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Preventing a CATASTROPHE With shadow over the MSU football program, the team tries to recover from the disaster of last season

Redshirtsophomore quarterback Brian Lewerke (14) scans the field for an open receiver during the Green-White Spring Game on April 1 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 33-23.

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“I also think our other quarterbacks are good players, but right now (Lewerke is) the guy.”

FEMININE HYGIENE TAXES

East Lansing City Councilmember Shanna Draheim reflects on her tenure

Mark Dantonio, MSU football head coach

Students share their views on a bill going through the Michigan legislature, which would remove sales taxes on feminine hygiene products

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Draheim brings federal expertise, environmental passion to council

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

East Lansing City Councilmember Shanna Draheim has spent much of her life serving both the environment and the federal government. Now, she brings her expertise from the government’s highest level to the local branches.

Draheim said her passion for the environment began while watching southern California change as she grew up.

“Where I grew up … there were orange groves, there were trees and a lot of that was just getting taken over,” Draheim said. “My passion for the environment really came out of sort of the land use side of that, ‘How are we protecting our natural resources? How are we developing sustainably?’”

Draheim became a second generation Spartan and studied in the James Madison College after she heard constant praise from her two alumni parents. She met her husband, Andy Draheim, while they both worked at The State News, her as a receptionist and him as a writer and editor, Draheim said.

She received a masters degree in public affairs

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in environmental policy from Indiana University Bloomington, before she began a roughly 10-year career in federal government at the Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, and other organizations.

“One of my big projects when I worked for the EPA in San Francisco was actually looking at the environmental impacts of a, newly-constructed at the time, border fence, which is ironic given today’s discussions,” Draheim said.

Draheim and her family moved back to East Lansing in 2004 after she and her husband realized they couldn’t afford to stay in San Francisco while raising their three children, Draheim said.

“We had a lot of family and friends out here in Michigan, and we always loved East Lansing as students here,” Draheim said. “When we decided to move back to Michigan, we knew we wanted to be in East Lansing, wanted to be in a college town and all of the culture and the walkability that came with it.”

Draheim’s path to council might have been more straightforward than others with years of experience as a public servant under her belt. Draheim said she was familiarized with city government

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while working on East Lansing’s Commission on the Environment for about seven years.

“As a resident, I was participating in a lot of the planning that was going on at the time,” Draheim said. “I was going to community engagement meetings very interested, just feeling like it was time to step up and do my part from the inside, I guess, rather than from the outside in.”

Councilmember Erik Altmann, elected November 2015 at the same time as Draheim and Mayor Mark Meadows, said Draheim is dedicated to the community and to the city.

“She works hard and she has policy expertise, which she brings to bear on our discussions, and she always has an eye out for compromise which has helped the council gel in the last year and a half,” Altmann said. “We’ve worked on a number of issues, and I think we have similar views on specific issues like transportation and environmental policy, and she knows more about this stuff from her day job than I do from mine. ... That’s been very helpful to leverage as we try to find out what direction we want to go in.”

Councilmember Susan Woods said Draheim has

been a great addition to council.

“She’s smart and affable and gets along with everyone on the city council, so it makes it for being a very cohesive body, which it hasn’t been that way in the past,” Woods said.

Draheim has always been on the “doer” side of the government, and being a policymaker is different, she said. Now at the top of a local government rather than implementing policy at a higher level of the system, Draheim said her experience with implementation has given her a different perspective on policymaking.

“I’m a big believer in the council form of government, where we make policy and we have our talented staff implement that policy, but it’s different as somebody who’s naturally, has played that role before,” Draheim said. “I always tell George (Lahanas) and staff, ‘Tell me when I’m stepping over that line. If I’m trying to be a doer, just push me pack into policymaker.’”

Draheim said learning to meet the needs of the wide variety of East Lansing’s constituents has been both fun and challenging.

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“It’s because of East Lansing that I stayed, it’s a good place to work. At the police department, we kind of pride ourselves on, once we get an employee, it’s not real often that they leave for something else.”

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MSU’s supply chain management program named top in the nation

BY JOHN LAVACCARE JLAVACARRE@STATENEWS.COM

U.S. News and World Report recently named MSU’s supply chain management program the best undergraduate supply chain program in the nation for 2017. Department chair David Closs said this is the sixth year in a row MSU has won the honor.

