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MSU football held its annual Green and White Spring Game on Saturday, during which the White team defeated the Green team, 14-11.

PAGES 4 AND 5 Sophomore running back LJ Scott runs the ball as he is chased by senior tight end Jamal Lyles during the Green and White scrimmage on April 23 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 14-11. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

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Student Organic Farm stand opens for the season, rain or shine

BY DIAMOND HENRY DHENRY@STATENEWS.COM

Spring is here and the MSU Student Organic Farm stand is back up and running.

Every Thursday during the months of April through October, the stand sets up shop on Farm Lane in front of the MSU Auditorium. The stand has been running since 2005 and is in business from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

The stand offers a variety of fresh produce, such as vegetables like cabbage and kale, fresh fruit and herbs. All the food is grown on campus by the Student Organic Farm.

Stand manager Kelly Wilson said the customers are a mix of students, faculty members and people who are simply aware of the farm within the community.

“The individuals running the stand were very, very helpful, super friendly and also really knowledgeable.”

Christopher Jones, Physics junior “I really enjoy meeting people who come to the stand,” Wilson said. “Getting to know them and engaging and sharing the produce with people.”

Akello Karamoko, a member of the Organic Farmer Training Program, helps run the stand with Wilson. Though he recently joined the team, he said he enjoys working the stand.

“This is my second week at the farm stand, but I like it a lot,” Karamoko said.

Karamoko said he was recommended the program by another agricultural program he was a part of in Detroit. He said one of the best sellers so far has been the carrots.

Physics junior Christopher Jones was a first-time customer, but said he was pleased with his experience and purchase.

“The experience was super, super good,” Jones said. “The individuals running the stand were very, very helpful, super friendly and also really knowledgeable. They were also very helpful in describing various uses for the vegetables because I’m not exactly a culinary genius, so knowing what I can do with the produce

Media and information sophomore Jason Wu purchases vegetables April 21 at the organic farm in front of MSU Auditorium. PHOTO: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

was really helpful and nice as well.”

Jones said the produce at local grocery stores might not be the freshest, so coming across the Student Organic Farm’s produce was helpful and refreshing.

“The first thing that caught my eye was the garlic,” Jones said.

“The visual appearance of the vegetables is very, very attractive in that there weren’t any obvious flaws and it didn’t look like it had been sitting there forever. They had a pleasant aroma, so it seemed

like fresh and durable produce that I wanted to have for dinner.”

Wilson said the produce is grown year-round and stored in coolers to bring out during the spring when the farm’s fields are being planted and running the stand is worth the experience.

“It’s also really rewarding to grow all this food and spend all that time and energy growing and seeing all the people who are going to be eating it and whose body it’s going to be nourishing,” she said.

Messages taken back through student’s app Too often, people send text messages they regret and wish the messages could be taken back.

Thanks to a new app developed by finance freshman Jordan Shelby, people are able to do just that.

Shelby said Snatch, a group messaging app that allows text messages to be retrieved, took roughly eight months to develop.

“It was very hard,” Shelby said. “I started last May and I didn’t finish until January 29 of this year.”

Shelby said he got the idea for Snatch while working on another messaging app.

With the help of a $20 online course, he said he was able to develop it.

“One of my friends from high school gave me a different idea for another chatting app,” Shelby said. “I was still learning how to code. I branched off from him and just did this myself.”

Shelby said he had to learn a lot in order to

develop the app.

“I was on the computer all day, mornings and nights, just trying to learn how everything works as far as platforms and the code,” Shelby said. “It was very difficult. I knew HTML and I thought it would be similar going into it, but it was completely different.”

When he came to MSU, Shelby said he wanted to give up on developing the app “There was too much stuff to do,” Shelby said. “I didn’t want to be in my room on the computer all of the time. But then what made me go back to it was just thinking of the outcome that this app could have.”

However, when Shelby wanted to give up on developing the app, he said the push from his parents made him want to continue working on it.

“My parents knew about it the whole time and they thought since I already paid some money for these online courses, they said I might as well keep going,” Shelby said.

Shelby said his sister, Briana Shelby, helped him with the process as well.

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helped me with like pictures and stuff,” Shelby said. “So, I thought since everybody was helping me, I might as well keep doing it.”

Briana Shelby said she is proud of her brother for sticking to the app and making the app available for people to use.

“I’m glad he was able to take an idea and actually make it real,” Briana Shelby said.

One of Jordan Shelby’s favorite aspects of having his app available to the public is seeing where people are using it.

“It comes from London, Rome, all over the place, America, South America, I like seeing that,” Jordan Shelby said.

Jordan Shelby said as of right now, Snatch is only available to iPhone users.

“Learning coding for Androids is different and that might take some time, but that’s what I’m trying to do next,” Jordan Shelby said.

He said continuously developing the app makes him feel good.

“It makes me feel like I need to keep perfecting it because I’m a perfectionist so I keep on updating and making sure that people are like happy with it,” Jordan Shelby said.

S N ATC H A P P Snatch, a new app developed by finance freshman Jordan Shelby, allows users to take back text message they sent and might wish they had not.

Shelby said the idea came to him when he was working on developing another phone app. With the help of a course online, he was able to develop Snatch.

The app is currently available in the Apple app store and Shelby said he is working on developing it for Android.

