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For the second year in a row, MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has secured the top spot in the Big Ten for its veterinary program, according to recent rankings from Quacquarelli Symonds, a higher education data provider. The College of Veterinary Medicine holds the fifth spot nationally and the twelfth spot internationally for the program.

John Baker, the dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, attributed the program’s success to a number of factors.

“We have all the components,” he said. “We’ve got good faculty, we’ve got good students, we’ve got good training programs, we’ve got good interns, residents.”

The college has a long history — it has been around since 1910. The school has gradu-

ated more than 7,000 veterinarians since its start and the graduation rate f luctuates between 98 and 100 percent, Baker said. The college is relatively small and consists of only about 115 faculty and each graduating class averages about 115 students as well.

“Typically, about 35 of those would be out-of-state students and then the remainder is in state,” Baker said. “Around 450 veterinary students at any given time.”

The MSU Veterinary Medical Center is housed within the college and allows students to learn to treat small and large animals. It’s primarily a referral center, Baker said.

“We’re pretty much right about 30,000 referrals a year,” he said. “In human medicine, you’d call this a tertiary center. This is like the Cleveland Clinic or the Mayo Clinic. It’s not where you start out, so most of these cases that come

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The College of Veterinary Medicine also has a veterinary diagnostic laboratory that is part of the college, and not all veterinary schools have this, Baker said. MSU’s laboratory is the Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health.

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“One important thing about the research as well is that animal model informs human health.”

Kristen Flory, Director of marketing and communication for the College of Veterinary Medicine The diagnostic laboratory has about the highest accession number in the country, Baker said. The college also has a number of research focuses, including orthopedic, respiratory, epidemiology, mastitis, reproductive and

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ophthalmology research.

“One important thing about the research as well is that animal model informs human health,” Kristen Flory, director of marketing and communication for the College of Veterinary Medicine, said.

“So many of our researchers have funding from the NIH because the research they’re doing on their animal model could impact the same disease in people, particularly ophthalmology.”

However, while the college’s rankings are high, Baker said he hopes the veterinary school will undergo major curriculum changes in the near future.

“The way that vet school works is that it’s a four-year program and students are in the classroom learning— didactic learning—for the first five semesters,” Flory said.

“After that, they’re in clinics for the last three semesters, which is a little bit more than most schools in the U.S. do.”

Baker said he hopes the curriculum will build off of this to create a whole new approach, and said about 60 faculty members have been working on the curriculum.

“They’re starting to really pay attention to the way students nowadays learn, and they’re tailoring their teaching and delivering techniques

to the student,” Flory said.

T he c u r r ic u lu m wou ld change from the traditional model of medical education to try to create a more integrative structure.

The traditional model is to first learn anatomy, or how ever y t hing is st r uct ured, then move on to physiology and learn how bodies work normally, Baker said.

After learning what it means to have a “normal” body, students move on to what is

“We’ve got good faculty, we’ve got good students, we’ve got good training programs, we’ve got good interns.”

John Baker, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine “abnormal” about the body.

The new curriculum would attempt to address each of these components in a more integrative way.

For example, when students learn about the heart, they would learn how it is structured, how it works normally, what would be considered abnormal, then how these abnormalities can be successfully treated.

The College of Veterinary Medicine is accredited by Council of Education, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, and they lay out competencies students must have before graduation, Baker said.

He said he hopes to see the curriculum put all of these competencies into the first five semesters.

“It’ll be a lot of work, there’s no question about it, but first we’ve got to get it approved,” Baker said.

At this point, an outline for the curriculum has been developed and the next step is to get it approved by the college.

If approved, the university will have to approve it, then time would be spent on planning how to implement the curriculum, Baker said.

“The goal right now is to have it in place fall of ‘18,” Baker said. “Medical schools are a little different—you don’t change it all at once, you change it one year at a time.”

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Glenn Eyre and Jenny Eyre embrace each other on April 1 at the Rock on Farm Lane. Glenn Eyre painted the rock to surprise Jenny Eyre for their 20th anniversary, which was on April 4. PHOTO: JON FAMUREWA

“How about it?”

With paint-stained, shaking hands, Glenn Eyre fished for the engagement ring in the front pocket of his pants while driving south on Farm Lane on Jan. 26, 1996. Upon getting close enough, he prompted his then girlfriend to check out the Rock.

Instead of the frazzled, gleeful response expected from a surprise marriage proposal, Jenny said questioningly, “Yeah, row against AIDS?” Defeated, Glenn turned left onto Auditorium Road and parked the car.