“It’s very prestigious to have maintained that ranking for so long and so consistently,” Closs said. “We very much like it, obviously, and we try to maintain it by maintaining the activities with industry.”

Supply chain management junior Enisa Selimagic said the sterling reputation of the MSU supply chain management program is reflected in the way internship supervisors talk about MSU students.

“When they compare Michigan State students to everyone else, you have someone who works really hard and does a good job but someone who also knows how to work on a team, and help others,” Selimagic said.

Collaborative skills are a big part of what makes a supply chain professional successful in the real

world, and the chance to hone those skills at MSU is welcomed.

Judy Jacobs, a 30-year veteran of the industry, is the supply chain program’s liaison between students and companies and helps students secure internships.

Supply chain management senior Jason Heitzeg said some of his classes include collaboration with other majors within the business college, and Jacobs said one capstone class puts supply chain majors in collaboration with engineers.

“We do have an option of taking a class that is designed to have two engineers and two supply chain students do a capstone class together, and I think that’s very unique that we’re across colleges, and they work on a project for a company, a real life project, and if we have two engineers looking at it one way, two supply chain business people looking at it one way, and they’re coming up with unique solutions to offer a company, I think that’s really neat,” Jacobs said.

Closs said there are three key factors that help MSU supply chain management uphold its reputation. The first is an “end-to-end” approach to supply chain management.

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Spartan community gets first taste of season at annual Spring Game

BY COLTON WOOD CWOOD@STATENEWS.COM

Amid the sexual assault allegations against three MSU football players and one staff member, the MSU football team held its annual Green-White Spring Game.

After the game, only head coach Mark Dantonio was available to the media. Usually, players also appear for questions, but they were unavailable following Dantonio’s departure.

It was the first time both the press and the fans were able to preview next season’s roster.

In a modified format, the White team defeated the Green team, 33-23.

New Layout Without a spring game draft, the spring game consisted of the offense vs. the defense.

“I think you get more out of it like this from a coaching standpoint,” Dantonio said. “So, there’s a reason to do that. That’s how we scrimmage in a lot of ways, but I think the draft is also good because it allows you to pick the players and then you have more of a game-type situation and there’s just a little bit more flow to the game.”

Dantonio said the loss of numerous seniors and key players from last season’s team added to the decision to play the offense against the defense.

“From that standpoint, our numbers were a little bit down, so you would have had guys with no backup playing one side or the other and (we) didn’t want to do that,” Dantonio said. “We wanted to be able to work our two’s in there with our one’s or whatever we work it, so that there was depth at either side.”

The scoring was also dissimilar from previous years.

The offense was scored as usual with a touchdown counting for six points. However, if the offense committed a turnover in the game, the

Head coach Mark Dantonio leads MSU students onto the field before the Green-White Spring Game on April 1 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 33-23. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

offense had to score 28 points to win.

The defense scored three points for every five minutes of play, three points for a turnover and

seven points for every turnover forced inside either the 10-yard line or defensive touchdown scored.

Quarterback Rotation Redshirt-sophomore quarterback Brian Lewerke, who suffered a broken leg late last season, led the Green team in passing as the Phoenix, Ariz. native completed 25-of-44 passes for 305 yards and a touchdown.

The 6-foot-3 quarterback did throw two interceptions in the loss.

Md. completed 6-of-13 passes for 111 yards and a touchdown.

“I also think our other quarterbacks are good players, but right now (Lewerke is) the guy,” Dantonio said.

Early Enrollees Shine Cornerback Josiah Scott and wide receiver Hunter Rison were two of three recruits from the 2017 class to arrive to East Lansing this spring.

They made an early impact on the team during this year’s spring game.

“We wanted to be able to work our two’s in there with our one’s or whatever we work it, so that there was depth at either side.”

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Freshman tight end Jack Camper (82) looks to his opposition during the Green-White Spring Game on April 1 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 33-23. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY 4

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“He’s still going to mess up signals and call the wrong play when it’s supposed to be a different play — those type of things, which are elementary mistakes that he will get past — but I think he’s progressed very well,” Dantonio said.

“He can throw the ball. He has a great ability to run the football too, I feel. He’s a good athlete, he’s poised back there and every time he takes a snap in an environment where there’s people there or something of that nature, he’s going to get better and better and better.”

Junior quarterback Colar Kuhns was the only other Spartan to take reps at quarterback.