However, Shelby said the process of developing an app for Androids is different and more difficult than for Apple phones.

Shelby said one of his favorite parts of the app since developing it is seeing people in places like London, Rome and South America using the app.

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“RISE has really just given me a holistic perspective on living a more environmentally conscious life, how to integrate that into different disciplines and I think that’s the core value of RISE.” Allison Stawara, MSU horticulture senior

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ICE CREAM AT THE ROCK

The school year is coming to a close and with this week being the last week of classes for the 2015-16 school year, it’s senior week.

A variety of events will be hosted on campus for seniors to celebrate their last few days as a student at MSU. Here’s a list of some of the events for seniors to take part in this week.

TOURS OF BEAUMONT TOWER

When: Monday from 5-8 p.m.

Where: Beaumont Tower Students can come out and climb to the top of Beaumont Tower with tours sponsored by the MSU Tower Guard. Virtual tours will also be available for those unable to attend or climb the stairs it takes to get to the top. Zeke the Wonderdog will also be stopping by for photos and Frisbee catching. A student ID must be shown.

TIE-DYE

When: Thursday from 5-7 p.m.

Where: East Lawn of MSU Union The University Activities Board, or UAB, invites seniors to come out to the Union to make tie-dye T-shirts. Shirts and dye will be provided while supplies last. This event is open to all students, plus one guest. All must show a student ID. If it rains, shirts will be given away in

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Potterville, Mich. resident Tina Walker smiles after purchasing new plants to garden at her home at the Spring Show and Plant Sale April 23 at the Plant and Soil Sciences Building. The Spring Show and Plant Sale is the MSU Horticulture Club’s biggest event of the year. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

When: Friday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: The Rock on Farm Lane All MSU students, plus one guest are invited to come out for MSU Dairy Store ice cream at the Rock on Farm Lane. All students must show ID. Students can also spend time with Zeke the Wonderdog and sign the Rock with a commemorative Sharpie marker while supplies last.

WIN AN MSU DIPLOMA FRAME

When: All week If an MSU student visits at least six of the following 10 locations and creates a photo collage of themselves at each of the locations, they have a chance to win a MSU diploma frame.

Images can be submitted on Twitter or Instagram by tagging @UABatMSU in the photo.

Accounts must be public and the deadline is Friday at 5 p.m.

1. Spartan Stadium 2. Beaumont Tower 3. Spartan Statue (either indoor or outdoor) 4. The 4H-Children’s Garden 5. John A. Hannah Statue 6. The Union 7. The Rock 8. Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum 9. Red Cedar River

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White team defeats Green, 14-11 Sparty celebrates with the MSU football players after the Green and White scrimmage April 23 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 14-11. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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On a sunny Saturday afternoon in April, Spartan Stadium played host to the annual spring scrimmage, the Green and White Spring Game. The crowd filled in nicely, with 51,000 people in attendance.

Students were given the opportunity for a pre-game rush after both teams were introduced on the field.

The Spartans concluded their 15 spring practices with the scrimmage, splitting into two teams. Quarterbacks coach Brad Salem fulfilled head coaching duties for White team. Co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Mike Tressel did the same for Green team.

That left head coach Mark Dantonio on the field, watching the two teams deck it out. During the game, Dantonio also welcomed various Spartan alums, including current NFL players Bennie Fowler and Jeremy Langford.

In the game, White team took down Green team by a final score of 14-11.

DEFENSIVE STANDOUTS

Several Spartans stood out in the game, including two brothers, Andrew and David Dowell. Andrew started the game off well, evidenced by his five total tackles, including one sack and one pass breakup.

David arguably played the better game, though. He finished tied for a game-high six total tackles and had the game-sealing interception off fellow redshirt-freshman and quarterback Brian Lewerke.

The twins received great praise from their fellow peers and coaches. Senior linebacker Riley Bullough said he has been extremely impressed by what he has seen from the two so far this spring. “(The Dowell twins) are extremely athletic, they’re constantly making plays,” Bullough said. “That’s what we need on our defense, we need playmakers. They bring that to the table and I think that’s why you’ll see them on the field.”

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who didn’t even see the field last fall, Tressel was extremely complimentary of the redshirt-freshman.

“You wouldn’t think (David) redshirted this past year, based on his knowledge and where he’s at right now,” Tressel said. “He goes out there with the second defense at times and he makes the calls like a veteran. He obviously has the football IQ, which is real exciting.”

On the other hand, there is Andrew who was one of six true freshman to play in 2015. Andrew is listed atop the depth chart at STAR, or weak-side linebacker. Now, it’s just a matter of consistency as he looks to earn more playing time his sophomore season.

“Andrew has always been a playmaker,” Tressel said. “It’s a matter of, is he going to be consistent on all those plays when he’s not in the position to get a pick six or a (tackle for loss)? I think there’s more of an urgency to be consistent and be an every down guy.”

As for the entire defense, the Spartans played well on both sides of the ball. Between the two teams, they combined for just 126 rushing yards, stifling the running game. In the defense stepping up that run game, Bullough mentioned it had a lot to do with how the defense has been run the past few years.

“It’s guys being competitive and having a lot of energy, and that’s what our defense is built on,” Bullough said. “I think, for the most part, we were filling our holes, our gaps — we were doing what we needed to do. Can always do better, the little things that are happening. But I think overall we did a good job.”