Glenn and MSU alumnus Jenny went on their second date for senior prom at John Glenn High School in Bay City, Mich. Tackling college in East Lansing together was the next chapter. After, they

decided to settle down to raise a family in Laingsburg, Mich. About 20 minutes northeast of campus, Glenn described their home as close enough to stay involved and get down to the university but far enough to not have to deal with it every day.

He explained they love having the college town, filled with energy from the youth coming through, as an option.

Glenn said the couple bleeds green.

He said the timing of his proposal was kind of spur of the moment. In preparation, Glenn and his buddies were out hopping from Crunchy’s to Plum Crazy Sports Bar the night before. The ring had been purchased, so he took advantage of a night out without Jenny. He didn’t inform his friends of the plan until they were already out for the night.

At 3 a.m., the group spray-painted “Jen, how about it?” on the Rock.

The next morning, he asked Jenny to drive him to his 8 a.m. class.

“Normally, I would’ve skipped it,” Glenn said.

The proposal idea came about because Glenn didn’t want to do the cliché baseball game or nice dinner, he said. It was like the Spartan connection.

“I’m not very emotional or romantic or anything like that,” he said. “I’m very practical … I’m not a Valentine’s Day guy. I’m going to give you flowers, but it certainly won’t be when everyone tells

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Twenty-one years, three tries and a wealth of determination was all it took for MSU alumnus Glenn Eyre’s rock painting plans to fall into place.

Although the Rock on Farm Lane has been painted time and time again, serving as the stage for students to display information about their cause or organization to campus, Glenn Eyre’s plans for his now-wife and Jenny Eyre didn’t pan out without extra effort.

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me to get you flowers. I’m much more rational.”

After he realized his plan was foiled, Glenn explained his paint-stained hands to Jenny and how he tried to paint the Rock for her and then asked for her hand in marriage.

“This was five hours later — in the brutal cold and what not, you would think that there’d be no way,” he said.

Glenn said this grand gesture was unlike him.

“That’s the last time I’m ever doing that,” Glenn said.

Jenny, of course, said yes when Glenn asked her to marry him.

A baby is born The Eyre family welcomed their firstborn daughter, Rachel, on Oct. 4, 2001. Preparations were to be made to bring Rachel home and Glenn was instructed to leave the hospital to purchase a car seat, but instead he drove to MSU. To redeem his first blunder, Glenn wanted to paint the Rock, surprise his wife and welcome their daughter home in true Spartan fashion.

“It’s just the way I am,” he said.

Glenn spray-painted “Welcome home, Rachel” and tossed the evidence into the back of the car before he drove back to the hospital.

When the time came around to bring her home, Glenn devised a detour home that led them through campus, he said. When they pulled up to the Rock, a collection of people were gathered around singing “God Bless America” with candles in hand. They had painted an American flag over his greeting in remembrance of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack that had occurred just weeks before.

“It was probably a wise decision not to get out of my car and paint over the American flag,” he laughed. “So, of course, I go, ‘You know what, I’m really never doing this again.’”

The third time’s the charm Fast forward to April 1, 2017. The Eyre’s 20th wedding anniversary was days away and the annual Green-White Spring football game was set for 3 p.m. Glenn decided it had come time to get up and try to paint the Rock for his wife once again.

“Nobody’s got better determination than I do,” Glenn said.

But fate was not going to make this effortless for him.

Planning to head straight to campus after work Friday evening, Glenn realized the rainfall would prohibit the paint from sticking to the Rock. His message would wash away.

MSU alumni Glenn and Jenny Eyre pose in their costumes at a Halloween party at MSU. Jenny went as figure skater Nancy Kerrigan and Glenn dressed the part of Jake from “The Blues Brothers.” PHOTO COURTESY OF GLENN EYRE.

Because of the rain forecasted for Saturday afternoon, Jenny no longer desired to go to the football game. Luckily Glenn prepared for a situation like this one and convinced Jenny they were visiting a mutual friend from college who was hosting a fundraiser at the Rock.

His alternate plan was to sneak away from home early in morning to paint, but when he arrived to the site on Saturday, the Rock was occupied and serving as the home base of a 5k race.

Some story telling and one donation later, the 5k host Health Without Borders MSU said he could paint the back of the Rock for his wife. Glenn illustrated “Happy 20!” and their initials inside of a heart around 8:15 a.m. Saturday, then he revealed it to Jenny close to noon.