The 6-foot-2 quarterback from Gaithersburg,

On fourth down with just seconds left in the game and in the red zone, the offense had a chance to tie the game, but Lewerke’s pass intended for Darrell Stewart Jr. was deflected

by Scott in the end zone to seal the win for the White team.

Scott also picked off Lewerke late in the fourth quarter to add onto his dominant performance.

“He’s got a lot of Darqueze Dennard-type intangibles to go along with his ability to run the ball skills. He’s a very good tackler,” Dantonio said.

Scott finished the day tied with Kenny Willekes as the Spartans’ leader in tackles with eight, while also tallying an interception.

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“(Mike) Tressel is coaching the linebackers, so we’re back to him coaching the linebackers, which he’s always been very involved in obviously.”

Mark Dantonio, MSU football head coach

“The guy’s diligent, he’s on time, he has great attention to detail … he’s got great ball skills, he can run. He’s put himself in a position to start (at cornerback) as a true freshman,” Dantonio said.

Dantonio also complimented Rison, who impressed both in receiving and blocking Saturday.

“Hunter’s had a nice spring,” Dantonio said.

“I think he’s very functional. To me, functionality is a big part of everything. You’ve got to know what to do and be able to take steps forward in that capacity, and he’s able to do that.

He can get on the field, he can catch the football, almost made a catch on a corner route, he runs good, crisp routes and he’s a competitor.

So, he’s going to show up next year for us on the field on game day I think without question.”

Impressive in Spring After the game, Dantonio complimented a myriad of players and the success they have had this spring.

“On the offensive line, Luke Campbell solidified himself sort of as the right offensive tackle,” Dantonio said. “He’s gotten bigger. He’s over 300 pounds now and he’s a good athlete, he can run, he’s tough. Tyler Higby’s coming into his own. He’s in his second year. He’s healed from his broken leg and started the spring slowly, but I think he’s transitioned to having a very strong spring.”

Sophomore receiver Trishton Jackson led the offense in receiving yards Saturday as the 6-foot-

3, West Bloomfield, Mich. native hauled in eight catches for 168 yards.

“He’s a great football player,” Dantonio said.

“He can really run, he’s got size, he’s got great hands. He’s got to get tougher, so we can print that. That’s what I’m always telling him — ‘You’ve got to get tougher.’ But he can play. He has a very unique skillset.”

Jackson, who recorded 89 receiving yards on eight catches last season, is seemingly on track to blow past that record this fall.

Cornerback and wide receiver Justin Layne was second on the Green team in receiving with 60 yards, while Cam Chambers had 54 yards and Stewart Jr. finished with 43.

“Talk about the wideouts, Matt Sokol’s having a good spring along with Noah Davis — he’s a true freshman,” Dantonio said. “I think Noah’s at 265 (pounds). We’ve got some guys.”

Dantonio also commended the springs of junior linebacker Andrew Dowell and safety Matt Morrissey.

Both Dowell and Morrissey recorded six tackles in the White team victory.

Running back Madre London was the Spartans’ leader in rushing Saturday. The junior had 15 carries for 127 yards and a touchdown.

Coaching Changes Dantonio noted after the game there have been switches of MSU football’s full-time personnel.

He said Mark Snyder, who coached the line-

Sophomore wide receiver Darrell Stewart Jr. (25) fields a punt during the Green-White Spring Game on April 1 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 33-23 PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

backer and special team units last season, has switched to coaching defensive ends.

“I felt like at this point in time, we needed to take our defensive line because of the player-coach ratio,” he said. “What you have right now, is you have so many run-pass option plays, where there’s a run-pass conflict of the defensive ends, where they start to be coached differently than inside players. So I felt like we needed to go from a 15 to 1 ratio to more of a 7 or 8 to 1 ratio and they work collectively, but they meet separately because what we’re seeing now from an offensive perspec-

tive demands them to be coach differently.

And so, we’ve made that transition.”

Dantonio also said Mike Tressel is now back to coaching the linebackers.

“Tressel is coaching the linebackers, so we’re back to him coaching the linebackers, which he’s always been very involved in obviously,” Dantonio said.

With two spring practices remaining, the Spartans will look to focus on this upcoming fall as the team is scheduled to kick off the 2017-18 season on Sept. 2 at Spartan Stadium against Bowling Green State University.

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A Michigan Senate bill to remove sales tax from feminine hygiene products has progressed from the finance committee to the Senate, advancing a step closer to a vote and possibly an end to a long groaned over tax.

