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FRIB funding is economic boon

By Katie Krall

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“This is like a genealogy project on a cosmic scale,” Sherrill said.

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The long-awaited construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, is under way on campus and will soon be home to the nuclear research of both national and international scientists intent on making discoveries to help them understand new aspects of nuclear science.

For Bradley Sherrill, the chief scientist involved with FRIB, the most exciting part of the new facility is hard to pin down.

FRIB will make new kinds of science research possible — research that hasn’t been feasible before using rare isotopes, he said.

“Already there’s more than 1,300 scientists from all over the world signed up to use the facility. People will be coming to MSU from all over the world to do their research side-byside with researchers on campus,” Sherrill said.

The facility will use a particle accelerator to produce new forms of various elements, called isotopes. Researchers will be able to make very heavy or very light isotopes, and will use the isotopes to work toward trying to understand biological and environmental systems and even the nature of atoms themselves. The research will also help gain a better understanding of radiation and how isotopes can be better used for medical purposes.

By making and studying these isotopes, researchers can probe what holds atoms together and understand where they come from.

City Council to hire lawyer to evaluate citizen petition

By Derek Gartee

Strengthening Michigan While FRIB is designed to attract scientists from all over the world, students on campus will also have the ability to join in on the potentially groundbreaking research.

Sherrill said any of the students on campus could find something at the facility of interest. FRIB will employ both graduate and undergraduate students in many disciplines and the project offers learning opportunities to those involved.

MSU is ranked first in graduate programs for nuclear science, according to the U.S. News & World Report. Recognized for its leadership role, Sherrill said MSU carries a lot of respect.

“There is only one facility of this nature in the world and MSU will be the home for it,” Sherrill said.

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Grant, Mich., resident Ron Holmes shovels the work site on Wednesday at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams along Wilson Road and Bogue Street. The work site is 40 feet deep. FRIB will enable scientists to better understand rare isotopes, which can be used in the development of medical diagnostics.

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Number of scientists from around the world already signed up to use the facility

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Construction Contractors $99M Department of Energy Office of Science

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The East Lansing City Council authorized the temporary hiring of a private lawyer for special legal counsel during its Jun. 24 work session.

The city will hire Michael J. Hodge of Miller Canfield law to provide legal counsel in response to the recently filed petition. Miller Canfield is an international law firm with a location in Lansing, Mich.

The petition, signed by at least at 2,269 citizens, seeks to create a legal department for the city and hire a City Attorney that would be directly hired by the city.

The aim of the reform is to remove potential conflict of interest between private law firms and the city while possibly saving the city money in the long run.

Because t he pet it ion directly relates to the city attorney, it would be a conflict of interest for the city to seek legal counsel on this matter. To combat this, the city has opted to hire another private lawyer during the process.

Hodge has no prior experience working with the City of East Lansing. His selection was based on recommendations made to the city manager.

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Blooming of rare corpse flower draws traffic, attention to campus greenhouse

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Stationed in a small, tranquil and heated greenhouse on the corner of Wilson Road and Farm Lane, the corpse flower sits, rigged with a time-lapse camera in order to track the progress of its blooming. Peaking between Monday night and Tuesday morning, the flower attracted thousands to sample its putrid stench.

By 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, an extensive line had already begun to form and continued to grow throughout the day, even as intermittent rain forced staff to move the line into the sweltering greenhouse itself.

Freville said staff was trying Greenhouse employees took steps to ensure the comfort of to get visitors through as quickly as possible, advising visitors to those waiting to see the flower. get their pictures with the Greenhouse Manager flower and make their Dave Freville said the way out. staff set up water “We definitecheckpoints ly were not along the line prepared for when the sun this number came out and (of people),” temperatures Freville said. rose. T hey “We’re not set moved the line up at this facilback outdoors ity to have that when the heat MSU Horticulturist many people.” in the greenhouse By 8:45 p.m. Tuesbecame too much, day, 45 minutes after and led the elderly and handicapped to the front of the the greenhouse was scheduled line as the wait time grew to a to close its doors, there were still approximately 400 patrons length of 2 1/2 hours.

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The best joy I get out of my job is sharing it with people.”

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lined up outside. At day’s end, the corpse flower saw between 2,800 and 3,000 visitors.

Horticulturist Jan Szyren, who cares for all of the plants in the greenhouse was ecstatic to see such a large number of people interested in the plant.

“The best joy I get out of my job is sharing it with people,” Szyren said.

Szyren worked in the greenhouse when the corpse flower last bloomed. She has developed strategies which she believes encourage the flower to bloom.