“You totally got me,” Jenny said to her husband after he finally triumphed. “You never pull anything over on me.”

MSU alumni Glenn and Jenny Eyre pose for a photo in front of the Red Cedar River on MSU’s campus. PHOTO COURTESY OF GLENN EYRE.

The Eyre’s brought along their two daughters Rachel, 15, and Autumn, 13, who said they were really surprised that after about a month of planning the ordeal, it worked.

“He’s been really nervous about it all day,” the daughters said.

Jenny fought back tears, thanking her husband and hugging her family, while Glenn was simultaneously beaming with satisfaction.

“I didn’t really expect anything, I never real-

ly do,” Jenny said. “Every day, we do lots of fun stuff but it was quite the gesture considering the last two failed attempts, but he hung in there.”

She described the final pursuit as pretty incredible.

“Third time’s the charm, right?” Glenn said.

“Spartans Will.”

He was finally successful, Jenny said, 21 years later.

MSU alumni Glenn and Jenny Eyre pose for a photo by a car during their first year at MSU. PHOTO COURTESY OF GLENN EYRE.

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More than 80 alleged victims of Nassar and attorneys sue judge

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More than 80 alleged Larry Nassar victims and their attorneys are suing Ingham County Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina after she issued a gag order to bar parties from talking publicly about material not already in the court record.

The order also bars attorneys from publicly commenting on the strengths or weaknesses of the other side’s case.

This is likely in response to comments made on Facebook by attorney Jamie White, which made headlines when Judge Julie O’Neill was reassigned from Nassar’s case after “liking” the post.

The post, dated Feb. 14, said “Nassar’s defense is not strong.” The civil action aims to lift the gag order, which court documents say deprive the plaintiffs of their constitutional rights and “silences political speech.”

The suit claims Nassar’s attorneys are “trampling (the plaintiffs’) First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and expression.”

It also alleges the plaintiffs in the cases against Nassar were not given a copy of the motion or informed of the hearing.

The gag order creates a de facto requirement for alleged Nassar victims to file a lawsuit before they can publicly tell their story, which violates the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Fed. Election Comm’n stating “no citizen of the United States should be required to engage the services of an attorney to exercise his or her basic, fundamental constitutional rights,” according to the lawsuit.

Attorneys Stephen Drew, John Manly and Jamie White filed a motion for a temporary restraining order on Tuesday in an attempt to immediately halt the gag order.

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From left to right, defense attorney Shannon Smith, former MSU employee Larry Nassar and defense attorney Matthew Newburg listen to 55th District Court Judge Donald L. Allen Jr. speak before a pretrial hearing begins on Feb. 17 at 55th District Court in Mason, Mich. The hearing occurred as a result of Nassar’s alleged sexual abuse. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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Nassar in the News: Nassar had plans to return to clinic in 2014

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Nassar planned return to clinic before end of 2014 inquiry | Lansing State Journal Documents show Larry Nassar told MSU officials he was planning to start seeing patients again in July 2014, even though he had not yet been cleared of sexual assault allegations, according to the Lansing State Journal.

The documents show Nassar told several people at MSU, including the dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the Title IX investigator assigned to his case, that he was planning to return to clinical duties on July 1, more than two months into the internal investigation.

The State Journal reports: “It’s unclear whether anyone at the university, which fired Nassar in September, stopped him from seeing patients during the investigation.”

In a conversation on Tuesday between MSU spokesperson Jason Cody and Matt Mencarini of the State Journal, Cody declined to say if that occurred.

He said as part of the 2014 investigation Nassar was reassigned from clinical duties and that, because of pending litigation and internal investigations, it was inappropriate to comment further on the matter.

However, Cody said to the State Journal in an email on Friday Nassar “did not see patients while the investigation was ongoing.”

Documents obtained by the State Journal show a June 20, 2014 email from Nassar to Kristine Moore, the university’s Title IX investigator assigned to the internal sexual assault inquiry.

In the email, Nassar said he was leaving for a family vacation and then returning “to the clinic July 1 to see patients.”

The State Journal Reports: “It appears as if Moore then forwarded Nassar’s

email to William Strampel, dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine, and two attorneys in the university’s Office of the General Counsel.

“Nearly all of what Moore wrote in that email was redacted from the copy provided to the State Journal.”

Then Strampel wrote back the following morning on July 1.