Dantonio, watching from the field during the game, said he liked what he saw out of his defense.

“Defensively, we continued the trend,” Dantonio said. “We’re playing well on the backend, we’re playing well on the perimeter, in terms of playing against the run. I thought we tackled very successfully and we have good players on the backend.”

FILLING THE OFFENSIVE VOIDS

While the defense was doing their job, for MSU players and fans, all eyes were on the quarterbacks. This would be the first time the Spartans graced the field after quarterback Connor Cook graduat-

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ed in 2015. How the void would be filled has been one of the talks of the spring.

Quarterback fifth-year senior Tyler O’Connor and junior Damion Terry got the majority of the playing time. O’Connor finished 10-for-16 with 138 yards and one touchdown. Terry ended 6-for-12 throwing for 70 yards.

Being the quarterbacks coach, Salem wanted to touch base with his fifth-year senior.

“We had a talk before spring and, as a fifth-year guy who sat behind Connor Cook, he continues to emerge as a leader,” Salem said. “He’s done a nice job as a fifth-year senior. You see him, the way he carries himself, the kids rally around him. He’s a guy that makes people better around him.”

As for the fellow fifth-year senior Bullough, he said he already knows which quarterback he prefers. Playing against him in scrimmages, he has seen what O’Connor can do first-hand.

“Tyler (O’Connor), in my mind, is the number one guy,” Bullough said. “I think he deserves it. I think he’s a leader, which we need at quarterback. He can make those throws and he can also run. I think you saw that today and that was good for him.”

The scrimmage was also the first time the early enrollees played in front of a crowd at Spartan Stadium. True freshmen Donnie Corley and Cam Chambers both have been making some noise throughout this spring. But the latter was the one who made the most of his time during the actual game.

Chambers finished the game with two receptions for 45 total yards. He also caught Green team’s only touchdown of the day, a 13-yard reception from O’Connor.

Corley also had a nice catch, reeling in an 18-yard reception as his lone touch of the day. Terry, one of the upperclassmen, had a lot to say about both Corley and Chambers and the future he sees in them.

“Them two are going to be a really great dynamic duo,” Terry said. “Just like I said about Donnie Corley, they’re both so quiet. I know they’re high school seniors, but you can tell they’re just here to learn football. They just want to get better, they know they’re

I’m sure there’s something in the back of your mind that makes you a little bit nervous. But he got into it right away.”

As for both players, it was the first time they saw the field in a while. Copeland was shelved since September and Watts-Jackson since October, so it’s been a bit longer than some of their teammates who played into December. But seeing the field gave them the opportunity to do what they do best on the field.

“The great thing about those two guys is they are both physical football players and very good tacklers,” Tressel said. “Once they got rolling, you can tell there’s no place they’d rather be than hitting people on the football field.”

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE

The class of 2015 seniors were honored at halftime, giving the current Spartans a glimpse of the winningest class in MSU history together. For senior defensive back Demetrious Cox, seeing those guys was just business as usual.

“It’s fun to see those guys on the field and laugh around and get tips and pointers from them on the sideline,” Cox said. “At the same time you have to worry about the task at hand.”

The game was also the first time the Spartans played in front of a crowd since their loss in the College Football Playoff. Cox said he was just embracing playing in front of his home crowd.

Above: Sophomore quarterback Vayante Copeland, (13), tackles senior wide receiver Monty Madaris, (88), as he runs the ball during the Green and White scrimmage April 23 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 14-11. PHOTO:

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going to make mistakes but it’s just having that short-term memory. This spring was really great for both of them just to get there and it’s a head start for the fall.”

COMING BACK FROM INJURIES

The Spartans were also welcomed by players who have not seen the field for some time because of injuries. Junior offensive lineman Dennis Finley is one player who fits that description. Tressel said the work Finley has done so far has been good for his development.

“Finley was really just starting to scratch his surface, then he started the game when Jack Conklin was gone and obviously he

got injured, I think he’s surprised us by how much he did do,” Salem said. “He’s grown as a football player and person and we’re excited at where he’s at right now.”

Two players in the secondary who missed some time in 2015 were sophomores Vayante Copeland and Jalen Watts-Jackson. Tressel said they were all surprised by how quickly Watts-Jackson came back after dislocating and fracturing his hip. As for Copeland, though, he mentioned it was a good experience for him to get some live reps in a game atmosphere again.

“Vayante was full-go from the get-go,” Tressel said. “It was good to get him back on the field because any time you miss extended times

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RISE hosts fourth Earth Day event to promote awareness, green life Plant, soil, and microbial sciences professor Greg Bonito drills holes in a log April 22 at Bailey Hall. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

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The Bailey Hall GREENhouse and Urban Farm was flush with busy volunteers as the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, hosted its annual Earth Day extravaganza Friday.

Meant to promote awareness of the environment and invite community participation, the event featured a chalk mandala, harvesting and bagging vegetables from the greenhouse and a log inoculation where students would plug holes into logs to grow mushrooms that would be harvested in the fall.

“I guess the biggest thing for me today was realizing that everything has an impact on everything else.

So you could be using plastic and if you don’t do it right you can have like X, Y and Z of things that can go wrong.”

