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Advertising management senior Dom Rea unlocks a Lime scooter using his phone Oct. 10, 2018, on Grand River Avenue. PHOTO BY CJ WEISS

BY EVAN JONES EJONES@STATENEWS.COM

East Lansing City Manager George Lahanas figured the dockless scooters that took the city by storm last fall would have returned by now.

“I’m kind of surprised they’re not back yet,” he said.

Yet so far, only Spin and Gotcha — both new to East Lansing — have filed for a licensing agreement required after regulations went into effect March 20.

Scooter task force member and assistant to the city manager Nicole Bartell said in a statement that Lime is waiting to apply because of MSU’s request for proposal, or RFP, process. Bartell said Bird has only inquired about a deadline to submit an application, which the city clerk’s office told the company was nonexistent.

She said because MSU initiated the RFP process, the university would not choose more than one scooter provider. Lahanas said he wonders if other companies are waiting to apply to the city for the same reason.

Picking one scooter company on campus is problematic, Mayor Mark Meadows said.

“I’m not sure the university can do this because the streets are public streets,” he said.

MSU could designate a company as the only one allowed to place their scooters on campus for the day, Meadows said.

The university was serious about this move in February, Lahanas said. It would give one company a competitive advantage, because the heaviest scooter demand is along the city-campus border.

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on electric scooters during its April 12 meeting. Scooters are now permitted on campus roadways and bike lanes.

In a statement, the university’s communications office confirmed the university is going through an RFP process and said more information will be available soon.

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Spin has been in talks with MSU and the city of East Lansing for the past few months. Gotcha and Spin both seek formal agreements before operating.

City Clerk Jennifer Shuster said the city asked Spin to provide a more detailed map for planned deployment areas — where the scooters will start at the beginning of the day. As of April 11, the new maps were sent to the city clerk’s office.

East Lansing issued Spin a temporary license, which means the company can start marketing but can’t deploy just yet. As of April 16, Spin is still awaiting full approval.

Bartell said the materials Spin submitted to the city weren’t as detailed as task force members were looking for. She said the city has reached out to downtown businesses for feedback on deployment zones, receiving mixed reactions.

“Some businesses preferred to avoid having a deployment area near their business, while others asked for a deployment area to be added closer to their business,” Bartell said.

The city is waiting on deployment zone plans from both Spin and Gotcha, Bartell said.

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off on the licensing agreement before either company is fully approved.

“The next step is going to be working more directly with the companies as staff is able to establish those zones,” Bartell said.

Gotcha CEO and founder Sean Flood said his company is different than the other providers.

“We’re not just a scooter company,” he said. “We don’t believe in just one product type.”

Gotcha offers scooters, bikes, a ride sharing service and — most recently — trikes. Flood said he personally rode the trike 979 miles from Tallahassee to Austin, demonstrating the product along the way to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas last month.

“There are so many startups with scooters and other things,” Flood said. “People aren’t spending as much time to quality control the product.”

After conversations with Lansing, East Lansing and MSU, officials are interested in the non-scooter products the company offers, Flood said. But he’s unsure if multiple products will be offered on the first day of operation.

“We don’t force any of our communities to have to have all of the products,” he said.

Bartell said the conversation hasn’t moved beyond scooters in East Lansing.

She said it isn’t clear to city officials if the scooter companies would still want to deploy this close to the end of MSU’s spring semester, something likely to be a topic of future conversations with the companies.

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MSU Faculty Senate recommends changes to for-cause dismissal policy

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

Michigan State’s Faculty Senate unanimously passed recommendations urging the MSU Board of Trustees to amend its policy on firing faculty members for-cause.

The proposed changes aim to add due process to recent changes to MSU’s Discipline and Dismissal of Tenured Faculty for Cause Policy, which allowed MSU’s president to decide whether a faculty member relieved of their duties during a disciplinary process should have their pay withheld. The changes also prevented an individual from retiring after firing for-cause proceedings began.

The protocols were put in place June 2018 in response to the case against former Dean of the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine William Strampel, said Len Fleck, Chairperson of the University Committee on Faculty Tenure.