“Larry, if you do have patient (sic) scheduled, Please (sic) be sure you have someone in the room with you at all times until the report is finished,” Strampel wrote.

The State Journal said Nassar told Strampel in an email later that day that he arranged to have athletic training students shadow him in the clinic.

The 2014 internal Title IX report that cleared Nassar of any MSU policy violations was finalized on July 18, 2014.

The letter to the woman who reported that Nassar sexually assaulted her wasn’t dated until July 28, 2014, according to university documents the State Journal obtained last year.

Nassar and Strampel reached their agreement on protocols required for Nassar to return to full practice on July 29, 2014.

“It’s unclear whether anyone at the university, which fired Nassar in September, stopped him from seeing patients during the investigation.”

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Once home to two movie theaters, E.L. has gone decades without one

BY JOHN LAVACCARE JLAVACCARE@STATENEWS.COM

This June will be the 30th anniversary of the closing of East Lansing’s last movie theater, the Campus Theatre, whose lobby once sat at the Grand River Avenue location which is now the textbook section of the Student Book Store.

Student Book Store assistant manager Mike Wylie grew up in the Lansing area, and he fondly remembered seeing movies like “Thunderball” at the Campus Theatre as a child.

“I (grew up) in a neighborhood with a lot of kids,” Wylie said. “You rode your bicycle down here and went to a movie.”

It has been nearly three decades since anyone has ridden their bike to a movie on Grand River Avenue.

Until the 1980s, downtown East Lansing had two movie theaters: the Campus Theatre and The State Theatre, which hosted films and sometimes live performances. When MSU alumnus and Curious Book Shop owner Ray Walsh attended MSU in the 1960s and ‘70s, he said he saw films at both theaters.

“These were theaters that were built many years ago, so they were not exactly the most comfortable seats, and they had kind of stages ... with screens,” Walsh said. “They were nicely put together, I mean, they looked attractive both on the inside and the outside. The marquees were quite striking because they had the flashing lights that would go on and off.”

The smaller of the two was The State Theatre,

located on the site of the parking lot that now sits on Abbot Road north of Grand River Avenue.

When the State Theatre opened in 1927, it was controversial among the East Lansing community and many protested the showing of movies on Sunday, according to 1991 MSU alumnus and part-time historian Kevin Forsyth said.

“The State News had a pretty solid editorial about that at the time to say, ‘Look, students are going to go into Lansing on Sundays to watch movies anyway,’” Forsyth said. “‘Why not have it in town, where you can keep an eye on us,’ more or less, is what they said. And it’s a pretty good argument, I guess.”

By 1950, when the Campus Theatre opened under its original name, the Lucon Theatre, there was no such public uproar over movie theaters. Based on his experiences growing up in East Lansing in the 1970s and ‘80s, Forsyth said the Campus Theatre was more ornate than The State Theatre.

“The Campus Theatre was kind of grander,” Forsyth said. “It had some style to it, the whole lobby area was kind of deco ... it was kind of a nicer theater.”

However, both The State Theatre and the Campus Theatre were eclipsed in the 1980s by competition from multiplexes, like one at Meridian Mall, that offered customers more choices for films and eliminated the downtimes during showings for ushers and concession stand workers.

By the time Campus Theatre finally closed down for good in 1987, according to Forsyth’s

website. What was originally a one-movie theater had been split into an unnatural duplex, and the theater was in a state of disrepair.

“My last memory of them was, in the summer, you would go there, and the place where you bought tickets at the window — whoever the landlord was had ceased doing repairs on things like air conditioning — they told you that it was 80-some degrees in the theater if you were going to go in and sit,” Wylie said.

Neither theater still exists today, as the State Theater was torn down in 1984 and the Campus Theater’s viewing area was demolished a few years later.

Sundance Jewelers owner and 40-year area resident Bill Yonkus said those old theater buildings could have been repurposed if they were still standing, as he said similar buildings were repurposed into concert venues in Madison, Wis., home to the University of Wisconsin.

Yonkus said downtown East Lansing is in

need of new entertainment options, theaters or otherwise.

“I think that’s what’s missing down here is entertainment venues,” Yonkus. “I mean, other than bars if there was a place where there could be concerts and things like that, that would be the thing. And I think, you know, movie theaters — that would be good, too. But, if they want to do what they want to do down here, they’re going to have to provide entertainment for people.”

Scott Shepherd, who grew up in the Lansing area in the 1980s, said he did not remember ever attending a movie at either The State Theatre or Campus Theatre, though he said both were open when he was growing up in the area.