“This time I kept the corm (bulb) extremely dry,” Szyren said. “I suspect that may have See FLOWER on page 2 u

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Okemos resident Ilya Beskin smells the corpse flower Tuesday at the Plant Science Greenhouse. The last time the flower bloomed at Michigan State was in 2010.

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Continued Brief Council drops green space On Tuesday’s city council work session, East Lansing Community & Economic Development Administrator Lori Mullins gave an update to the park district ballot language.

The ballot language was originally proposed to authorize the city to sell some of its land to private developers.

The lots proposed included parking areas west of Abbot Road as well as the small green space, known as “no name park,” for use in DTN’s Park District Project.

Mullins announced in the meeting that the city is dropping ballot language for the selling of the small green space by The Black Cat Bistro.

Mullins said after talks with DTN, the green space is no longer necessary to the park district redevelopment.

The ballot language for lots west of Abbot Road will still be proposed in an upcoming city council meeting. If approved, the initiative will appear on the ballot in the upcoming election.

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Flower

Social media played a key role in promoting blooming of rare corpse flower, which saw big turnout from page one

triggered the flowering.”

Social media played a large part in the numbers the greenhouse saw this year, officials said, including the W. J. Beal Botanical Garden’s Facebook page, where updates were constantly posted.

“The crowd was, I imagine, 10 times what we had four years ago,” Szyren said.

Freville attributed the large turnout to the plant’s promotion on social media, which was subsequently picked up by multiple media outlets.

“Ten years ago, they told us not to get on (social media),” Freville said. “Now they have classes on how to go about doing it to promote the university. It (has)

FRIB

Construction of Facility for Rare Isotope Beams provides temporary jobs, scientific opportunities from page one

FRIB Project Manager Thomas Glasmacher said students should be excited about FRIB because of the vast opportunities available to them.

“We can combine the education of the next generation of scientists with where the students are and get them excited about science,” Glasmacher said.

The long-term goal of the project is to enable scientific innovations to make discoveries in nuclear physics. “(Students) can get involved in cutting edge research right here in Michigan. Education is going to gain in value as MSU prestige rises,” Glasmacher said.

The project isn’t only providing new scientific opportunities. There are economic impacts, too. The creation of FRIB is providing jobs throughout each phase of the project. An estimated 5,000 one-year construction jobs have been created and 98 percent of the workers filling those positions are Michigan residents.

“As we go through different

changed completely.”

Freville said many children held their noses and squealed when they caught wind of the flower’s decay-like smell which the flower uses to attract flies and beetles, and elderly viewers seemed most impressed by it.

MSU alumna Grace O’Connor waited in line for over 1 1/2 hours to see the flower.

“I hope it’ll be worth it, but it might just be another plant,” O’Connor said.

Mason resident Joe Ranta, who stood in line for an hour with his family, said the wait was worthwhile.

“It only happens once every few years,” Ranta said. “We like things that stink.”

Curator of W. J. Beal Botanical Garden Frank Telewski said he was happy to see people become excited about plants.

“It’s a curiosity,” Telewski said.

“It’s a thing that a lot of people will never have a chance in their life to see, and you have it right here in your backyard at Michigan State University.” phases of the project, different trades come in to play and so many different people come with those trades — plumbers, electricians, pipe fitters,” Deputy Director of Conventional Facilities for FRIB Chris Thronson said.

Glasmacher said there have been some difficulties project teams have faced. The attraction of highly qualified staff and maintaining relations with those who want to build and design a one-of-a-kind project is tough, Glasmacher said.

Glasmacher also said FRIB will be a major economic asset to Michigan within the next 10 years, providing 400 full-time jobs both at FRIB and in related industries.

Michigan will receive about $1 billion in total economic activity, Glasmacher said, with $600 million of that reflected in cost of design, engineering and construction and $187 million in state tax revenues.

Building a National Icon While the official groundbreaking ceremony was held in March, Thronson said constructing the shell of the building will take three years. He also said the technical design will take an additional two years to put together after the shell is completed.

Thronson said the planned completion date for FRIB build-

Botanical garden staff previously planned to pollinate the corpse flower with another flower blooming at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, but could not because the potential mate was blooming a day behind MSU’s. Instead, some of MSU’s corpse flower pollen was sent to Orange Coast College.

Telewski was able to perform artificial pollination on the hermaphroditic flower, and some visitors witnessed the process.

The corpse flower, a rarity even in its native habitat of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was brought to MSU in 1995 and first bloomed in 2010. Staff said it is rare to have the flower bloom again in just four years.

Visitors can still see the flower Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., though it is expected to be in decline by that time.

Managing Editor Simon Schuster contributed to this report.

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ing itself is March 2017, but the construction is currently eight weeks ahead of schedule.

