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Michigan State University’s independent voice | statenews.com | East Lansing, Mich. | Tuesday, April 9, 2013
BRING ON THE BROAD
Since opening last semester, museum has played part in expanding education LEFT: Studio art freshman Sarah Winterbottom models during a fashion show Sunday, hosted by the Apparel and Textile Design program at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum as apparel and textile design sophomores Anami Chan, right, the designer, and Natalie Genna make adjustments to the garment. BOTTOM LEFT: Political theory and constitutional democracy senior Andrew Arsenault models a veil designed by apparel and textile design sophomore MacLain Credeur. BOTTOM RIGHT: Delta College junior Lauren Gray models a dress filled with dry ice. PHOTOS BY JULIA NAGY
New exhibits at the Broad Friday, April 12
MFA Opening Reception and Live Music
At 7 p.m., the work of several masters in fine arts students will be featured in the museum.
Saturday, April 13 Pattern and Poetics: Reading and Panel Discussion
In partnership with the museum’s new exhibition, “Pattern: Follow the Rules,” three guest poets will host a poetry reading, followed by a group discussion.
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hose walking down Grand River Avenue early Sunday afternoon might have witnessed two individuals conjoined by yarn, a dress made entirely out of spoons, and a man dressed in wedding attire, heels and all. The sidewalk transformed into an impromptu runway as the models headed to the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum to model their getups for “Transparency,” the apparel and textile design program’s fashion show. It’s the fi rst of its kind to be held at the museum and one of many initiatives to expand the museum’s presence at MSU. Along with the apparel and textile design program, under the MSU College of
More online … To see a gallery of the fashion show and hear an interview about the Broad’s outreach, visit statenews.com/multimedia
Arts and Letters, the Broad Art Museum has collaborated with the MSU College of Music and the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, since opening in November. MSU’s dance program also has found a new stage at Broad,
with a proposed dance performance scheduled for May. Stephen Esquith, the dean of RCAH , said the college truly has formed a symbiotic relationship with the museum. He said several RCAH faculty members have based their curricu-
GOVE R N M E NT
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After Gov. Rick Snyder made his budget recommendations for universities, a state House committee released its version — bigger funding allocations and tighter restrictions to hamper tuition increases. Snyder released his suggestions for higher education funding in February, but weeks later, the Michigan Legislature’s House Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education made a few adjustments in its proposal, released March 19. Kyle Jen, deputy director of the House Fiscal Agency, said a big difference between the two budgets is the allocation of performance funding, which is
ies in terms of what counts as art, as well as taking art to other places on campus that don’t typically interact with art and artifacts,” Esquith said. “Leadership
in the Broad has been very strong, so we feel real confidence in the kinds of decisions they’re making.” See ART on page 2 X
HISTORY
Divisions between governor and House budgets for 2013-14 By Kellie Rowe
lum on the exhibitions featuring artists from China, India and Africa. RCAH has allowed the museum to use its theater for events as well. “It’s breaking boundar-
money awarded to schools who reach certain achievements in areas, such as graduation rates and degrees in certain areas of study. The governor recommended awarding performance funding for universities based partly on whether they stick to tuition increase limits set at 4 percent next year. The subcommittee lowered the limit to 3 percent and made tuition restraint a requirement for receiving funding. “Universities that make responsible decisions with taxpayer funding and try hard to keep tuition hikes down will qualify for generous performance funding because they earned it,” said state Rep. Al Pscholka, R-Stevensville, chair of the subcommittee, during the hearing. The governor and subcommit-
tee agreed on allocating $24.9 million for performance funding, but the committee made specific recommendations for how much would be allocated for certain measurements of performance funding. Jen said while Snyder left a portion of the $24.9 million awarded to higher education funding, the House version utilizes the full amount, resulting in increases in certain areas of performance funding. The subcommittee’s allocation of funds based on undergraduate completions in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, fields is $5.5 million compared to Snyder’s $4.1 milSee FUNDING on page 2 X
HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SPEAKS TO STUDENTS By Christine LaRouere larouer4@msu.edu THE STATE NEWS ■■
As a child in Adolf Hitler’s Germany, Martin Lowenberg was deported to five different concentration camps, lost 28 family members — including h i s pa rent s and four siblings — and was subject Lowenberg to terror at 5 years old. He survived — 17 years old, 76 pounds, alone and ready to live the rest of his life. “I survived with hope and the wanting to lead a normal life,” Lowenberg said. “No one was there to help me, so I had to be strong and continue with my life.”
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Holocaust survivor Martin Lowenberg speaks about his experience as Nazi propaganda is portrayed on the screen behind him Monday.
As part of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Lowenberg shared his story with MSU students as part of the series “Real Heroes: No capes, No masks,
No distractions.” Lowenberg was named a quiet hero — but one who made an impact See SPEAKER on page 2 X