The bill was introduced by Sen. David Knezek (D-Dearborn Heights) and if signed by Gov. Rick Snyder, it will remove feminine hygiene products from a “luxury” item status, also known as a “use tax.”

According to the Michigan Department of Treasury, other items that are taxed under this are off-road vehicles, snowmobiles, hotel rooms and purchases made by mail from other states and countries.

Currently, 40 states tax feminine hygiene products, according to Newsweek.

Michigan legislators are not alone in the effort to get rid of the tampon tax. Ohio has a bill in the House of Representatives to remove taxes from feminine hygiene products.

State Rep. Brian K. Elder (D-Bay City) said in a statement that removing this tax will “eliminate an unfair financial burden on the women of this state.”

“I think it is an excellent idea because it is a necessity and it shouldn’t be taxed like a frivolous expense, because it’s not,” professional writing freshman Sarah Nowack said.

Civil engineering junior Sydney Waynick agreed.

“It’s not necessarily our fault that we were born a female and that we need to use those products,” Waynick said. “The government making money off of us on our periods is kind of weird and unfair.”

Nowack explained every month she has to budget approximately $30 in order to afford tampons and pads for the month.

“I dread the day I have to go buy tampons and pads because they’re so damn expensive, and I have to budget for that — it’s kind of ridiculous,” Nowack said.

She also said she believes Senate Bill 92 becoming a law

“It’s not necessarily our fault that we were born a female and that we need these products. ...

Making money off of us on our periods is weird.”

Senate Bill 92 HOW DID IT BEGIN? Feb. 1 Introduced by Senator David Knezek

Feb. 1 Sent to the finance committee

March 23 Passed by the finance committee

March 23 Introduced to the Senate

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Sydney Waynick, Civil engineering junior would be a step toward equality.

“For equality standards, what does that say about our society when we’re telling women that their necessities are frivolous and expensive extras? It seems so ridiculous to me, there shouldn’t be an expense on our necessities,” Nowack said. “There’s not a tax on food … and we need that as much as we need to be safe and healthy.”

Human biology and English sophomore Kyana Smith said she hopes that the passage of the bill will also inspire other change.

“Sales tax is only 6 percent, so it’s not that huge of an increase but it’s a small step towards maybe making them available for all women without paying,” Smith said.

Smith went on to explain how important feminine hygiene products are to women.

“I think these products are necessary for women because we can’t just bleed all over the place.” Smith said. “So I think it would be great to remove the sales tax.”

Goes to the House of Representatives where they can make amendments

Returns to the Senate for OK of any new amendments

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MSU baseball swept by Minnesota, drops final game of Big Ten series

BY CASEY HARRISON CHARRISON@STATENEWS.COM

Head coach Jake Boss Jr. knew he needed to shake things up.

The team dropped the first two games of a three-game series to the University of Minnesota in Saturday’s doubleheader.

The Spartans (15-9 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) lost the first two games by a run apiece and had a chance to get to Minnesota (18-8 overall, 6-0 Big Ten) starter Toby Anderson.

Anderson (4-2 record) entered the game with a 7.64 ERA in six appearances, so instinctively Boss said he switched up the starting lineup to bolster the bats to get away with a win.

Boss slid freshman left fielder Bryce Kelley to the leadoff spot and shifted everybody else down a spot in the batting order. Boss said junior first baseman Zack McGuire — a .286 hitter — was moved down to the seven-spot to provide a spark at the bottom of the lineup. “(Minnesota) is a good ballclub,” Boss said. “That’s what was so disappointing about yesterday and so frustrating about yesterday. We felt like we were right there and had our chances. ... Today they just beat us.”

Boss’ shakeup did stir up the offense for four runs, but MSU’s pitching was unable to hold up its end of the bargain, as the Golden Gophers completed the sweep at McLane Baseball Stadium to the tune of a 9-4 victory.

The Spartans tied the game at one run apiece in the third and took their first lead of the series in the fourth after a single from sophomore outfielder Dan Chmielewski scored senior second baseman Dan Durkin and redshirt-sophomore designated hitter Alex Troop for a 3-1 lead.

Boss left it to junior right-hander Andrew Gonzalez (2-1 record) to start

on the mound and help MSU avoid the sweep, but lasted just 51 pitches and was pulled after four innings. Gonzalez only allowed one run through the first four frames, but back-to-back hits to start the fifth inning sparked a rally for Minnesota and tied the game 3-3.