Ryan Yantz, microbiology senior

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“We’re trying to get more outreach for the program and get more students on campus and future students to hear about it,” Alex Marx, an environmental biology freshman, said. “It’s also giving us a chance to implement our grants that we got passed for the year and other types of programs.”

RISE has been on campus since 1995 and operating out of Bailey Hall for the past four years, director Laurie Thorp said.

The events put on were the result of a project that all freshmen environmental students are required to do through their freshman seminar in environmental issues program.

“It introduces them to RISE and to the breadth of environmental issues that we face in the world,” Thorp said. “As part of that class, it’s an assignment we have where they have to write a grant to do some kind of project that’s going to improve the sustainability of our campus.”

The log inoculation is one example of freshmen-led project in sustainability.

Thorp seemed to beam with pride while discussing the ongoing payoff from the efforts of freshmen students. After orga-

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nizing the project idea, Thorp and others worked with students to help them write the grant before proposing it to the Be Spartan Green student project fund.

Most students in attendance at the event were members of RISE, such as horticulture senior Allison Stawara, who has been doing environmental volunteering since her freshman year, she said.

“RISE has really just given me a holistic perspective on living a more environmentally conscious life, how to integrate that into different disciplines and I think that’s the core value of RISE, is teaching students how to incorporate environmentalism in any discipline that they go into,” Stawara said.

In the four years RISE has operated out of Bailey Hall, its growth and outreach has steadily increased.

Not just limited to environmental groups, the Earth Day extravaganza saw volunteer work from other organizations like Alternative Spartan Breaks, or ASB. “For us, we went on a spring break trip to Costa Rica and we were working on an organic poppy farm and we were learning more about sustainability, eco-tourism and these big components,” Rachel Manssur, an interdisciplinary studies in social science senior and member of ASB, said.

She said the spring break trip helped change her view on the environment and ideas for people to live a more sustainable lifestyle.

“Since coming back (from Costa Rica) I’ve gotten more into environmentalism,” she said. “I don’t know, I think it just comes along with being a student at MSU, it’s very much the ‘go green’ mentality and trying to be sustainable with our cafeterias and stuff like that.”

Ryan Yantz, a microbiology senior and also a member of ASB, was busy getting his hands dirty while planting some lemon verbena and helping RISE volunteers harvest some of the greenhouse crops.

“I guess the biggest thing for me today was realizing that everything has an impact on everything else,” Yantz said. “So you could be using plastic and if you don’t do it right you can have like X, Y and Z of things that can go wrong.”

Thorp tied the event into larger concerns about climate change.

“It’s really neat to see this energy and this enthusiasm and it’s a positive thing,” Thorp said. “It seems so much of the news we hear about climate change and ecosystem degradation and destruction of habitats is depressing and it makes you feel like there’s nothing you can do. So, for me, it’s been how do we create spaces for students to feel empowered to make change and not feel overwhelmed by the bad news that we hear all the time.”

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Downtown hosts its fifth annual Taste of East Lansing on Saturday PHOTOS: KELLY VANFRANKENHUYZEN

BY IAN WENDROW IWENDROW@STATENEWS.COM

The Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, held its fifth annual Taste of East Lansing event Saturday.

Bringing together a number of different restaurants and bars in the East Lansing area, students and East Lansing residents both wandered past tents filled with all varieties of food. New to the mix this year was Marco’s Pizza and a ramen and tapas restaurant known as Sapporo Ramen and Noodle Bar, located where the old What Up Dawg? used to be.

“We also have this year a children’s plaza with a clown, henna, and a magician, a bunch of live music, the East Lansing K-9 unit, just really good family fun for all ages,” Kelly Ronquist, a CRC intern and advertising junior, said.

Located on the block between M.A.C. and Albert Avenues, the event drew a steady crowd throughout the day, with food browsing accompanied by live music and the sounds of happily chattering patrons.

Aside from bringing all of East Lansing’s eateries into one location, Taste of East Lansing also has the upside of bringing great advertising to upstart businesses like Sapporo Ramen and Noodle Bar, which has only been open for roughly two and a half months co-owner Charlie Hoang said.

“It’s been great so far, we’re really glad we turned out,” Hoang said. “We also plan on doing something with the East Lansing High School and a student discount day, this is one of the first real big steps out in the East Lansing community.”

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East Lansing resident Charlie Hoang, left, and East Lansing resident Tyler Ostrowski dish out food for people April 23 at the Taste of East Lansing on Albert Avenue.

The East Lansing Euphonium Choir perform April 23 at the Taste of East Lansing on Albert Avenue.

Lansing resident Brianna Bernstein gets a henna tattoo on her hand April 23 at the Taste of East Lansing on Albert Avenue.

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Business freshman Bailey Paxton poses for a portrait April 21 at The Hatch located at 325 E. Grand River Avenue.

Paxton made a medical device startup company. PHOTO: EMILY ELCONIN

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Business freshman Bailey Paxton has been traveling the country since the summer before his senior year of high school, courting investors and networking with manufacturers to get his medical device company off the ground.

Paxton said he wants to license and manufacture a device for storing surgical tools in the operating room.

This opportunity came about because the device’s inventor chose to let its patent lapse.

“Bailey is different because he is trying to license intellectual property, trying to sell to the medical community. What he is bringing to the table is his own energy and enthusiasm.”