Construction crews must first put a waterproofing material down to cover the entire bottom of the excavation — which is 40 feet below the surface. Crews can then focus on building the foundation. The first placement of concrete was put down last week and Thronson said an additional seven placements of concrete will be necessary.

After the finalization of the FRIB technical design, the U.S. Department of Energy paid a visit to campus to review and assess the readiness for technical construction.

FRIB is being funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Michigan. The Department of Energy has committed $99 million and the State of Michigan has committed $38 million for a total of $137 million spent as of May 31.

Last Friday, MSU’s Board of Trustees approved the facility to receive $648.7 million in federal funds for the final leg of the project.

As of now, the authorized amount is $185 million with another $90 million in the President’s budget request to Congress by fiscal year 2015.

The total project cost is $730 million and the entire project is expected to be completed by 2022.

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petition

Council hires another attorney for counsel about citizen petition to alter position of city attorney from page one

"(Michael J. Hodge) is an expert on election law,” East Lansing City Manager George Lahanas said.

The recommendation also received praise by Council Member Ruth Beier.

“I had no idea (the city) was going to choose Hodge, but he is great,” Beier said.

“He is very helpful with ballot questions.”

Beier also thanked the city for removing the potential conflict of interest.

“This is a good example of doing everything we can to be transparent,” Beier said.

The process must move quickly, according to city procedure. The City Clerk must finish validating petition signatures within 45 days of filing a petition and then start drafting a proposal.

If the City Clerk has any legal questions during these processes, Hodge will assist her. Hodge will work on a call-to-call basis for the city.

Jeffery Hank, co-chair of the East Lansing Citizens for a Public Servant City Attorney, the group behind the petition, said the decision is “wholly appropriate.”

“We asked the city to make sure the current city attorney didn’t have a conflict of interest during this process,” Hank said. “This is just standard.”

Police brief

Pharmacy suspect taken into custody The man suspected of robbery and bomb threats at the pharmacy in Mid-Michigan Physicians in Lansing is now in custody after a standoff with Meridian Township Police.

The suspect is described as a white male in his early 60s. After the robbery in Lansing Township where the suspect stole medications and made threats police believed to be credible, the man fled in his car to his home at the 1800 block of Nemoke Trail in Haslett.

Police say he instructed his wife to take his vehicle and leave the residence. East Lansing police stopped the vehicle around the intersection of Lake Lansing Road and Pollard Avenue.

The Special Response Team, or SRT, was on the scene with Michigan State Bomb Squad standing by as a precaution.

The surrounding residences were evacuated.

There were no explosives found after police and police K9s searched the residence,

but they did find evidence from the robbery in Lansing Township.

Meridian Township Lt. Greg Fenger said no crime was committed in Meridian and the suspect was arrested for the incident in Lansing Township.

Neighboring resident Deanna Mitchell said she got a text while at work that a situation was unfolding near her home.

Her 15-year-old son, Cylus Hill, was home by himself.

Police told her the safest course of action for her son was to stay inside and lock the doors until the situation was resolved.

Later, detectives and SRT brought Hill outside to be with his mother and out of the evacuated area.

After hours of negotiations, the suspect voluntarily surrendered to police and was taken away in an ambulance. Police say the suspect was cooperative throughout the negotiations.

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Alumnus pens saucy novel set in Morrill Hall

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Entomology Associate Professor Zachary Huang searches for a queen bee Wednesday at the bee research center located on south campus off Jolly Road. Huang has been working with bees for 30 years.

MSU beekeepers concerned for future

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About 700,000 of entomology Associate Professor Zachary Huang’s honey bees perished during the past harsh winter, with only two of his 30 colonies enduring the cold.

Although it was a freak winter that wrought havoc on Huang’s colonies, beekeepers across the United States have been growing accustomed to staggering losses.

The honey bee population in the U.S. has been dwindling, with many colonies succumbing to an onslaught of mites, pesticides and fungal pathogens.

To counteract the troubling decline in the populations of honey bees and other pollinators, President Barack Obama mandated on Friday the creation of a Pollinator Health Task Force charged with reversing pollinator losses and helping “restore

populations to healthy levels.”

“The continued loss of commercial honey bee colonies poses a threat to the economic stability of commercial beekeeping and pollination operations in the United States, which could have profound implications for agriculture and food,” Obama said in a statement. “Severe yearly declines create concern that bee colony losses could reach a point from which the commercial pollination industry would not be able to adequately recover.”