Senior reliever Joe Mockbee was called in for Gonzalez and was touched up for one run on eight pitches and senior right-hander Walter Borkovich finished the fifth and pitched two more innings while allowing two runs in the sixth to make it 6-3.

“I don’t know if our guys played poorly but we didn’t play well enough to win,” Boss said. “It’s a good lesson for us, I think. We have to stay together and we have a chance to right the ship on Tuesday.”

Mockbee was handed the loss and falls to 3-2 on the season. This was Mockbee’s third appearance of the weekend.

“I put Joe Mockbee in a tough spot today asking him to go for the third game in a row,” Boss said. “And that’s on me.

Joe gave us everything he had. His stuff just wasn’t good enough today.”

MSU added one more in the bottom of the sixth, but Minnesota dealt the final blow in the eighth. Junior Keegan Baar came on and was charged with two runs after facing three batters to make it 8-4.

Minnesota added insult to injury and added another run in the ninth.

“Our bullpen for the first time all yearwas a little shaky, but I’ll take this group over any guys in the country,” Boss said.

The Spartans have been held to single-figure run totals the last four games since combining to score 41 in last weekend’s three-game sweep over Illinois.

Even with the struggles at the plate, Boss said he thinks the offense will find itself again soon.

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Senior infielder Dan Durkin (9) runs to first base during the game against the University of Minnesota on April 1 at McLane Stadium at Kobs Field.

The Spartans were defeated by the Golden Gophers during the first game of the day, 3-2.

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ELPD Chief honored for decades of service

BY SAMANTHA LEWAKOWSKI SLEWAKOWSKI@STATENEWS.COM

Fresh out of the police academy, a 21-year-old Jeff Murphy moved to East Lansing to join the police force and expected to stay for a short amount of time. Thirty years and several job titles later, Chief of Police Jeff Murphy was honored in February for three decades worth of service to the city of East Lansing.

Murphy said it is easy to move around to different departments and cities within the police force.

“It’s because of East Lansing that I stayed, it’s a good place to work,” Murphy said. “At the police department, we kind of pride ourselves on, once we get an employee, it’s not real often that they leave for something else.”

East Lansing became home to him, Murphy said.

Mayor Pro Tem Ruth Beier said she has taken note of Murphy’s affection for the city.

Beier recounted memories of running into Murphy during his time off and hanging out with his family in East Lansing. Beier said he is thinking of the city 24 hours day.

“He always wants to talk about an issue: what’s going on, what do I think, how can things get better,” Beier said.

“That’s just the way he thinks, that’s what he does. I’m sure it is a job and a career, but it’s not just a career to him. It seems like this is what he truly believes in.”

Murphy has worked in nearly every department with-

in the police force.

“The most rewarding thing I’ve probably done for myself is, for the last year and a half, the chief,” he said. “As the chief you really can have, depending on how you do it, a very negative or a very positive influence on the people you serve, the department and especially the employees.”

Murphy said while there isn’t a lot of exciting police activity going on one might dream of in the police academy, the department deals with serious enough of instances that make it an interesting place to work.

Murphy reflected on the pivotal moment that changed the way he looked at the work he did forever. Following MSU’s loss to Duke University in the 1999 Final Four basketball game, Murphy recalled a night filled with anarchy.

“That one event showed, given the perfect storm: a nice night, a big game and the right time of year, it showed how out of control things could get,” Murphy said. “I remember thinking, ‘How could things be this bad? This is a peaceful, midwest college town.’ It looked like a war zone on that night.”

After that night, Murphy’s outlook on East Lansing shifted.

“That changed the way that I looked at a lot of different things because that riot was so bad and caused so many injuries and so much damage,” he said. “It didn’t even feel like I was working in the same city.”

Capt. Larry Sparkes was hired months after Murphy and the two have experienced their careers simultaneously.

East Lansing’s Chief of Police Jeff Murphy poses for a photo in his office with his 30 years of service award on March 31, at East Lansing Police Department. Murphy was given a tribute for his 30 years of service to the city. “It really doesn’t feel like 30 years,” Murphy said. PHOTO: ZAINA MAHMOUD

Sparkes works closely with Murphy and said he applauds his ability to make sound

decisions based on gathering the facts and input from the people who work for him.

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