MSU policy forced the university to continue paying Strampel’s salary while it underwent the process of firing him, despite Strampel being charged with multiple crimes related to sexual misconduct and negligent oversight of Larry Nassar.

“This was seen as something that could not reflect well on the university,” Fleck said, “Especially from the point of view of taxpayers who would say, ‘Why in the world are we paying somebody to do nothing, after they have

engaged in some truly egregious behavior?’”

However, the changes were enacted without faculty input or approval, Fleck said. Faculty opposed changes that would force an individual to retire or face loss of retirement benefits if they wanted to go through with disciplinary proceedings, he said.

Faculty Senate sent a letter to the board with its concerns and the board was receptive, Fleck said.

“We have a new board which is listening even more, and is quite open to the policy revisions,” he said.

The proposed changes would shift decisionmaking power for withholding pay from MSU’s president to a three-person panel composed of “dismissal for cause review officers,” who would be selected individually from a group of 10 faculty members to be responsible for proceedings under the current policy. None of the selected officers would be from the accused’s college, and any decision must be unanimous.

“The conduct of the accused faculty member must be ‘egregious’ to justify denial of pay,” the document states. “We have more confidence in a judgment of ‘egregiousness’ with three faculty members who concur in that judgment as opposed to a simple majority.”

If the panel decides to withhold the individual’s pay, they would have the option to retire at that point or face loss of retirement benefits if fired. If the individual’s pay is not

withheld, they would have the option to retire at any point up until the board renders a decision, according to the suggested revisions.

Some members of faculty senate were concerned with a specific section in the proposed recommendations. The guidelines state there is no specific way to define “egregious” conduct, but provided examples of what the board might consider as parameters. The first of these was, “The alleged behavior represents substantial damage to the reputation of the university.”

Some were concerned this language would lead to the punishment of faculty who had exposed institutional wrongdoing if it worsened public opinion.

“It really has to do with clarifying that it’s not about criticizing the university, and not about even very publicly criticizing the university, and that we’re protecting free speech that way,” said Jennifer Johnson, an endowed professor in the College of Human Medicine. “Damage to the reputation of the university — under some of our administrations — sometimes felt like it was defined as anything critical of what they were doing, and it can’t be that.”

A motion to remove that piece of language passed with one dissenting. Following that motion, the recommendations were unanimously approved.

Based on a recent lunch meeting with the board, Fleck said trustees would be likely to approve the proposed changes.

“This was seen as something that could not reflect well on the university. Especially from the point of view of taxpayers who would say, ‘Why in the world are we paying somebody to do nothing, after they have engaged in some truly egregious behavior?’”

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In the past year, Michigan State’s orientation program for new and incoming students has undergone a name change and restructuring.

What was formerly known as the Academic Orientation Program, or AOP, has become the New Student Orientation. The summer of 2019 will be the first with the redesigned orientation program.

Mandatory orientations for new students are usually scheduled over the summer, prior to a student starting classes at MSU in the fall. The program consists of sessions where

admitted students stay overnight on campus, enroll in their classes, talk to advisors and attend informational sessions about life on campus. This is “to help students transition into college life at MSU and provide them with a strong foundation for achieving their goals,” according to MSU’s Office of Admissions website.

In a November 2018 interview with The State News Editorial Board, then-interim president John Engler said there would be a “complete redesign” of the AOP program, with the goal of taking a more “collaborative and integrative approach” with students.

That resulted in the formation of New

Student Orientation. Mark Largent, MSU’s interim Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, said in an email that changes to the orientation program were unrelated to other sweeping changes made to the Office of Admissions after a decrease in applicants in the last academic year.

Former orientation program director Mary Beth Heeder left the position during the Fall 2018 semester. Then, in November 2018, Largent assigned four people to revamp the orientation program, according to a previous State News article.

T hose four indiv iduals implemented workshops to take input from students, staff, faculty and administrators on how to redesign the orientation program, according to previous statements from former deputy spokesperson Heather Young. They then presented a plan to implement the New Student Orientation.