He said East Lansing does not need a movie theater or entertainment venue, because the Wharton Center and Breslin Center fill those needs.

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things as DVDs,” Walsh said. “You couldn’t click on a channel on a TV — or even your handheld telephone — to view most anything. So there’s a lot more venues now to change everything. We don’t sit around the fireplace and listen to radios either, you know?”

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Column: Opinion ought to stay out of the news

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

As hypocritical as this looks, hear me out.

Nobody likes being told what to think. If you disagree, case in point: I just told you what to think and you didn’t like it.

As journalists, our job is not to tell people what to think. Our RILEY MURDOCK, CITY REPORTER job is to present the facts in an objective manner. If our job is done well enough, people are informed enough to make their own decisions based on what is indeed factual.

Some people are just plain ignorant, and maybe they should be told what to think occasionally — but we’re not the ones to do it. If we’re doing our jobs right, the truth should be clear and only able to be ignored through copious amounts of effort.

The problem with this premise is an increasing number of people don’t believe a word journalists write anymore. From talking heads spewing drivel to CNN’s scandals to the “fake news” epidemic, there are plenty of reasons why more people seem to write off the media than ever before.

I don’t know which reason could or should be pinpointed as the main claim to blame, but I know which one I’m going to rant about: opinion.

Yes, like what you’re reading.

During the election, I saw some raise a question I had not considered: what are institutions that claim to be bastions of objectivity doing endorsing presidential candidates?

No matter which side you are - or were - on, partisanship is poking its ugly little head through our institutions of reporting far more often than it should, in the wrong places, and has been for awhile. Remember

when the Huffington Post called an entire state racist, sexist and xenophobic for giving Donald Trump his first primary victory? Remember the existence of Breitbart in general?

Doubt has been sown among the public and journalists have reaped the sweet harvest of distrust, a yield typically reserved for politicians and prophets. It’s up in the air whether people trust us more or less than the current administration.

For sports journalists, speculating about a team’s chances or where that player might be traded is natural. For entertainment journalists, reviewing a piece of media is a key component of their work. For hard news journalists, telling the audience what you think about the latest issue isn’t in the job description.

Or, at least it shouldn’t be.

Opinion and news, after living it up in a torrid affair, find they can’t seem to coexist in their everyday lives.

It’s like putting ice cream on pizza, it’s taboo and tempting and you just can’t help but try it once, but then once the fun’s over you realize there’s a good reason your parents told you not to put them together.

News is embarrassed of opinion, it has a reputation to uphold and opinion’s free spirited rambunctiousness just makes people think less of news for associating with it. Opinion, however, feels stifled by news’ fogeyish adherence to all those darn rules and traditions, it’s just not interested in having fun and it’s dulling opinion’s spark.

Opinion writing is by no means worthless, in fact it’s often the most entertaining type of writing. Its place in the media shouldn’t go anywhere. The sad reality is that after all those years of marriage, opinion and news have just grown too far apart. Opinion should divorce news, take half the ad revenue and get joint custody of the clicks, find itself a nice domain in the city where it can open that yoga studio it always dreamed about.

But don’t take my word for it.

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MSU Traveler’s Club acts as social community for recovering students

BY IMANI FARMER IFARMER@STATENEWS.COM

In a room in Olin Health Center, individuals can come to relax and avoid the day’s stress. Through the MSU Collegiate Recovery Community, or CRC, the lounge is a safe place for students on campus who are recovering from addiction.

The CRC provides support from staff and peers, wellness workshops, community service opportunities and the lounge.

MSU Health Promotion Specialist and Collegiate Recovery Community Coordinator Emily Young said the CRC was started by three students, and this in turn created the MSU Traveler’s Club.

“The CRC kind of started back in 2013 in the spring, and it started when three students were all seeing the student health services promotions department coordinator,” she said. “So these three students who were in recovery came together and decided they wanted to start a club, and they called that the Traveler’s Club.”

As Young was in recovery herself, she decided to reach out to the health promotions department at Olin Health Center about an internship.

She wanted to do something to help the campus community address the issue of alcohol and drugs.

During fall 2013, the RSO Traveler’s Club was founded.

The student-run club is in affiliation with the CRC and members host social events and offer peer support and service opportunities.

Environmental studies and sustainability junior Taylor Struna is the team leader of MSU Traveler’s Club and has been a part of the club since he transferred to MSU this year.

