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LETTER: ELPD botched my sexual assault case A letter to the East Lansing Police Department: During my four years at Michigan State, I have been required to listen to numerous talks regarding sexual assault and the importance of reporting it.

Every time, it was reiterated that if I were to be sexually assaulted, and I would report it, I would have MSU, the MSUPD, as well as the ELPD on my side to assist me in whatever way I needed. It made feel comforted to know that if anything ever were to happen to me, I would have so much support.

Unfortunately, I have since learned that this is not the case.

In October of 2014 I was sexually assaulted. I was in denial for hours that it even happened, until my close friend opened my eyes to the truth, and took me to the hospital to have a rape kit done. That experience in itself is extremely traumatic.

First, I had to tell the person working the front desk of the ER that I needed to have that done, and the look they gave me make me want to run and leave. Then, they brought me to a nurse, and I had to tell her minimal details about what happened. Then the nurse tells me that someone from the MSU Counseling Center will be coming to talk to me.

Eventually she arrived, as did the doctor. They gave me a choice: I could choose to have a rape kit done and press charges against the guy who did this to me, or I could just have an exam done.

After weighing my options with them, I decided to proceed with pressing charges, as I did not want this to happen to another woman.

To this day, I completely regret that choice.

I had to tell the doctor every detail of what happened, and then she examined me. An exam for a rape kit is not the same thing as going to the gynecologist. She had to completely look me over, to look for bruises anywhere.

They had to take samples from multiple parts of my body to try to find DNA. And then she had to complete the standard exam. It’s a humiliating experience, but the doctor was extremely supportive, and I am grateful for her.

Once the exam was completed, I had to meet with a detective from the East Lansing Police Department, and share my story once again with him. He was nice, and tried to be understanding, but didn’t seem to quite get it.

Once he took my statement he told me that someone would be in contact with me shortly to get an official statement and proceed from there.

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Eventually, I was contacted. I made an appointment and had to meet with a female detective and share my experience all over again with her. She was cold, and made me feel as if the assault was my fault.

She told me that a restraining order would not do any good, and that it was pointless to get one. She also told me that she wasn’t sure if they could get him for sexual assault, as it was my word against his, but that they could probably pursue charges for theft (as he stole money, my phone and a few other belongings from me).

I was regretting my decision to file charges more and more.

That was the last time I heard from ELPD. It has been six months since I was assaulted, and they have done nothing with my case.

How do I know that? Because I still see the guy who assaulted me. I run into him at East Lansing bars at least once a month, and a couple of weeks ago saw him at my favorite latenight food joint.

He is carelessly living his life, while I still start shaking from fear at the sight of him.

He will never know the pain I have been put through, because no one has told him.

But this is not about him — I cannot change him or stop him. This is about the East Lansing Police Department, and the lack of caring they have for real crimes.

They will go out of their way to give a minor an MIP, or to catch a freshman smoking weed in his room, and will be sure to follow up and

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show up in court. But when someone is sexually assaulted, the police are nowhere to be found.

I had heard the horror stories about campus police not following up with, or ignoring sexual assault, but I thought that an actual city police department would take it more seriously. I was wrong.

Because of the ELPD, there is a guy out there who could potentially be hurting more women, and that is not OK. The police are supposed to protect you, but I never felt more alone than when I was with any of them.

I am graduating in two weeks, and moving back home to Chicago. I will never have to see my assailant again. I am lucky. But there are countless other women out there who are not.

Women who are freshmen, and have to live on this campus for three more years. Women who will have to see their assailant. Women who are not able to cope with it. Women who constantly live in fear. This is not OK. So ELPD, I challenge you to fix your sexual assault program and your officers. I challenge you to give more of a damn about real crimes, and less about 19-year-olds who drink. I challenge you to make your officers go through sensitivity training, so that no other woman has to hear, “Maybe you should watch who you bring home from the bars,” as I did.

I challenge you to be a support for victims, not another barrier. I challenge you to care.

Lauren Opeka is a creative advertising and graphic design senior at MSU.