Their goal for the program was to “make it even more effective in helping improve undergraduate student learning and success,” Young said via email.

Largent hoped to conduct a search to hire a new orientation director by spring 2019, according to Young’s statement in the previous State News article. It was unclear as to whether a new director has been hired or if a search is ongoing at the time of this article’s publication.

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Acting President Satish Udpa — who took over after Engler’s departure in January 2019 — said he and Provost June Youatt supported a transition to the revised program.

“One of the things I’d like to see happen and the provost would like to see happen is that when students come in, they are introduced to the university properly, that they are made aware of the resources that we have on campus properly,” Udpa said.

The revised program will better allow the university to advise new students on proper behavior and the resources available for them to take advantage of, according to Udpa.

The program also acts as a way to give unfamiliar students a taste of university life before they begin living and studying on campus, he said.

“This is … for students who come from communities that are small, and they’re not used to a large campus,” Udpa said. “It’s wiser that we take care of them. We also have a large group of foreign students who are coming to this country for the first time.”

Students admitted for the Fall 2019 semester will go through the new program in May, June, July and August this summer, and students admitted for Spring 2020 will go through the program in January.

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HELPING SURVIVORS HEAL

People view the exhibit during the Finding Our Voic Opening Ceremony at the MSU Museum on April 16,

Collaborative MSU Museum exhibit shows survivors’ art, tells their stories

BY KAITLYN KELLEY KKELLEY@STATENEWS.COM

A wall composed of 505 tiles — each representing a known survivor of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse — is the first thing you will see if you walk into the Finding Our Voice: Sister Survivors Speak exhibit located in the main gallery of the MSU Museum. Some tiles are black and white photos of survivors at the age they were abused, while most are teal designs.

Outlining the exhibit is a timeline covering decades of abuse, institutional failings and forms of advocacy among MSU students, staff, faculty and others. The timeline, several pieces of artwork, signs of protest, teal ribbons and more urge to encourage conversations surrounding sexual assault and to “consider together strategies to promote institutional change and nurture cultures of safety, compassion, and healing.”

The exhibit officially opened April 16 after a committee composed of survivors of Nassar’s abuse, their parents, allies and members of the MSU Museum staff spent months curating it. It will remain open until early 2020.

FROM TEAL RIBBONS TO A COLLABORATIVE EXHIBIT

The idea for the exhibit was inspired by the teal, tulle ribbons that were tied around trees on MSU’s campus in the spring of 2018. The ribbons were taken down in the summer of 2018 after they became infested by gypsy moths.

However, they were preserved and are now

tied around 14 synthetic tree stumps in the Sister Survivors Speak exhibit.

“When (MSU Museum Director Mark Auslander) saw how sentimental we were with (the teal ribbons), I think he had this little spark in his mind that we could somehow put the teal ribbons in the museum,” said Amanda Smith, survivor and community co-curator of the exhibit.

“It just kind of grew from there. As survivors, we were telling everybody we didn’t feel MSU was hearing us and listening to us, I think he wanted to be part of the solution.”

Since the ribbons were removed, the committee has pieced together an exhibit with the goal of telling the survivors’ stories and educating the community.

The exhibit is also a place to “reflect on what’s happened and think about change that’s needed,” museum curator of textiles and social justice Mary Worrall said.

She said she thinks it’s important for students and others in the community to come see the exhibit, as the issue of sexual assault is very prevalent.

“We need to be thinking about how we prevent it, how we help people,” Worrall said. “I think that coming to the exhibit can guide people toward resources and can maybe be a space where people can come and start to talk and think.”

TELLING SURVIVOR STORIES THROUGH ART

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“When people see this, they’ll understand the magnitude of the situation and also the fact that it extends so far beyond the 505 girls.”

GRACE FRENCH SURVIVOR vors, the exhibit showcases narratives of struggling, fighting and healing.

Survivor Alexandra Bourque made a dress out of silk, tie-dyed butterflies to be displayed in the window of Brightly Twisted, a tie-dye store in Detroit.