“I joined because I was looking for a community of people who was also sober,” Struna said. “I got clean in my hometown, so coming here was kind

“I think that these students are unstoppable when we empower them to be.”

Emily Young, MSU health promotion specialist

of nerve-wracking just knowing that some people are here to party and that that goes on here. It was definitely a release just to find out that there was a club for people who are in recovery.”

Struna said the club offers a lot of support for students who are in the same predicament as him.

“Most importantly, it’s just a safe place that people who are recovering from addiction can express themselves and talk with each other,” he said. “A lot of the struggles that come along with being on campus, and being around people who aren’t in recovery is the lack of identification ... just through our experiences and the things that we go through, as opposed to maybe someone who is not addicted.”

Club president Kim Gannon has been involved in the club since April 2015, when she had just gotten sober on campus.

Gannon, an economics and statistics senior, said being in the club and receiving that support has led to some of her closest friendships.

“It’s really been a wonderful experience, most of my friends on campus I’ve met here,” she said.

“We have a lounge in Olin Health Center where a lot of us can come throughout the day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day except weekends, to come do homework, so we’re hanging out together all the time.”

Gannon has enjoyed the social opportunity the club creates for her and the opportunity to meet other students like herself.

“I know I’m not alone in my efforts to stay sober on campus,” she said.

Young said the most important aspect of the program is the peer support students receive and the relationship building that empowers students to be successful in their recovery.

“Absolutely the peer support is the most important part,” Young said. “We have programming that we do ... but I think the most important part is just giving students the opportunity to meet each other and realize that they’re not alone and realize that when they have each other they’re able to have a really normal college experience.”

Young said statistics show in certain aspects, when students are supported in their recovery, they’re extremely successful in their classes and graduating compared to their non-recovering peers.

From left to right, neuroscience senior Noah Cohen, East Lansing resident Greg Dagner, graduate student Emily Young and economics and statistics senior Kim Gannon look at Ben, who did not provide his last name for privacy reasons, as he shows a photo of his niece on his phone during the MSU Traveler’s Club meeting on March 31 at Olin Health Center. The MSU Traveler’s Club is a club that provides a social space and support for people who are in recovery from addiction. PHOTO: NIC

“Nationally, (statistics show) students who are involved with Collegiate Recovery Programs have higher GPAs than the average student, they have higher graduation rates, better retention rates,”

Young said. “So I think that these students are unstoppable when we empower them to be, like these are the students that we want at our university.”

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New EDM duo Alter forms from producing music in dorm room

BY IMANI FARMER IFARMER@STATENEWS.COM

For two MSU students, living on the same floor together in West Wilson Hall led to the creation of a music group.

Atler is a new duo started by no-preference freshman Eric Yuen and human biology freshman Vince Candela.

“We first started the duo this year, about three months ago,” Yuen said. “We actually started as friends, we live on the same floor and we both have a passion for music, music production and live performance, so we just decided to pursue our passion together.”

They both have been involved with music since they were young. Yuen plays the piano and produces music on his computer. Candela said he utilized music classes and started producing when he was a sophomore in high school.

Even with Candela’s music interest, Yuen has more experience, as he was a part of another group called Shinobi Cabal, who he DJed and produced for throughout high school in Chicago. The duo’s manager, computer science freshman Peter Carras, said Yuen did shows at Double Door, Martyrs’ and other places in the Chicago area.

“He’s been producing music since he was in the eighth grade then he started his own thing outside of that group called Atler,” Carras said. “Vince has always had a passion for EDM music and his neighbor from high school gave him his keyboard and DJ equipment, then Eric taught Vince how to do all this stuff.”

Atler’s sound is best described as electron-

ic dance music, or EDM, with influences from hip-hop, trap and jazz music.

Carras also lives on the same floor with the duo and said they all became friends. As manager, his role is outside creating music.

“My role is to make sure our branding is going in the right direction, booking shows and I also do some audio visualization stuff.

We’re also currently building a website, so that’s something I do as well,” Carras said.

“We both have a passion for music, music production and live performance, so we just decided to pursue our passion together.”

Eric Yuen, No-preference freshman As Atler looks to gain more exposure, Carras said they plan to perform around the country.

“This summer we’re going to be booking shows in Chicago, Milwaukee and hopefully Detroit and Nashville as well,” he said.

Their first upcoming performance together will be April 6 at Mac’s Bar in Lansing. Yuen has experience performing at many shows in the past, but this will be a first for Candella, who is just looking to have fun.