Neil Kane, MSU director of undergraduate entrepreneurship He said his goal is to sell $400,000 worth of devices by his senior year of college.

The device has sold millions of dollars worth of products in Ohio and Florida alone without any marketing.

“I’m not that smart, but I know I can do better than that,” Paxton said.

Paxton said he first became aware of the product when he was 13 and his father attempted to buy its manufacturer.

Paxton said his father used the venture as an opportunity to teach his son about the business world.

He said his father discussed different ideas and strategies with him.

“It was a really good bonding experience for me,” Paxton said. “He (Paxton’s father) would let me leave school to go to different entrepreneurship shops and camps.”

Since arriving at MSU, Paxton has participated in The Hatch program through Spartan Innovations, a training ground for MSU’s most ambitious business students.

The Hatch program provides mentorship, workspace and funding for student startups.

This year, Paxton and other Hatch students travelled in a converted school bus, complete with bathrooms and beds, to the annual South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas.

The conference, which was in March, features not only live music, film screenings and panel discussions, but also a variety of exhibitions.

Some categories included gaming, music gear and health and medical technology.

Paxton was among the semi-finalists at the festival’s “Startup Madness” competition.

Spartan Innovations events and student programs manager Lori Fischer called Paxton a “go-getter.”

“We’ve encouraged him and help him network among our students,” Fischer said.

Competing against a field of older, full-time business professionals, Paxton said he finished seventh out of 70 competitors at the Innovation Showcase, the premier midwestern startup pitch competition.

Pitching his company to an audience of one thousand-plus people, he was the event’s first competitor still attending high school.

Paxton was also the first high school student to participate in Ann Arbor SPARK’s weekend program, where for 10 weeks he spent hours interviewing medical professionals to learn about the kinds of products they needed most.

“While he encounters other students working on startups, Bailey is different,” MSU director of undergraduate entrepreneurship Neil Kane said.

“Bailey is different because he is trying to license intellectual property, trying to sell to the medical community,” Kane said. “What he is bringing to the table is his own energy and enthusiasm.”

The next step is securing $120,000 in funding for his company through more pitch competitions and networking with MSU alumni, surgeons and other potential investors.

A tall order for anyone regardless of age, but Paxton said he isn’t worried about his youth.

Paxton said he thanks a venture capitalist for a valuable piece of advice he strives to follow.

“He said, ‘age is only a problem if you make it one,’” Paxton said.

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Nathaniel Bott Sports editor sports@statenews.com

MSU QB Tyler O’Connor ready to be ‘the man’

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

Tyler O’Connor has a phone, just like many of his quarterback counterparts in college football do. He doesn’t keep a picture of himself or a loved one as his screen background, though.

Instead, his background is a list of goals for the spring. The first goal?

“I want to be the man on offense.”

O’Connor is one of four quarterbacks vying for the role of successor to Connor Cook. The question asked among many is, how can you follow up a quarterback like Cook? That was the question posed to Cook after his predecessor Kirk Cousins left school. How do you follow up Cousins? Cook answered that question by becoming MSU’s winningest quarteback. Time will tell with O’Connor, used Saturday afternoon to take another step forward in the competition.

His list of goals comes down to the simple phrase, “I want to be the man.” O’Connor delivered, in his words, an “alright” game on Saturday where plenty of eyes were watching the quartebacks. He finished 10-for-16 with 138 yards passing and a touchdown, O’Connor led all quarterbacks in all categories.

“Personally, I feel like I played alright,” O’Connor said. “Couple throws here and there, but ran the offense well and put the ball where it needed to be for the most part.”

For the man looking to lead the offense he had a calm day, stepping in and delivering the ball at times into tight windows and making his reads timely and efficiently, especially on a 44-second 70 yard drive to pull the Green team within three.

On that drive O’Connor connected on every pass – eight yards to sophomore receiver Felton Davis III, then a long ball in between defenders to senior receiver Matt Macksood for 23 yards putting the team into White territory. On a team where other quarterbacks are more known for their mobility than O’Connor, he showed off his legs, scampering for 27 yards before being tagged down at the 13.

“He’s very mobile,” fifth-year senior tight end Josiah Price said. “He’s got a great feel in the pocket, when to scramble, when to sit in the pocket, when to throw off his back foot.”

His confident run might have ended in more yards or a score if it weren’t for spring game rules to protect the quarterback.

One play later O’Connor ran a play action and floated one into the arms of new wide receiver recruit Cam Chambers in the corner of the end zone for a touchdown.

Not to stop at just a touchdown, he snapped off a strike to Macksood on the ensuing two-point conversion.

But a drive where he hit every single play wasn’t the easiest, as he said the shots he and the offense wanted to take down

Senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor (7) goes to throw the football during the Green and White scrimmage April 23 at Spartan Stadium. The White team defeated the Green team, 14-11. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

the field were limited by the White team’s defensive schemes, but he made the most of it.

His goal of leading the offense seemed to be more clear, as every other QB on the field couldn’t match O’Connor’s numbers. Junior Damion Terry went 6-of-12 for 70 yards on the day and a rushing score. Freshman Messiah deWeaver was 2-of6 for 27 yards, though he did march White down the field for its first touchdown of the day.

Even though O’Connor seemed to be the guy, he was weary of calling himself the starter.