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Peoples Church 200 W. Grand River Ave. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 332-6264 www.peoples-evolution.org Sunday Worship: 10:30am Tuesday: Love Life: 7-9pm Wednesday: Dinner at 5:30pm, Journey at 6:30 Quan Am Buddhist Temple, MSU Meditation Center 1840 N. College Road Mason, MI 48854 (517) 853-1675 (517) 347-1655 www.quanamtemple.org 7-8:30pm Every Thursday Red Cedar Friends Meeting 1400 Turner St. Lansing, MI 48906 (517) 371-1047 redcedarfriends.org Sunday Worship: 9:00am, 10:30am River Terrace Church 1509 River Terrace Dr, East Lansing, MI (Across from Hubbard Hall) (517)-351-9059 riverterrace.org Sunday: 9 am & 11:15 am w/ Shuttle Service

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Food science and Industrial business junior Andi Trubiano and human biology sophomore Danielle Ross helps support Nepal Tuesday at The Rock on Farm Lane. PHOTO: HANNAH LEVY

BY RAY WILBUR RWILBUR@STATENEWS.COM

MSU students converged at the rock on Farm Lane on Tuesday to support and raise money for those suffering in the aftermath of the earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday.

Charisma Thapa was the lead organizer of the event at the rock and has immediate family in Nepal, who are reeling from the devastation of the country’s worst earthquake in 80 years.

“I was (in Nepal) about a month ago so it’s surreal that I was just there and it was fine,” Thapa said. “When I heard the news my heart was broken.”

Thapa began frantically organizing on Sunday – reaching out to her former community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Ome-

ga, and spreading the word at her co-op.

Thapa also reached out to an East Lansing Nepalese group affiliated with the American Red Cross, which attended the event to raise money for victims.

“Including my family, many families have lost their homes and lives, so any amount of money can help them,” said Yeshoda Adhikari, a member of the group.

Marohang Limbu, a writing, rhetoric and American culture professor and native of Nepal, brought his entire class to the Rock in order to show them that it is necessary to help any humans suffering.

“We do not believe that we are compartmentalized by any geographic locations, we have to give support to everyone,” Limbu said.

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people to be aware of these sorts of things, because if not, “then we can’t fulfill our human duty.”

Other students, like microbiology senior Anjesh Ghimire, whose family is currently in Nepal, showed up because he said he too felt helpless and wanted to do something to help Nepalese people.

Ghimire said it was amazing to see so many people show up after something so tragic had happened.

Thapa said she was thrilled with the student turnout and will continue to organize events around campus to raise money and support for victims in Nepal in the coming weeks.

East Lansing Hot Yoga is holding a hot yoga session Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. in which all the proceeds will go to help victims in Nepal.

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About 45 East Lansing residents convened Monday to discuss a single question: “What do you most want representatives of the city to think about as they plan for the future of the Bailey Community Center?”

The meeting was the first part of an open community input process to brainstorm ideas for the soon-to-be-closed building. The public discussion follows city council’s decision in January to discontinue the early age child care program and close the building it operated out of — Bailey Community Center.

Doak Bloss, health equity and social justice coordinator for the Ingham County Health Department, was chosen by City Council to facilitate the discussion based on his experience in other community dialogues.

“It’s very heartening to see this kind of turnout,” Bloss said before the session began.

Passionate discussions were held, as several residents questioned the transparency of council members’ plans for the building. Common concerns echoed throughout the evening included the operating costs of the building, maintaining that the building remains city property and the effect this might have on Bailey Park, which council members said would not be altered as part of the plan.

Still, residents remained skeptical that a private developer would respect that wish and stay away from the park if they were given control of the building. These concerns were strengthened by a resident pointing out that some city maps identify both the building and the green space surrounding it as a whole unit called Bailey Park.

A consensus was clear that residents felt strongly about the city retaining the building and not selling or destroying it.

This attitude clearly contradicts the city’s earlier consideration of multiple third-party organizations who expressed interest in purchasing Bailey Community Center. The groups included an independent public school, private daycare and local housing partnership.

However, the council decided to hear community feedback before moving forward with a decision on any proposal.