“I’m expecting pretty high energy and we have a lot of people coming out, should be a good time,” Yuen said.

Former MSU champion given special memento No-preference freshman Eric Yuen and human biology freshman Vince Candela practice their set on March 30 at Wilson Hall. Yuen are Candela make up a new musical duo called Atler.

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On March 26, 1979, the MSU men’s basketball team beat the Indiana State Sycamores 75-64 and brought home the first men’s basketball championship in program history.

The Spartans were star-studded with hall of famer Earvin “Magic” Johnson and seven-year NBA pro Greg Kelser, who averaged 17.5 points per game during his career as a Spartan.

After the championship win, the entire team wrote their names on the hardwood floor of the then-home of Spartan basketball, Jenison Field House.

When the floors of Jenison Field House were removed and cut up, they were sold to the public, including the pieces with the signatures of the members of the 1979 championship team.

Gerald Gilkie, a member of the 1979 championship team, was reunited with the piece of the court he wrote his name on

38 years ago.

Gilkie received his piece of history during a staff meeting at Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility after a co-worker bought it from a sports memorabilia dealer in Pennsylvania.

“It almost brought tears to my eyes,” Gilkie said. “It was a feeling of great disbelief that someone would … think enough of me to present me with piece of memorabilia that is very dear to me.”

Gilkie said being reunited with the piece of the floor brought back many memories from that 1979 championship team.

“The smiles on our faces, it brings that back, brings back Magic, brings back Larry Bird and all the guys that still carry a lot of the history forward,” Gilkie said. “They’re the larger stakes that makes this event a lot bigger than it ever was.”

Gilkie said he never pursued trying to get his piece of the floor because he wanted other people to have it and wasn’t for him.

While working, he said he has to leave some history of his time at MSU in the back of his mind.

“A lot of times when you get away from sports, you get wound up in your day-to-day business,” Gilkie said. “The way you have to have family — I have two kids — I have a lot more going that takes me away from those type of moments.”

Gilkie said back in 1979, he and the team didn’t fully appreciate what they had done and have just been happy to go back “to our normal lives.”

“When you’re kids, you don’t have the kind of perspective of about how those type of events are going to affect you for the rest of your life,” Gilkie said.

“It takes the wise guys, (head coach) Jud Heathcote and Bill Berry and all those guys to tell us, ‘You guys don’t know what you’ve done, you really have no clue what you guys have done.

Thirty years from now, you’ll see what you’ve done.’ They were right.”

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Souichi Terada Sports editor sports@statenews.com

COLUMN: Following a quiet spring, Spartans have no hype, excitement Senior offensive lineman Brian Allen (65) lines up for the snap during the Green-White Spring Game on April 1 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 33-23.

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

In a way, there were a number of familiar sights on April 1 at Spartan Stadium.

There was the MSU football team, donning the green and white fans are accustomed to.

There was redshirt-sophomore quarterback Brian Lewerke lined up under center and taking first-team snaps.

That’s a norm Spartan fans should get used to, as head SPORTS EDITOR coach Mark Dantonio called him “the guy.”

SOUICHI TERADA Then there were a number of young players, forcing the Spartan faithful to remember their name. The beneficiary of the spotlight graced sophomore wide receiver Trishton Jackson, who tallied eight catches for 168 yards.

Yes, spring football was finally upon us. For the first time since an embarrassing 3-9 season, the Spartans were on full display.

In the handful of hours leading up to the game, everything seemed normal.

Fans could be seen tailgating as thousands flocked to East Lansing, eager for one final look at the Spartans before the warmth of summer envelops them.

Amid an alleged sexual assault involving three players and a staff member, though, the circumstances surrounding the team are not normal, and should not, be ignored.

Looking further upon that lush green field plastered with the Spartan logo, the minuscule cracks in the armor could be seen.

In 2016, the spring scrimmage drew an estimated 51,000 fans. For a spring scrimmage with no real consequences or results, that’s a staggering number no matter how it’s framed.

Sure, those Spartans were coming off a Big Ten championship and an appearance in the College Football Playoff. It’s easier to ride the bandwagon than stick through the tough times.

But this year? The crowd was just a shade under half of 2016, MSU announcing about 25,000 in attendance.

The players on the field were different, too. The State News has already stated it will not add speculation to identify the three players under investigation.

Natural turnover, however, is a reality. Seniors graduate, then the underclassmen come in to fill their spots. That’s one of the many givens for a college football team.

