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Michigan State University’s independent voice | statenews.com | East Lansing, Mich. | Friday, April 26, 2013

Expert sleep tips for finals week CAMPUS+CITY, PAGE 3

Seniors reflect on their favorite Spartan memories CAMPUS+CITY, PAGE 8

Gholston talks NFL Draft preparation in Q&A SPORTS, PAGE 15

Semester to remember, reflect 1 Isabelle Atkinson

places a balloon and flowers at a makeshift memorial near the bombing site on April 16 in Boston. The city is in mourning today for three killed and at least 144 wounded in the bombing at the Boston Marathon.

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resident Marquez Dominique Cannon, 18, appears in court to accept a plea bargain April 3 at Mason’s 30th Circuit Court in the case of the death of MSU freshman Olivia Pryor last year.

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and public relations junior Greg Rokisky, center left, and food industry management junior Kevin Chung, center right, watch as a presentation is given during the ASMSU meeting March 28 at Student Services. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

4 Sophomore guard/ forward Branden Dawson tears up while talking with reporters Friday, March. 29 in Indianapolis after losing to Duke in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament .

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to producer Ryan Lewis during a set on March 19. The Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert was presented to students by ASMSU. DANYELLE MORROW/ THE STATE NEWS

From Spartan spirit to tragedy, wrapping up an emotional semester Bombings in Boston felt across MSU 1 On April 15, two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing at least three and injuring more than 100, according to numerous media reports. At least three MSU students ran in the marathon, including hospitality business senior Benny Ebert-Zavos, graduate student Cody Harlacher and finance sophomore Jonathon Geer. Other students had family and friends competing in the race. University Relations and the MSU Alumni Club of Boston both reported they hadn’t heard of any Spartans harmed in the explosions. After bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was caught last Friday evening, President Barack Obama said there still are questions to be answered, such as the motives behind the attack. “The families of those killed so senselessly deserve

answers,” Obama said in the statement. “The wounded, some of whom now have to learn how to stand and walk and live again, deserve answers.” KELLIE ROWE

3 student deaths impact community The MSU community mourned at least three student deaths during the 2013 spring semester. Two students, nutritional sciences senior Andrew Singler and geological sciences sophomore Anna Flory, died Feb. 23, while premedical sophomore Chas Schneider died March 14. Singler allegedly was stabbed to death by Okemos teen Connor McCowan, brother of Singler’s girlfriend and roommate. In a court appearance on April 18, records showed text messages might have instigated an

argument that led to Singler’s death. McCowan is scheduled for an arraignment in Ingham County Circuit Court on May 1. Flory was found dead in her Bailey Street home of currently unknown causes, although family members said an autopsy showed Flory had an enlarged heart. Foul play is not suspected. Schneider died of kidney failure brought on by his fight with stage 4 colon cancer. He had fought Crohn’s disease for nine years and primary sclerosing cholangitis and cancer for eight months. All three lives cut short were memorialized on the rock on Farm Lane shortly following their deaths. DARCIE MORAN

Cannon pleads guilty in Pryor rape case 2 More than one year later, one of the men involved in former MSU student Olivia

Pryor’s death pleaded guilty to criminal sexual conduct in the first degree for raping Pryor before her death. Eastpointe, Mich., resident Marquez Cannon and Detroit resident Dishon Ambrose were arrested following Pryor’s death in her South Hubbard Hall dorm room in March 2012. Cannon originally was charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct for the alleged rape of both Pryor and her roommate, as well as selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor causing death, but after accepting a plea bargain, he only pleaded guilty to the single charge. He will be sentenced to at least six years in prison, with a maximum penalty of life in prison, and is scheduled on the court docket for sentencing in Mason’s 30th Circuit Court on May 8. Ambrose faces charges for selling or furnishing alcohol to a minor causing death as well as allegedly attempting to clean up the crime scene. He is scheduled on the court docket for a May 6 jury trial. DARCIE MORAN

ASMSU works to tackle financial fiasco 3 ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, will enter the summer facing uncertainty about what the future holds for the organization after electing to not move off-campus funds to the university fi nancial system. MSU spokesman Kent Cassella confi rmed the organization will lose its semesterly $18 per student tax starting with the upcoming summer semester. While ASMSU mostly is funded through the student tax, ASMSU President Evan Martinak said the organization will be able to fully function for the fi rst nine months without the student tax funding. Cassella and other university officials said MSU isn’t looking to tell ASMSU how to spend the funding, but just monitor if the organization is following the

correct procedures. However, Martinak isn’t buying what the university is trying to sell. “If you take an almost 50-year-old student government that has enjoyed a large amount of autonomy and strip it of its legal services, strip it of its ability to have off-campus accounts, strip it of its power to hire and fi re its employees, strip it of how it conducts its government activities, what would you call it?” Martinak previously told The State News. “The writing is on the wall.” ROBERT BONDY

Men’s hoops falls in Sweet 16 again 4 After finishing short of the Big Ten championship, the MSU men’s basketball team entered the program’s See spring 2013 on page 2 X


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