“We need to look at solutions that don’t place a financial burden on the city,” said Tim Dempsey, director of planning, building and development.

“We all know it’s not realistic to invest a million dollars in renovating the building. We understand that the constraints are significant and it gets harder as the numbers get large.”

Council members explained that utilities, among other things, would need to be updated to keep the building running after it closes in September. Tim McCaffrey, director of parks and recreation, estimated it would cost about $500,000 to renovate the building back up to code.

“Long-term thinking was implicit in all of this discussion,” said Erik Altmann, an East Lansing resident and MSU professor. “That building is going to outlast all of us. We should be thinking 60 to 70 years ahead. We should think about investing in a historic building in a prime location if that’s what it takes.”

A second discussion is scheduled for May 4.

The written responses gathered from citizens will be used to curate discussion topics based on the focus question.

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Raising funds for a rescue mission First year osteopathic medicine student Naila Abdullah looks to purchase baked goods Tuesday at the bake sale in Fee hall for Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries.

Students from MSU were raising money through donations in order to volunteer in Detroit this coming May.

MSU reacts to protests and riots in Baltimore

BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

Thousands took to the streets of Baltimore on Monday night to riot in protest of the April 19 death of 25-yearold black male Freddie Gray, who did not receive medical care in time to save his life while he was in police custody.

It was reported by several news outlets Tuesday morning that 202 arrests, 144 vehicle fires and 19 structure fires took place Monday night.

There are many opinions to be had about what has taken place in Baltimore, including those belonging to students at MSU. Physiology senior Daniel Tanbakuchi said he sympathizes with the citizens of Baltimore and does think challenging authority can sometimes be good, but said he thinks the destruction is wrong.

“What they’re doing, destroying their city, that doesn’t help anything,” Tanbakuchi said. “I think their point gets nullified when they do that.”

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freshman Travis Revard also agrees that setting fire to a city is wrong.

“I don’t think that’s a great thing to be doing,” Revard said. “Burning and wrecking things doesn’t help anything. ... You’re supposed to be setting a peaceful example for change. ... I think the people that riot are being hypocritical.”

In a statement Tuesday, MSU Black Student Alliance Vice President Kelsi Horn, like many, said she has conflicting view points when it comes to the current events in Baltimore.

“I feel that their actions are result of continuous mourning not just for Freddie Grey but for Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Walter Scott, Phillip White, Eric Harris,Tamir Rice, Eric Gardner and the thousands of other Black lives that have been taken as a result of police brutality who will never have the opportunity to have their narratives told,” Horn said.

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University Council considers policy to excuse absences for grief

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Currently there is no university-wide grief absence policy. This might change if University Council’s recommendations are heeded.

The University Committee on Undergraduate Education presented its recommendations to University Council on Tuesday, citing the need to create a policy “pertaining to students who lose a close family member” during an academic semester.

Students without research responsibilities would be required by the proposed policy to notify the associate dean or designee of their college no later than one week from the time they learn of the situation, provide verification to the associate dean and complete all missed work in consultation with the instructors of the classes missed.

Associate deans will be required to verify proof of the claim, inform the instructors and “receive verification of the authenticity of a grief absence request upon the student’s return.”

Instructors too will be expected to make “reasonable accommodations” for students and provide language in each course syllabus.

The policy for students with research responsibilities and doctoral students will have to inform

their adviser or “major professor” instead, but all other parts of the policy apply. Research assistants will have to inform their employers and develop a plan for covering their responsibilities.

MSU’s College of Human Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine and College of Law graduate students are already covered by individual; college policies and are exempted from the proposed new one.

Matthew Pontifex, a member of the task force who has been preparing the policy for four years after having the language challenged by the Steering Committee and a number of others, presented the recommendations to the council.

He said from both a student and faculty perspective, these were necessary changes.

“At present they receive varying degrees of accommodations,” he said, which range from “too bad” to “take the semester off.”

Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies for the College of Engineering Thomas Wolff said although the policy will create more work for associate deans, he is nevertheless supportive.

“I don’t know if this policy is perfect, but I think it’s much more important to have a policy,” he said.