Bourque said an inspiration for making the dress out of butterflies was a quote by Maya Angelou: “We admire the beauty of the butterfly, but we rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“I had to cut out so many (butterflies) to make it a full dress that it just mirrored what my life was like at that period: How many women — how many of us — it took to get someone to acknowledge what was going on,” Bourque said.

She decided to have her dress in the exhibit after meeting Auslander and others on the museum staff. She said she thought they were approaching the survivors’ stories in a way that made her feel comfortable.

Once the exhibit closes in about a year, Bourque said her dress will be kept on campus for learning purposes.

She said she didn’t intend for the dress to turn into “anything bigger than just my store opening window.” But she said it’s incredible to see that there will be a life for the dress beyond the window and beyond the exhibit.

“With creating the dress, it allowed me to work through a lot of what I had been internalizing and didn’t necessarily know how to get out,” Bourque said. “The dress didn’t really start as something to be for the sisters or for myself, but it turned into that and I’m just very grateful that it did. It allowed me a place to heal and start working toward becoming more of a whole person.”

Jordyn Fishman — survivor and artist — created a 21-by-5 foot painting telling the narrative of the “cycles of an internal struggle the survivors have endured” and the process of healing.

Fishman said she would describe her work as a way to “always remember our pain, but never forget our power.”

“Making the painting has always been about the survivors – not just me, but the Army of Survivors as a group,” Fishman said. “These women have given me so much strength and hope

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Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer speaks during the Finding Our Voice: Sister Survivors Speak Exhibition Opening Ceremony at the MSU Museum on April 16, 2019. PHOTO BY ANNIE BARKER

throughout this process and I just hope that it can be some sort of a thank-you for them; returning that favor in giving them strength and hope while looking at it.”

Bourque said she thinks it’s unique that the MSU Museum chose to request artwork from survivors themselves.

Grace French, survivor and founder of the Army of Survivors, said she thinks it’s been amazing to see a community come together to create an educational experience, a reflection of an important story and a space to move forward and heal.

“It’s really powerful that it comes from a bunch of different voices and a bunch of different people within the community because you’re empowering the survivors who have their stories involved and were able to lend their voices through this exhibit,” French said. “They have control over their stories.”

Also included in the exhibit are the heights of some of the survivors at the age they were abused carefully drawn on a portion of the exhibit’s walls; objects like Olympic pins and t-shirts Nassar gave to some of the girls to “groom” them and earn their trust; words and phrases like “panic attacks,” “suicidal thoughts,” “depression” and “extraordinary fear of medical treatment” hung up on wires; copies of MSU’s 2014 Title IX investigation into Amanda Thomashow’s complaints against Nassar; signs of protest from groups like Reclaim MSU; three different versions of the summer 2018 MSU Alumni Magazine and a glass case where survivors and their parents can leave their Spartan clothing until they’re ready to wear it again.

A TIMELINE THAT ISN’T COMPLETE AND A STORY THAT ISN’T OVER

In the exhibit, there is an in-depth timeline that starts with Nassar’s career and progresses until the present, including points for victim impact statements and issues with the Healing Assistance Fund. The timeline surrounds the entire gallery and doesn’t have a distinct ending because the story isn’t over yet, several survivors involved with the exhibit said.

“A lot of people have put this away and it’s not ready to be put away,” French said. “When people see this, they’ll understand the magnitude of the situation and also the fact that it extends so far beyond the 505 girls. There’s a huge cultural problem in East Lansing and at MSU, but also across the country and the world that needs to be addressed. That only happens when we’re having these conversations and we’re educating ourselves. That’s a huge first step.”

There is a digital screen near the end of the timeline, where information will eventually be added as developments continue.

“It’s not at all over,” Fishman said. “We’re continuously struggling. It still must be talk-

ed about. It still must be acknowledged that this is not over.”

HELPING THE HEALING PROCESS

Working on the Sister Survivors Speak exhibit has helped speed up her healing process, Smith said.