According to the statement, honey bee pollination alone adds more than $15 billion in value to agricultural crops each year in the United States.Several years ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Huang and his team $4 million in research funds to examine how fungal pathogens affect honey bees and how it might play into the mysterious mass disappearance of honey bees known as

colony collapse disorder or CCD. The disorder is characterized by a complete depopulation of worker bees from a hive, often without any dead bees left behind.

So far Huang, as with every other honey bee researcher in the U.S., has been unable to solve the enigma.

Nearly one-third of all food production, chiefly fruits, nuts and vegetables, directly depends on honey bees pollination, Huang said.

“Almost every food we eat has

bees helping it,” he said.

Mark Miezio, owner of Cherry Bay Orchards, works mainly in apple and cherry production. Every spring Miezio brings in honey bees to pollinate the orchard.

Within the past three to four years, pollination costs have risen 25 percent because of dwindling populations, he said.

“We depend on the bees, and we depend on them for our livelihood,” he said. “I need bees around for when my grandkids take over the farm.”

Not a romance, not a mystery and not a memoir is how MSU alumnus and former English professor Rafeeq McGiveron described his book.

McGiveron said “Student Body” contains the components of each of those genres. The book is a work of fiction which is set on MSU’s campus — specifically old Morrill Hall.

“Student Body” tells the stor y of Rick O’Donnell, a doctoral student hiding a secret — he had a short affair with a former student named Lauren.

T he character Lauren t hen becomes a teac hi n g a s s i s t a nt w it h a n office down the hall from O’Donnell and now his career and marriage are in danger if the affair comes to the surface.

McGiveron said he spent 6 1/2 years at MSU and he had the the idea for a long time. He thought the idea for the story was very lifelike and possible.

As a graduate assistant, McGiveron said he thought someone had to write about the newness and camaraderie which came with being a teaching assistant in addition to the feeling of Morrill Hall.

“It was neat to w rite about things I had seen and overheard,” McGiveron said.

Humanities, Culture and Writing Professor Rod Phillips said he, Rafeeq, and other graduate students shared an office in the basement of Morrill Hall.

Phillips said in that time, the English department was

an interesting place because of the different personalities brought to it.

“Life as a grad student in Morrill Hall during the era offered an ample amount of material for any aspiring novelist,” Phillips said in an email.

McGiveron published his work through CreateSpace, an Amazon company which allows authors to self-publish their work.

The book was previously accepted by a Michigan publishing company, My Green Publisher, LLC, before it went out of business.

For mer editor for My Green Publisher, LLC, Fiona Thomas said one thing which stood out to her with “Student Body” was McGiveron does not hold back with his writing.

“Not only is he able to portray people’s feelings and emotions to the point you feel them yourself, but his description of the character’s surroundings give you the sense of what the people in the book are looking at,” Thomas said.

Though McGiveron has done two to three dozen literar y criticisms, “Student Body” is his first fiction book and he said he drew a lot of inspiration for characters from people he knows.

“I felt like I was writing something that was true,” McGiveron said.

M c Gi v e r on c u r r e nt l y works as an advisor at Lansing Communit y College and said he has been thinking of a few science fiction novel ideas for the future.

“Student Body” is available on CreateSpace but also at Curious Book Shop which sells books published

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Potential conflict of interest raises concerns among council

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A seemingly typical construction project escalated to a potential scandal for city council members at a work session on June 24.

The proposal discussed was a project to reconstruct the infrastructure in the Chesterfield neighborhood. The project is extensive, making repairs to the roads, curbs, sidewalks, sewers and water mains.

T h e p r oj e c t h a s g o n e through a lengthy process already. The East Lansing Public Works Department sent out a request for proposals from engineering firms. The firms would be responsible for designing the reconstruction.

Hubbell, Roth & Clark, Inc., a Bloomfield Hills, Michiganbased engineering company was chosen to helm the reconstruction project.

When the proposal was presented to council, they were informed of a potential conf lict of interest associated

with the project.

“Todd Sneathen, the public works director, has accepted a position at Hubbell, Roth & Clark, Inc.,” East Lansing City Manager George Lahanas said.

Sneat hen had prev iously worked at the company as a chief field engineer before working for the city, according to his LinkedIn account.

In response to the news of Sneathen’s new employer, the public works department, along with the cit y, made attempts to validate their decision to choose Hubbell, Roth & Clark.

T he t wo remaining civil engineers responsible for approving the company were asked about the merits of Hubbell, Roth & Clark separately.

Both engineers agreed Hubbell, Roth & Clark would be the best choice out of all the applicants.

Despite the department’s at tempt s to v a l idate t he ap p r o v a l , c o u n c i l m e m bers voiced strong concern about the implications of the proposal.

“I believe this process has

integrity. I just think that the public may ask different questions,” council member Ruth Beier said.