ASMSU President James Conwell and Vice President for Academic Affairs Teresa Bitner also endorsed the policy.

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From left, East Lansing residents Katie Ling, Alyssa Beavers and Taylor Young hold up signs to support same-sex marriage Monday at the state Capitol. The vigil was held in anticipation of the same-sex marriage trials in the U.S. Supreme Court. PHOTOS: HANNAH LEVY

BY SERGIO MARTÍNEZ-BELTRÁN SMARTINEZ@STATENEWS.COM

The most pivotal same-sex marriage case in Michigan — one that went from the Detroit courthouse to the Supreme Court of the United States — began with two women who simply wanted to adopt one another’s children.

April DeBoer and Jayne Rowse are a gay couple who sued the state for the right to marry in 2013.

The ban was eventually declared unconstitutional by U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman, and on one Saturday last March, 322 same-sex couples were wed throughout Michigan.

Neuroscience doctoral student Apryl Pooley was one of the couples married on that day last year.

Pooley and her wife had been planning to get married in a different state, but when the opportunity arose, the couple jumped at the opportunity to get married.

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feel when you walked into the building,” Pooley said. “Like ‘Finally, we can do this.’”

But Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette then filed an appeal in the 6th Circuit, and a stay was placed on the declaration. Although the marriages were eventually recognized, the battle was far from over.

On Monday night, more than 100 people participated in a vigil hosted at the Capitol to show support to same-sex couples who married in Michigan.

The next day, the U.S. Supreme Court began hearing the cases of same-sex married couples from Michigan, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky.

WHAT’S AT STAKE “The Supreme Court will be hearing people argue — the lawyers of Michigan will argue that the 6th Circuit should be upheld,” MSU law professor Mae Kuykendall said. “People who represent the plaintiffs will argue the 6th Circuit is wrong.”

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law to married couples.

In February Gov. Rick Snyder said he was not going to appeal the U.S. District Court of Appeals decision of recognizing the validity of the samesex couples who got married during the marriage window.

“I think marriage between a man and a woman, that definition is going to be ruled unconstitutional. I believe the Supreme Court believes the same thing that so many of out here do.”

Mae Kuykendall, MSU law professor

“I know there are strong feelings on both sides of this issue, and it’s vitally important for an expedient resolution that will allow people in Michigan, as well as other states, to move forward togeth-

er on the other challenges we face,” Snyder said in a statement in February. “This is an issue that has been divisive across our country. Our nation’s highest court will decide this issue.”

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE Ingham County Clerk Barb Byrum, an advocate for same-sex marriage and one of several clerks to open their courthouse to marry same-sex couples after Friedman’s decision, said she is optimistic the U.S. Supreme Court will rule in favor of the couples she married.

“I think marriage between a man and a woman, that definition is going to be ruled unconstitutional,” Byrum said. “I believe the Supreme Court believes the same thing that so many of us out here do, and that it is high time we no longer have second-class citizens.”

But there are other couples who are still waiting to be married.

Jocelyn Walters and Cindy Clardy, who came to Lansing for Monday’s vigil, are already planning their wedding, They plan to get married in 2020, Walters said.

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Justice Anthony Kennedy was one of the judges who showed conflicting views when discussing gay marriage. Kennedy has been the decisive vote in other same-sex marriage cases.

“This definition has been with us for millennia, and I think it’s very difficult for this court to say ‘Oh well, we know better,’” Kennedy said, referring to the definition of marriage between a man and a woman and not same-sex couples.

Kuykendall explained possible outcomes of the SCOTUS case.

“The Supreme Court can make the decision of making every state issue (same-sex) marriage licenses, or making states recognize marriages that already happened,” she said. “And the third (action) is making other states recognize same-sex marriages that occurred out of state.”

Kuykendall said the court might choose a cautious path, voting yes to only one or two of those issues and not all three.

WATCHING FROM AFAR Michigan for Marriage coalition manager Gina Calcagno said same-sex couples in Michigan couldn’t be more excited for their day in court.

“We are very cautiously optimistic that this case will give us a national resolution on marriage, and that all people will have their families recognized,” Calcagno said.