“The people who are in the media from MSU – they have big voices and at first they fought with us and fought with us. There are people who are standing behind us who are willing to put their names on the line just to make sure that we’re supported and that’s huge,” Smith said. “And that’s the first step in getting people to feel more comfortable on campus and making sure that this doesn’t continue to happen.”

Survivor and co-curator of the exhibit Melissa Hudecz said the MSU Museum has been one of the only places on campus that has listened and been supportive of survivors. “(MSU) put the staff in a position of having to go out on a limb and fight for us and take a risk,” Hudecz said. “That was part of what made it feel like this is the first place where people are really listening and doing the right thing around campus.”

Smith said there were certain items in the exhibit that the committee did have to fight for, including the 2014 Title IX report.

“We have really pushed on what we thought was absolutely necessary — like, there’s a crouching figure on a wall,” she said. “We also wanted to make sure that people understood that, even though we’ve come through this and have kind of had this metamorphosis of who

we are, we still have really crappy days. There are some days when you just feel like sitting down and crying and it might change minute to minute.”

The exhibit is survivor-focused and doesn’t include any photographs of Nassar. There are some newspaper headlines in the exhibit, but Nassar’s name is replaced with “the perpetrator.”

Bourque said it’s important that the exhibit is a place that is actually on campus, “where people can’t ignore what’s been going on.”

“Classes will go through it. Schools from the area visit that museum a lot and they’ll be going on tours through that exhibition,” she said. “I think that’s important for the community to acknowledge the wrongdoings, but also acknowledge the good that came out of it – all of the good that allowed these women to heal and have allowed them to become advocates and voices for others.”

To continue the conversation surrounding sexual abuse, the museum will also host “teal talks” at the exhibit. These talks will be led by scholars, advocates and survivors and will be “facilitated conversations about the exhibit and the important issues it raises.”

“I think for everybody this is one of the most amazing things we’ve ever done. We really feel honored to be working with the sister survivors and their families,” Auslander said.

“The sister survivors have no reason to trust any of us at MSU. We’re just trying every day to earn the trust that they’re placing in us.”

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month at MSU: ‘It’s not just a month anymore’

BY KAITLYN KELLEY KKELLEY@STATENEWS.COM

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everal events — including the planting of a Survivors’ Tree, the placing of teal prayer flags and It’s On Us Week of Action — have taken place on MSU’s campus and around East Lansing as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As the month goes on, there will be more community-wide commemorations intended to bring attention to survivors of sexual assault.

The Beaumont Tower carillon bells played songs in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month on April 16. The concert, titled “Carillon Concert, Our Time: Me Too,” was organized by the College of Music, the College of Arts and Letters and the MSU Sexual Assault Program.

Some of the songs played were “Our Time: Me Too” by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra, “Scars to Your Beautiful” by Alessia Cara and “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child.

“Music can be a healing power,” Dean of the College of Music

James Forger said. “The carillon is symbolic at the center of this great campus, and to have pieces that are meaningful to survivors play and be spread across the campus is terrific.”

Juliet Hess, an assistant professor of music education in the College of Music, said music creates vulnerabilities and unique environments where people can feel empowered. She said the College of Music is trying to think of ways people can feel valued.

“I think there’s unfortunately an ever-growing heightened awareness of sexual assault brought on by the tragedy of the events surrounding Larry Nassar,” Forger said. “How can you create a climate where people feel freer to come forward and to say something is not okay?”

When it comes to recognizing Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Hess said the recognition should extend far beyond the month of April.

“It’s not just a month anymore,” Hess said. “We have this dedicated time in April to think about sexual assault awareness,

Sister Survivors Amanda Cosman and Mimi Wegener stand in front of the newly planted “Survivor Tree” on April 16. PHOTO

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but actually, we’ve been thinking about it unfortunately not long enough.”

After the carillon concert, there was a ceremony for the planting of a Survivors’ Tree outside of the MSU Museum.

The tree — an American beech — was donated by Grewal Law PLLC and planted for survivors

of sexual assault in conjunction with the opening of the Finding Our Voice: Sister Survivors Speak exhibit.