The council considered a motion to have the Public Works Department restart the entire process, issuing a new announcement requesting proposals and reviewing the new applicants.

Due to the need for action on this issue, council also considered a re-review of the currently submitted proposals.

“We are asking for four of the same proposals from people who have already proposed, and then sending them to two of the three people who have already reviewed them,” council member K at h leen Boyle said. “I really don’t see how it makes any change to have new bids come in.”

Ultimately, the council opted to take no action. The proposal will, however, still be re-evaluated by the East Lansing Public Works Department without Todd Sneathen. After the re-evaluation, the proposal will be presented again to council.

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“I can spend hours scrolling down my dashboard on Tumblr and laughing at text posts and reblogging quotes, but the website also provides a safe place for people to talk about any troubles they may be facing in their lives.”

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love being a reporter. I know that is an odd way to start a column, but hold on for a second. As a reporter, I get to practice a right I believe is one of the most important

of all — the right to information.

That is why I was so disgusted by the acts that took place in Egypt this week. If you are not aware, the Egyptian government arrested three reporters from Al Jazeera, a popular television news station in the country. The reporters were charged with “aiding the Muslim Brotherhood and reporting false news,” according to Aljazeera.com. Two of the reporters now face seven to 10 years in jail for these “crimes.”

As a fellow reporter my job is to gather information. I learn peoples’ stories and try to see the whole picture. I seek to tell the story, regardless of what that story may be. If it is controversial, so be it. Wether the story is positive, negative or somewhere in between, I tell the truth.

Access to free information is vital to human life. Knowing about the world we live in is the best way to move forward in society. And the only way to move forward is to be conscious of the past and present.

According to CNN.com, the prosecution in If the state of Egypt these cases has yet to bring up any substantiwants to create yet ative evidence for these allegations. Some of another citizen upristhe evidence for their incarceration that has ing, they are headed in been brought up includes “a BBC podcast, a the right direction. news report made while none of the accused Egypt needs to underwere in Egypt, a pop video by the Austrastand that information will lian singer Gotye, and several recordings on spread, whether they want it non-Egyptian issues,” according to or not. In this day to Aljazeera.com and age, most people reporter A pop video by Gotye. These have access to a uninhibitreporters are facing up to ten ed stream of information known years in jail, and the prosecuas the Internet. The Egyptian governtion used the “Somebody That I ment can arrest all of the reporters in Used To Know” music video as Egypt, but reporters across the world evidence of false reporting and will continue to report and Egyptian aiding a terrorist organization. citizens will find a way to read it.

Apparently the video was played As students, we need to protect and no explanation was given as and promote free information. We Derek gartee to why this was pertinent. It is are given the opportunity each day dgartee@statenews.com unbelievable. to question everything while we are It frightens me to imagine a at MSU. world where information cannot flow. ReportWe are able to form opinions without the fear ers in Egypt should be able to tell the citizens of possible imprisonment. what is happening, regardless of its potential In America we have a pretty decent track record impact on the regime. To deny citizens the regarding free speech, seeing as it is the First right to free press, and in turn, free speech, and most important Amendment. But we cannot the state is denying them a human right. take that for granted or assume it will always be

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there. In the past, there have been attempts to deny free speech with the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. We as a nation did a good job protesting the proposed censorship and SOPA did not pass, but we should still be on the alert for similar situations both at home and internationally, like the Al Jazeera arrests.

We, in America, are the representatives, an example of freedom. We cannot sit back and watch a developing nation like Egypt deny their citizens an integral right.

As we move on to be the leaders of our world, we should make free information a priority. Because knowledge is the key to the future.

Derek Gartee is a State News reporter. Reach him at dgartee@statenews.com.

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henry pan panhenry@msu.edu

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ports are traditionally defined as activities where opponents challenge each other in physical prowess. Such a strict definition, however, is being unraveled by the “nerdy” antithesis of “jock” sports — video games, where a very different kind of prowess is required.

One video game in particular, League of Legends, or LoL, has been gaining a lot of traction as more than just a pastime. After the U.S. government recognized LoL as an official sport, there was even talk about the game becoming a potential contender for the 2016 Olympics.

Now, Robert Morris University Illinois is willing to offer between 45 and 50 athletic scholarships to play LoL as a varsity sport. No, that’s not a joke. At $19,000 each, Robert Morris University Illinois is investing at least $855,000 into varsity gaming with League of Legends.

occurs every season and is professionally streamed on a daily basis. The prize pool for last year was over $2 million, and the winner of the world tournament received $1 million.