Many members of the MSU community has kept its eye on the issue from the beginning.

“There’s always this hope that it’s going to hap-

pen eventually,” Alex Lange, assistant director at MSU’s LBGT Resource Center, previously told The State News in reference to the legalization of samesex marriage.

Social work sophomore Katrine Weismantle said she predicts a favorable decision from the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The opposing side has run out of any compelling arguments,” Weismantle said. “Same-sex couples’ personal stories are the center of this case and their personal stories are critical in a civil rights case such as this.”

Social work graduate student Jenny May is hoping that the Supreme Court’s ruling will go beyond just legalization.

May is a bisexual student and is a member of Q-Cross, an organization on campus for Christian LGBT students. She has been following the case closely.

“I hope that the final decision written in June will not only be in favor of same-sex marriages, but also provide support for LGBT issues to receive heightened security under the law,” May wrote in an email.

She also said even a favorable ruling won’t necessarily change the prejudices faced.

“Coming from a Queer Christian perspective, marriage equality would be wonderful, but it is not the end of discrimination against the LGBT community,” May said.

Staff reporter Maria Braganini contributed to this report.

Former state representative and Kalamazoo resident Lorence Wenke supports same-sex marriage Monday at the state Capitol.

“We had a commitment ceremony in 2005,” Walters said. “We’ve been together 16 years.”

Pooley said she didn’t think any same-sex couples who got married last year thought it would take this long before it would be legalized.

“I know some people feel a little bit guilty, like we shouldn’t have done this until everybody could do it,” Pooley said.

Walters said although she does not feels optimistic about the U.S. Supreme Court hearings, she is hopeful they will rule in favor of same-sex couples.

“I’m hoping that it does give us our rights because I really don’t want to consider what it’ll be like if we don’t have our rights, at this point forward,” Walters said. “Either way it is going to be a big change in the state, in the country, in the history.”

Walters said the marriage equality movement is going through the same obstacles the civil rights

movement went through.

“There is still people out there, older than we are, that are opposed. But the rest of all are like, ‘They have rights. Why shouldn’t they? They are people just like we are,’” Walters said. “We are people just like them.”

Like Walters, Pooley said much of same-sex marriage is about looking ahead for future rights.

“From a legal standpoint, if you have a life partner, someone that you share everything with, possibly kids, finances, insurance — everything,” Pooley said. “You should be able to have those legal protections to your relationship.”

ONLINE To see a gallery of Monday night’s vigil, visit statenews. com/ multimedia

DIVISION ON DAY ONE On the first day of the trial, the U.S. Supreme Court justices were divided when discussing if the Constitution ensures same-sex couples the right to marry.

“From a legal standpoint, if you have a life partner, someone that you share everything with, possibly kids, finances, insurance — everything. You should be able to have those legal protections to your relationship.”

Apryl Pooley, neuroscience doctoral student

Southfield, Michigan, residents Cindy Clardy and Jocelyn Walters support same-sex marriage Monday at the state Capitol.

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Terry Lee Norton East Lansing resident Fact: Norton, 69, runs on average 1,400 miles a year around MSU’s campus.

“My doctor said to me, ‘Whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re eating, whatever way you’re exercising, keep doing it.’ I’m in the top 10 percent for my age group, and I’m in the top 20 percent of the 40-year-old age group and above.”

Features

Casey Holland Features editor features@statenews.com @sn_features

Yoga bus rolling across East Lansing

BY PATRICK BADE PBADE@STATENEWS.COM

Local business Yoga State is bringing a new type of yoga experience to students and residents in the East Lansing area.

How are they doing it? It’s pretty simple — they’re taking to the streets with a school bus made for yoga.

Owner Jen Hayes said she bought the bus because she felt it would be a unique marketing tool, and that it would draw some attention for her business.

With banners hanging on the sides of the bus that display the company name, the bus is an efficient way of spreading the word.

“Inside it fills out like a motor home.

There’s benches and seats and all that. We do have room in the center so if somebody wants to know about something we can demo it.”