“This tree symbolizes our commitment to try to do better,” MSU Museum Director Mark Auslander said.

Trustee Brian Mosallam spoke at the tree planting ceremony.

He said it was important that the MSU Board of Trustees were represented at the ceremony to show their solidarity with survivors of Nassar’s abuse.

“I think that it’s important that as we plant this tree in honoring our courageous survivors and their courage — it’s not to turn the page on this chapter,” Mosallam said. “As April passes and May 1 comes and Sexual Assault Awareness Month is gone, it’s not to say that we shouldn’t be talking about this anymore.

This is something I think is very important that we never forget as an institution.”

Frank Telewski, curator of the W.J. Beal Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, said he’s pleased that the tree has been planted on MSU’s campus in remembrance of the fight for accountability survivors and advocates had to face with the university.

“This carries on a long tradition not only here at Michigan State, but of humanity in general — that we plant trees in recognition of our lives, as a reflection of who we are,” Telewski said. “We look

to trees for strength.”

It’s On Us Week of Action — held April 1 through April 5 — kicked off the community’s recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Several events were held across campus, including a trauma-informed yoga session and a keynote speech about a culture that allows rape jokes.

Additionally, teal prayer flags have been placed along Grand River Avenue, near Abbot Road, on M.A.C. Avenue, between Charles Street and Division Street and between Bailey Street and Collingwood Drive.

These flags were signed by at least 4,000 students. Parents of Sister Survivors Engage, or POSSE, partnered with the City of East Lansing to install the prayer flags.

On April 18, Take Back the Night — an annual event “dedicated to shedding a light on the prevalence of domestic and sexual violence with the intent of transforming culture” — will take place for most of the day.

There will also be a candlelight vigil held at the museum.

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The Michigan State men’s soccer team played the newly-franchised Lansing Ignite professional team for the Capital Cupon April 16, marking the first time the teams have played head-to-head.

This matchup will be an annual exhibition game occurring every spring during the Spartans’ offseason.

“I think it will be a good matchup every year,” sophomore forward Farai Mutatu said. “It will give us something to be excited for for the spring.

We lose some seniors, but having this game gives us something to be happy about.”

This is not the first MSU team to play a professional team in an exhibition game. The MSU baseball team plays the Lansing Lugnuts in the annual Crosstown Showdown every year. The Lugnuts have been the Class-A affiliate for the Toronto Blue Jays since 2005.

The Ignite’s inaugural home opener was April 13 and the team is 1-1-0 in their first season in the USL League One. The stands at Cooley Law Stadium were nearly packed to watch the new local team.

The Spartans — who finished 14-5-4 overall last season and went to their first Final Four since 1968 — were no match and lost to the Ignite 4-0. The Ignite took home the Capital Cup in front of 3,338 fans showing the Spartans what the Ignite are capable of.

“Their attack was really good,” redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Hunter Morse said. “When they attack, they had numbers forward in front of the ball, so they got space. That’s what I would like to see out of my team. More attack.”

Each of the Ignite’s four goal scorers came from

aboard. Forwards Pato Botello Faz is from Mexico, Steeve Saint-Duc is from Haiti, Alex Bruce is from England and Elma N’for is from Cameroon.

Despite the loss to a professional opponent, MSU coach Damon Rensing thought the Spartans put up a good fight.

“I thought (Patrick) Nielsen, Giuseppe (Barone), (Michael) Pimlott, Michael Miller … Hunter Morse … I thought those guys played very well,” Rensing said. “Giuseppe was as good as just about anyone out there. Nielsen wasn’t too far off. … I thought that stuff was important.”

Rensing also said he thought the Tuesday night game went for both teams.

“I thought the environment was good for the first night, the soccer weather gods were with us,” Rensing said. “I thought both teams showed some good stuff. All in all, I think it was a good inaugural Capital Cup and good for soccer here.”

This was the first time that the MSU soccer team has played a professional opponent. Rensing and the team weren’t worried about getting the win, but rather thinking about sticking to fundamentals.