“I feel very good, I mean there’s a lot of football to be played,” O’Connor said. “These next few months, you know a lot can happen throughout the summer — you know that’s kind of the invisible time of the season.”

His other goals delved into the leadership aspect, with a goal listed as be “the guy someone could come to on and off the field.”

His new role of trying to be the leader of the team wasn’t lost on his teammates.

“To me he’s been up there,” senior wide receiver R.J. Shelton said of O’Connor. “Leader, takes care of business and just leads

MSU’s Echols a Freshman of the Year finalist

BY JOHN LAVACCARE JLAVACCARE@STATENEWS.COM

Last week, MSU softball freshman Ebonee Echols was named one of 25 finalists for the NCAA National Freshman of the Year award. This is the latest in a series of honors for Echols, who leads the Spartans in batting average, slugging percentage, stolen bases and triples.

Echols, an athletic training freshman from Newnan, Ga., is batting .383 on the season with a .609 slugging percentage in Big Ten games.

Her speed on the basepaths has helped her accumulate 14 stolen bases on 16 attempts, as well as eight triples, which leads the Big Ten conference.

She is also the conference’s only representative among the National Freshman of the Year finalists.

“I’m thrilled that Ebonee is getting recognition for the season she is having,” head coach Jacquie Joseph said in a press release. “We brought her to MSU knowing that she was a play-

er that could be a game-changer.”

Echols has achieved all of this while battling an undisclosed injury. Through MSU’s past 10 games, the middle infielder has only played two contests in position. She has recently played left field and designated hitter, and has been forced to miss three games outright during the season.

“What I think I am most excited about is that we know that she’s not yet scratched the surface — that there is so much more to come,” Joseph said. “She’s been hampered by some injury issues since before our Big Ten season began, so we haven’t yet seen the best of what Ebonee has to offer. The recognition is wonderful for her and for our entire program.”

In her first year, Echols is already responsible for the 12th-longest hitting streak in MSU softball history. Through late March and early April, she hit safely in 13 consecutive games.

On May 12, the list of National Freshman of the Year contenders will be narrowed down to 10, then to five two weeks later. One week after that, on May 31, the winner of the award will be announced.

the team, leads the offense. When you got a guy who leads the offense, takes control of the huddle, you know, that’s the guy.”

Command of the huddle will be a key to success for MSU, as past quarterbacks Cousins and Cook were known for taking charge especially during crunch time.

“He’s played really well and acts like a starting quarterback, plays like a starting quarterback,” Price said of O’Connor, later mentioning the confidence O’Connor is playing with.

But he won’t be named the starting quarterback anytime soon, as head coach Mark Dantonio said he wasn’t going to make “the mistake of saying this guy’s it and put all the pressure on one guy.”

“I want the pressure to be on the group of four,” Dantonio said. “I want the pressure to be one our quarterback’s coach and I want the pressure to be on all of them for them to be consistent.”

As the team concludes spring practice, the emphasis moves to continuing to compete for the starting spot.

“A lot of work has to be done off the field from the feet all the way up to the arms and head so,” O’Connor said. “A lot can still happen right now but I feel really good where I’m at.”

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After return to MSU, pitcher Cam Vieaux enjoying breakout year

BY CASEY HARRISON CHARRISON@STATENEWS.COM

Every Friday afternoon he can be seen taking the mound for the Spartans. He is the ace of MSU’s pitching staff, and for good reason — he is one of the most dominant pitchers in the Big Ten. Redshirt-junior Cam Vieaux has pitched a spectacular brand of baseball this season and because of that other teams loathe him, but respect him.

Vieaux dons the number 36 on the back of his green and white jersey that reads Spartans on the front. He struts around with confidence and the season both he and the Spartans are having in 2016 just seems — special.

A HARD WORKER

Being a Friday starting pitcher on any college baseball team is a big accomplishment, and for Vieaux, it was a position he had to work tirelessly to get.

While nearing the end of his high school career for Walled Lake Western, the Novi, Mich. native had little idea of where he would play posthigh school. Vieaux, who hadn’t attracted any scholarship offers from a major university to play baseball, was set on playing at the junior college level. MSU head coach Jake Boss Jr., however, had his eye on Vieaux and offered the southpaw a preferred walkon spot for the Spartans, which Vieaux accepted.

A f t e r w o r king hard w ith the team during t he of fseason, Vieaux was reds h i r t e d f or h i s freshman year with the Spartans. With the added benefit of taking a year off and working with pitching coach Skylar Meade and the rest of the coaching staff, he would be ready to pitch the next season.

“He’s a freakish athl e t e ,” M e a de s a i d .

“But he was kind of like a wild horse, he’s got all the tools but he just needed some navigation.”

Vieaux was impressive in his first season with MSU, appearing in 18 games throughout 2014.

The 6-foot-4 lefty first appeared out of the bullpen for Boss, but transitioned into a starting pitc he r i n

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the middle of the season. By the end of his freshman campaign Vieaux had a 6-5 record with a 3.18 ERA and 57 strikeouts in 70.2 innings of work. Despite the change from late inning work to the starting rotation, Vieaux was still selected as a member of the Big Ten All-Freshman Team and was voted as the team’s pick for the Steve Garvey Most Improved Player Award following his redshirt.

In 2015, Vieaux statistically fell victim to the sophomore slump, but started a teamhigh 15 games for MSU in his sophomore season and showed a lot of true signs of growth and development.