Jen Hayes, Yoga State owner

“It’s a really inexpensive way to get our name out, where all it basically costs us is our time and fuel,” Hayes said.

However, the bus is far more functional than solely a promotional tool. On most weekends the bus goes out and becomes a yoga studio on wheels.

“Inside it fills out like a motor home. There’s benches and seats and all that. We do have a room in the center so that if somebody wants to know about something, we can demo it,”

Owner of Yoga State and East Lansing resident Jen Hayes poses at the door of her Yoga State Bus on Tuesday at her home on E. Lake Lansing Road in East Lansing.

Hayes drives the bus all around East Lansing promoting her business by giving people rides and passing around fliers. PHOTO: ERIN HAMPTON

Hayes said.

Hayes added she is also the driver of the bus. She said that much of the things they do during sessions are geared around helping students cope with the daily stresses that come with life in college, like growing up and figuring out life plans.

“We’re starting to get recognized, and when we drive down the street people will yell ‘yoga bus!’ or ‘Yoga State!’ when we drive by, and that’s just really exciting,” she said. “Then it kind of sparks to their friends as well, that they recognize Yoga State.

It just gets people excited.”

Hayes said that they try to take the bus to local events and places where they know there will be a good concentration of people. In addition, they’re also invited to events.

“I think interacting with the community in a fun way is really important. I think life is a lit-

tle bit uptight a lot of the time,” Hayes said.

The bus is still a bit of a hidden gem, as many people, even those who go to Yoga State, are unfamiliar with it.

Although Spanish and agribusiness management senior Jennifer Kempher did not

know about the bus, she was no stranger to yoga.

“It’s really relaxing and a good break from school work,” she said.

Lansing resident Jenny Morley had the same unfamiliarity, but she said that she likes the atmosphere of practicing yoga.

New app to bring less hassle to laundry woes

BY PATRICK BADE PBADE@STATENEWS.COM

Laundry can be one of the biggest hassles for any college student.

Most can say they constantly are running back and forth between a dorm or apartment and the laundry room to check and see if laundry is finished. Or worse, sometimes the laundry is forgotten and by the time a student gets there it’s been taken out of the washer or dryer and left in a piled mess.

But this Friday, there will be a project showcased at the MSU College of Engineering Design Day that has the poten-

tial to put all of these problems to rest.

Launder, a laundry room tablet payment system, comes with an app that sends a text message directly to the phone of the person doing the laundry when it is finished, relieving people of constantly checking or forgetting to check laundry at all.

A team of MSU students have been working on the app and payment system for Whirlpool Corporation, after the company expressed the desire to develop such a technology in an effort to tackle the common problems that come with sharing laundry machines with numerous people.

The team members and MSU students who developed Launder are all computer science seniors. Their names are Angie Sun, Sam Bentzel, Evan Swinehart and Alex Kambeitz.

Sun is the project manager of Sun and said that the app is all about centralizing the laundry experience and that it will alleviate the annoyances and time-consuming nature of the conventional public laundry facilities.

“If there’s no washers available, you can ask for a text notification, and it will text you when the next washer or dryer is available, so that way you don’t have to stand around and guard

the machine, you can do something with your own time,” Sun said. “It’ll also send you notifications when your washer is almost done.”

Sun added that since the payment system is based on a central tablet, it allows users to just swipe a credit card, rather than having to carry around change.

Professor Wayne Dyksen, who is in charge of the computer science capstone course, oversaw the Launder project and said that it’s very complicated and takes extensive education in computer science.

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this is software that actually has to interact with hardware, namely the washers and dryers,” Dyksen said. “It’s not just an app interacting with a person, it’s an app interacting with a person and hardware in the back end, the washers and dryers.”

Launder and many other capstone projects will be showcased at the College of Engineering Design Day on May 1 from 8 a.m. to noon in the Engineering Building.

This is the 22nd year of Design Day and it will be the largest ever. It will include 882 students and features 10 undergraduate degree programs.

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Sports

MSU Mock Olympics It has been a banner year for MSU athletics, so we decided to select the best athletes from spring sports who we think would make up a good Olympic team for MSU.