I’ve played the game for three years now, and although I’ve recently cut back quite drastically for academics, there are other kids my age that take it to the next level and actually compete on a team as a full-time sport. There are even some Spartans competing in the international field for League of Legends.

Hai Du Lam, a graduate from MSU, is currently competing full-time on one of North America’s top teams. Knowing that electronic sports are already popular in Asia, with Korea having dedicated television channels to video games such as Starcraft, I think it’s great that the U.S. is finally partaking in this new paradigm of sports.

While the sport has very little physical interaction, its strategic elements make it akin to competitive chess and poker. Players are constantly battling a game of wits, and the elements of fantasy and teamwork LoL provides definitely spice things up.

Just because people are outplaying each other on a computer rather than physically or verbally, shouldn’t take away from the game’s competitive standing as a sport. Universities such as MSU and MIT already have official school clubs sponsoring a collegiate championship and the scholarship offers of Robert Morris University Illinois are just the first steps to taking the sport a step further.

“Many people who play video games can probably remember a time when their parents told them that video games were a waste of time. Although there are many mindless video games out there fitting that category to a tee, games that require active thinking and a team dynamic definitely deserve some respect.”

The game is set up so that two teams of players have to fight each other on a battlefield divided into three lanes.

The winning objective is to destroy the enemy’s base, located on the opposite corner of the map, by toppling towers within these lanes. Of course, the enemy team is trying to do the same thing, so this is where a lot of the game’s strategy takes place.

For my high school friends and me, LoL has definitely been an integral part of our lives. When it first caught fire in my social group during sophomore year, I wasn’t part of the bandwagon. Every day during lunch, I’d hear my friends discuss their matches from the previous night.

They would be talking in video game jargon and for the most part I had no clue what they were saying. However, once I began playing, I definitely could understand the appeal of the multiplayer online battle arena genre, or MOBA. Much like chess, the game has an Elo ranking system that judges how good you are based on your wins and losses. Players who are in the top are widely recognized and often play in one of the competitive teams that compete in the Championship Series. This Series

I’m sure this whole idea is going to get a lot of ridicule, especially from older generations.

Many people who play video games can probably remember a time when their parents told them that video games were a waste of time. Although there are many mindless video games out there fitting that category to a tee, games that require active thinking and a team dynamic definitely deserve some respect.

While I think physical activity is an integral part of a healthy lifestyle, the concept of a competitive sport shouldn’t be limited to physical interaction. Electronic sports offers a more even playing field compared to physical sports — where people who are incredibly endowed with good genetics are going to have an overwhelming advantage.

Although electronic sports still have a long way to go to earn public recognition in America, I think they will eventually lead to a refreshing new genre of competition that will become as engaging to the world as the World Cup is right now.

Henry Pan is a chemical engineering sophomore. Reach him at panhenry@ msu.edu.

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Board of Trustees approves budget, including 2.8 percent in-state tuition increase Hey, Athletic Dept., why don’t you give some money back to the general fund. I won’t give one dime to another fundraising call from MSU until the Athletic Department starts chippin’ in to help keep tuition down, even if it’s marginal and symbolic at first. People should be mad as hell.

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MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities released its 2013 water quality report Tuesday to inform students and staff of the quality of the water MSU provides.

According to the report, MSU’s water quality surpasses all state standards. To reach this quality, officials must work to actively reduce contaminants in the water supply.

MSU’s water mainly comes from the Saginaw Aquifer, which also provides water to East Lansing and the surrounding cities.

“It’s really kind of a stable water source,” MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities Director of Utilities Bob Ellerhorst said.

According to the report, several contaminants pose a threat to drinking water, such as microbial and inorganic. This includes contamination coming from the surface, especially in areas with high industrial activity. Arsenic can also threaten safe drinking water.

“Arsenic is naturally occurring in local wells and private wells,” Lansing Board of Water and Light Water Quality Administrator Bill Maier said. “Water should be tested because arsenic can be a longterm health issue.”

MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities’ Wellhead Protection Program prevents future contamination from occurring in the water supply, Ellerhorst said.

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Campus water quality adequate In addition to the Wellhead Protection Program, MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities Water Systems Manager Mike Tracy said the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Quality make sure there are no water contaminants in drinking water.

“The challenge is to try to anticipate what the hazards may be and how to prevent them,” Ellerhorst said.

In comparison to previous years, Ellerhorst said the most recent water quality report is similar.

Since the surrounding cities use the same water source as MSU, the quality is comparable, Natural Resources and Water Quality MSU Extension Educator Beth Clawson said.

“It’s as important to know where your water comes from as where your food comes from,” she added. “The water you’re drinking now is as safe as bottled water, if not more, because it’s tested weekly.”