I n 9 0 .1 innings last season, Vieaux struck out 71 opposing batters and finished the year with a 3.49 ERA. “I don’t know if I’d say he took a step back a year ago,” Boss said. “He was in a different role a year ago. For all intents and purposes he was our number one guy for a majority of the year, and for a redshirt-sophomore that isn’t an easy thing. … Maybe from a numbers standpoint you could say he took a step back but developmentally, not a chance. He was really good for us in that role and it’s helped him acclimate himself this year into that Friday night role.”

Vieaux’s performance through two seasons put the starter in a position to be one of the eight Spartans picked up in the 2015 MLB draft. Vieaux was selected by the Detroit Tigers in the 19th round as the 580th overall pick. Vieaux was one of three Spartans to be drafted by the Tigers — the others being then-junior Cam Gibson and former senior third baseman Blaise Salter.

STILL A WORKHORSE

Despite being drafted as a sophomore, Vieaux decided to return to play his junior season with the Spartans. It was a decision some could have considered risky, but his performance this season is paying its dividends and helpi ng h i s d ra f t stock tremendously.

This season

had been a breakout one for Vieaux — an anticipated one since the start of the season when he was put on a Big Ten Players to Watch list compiled by coaches prior to the start of the season.

“When you see yourself having a lot of success, then it just makes you want to continue and get better,” Vieaux said. “I think that’s what my goal all along has been — to just be the best I possibly can.”

So far through nine starts in 2016, Vieaux is on pace to have his best statistical season with MSU. Through his most recent start against Indiana, the Spartan ace has a 6-2 record with a league-leading 1.46 ERA. On top of that, Vieaux is holding opponents to a .217 batting average, which ranks fifth among all pitchers in the Big Ten and has struck out 63 batters, good enough for third in the conference. In his best outing this season, Vieaux pitched a complete game shutout against Purdue to help MSU win 11-0

“When you see yourself having a lot of success, then it just makes you want to continue and get better. I think that’s what my goal all along has been — to just be the best I possibly can.”

Cam Vieaux, Redshirt-junior pitcher for MSU baseball over the Boilermakers on April 15.

“He’s really learned how to control himself,” Meade said.

“Now he has great confidence and I love that about him. But a lot of that is keeping his mind clear. He’s focusing on each pitch, he’s not trying to go so fast, he’s just taking it one pitch at a time and executing, and when you take that approach, which he’s done the entire year, that’s why you have success.”

While leading MSU’s pitching staff, the Spartans are [28-9] this season and are [tied for first] with a [9-3] Big Ten record this season. Vieaux will make his next start against University of Michigan on April 29 in Ann Arbor.

“I just want to play as long as I can,” Vieaux said. “Playing in the Major Leagues was a life-long goal and four years ago it didn’t seem as realistic as it does now. I just don’t want a minor league career, I want to make it all the way and establish a career at the big league level so I’m going to continue to work and do whatever it takes.”

Left-handed pitcher Cam Vieaux (36) pitches the ball during the game against Indiana April 22 at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field. the Spartans were defeated by the Hoosiers, 3-2.

PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

C A M V I E AU X Height: 6-foot-4 Weight: 203 pounds Position: Left-handed pitcher Vieaux hails from Novi, Mich. and is off to a 6-2 start for MSU baseball this season.

After posting two straight season with an ERA over three after redshirting his first year, the junior leads the Big Ten with a 1.46 ERA and is holding opponents to a .217 batting average, good for fifth in the conference.

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Former professor to compete in piano competition Former MSU chemistry professor William McHarris practices the piano. In May, McHarris will compete in the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest in Oxford, Miss. PHOTO

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

Former MSU chemistry professor William McHarris has written more than 150 compositions, 24 of which he said have been published. He played the organ, directed choirs at several churches and became an assistant carillonneur at Beaumont Tower in 1996. He has since composed at least eight pieces for the carillon. In May, he will be competing in the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest.

It will be McHarris’ sixth year participating and the contest will be held in Oxford, Miss.

“He has some pretty nice tunes that he’s written,” Ted Lemen, founder of the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing Contest, said. “He’s a very dedicated listener, good sense of humor and a good sense of the melodies and the pattern that has to be followed in ragtime … just a swell guy.”

McHarris said his grandfather bought him his first piano.

“I didn’t like to practice, but my mother was sort of a tyrant and forced me to practice and now I’m glad she did,” McHarris said.

McHarris attended Oberlin College to study the organ, choral conducting and composition.

There he meet his future wife Orilla McHarris, who later become a physicist at MSU. While McHarris was on the path to a life in music at the time, his path would soon change.

“I saw all my friends in music weren’t getting jobs and decided I could have more fun in music if I didn’t have to make a living at it,” McHarris said. “So I majored in chemistry.”

In the midst of Vietnam War protests, William and Orilla attended University of California, Berkeley for their graduate studies. McHarris received a doctorate in nuclear chemistry and was later hired to work on the then newly-completed National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at MSU as the sole nuclear chemist on the team.

“We worked 90 hour weeks for the first 15-20 years, and it turned out to be a real success, although among the 14 original faculty there was something like seven divorces and four heart attacks,” McHarris said.

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Department of Chemistry, said she took a quantum mechanics course McHarris taught.