Aerial Powers In a season that could have gone better for the women’s basketball team, sophomore forward Aerial Powers was a bright spot. She broke program records in total points and rebounds this season.

“If there isn’t a female in the rafters, that kid should be one eventually someday.”

Travis Trice

The graduating guard was one of the biggest parts of MSU’s Final Four run.

After a career of injuries, Trice caught fire in the Big Ten Tournament and carried it over to the NCAA Tournament.

Trice was the emotional leader of perhaps the most improbable group Final Four team under Izzo. Although they didn’t win it all, he was proud of the team.

“I think there will be some basketball for Trice after here.

It will be interesting to see how it goes ...”

Tom Izzo, Men’s basketball head coach

Suzy Merchant, Women’s basketball head coach

Ryan Krill

Ryan Krill has been part of the senior leadership group that has the Spartans sitting at No. 6 in the Big Ten. Krill is batting .322 with six home runs and 38 RBI and has earned the praise of head coach Jake Boss Jr.

“He’s a big, strong guy who is able to hit for some power... That’s what we need, especially at the top of the order.”

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“He showed a poise and a level of confidence that allowed him to have success and really built the confidence of his teammates and coaching staff around him.”

Jake Hildebrand The Most Valuable Player of the hockey team this season was in net for the Spartans. Hildebrand shined once again this season, leading the nation in save percentage (.947) after Jan. 1.

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The boys of summer: MSU students cheer on the Lugnuts

ABOVE: Lansing Lugnuts fans enter Cooley Law School Stadium before a game. BELOW: Lansing Lugnuts starting pitcher Connor Greene delivers a pitch April 18 against the Dayton Dragons.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF KYLE CASTLE, LANSING LUGNUTS

East Lansing is like many college towns in the United States— when the stress of finals week is over many of the students who populated the town leave for home or internships.

For the students who are in town, many summers have included a night or afternoon at Cooley Law School Stadium for a Lansing Lugnuts game.

The Lugnuts are the triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays and offer beer and other food deals throughout the week that radio broadcaster Jesse Goldberg-Strassler said are a key to attracting students on a budget.

Thursday night is known as “Thirsty Thursday” where beers cost $2. Friday and Saturday offer firework shows at the end of the night.

Goldberg-Strassler said these are the nights when they see the highest student attendance.

“The MSU student population has made this a hit,” he said. “It’s been huge, and after all, who doesn’t love fireworks?”

Goldberg-Strassler has been working with the Lugnuts since 2009 and said when he first got to Lansing the attendance numbers were the largest, but around 2013 those figures started to dip.

It isn’t the record of the team, he said, but it’s because when a new class of students arrive at MSU they might not know of different of things to do in Lansing.

“Coming into your freshman year, you only know what’s around campus,” he said. “It’s all

about spreading awareness about what is available just down the road from East Lansing.”

Students going to games is a spontaneous event for many games,.Goldberg-Strassler said. The team experiences more walk-up ticket purchases for weekend games or nice weather days than games during the week.

“Students will say, ‘it’s 7 o’clock, why don’t we go to a Lugnuts game?” Goldberg-Strassler said.

For people who work for the Lugnuts, the students are accepted and appreciated because they bring more energy to the ballpark than other people from Lansing and East Lansing.

“Student fans are definitely louder,” he said.

The area around the stadium has seen development as well to add to the experience for students going to games.

The Nuthouse Sports Grill is a bar that is across the street from the stadium. General manager Jason Evans said he has noticed new bars and apartments that are starting to surround the stadium and give students more options after the game.

“Ten years ago when I was 21 or 22 and running around, it was a nice change to get out of East Lansing bars for the night,” he said. “Just experience something different.”

Evans has been with The Nuthouse for nine years and said Thursdays there is a clear demographic shift to a younger crowd.

“Before and after every game we’re pretty busy,” he said. “Thirsty Thursday is a younger demo for the two dollar beers.”

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The Nuthouse also offers two dollar beer cans on Thursday nights.

The appeal of spending a summer day or night going to a Lugnuts game is simple, according to Goldberg-Strassler said.

“It’s something to do on a beautiful day.”

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