As a part of a water monitoring plan prescribed by the state of Michigan, MSU is in the process of testing the amounts of lead and copper present in the water supply.

E l lerhor st added, t he Department of Environmental Quality requires MSU’s Infrastructure Planning and Facilities to take water samples for testing and said there are “samples going on weekly all over campus.”

“Trust your city water,” Clawson said. “It may taste funny, but it’s not the water, it’s the plumbing.”

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Jazz senior Kim Vi practices Wednesday at his home in East Lansing. Kim Vi is the lead singer for his band Kim Vi and The Siblings.

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After graduating high school, Kim Vi knew he had a future in music, but wasn’t sure in which genre his talents resided.

Growing up with both parents involved in classical music, Vi gave it a try but discovered it wasn’t the perfect fit for him.

Without any lessons, Vi decided to major in jazz studies as an undergraduate based solely on the way jazz music felt and

sounded.

He gained inspiration from MSU jazz studies faculty member Reggie Thomas, who helped him build a foundation and gave him the determination to teach himself how to play the guitar.

Vi’s first time playing the guitar was at the age of twelve, which is also around the same time he began singing.

But guitar wasn’t something he felt was a God-given talent, so he worked hard and finally, it became something he could be proud of.

“It is really emotionally ... and intellectually stimulating to play jazz,” Vi said. “There are so many things that go into the knowledge of it beforehand.

When you get on the bandstand, all the intellectual preparation goes away and it’s just who you are.”

Vi had no idea he would meet his current band members while touring individually, or that they would become some of his best friends and roommates at MSU. Roommate status led to the band’s name, Kim Vi and The

Siblings, an ironic twist, and the foursome quickly established themselves in the public eye during a self-booked Eastern U.S. tour.

Vi’s college career in jazz has taken him on a journey around the world, to places as far afield as Trinidad. The group is currently planning a West Coast tour in August, following the release of their February album.

Vi said college is just the beginning and he plans to push his talent as far as it will take him.

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Keenan Wetzel has harbored a love for basketball throughout his 22 years of life.

The media and information senior, who is also a walk-on playe r f or t he MSU basketball team, m i xe d t h at Wetzel love with his passion for writing and film to create the idea for his short

“Basically, it’s a man weighing the value of ambition against the value of family,” Ryan Sundberg, an MSU alumnus and cinematographer with the production, said. Sundberg, along with other members of the team, works with Eightfold Marketing & Creative, LLC. Other team members work out of Auburn Hills with alumnifounded Rumor Productions, LLC. While the story is fictional, Wetzel’s inspiration was drawn from growing up around basketball players who share a common, and sometimes unreachable, dream of mak-

film, “The Cager.”

The short tells the story of former college basketball star Wesley Ray, played by SAG certified actor and former MSU basketball player Delvon Roe. Ray’s dream of living in basketball stardom is shattered after he suffers an injury during his last college game. Five years later, Ray’s life is spinning out of control as he struggles to stand by and support his family.

When Ray meets Joe, a kind stranger, at a nearby zoo, Ray’s perspectives of life, family and the meaning of true happiness are reshaped.

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MSU alumnus Steven VanMaele, a storyboard artist with Eightfold Marketing & Creative, LLC., said they’re still working on the shot list and storyboard even though the goal has yet to be met.

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Consider the emotional tone, and how different recipients might react. cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is an 8 — Talk to people and things get worked out today and tomorrow. You have confidence, and words seem to flow.

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From there, Wetzel said the 20 to 25 minute film will go to nonprofit organizations directly correlated with its message, such as Parents Without Partners and the Boys & Girls Club of Lansing.

“I hope that people take from this film that life isn’t about what you do, but rather who you affect,” Wetzel said. “This film speaks and says it’s not about fame or fortune — it’s about the ones you love and the affect you have on them.”

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ABOVE: Grasslake, Mich., Resident, Eleanor Kratz practices yoga with granddaughter Sierra Kratz Tuesday at IM SportsEast on East Shaw Road. Grandparents University allows many grandparents the opportunity to bond with their grandchildren.

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Deborah took her granddaughter, 10-year-old Madison Cooper, to enjoy the serenity of an on-campus yoga class and Gary planned on taking his grandson BB gun shooting — all part of the fun and festivities of Grandparents University, which took place this week on the MSU campus.

MSU Grandparents University is a three-day camp coordinated by alumni relations professionals within colleges and units across campus, in which children ages eight to 12 can explore four different areas of study, Kathryn Reed, assistant director of special events and alumni relations for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said.

The event began Tuesday morning and went through Thursday afternoon. Partic-

ipants spent t wo nights in Cooper, both hope to attend Holmes Hall, attended classes MSU in the future.