As summer conditioning creeps closer, it’ll roll over into the fall before we know it, the meat and potatoes of college football’s never-ending cycle.

However, there will be little to no hype, no excitement surrounding the Spartans.

No, not this year, not in 2017. That isn’t to say there won’t be any anticipation once MSU kicks off a new season.

The team and its fans will be eager to turn over a new leaf and officially claim 2016 as the past, instead of the daunting shadow it currently casts.

Compare it to the past three years, though, and the vibes surrounding the team will be a shell of its former self.

It’s a shame, too. All of that momentum MSU had garnered through a dominant stretch has hit a standstill, waiting for a tide to swing it one way or another.

Now, there will be an air of skepticism around the Spartans. While the memories of a dominant MSU are fresh, the gaffs of 2016 are a much fresher wound yearning to be treated.

Spring football, all things considered, is an odd spectacle. As it progresses, the weather gets warmer compared to the bitter cold Spartans fans reminisce from a late November game.

It also comes just mere months after bowl season. The Spartans, of course, failed to make their first postseason game in Dantonio’s time representing the green and white.

For all of its faults, its primary objective is to bring a crisp, rejuvenated look into the new season.

The Spartans were already heading into spring with an identity crisis, and that was before news broke of the alleged sexual assault on Feb. 9.

Now, the future is murkier than ever under Dantonio.

The investigations surrounding the team will eventually conclude after a tumultuous period with little to no media contact. From there, it’s all up to Dantonio and his staff.

Luckily for MSU and its fans, there is one constant. College football works within a cycle, and the fall will be here soon enough.

The Spartans will find themselves on the field again, kicking off against another opponent.

They’ll have the opportunity to right the ship, as nothing helps a program’s tough stretch like winning.

They’ll just have to do so without a positive, protruding buzz around East Lansing, one hyping up the football team come the impending autumn.

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MSU baseball stumbles, drops fifth straight

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

Almost everything was going smoothly for MSU baseball, at least for the first 20 games of the season.

The Spartans came out of the gates 15-5 and were riding a high after sweeping Big Ten foe Illinois. There, the bats exploded to the tune of 41 runs during the threegame series.

All things considered, the Spartans’ 3-0 Big Ten record was a strong starting point for a team looking to win a Big Ten championship.

However, in the last five games, MSU has stumbled to a winless streak, doubling its losses on the season in the span of about a week.

Adding insult to injury, the Spartans have lost four of their last five games by a mere run. Three of the five losses were to Big Ten rival Minnesota, the regular season conference champion in 2016.

On April 4 against a hapless Eastern Michigan team who came in with a losing record, the Spartans continued their slide, falling 4-3.

After dropping the game to the Eagles, head coach Jake Boss Jr.‘s team fell to a 15-10 mark on the season.

After the game, Boss said the performances from his team, especially from the bats, failed to make an impact.

“No progress is being made today,” Boss told Spartan

Sports Network after the game. “We need somebody to lead the ball club, we’re not getting it. It’s very frustrating for everybody. We need to have big at bats in big situations when it counts, and we’re not doing it. We scored three runs tonight, it’s not good enough.”

Boss said given the expectations of a school like MSU, the recent play of the Spartans has been repugnant.

“Somebody’s got to take ownership of what’s going on right now ... because it’s not acceptable at Michigan State, it’s not the standard here at Michigan State,” Boss said.

Against the Eagles, the Spartans combined for just six hits for three runs. They attempted to mount a comeback in the ninth inning, but fell just short. After backto-back walks to redshirt-sophomore outfielder Dan Chmielewski and senior catcher Matt Byars, MSU had momentum brewing.

Following a junior infielder Kory Young bunt, the duo moved into scoring position at second and third base.

The comeback attempt was officially on. Trading an out for a run, freshman outfielder and left-handed pitcher Bryce Kelley grounded out to second base. It brought the score to a one-run affair in favor of Eastern Michigan, 4-3.

With Byars at third base for the potential tying run and with two outs in the final inning, all eyes were on junior outfielder Brandon Hughes. However, the Sterling Heights, Mich. native was unable to convert for the Spartans, as he struck out looking to preserve the

Sophomore infielder Marty Bechina (2) looks to the pitcher 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. PHOTO: CHLOE GRIGSBY

Eagles’ win.

It was another one-run loss for the Spartans. Despite outhitting the Eagles,

6-4, the opposition walked away with the victory tucked under their belt.

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