“He’s a very intellectually curious person, very dedicated to science,” Hunt said. “A lot of the work he did was at the very deepest levels … of nuclear science.”

McHarris retired from teaching at MSU in 2008, but still resides in East Lansing and has an office in the Department of Chemistry as a professor emeritus.

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International relations sophomore takes over as president of ASMSU

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

International relations sophomore Lorenzo Santavicca was elected president of the Associated Students of Michigan State University by a vote of 18-13 and will assume the position May 16, the beginning of the summer term.

Currently serving as ASMSU’s vice president for academic affairs, the position will be the latest of many he’s so far held in a life chockfull of political participation. Santavicca said he’s been a part of student council organizations for most of his life.

“I’ve been in student council from the start of fifth grade, I was elected the vice president of my fifth grade class … carried on into junior high and then elected president of National Honor Society, and senior class vice president as well,” Santavicca said. “I’ve had a track record of always being trusted by my peers to serve them.”

“Students should be able to freely come to me with concerns at any time. I’m going to make sure that my door is always open.”

Lorenzo Santavicca Newly-elected president of ASMSU An enthusiastic reader and self-proclaimed Apple fanatic, Santavicca said his constant involvement springs from a desire to work with others as well as the high ambitions and goals he has for himself, which have been with him from a young age.

“In elementary school, you’d think for an elementary school student you’d go back to home, maybe take a nap, play with some toys, but no, a few of us would always go back and just think about ideas,” Santavicca said. “One of the things we wanted to do was bring a concert to our elementary school.”

Santavicca joined freshman class council his first year at MSU, later leaving to join ASMSU’s staff as an intern for the vice president of academic affairs position, which he would assume during his sophomore year. Santavicca said his decision to run for the presidency developed over time.

“It wasn’t very sudden,” Santavicca said. “The moment that I had interest of doing something larger for the student body beyond the staff requirements or as an intern … was last spring ... and ever since then I’ve had these desires and goals for the organization to be something more for the student body.”

Santavicca ran with a platform of increased transparency, student engagement and collaboration with the student body. Santavicca said one of his main goals is to make ASMSU’s actions and impact more visible to students.

“My vision is that students are going to know what ASMSU is doing,” Santavicca said. “It’s a very lofty goal, but the reality is when a student is paying $18 for their tax, we have a responsibility to make sure that the student knows what we’re doing, and that

International relations sophomore Lorenzo Santavicca listens to the general assembly April 20 at Student Services Building. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

they have a voice directly to come to our meetings and public comment or voice those (concerns) to the representatives.”

Some of Santavicca’s proposed solutions to engaging the student body include creating a petition site for ASMSU similar to that of the White House, holding the organization’s general assembly meetings at different locations across the MSU neighborhoods instead of perennially in Student Services and advocating for the ASMSU presidency to be voted on by students rather than just the general assembly.

“It does really sadden me to know that we have so much influence in the university as the undergraduate student government that we are, and students don’t think much of that,” Santavicca said. “While the (5.2 percent voter) turnout was great this year, I’d like to see that to be a whole 100 percent, let’s get that there.”

As transparency and engagement are important parts of his platform, Santavicca said he intends to always be open to addressing student concerns.

L O R E N ZO S A N TAV I C C A Year: International relations sophomore 2016-17 academic year: Elected president of the Associated Students of Michigan State University by a vote of 18-13.

Santavicca will assume the position May 16.

Ran with a platform of increased transparency, student engagement and collaboration with the student body.

ASMSU past: Served this year as ASMSU’s vice president for academic affairs.

A cappella group on campus has Indian roots

BY ALEXIS SARGENT ASARGENT@STATENEWS.COM

Of the many a cappella groups at MSU, one stands out with its use of Indian culture in performances.

The Spartan Sur group mixes popular music with Bollywood music.

“I don’t think that anyone will hear a sound like ours on this campus,” group member and neuroscience junior Alwin David said. “Being able to implement our culture with music that we enjoy along with our love for singing, that’s why people should be excited about what (Spartan Sur) has to come.”

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bers said that these competitions have been their favorite memories with Spartan Sur. “We did really well at our competitions,” David said. “We learned a lot about other groups and what they do, and learned a lot about our group and our competing nature, as well as a lot of other things to help us improve our sound.”

The group recently released an album on a multitude of popular music sharing sites, including Spotify and iTunes. The album is called Surround Sound and includes eight songs.

Spartan Sur President and cognitive neuroscience senior Joseph Aquino said he enjoyed the experience of recording the songs.

“It was really cool, it was the first time I had ever been in a music studio, and that was the case for most of the group,” Aquino said. “We all got to try something new, and the album sounds

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awesome. It’s really surreal having our music on Spotify, and on the same platform as Top-40 artists. It’s a crazy experience for me, to say the least.”

The group’s most recent performance was at the Saathiya Indian cultural event. One of the songs that was performed by Spartan Sur at the event was “Run This Town,” which David assisted in arranging. The group originally arranges all of their music and this creativity is portrayed in their pieces.

Many students severed as spectators during the event, and enjoyed the uniqueness of the performance.

“I thought they performed really well, and I was impressed by how they worked together as a team,” economics freshman Dillon Welliver said. “I thought it was really awesome how they incorporated Indian culture into their songs.”