G a r y He s sle r s a id t he throughout campus and dined highlight of the event is the in MSU cafeterias.

Reed said she feels t he opportunity to bond with the event is important because it grandkids away from elecprovides an “opportunity for tronics and technology, and intergenerational bonding” expose them to interesting and helps “connect families experiences.

“It gives the grandkids parback to MSU and engage them in an academic environment.” ticularly an opportunity to see Gr a ndpa r e nt s Un ive r si- what campus life is like and why they would want ty is in its ninth year to attend Michigan and Reed said this State Universiyear there are t y,” he sa id.

1,050 partic“It ’s nice to ipants from relive some 32 states of t he old — with places, too, 200 famifor my wife lies on the and me.” w a it l i s t .

Gary HesShe said sler earned the event grandfather h i s m a s te r s sold out within special eduin eight hours c at ion i n 1968 and 600 people and Deborah Hesreg istered i n t he sler graduated from the first 15 minutes.

Out of those 1,050 partic- College of Education in 1970.

Deborah said she enjoyed ipants, four made up a complete Spartan family. Grand- showing the grandkids around parents Gar y and Deborah and “acclimating them to the Hessler a re bot h Spa r ta n college env ironment.” She alumni, and their grandchil- also said she has attended the dren, Madison and Bennett event in previous years and,

“

It gives the grandkids particularly an opportunity to see what campus life is like.”

—Gary hessler,

impressed with MSU’s efforts, wanted to return.

Gar y said he hopes MSU cont i nues to spon sor t he event, as they have three more grandchildren ages four, six and eight. The Hesslers and their grandchildren traveled about 1 1/2 hours from the greater Detroit area.

Madison Cooper said the class she most looked forward to was extreme dorm room remodel, while Bennett Cooper looked forward to the archery and air aistol/air rifle classes.

Bot h children said t hey enjoyed the swimming and diving activities at IM SportsWest, while Bennett was especially impressed with the oncampus dining.

“I’m really looking forward to all the other stuff we have,” Madison said. “It (has) just been really fun so far.”

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Izzo weighs in on Gary Harris, Adreian Payne and Keith Appling, 2014 NBA Draft

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It’s no secret Tom Izzo is a proponent of the four-year college basketball player.

But there are cases where he believes a player is ready for the limelight sooner rather than later.

The 2014 NBA Draft, which will take place at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, will air live on ESPN Thursday night at 7 p.m.

It could be a historic night for the MSU basketball program as former MSU guard Gary Harris and former MSU forward Adreian Payne could become lottery picks, which would be the first time two MSU players are drafted in the top-14.

Izzo sees Payne, who averaged 16.4 points, 7.3 rebounds and .423 percent shooting from beyond the arc during his senior season, as a player who benefited from four years of college.

Some believed Payne would crack during the first round after his breakout junior campaign, but Izzo wasn’t convinced. Being 23 years of age, which is considered old for the draft in NBA circles, hasn’t kept Payne out of the lottery in certain mock drafts.

“I had agents saying he

should stay (at MSU), and that’s almost un-American,” Izzo said Wednesday during a meeting with sports writers and editors at the Michigan High School Athletic Association office in East Lansing. “He is a much, much, much better player. It doesn’t mean he’ll go higher.

People say he would have been a first round pick last year. How do you know? He’s is so much better, with a degree and more ready now than he would have been.”

On the other hand, Harris is a near-consensus lottery pick after two years of college, and Izzo said he supports his decision to declare early.

Harris averaged 16.7 points, four rebounds and 1.8 steals per game last season.

“Whenever I talk to a player about leaving early, I say, ‘do you want to get drafted in the first round or do you want to have a career in the NBA?’” he said. “I think both of those guys are going in the first round for sure.”

Izzo said he received a few phone calls during the season on former MSU guard Keith Appling, who is a late second round pick on some mock drafts, including those of CBS Sports analysts Gary Parrish and Matt Moore.

Despite mock drafts pegging Harris anywhere from No. 9

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Sophomore guard Gary Harris dribbles while Harvard guard Brandyn Curry guards on March 22 at Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena in Spokane, Wash., during the NCAA Tournament. The Spartans won, 80-73.

to No. 17 and Payne from the high teens to mid 20s according to the MSU head coach, Izzo said he only has a faint idea of where the former MSU stars could go.

“I have no idea. I’ve called a lot of teams, a lot of teams have

called me,” Izzo said. “It really heats up this week, believe it or not. I say because of the social media, even (general managers) and coaches and owners are playing everything so close to the vest. In my mind it wasn’t like this five or 10 years ago.”