“Our spring schedule is a little bit different,” Rensing said. “You don’t train quite as much as you do in the fall, we didn’t scout Lansing and do video on them. We were a little more focused on us.”

Lansing Ignite will play Toronto FC at home on April 26, while the Spartans will play Detroit City FC at PAL Complex at 5 p.m. on April 20. According to a release from the athletic department, the game is already sold out. Lansing Ignite will play Toronto FC April 26 at home, while the Spartans will play the U20 Mexican National Team at home April 28.

Freshman defender Olu Ogunwale (14) handles the ball during the Capital Cup against Lansing Ignite FC at Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing on April 16. PHOTO BY NIC ANTAYA

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Athletes shave heads for cancer awareness

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hen Michigan State field hockey player Bailey Higgins learned of her friend’s diagnosis during her first year of college, she returned to her hometown to shave her head and raise money for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.

St. Baldrick’s raises funds for childhood cancer research. It began in 1999 and has since raised over $255 million.

“My freshman year of college, I had a friend get diagnosed with brain cancer so I said, ‘I’m going to do it for her.’ So, I did it,” Higgins said. “I went home to my grade school and raised a little over $1,600 for that, which is amazing.”

Afterwards, Higgins contribution caught the attention of MSU, where a story was written and picked up by the Big Ten Network.

“St. Baldrick’s had seen it and reached out and said, ‘We see all this publicity it’s getting and we know that there is not an event at Michigan State currently. We would love for you to run an event there,’” Higgins said. “I said I absolutely would, I would just have to wait until I’m a senior.”

After Higgins’ senior season was over, she began to plan the St. Baldrick’s event in coordination with Relay for Life.

As the event drew near, Higgins was approached by MSU baseball players who wanted to donate, but had a game at the same time as the event.

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“I wanted to do it this year since it was my last year in college, my last time to be able to do something like that.”

Brian Lewerke Senior quaterback es, the baseball players were able to donate an hour before the event began.

“We went to the baseball field an hour before the event and were supposed to shave three heads, and it ended up boys just kept stepping up. It was pretty cool,” Higgins said.

Nine baseball players shaved their heads for St. Baldrick’s.

“It feels weird not having any hair. I’ve always had long hair, but it was for a good cause so we’re all really happy to do it,” junior outfielder Danny Gleaves said. “We’re honored to be a part of this great cause, that’s really what it’s all about.”

With a stage and three barbers, about 25 people shaved their heads. Six people cut their hair to be donated to make wigs.

“MSU athletics has helped a lot. I don’t think it would have been nearly the event it was without the help of a lot of people in the athletics department and a lot of the athletes,”

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Higgins said. “I think especially getting some of the bigger football guys involved helped a lot. It meant a lot to me that they were putting it out there because they obviously have a ton of followers all over the place. To have them step up was a pretty big deal and I really appreciated it.”

Senior Brian Lewerke was one of the players to attend the event. He recalled when Higgins shaved her head her freshman year.

“One of my friends on the field hockey team did it two or three years ago,” Lewerke said. “I wanted to do it this year since it was my last year in college, my last time to be able to do something like that.”

Lewerke shaved his head along with several other Spartan football players.

“With the length it was, it wasn’t too bad. I’m a guy so it’ll grow back in three or four weeks,” Lewerke, who raised about $1,500, said. “I think there were four or five girls that did it and I think that was really brave of them. It takes almost a year to grow their hair back.”

As of April 17, $43,735 was raised for St. Baldrick’s Foundation. Higgins, swim and dive senior Sarah Love and football junior Tommy Liesveld raised the most of all participants.

Around the time of the event several MSU students formed the a club, Students for St. Baldrick’s. The group’s goal is to continue to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer and research.

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More than bunnies and colored eggs, Easter celebrates the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. We believe Christ died for our sins and rose again. He conquered death and offers us forgiveness, peace with God, and eternal life. We have come to the conclusion that the resurrection of Jesus is well-documented historically, and provides strong reasons for each of us to consider the truth of his claims for us.

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