “He is dedest, that stuff is not usually real, that stuff is he does,” Steinhardt said. “I think his label is icated not only to the craft of making music, but usually bought and sold. Persevering, working going to do very well. I think he is very driven he is also very artist-orientated. He would nevwith artists, having long relationships with art- and he has a good work ethic and that stuff goes er ask me to compromise, he would never take ists and putting out many releases can be just as a really long way.” anything away from me and he would never successful of a record label more than just putBarnett said he has known Patton since he was interrupt a process. ting out the biggest record the year.”

“My style is a bit all over the place sometimes about 14-years-old. He said Patton encouraged Steinhardt said he has been working with Pat- him to start taking rapping seriously. and he is one of the few people that just lets me ton and giving him tips on running a record label.

“Malik and the whole organization ... has been be me and that’s a big thing.”

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Do’s and Don’ts on St. Patrick’s Day Do

Spell the holiday correctly: St. Paddy’s Day, not St. Patty’s Day.

Misspelling the holiday’s nickname is a frequent error made by people every year. Saint Pádraig, or as we know and love him, St. Patrick, would have had a diminutive nickname of Paddy and not Patty. The latter refers to a burger or a woman’s name and, historically speaking, wouldn’t have been used to refer to a man during that time period.

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Rep all of your green gear.

Historically, the tradition was to wear St. Patrick’s blue, a lighter shade. The color evolved into green during the 1798 Irish Rebellion when the clover became a patriotic symbol.

Don’t

Rely on the luck of the four-leaf clover.

According to a National Geographic article debunking St. Paddy’s misconceptions, the threeleaf clover was used primarily by the man behind the holiday to represent the holy trinity. Four-leaf clovers are a genetic mutation requires some good fortune to come across, but it’s not a historically accurate symbol for the holiday.

Don’t

Bash other celebrators for not being Irish.

The man himself was not Irish; he was born in what is now Great Britain. St. Patrick only made it to Ireland because Irish enslavers attacked his home and held him captive in Ireland.

Do

Take this opportunity to channel your inner childhood desire to consume things that are unnaturally green.

Green bagels are being served in the dining halls and at Bruegger’s Bagels on Grand River Avenue.

Another fad is to food color your beer green (Thanks, Dr. Seuss).

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Celebrate authentically at an Irish pub or restaurant.

For those lucky enough to be 21 years or older on March 17, start your festivities as early as 7 a.m. at various pubs in the Lansing area.

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“People are here at 7 a.m. getting started. We get busier all day long; the whole restaurant’s packed. It’s a lot of fun, the whole day, and we keep it very traditional and that’s just all the happy people having fun.”

McKenzie Morton Claddagh Irish Pub and Resaurant service manager