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City Council back from hiatus Topics discussed at this week’s meeting included a potential ban of recreational roof use that has proved controversial among MSU students.

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MSU hosts prestigious Boy Scout conference The 100th annual National Order of the Arrow Conference brings more than 15,000 members from across the country to East Lansing for a week-long celebration. SEE PAGE 6

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LETTER: Boy Scouts on campus demonstrate insensitivity to Native American traditions Anyone on campus this week knows the Boy Scouts of America seem to have invaded nearly every corner of MSU. The Breslin Center is home to the centennial celebration National Order of the Arrow (OA) Conference, a massive gathering of about 15,000 scouts selected for the organization’s top honor society. The scouts attending this event were secretly nominated by troop leadership and inducted because they “best exemplify the Scout Oath and Law in their daily lives.” The organization professes to provide “quality leadership development and programming that enrich and help to extend Scouting to America’s youth,” indicating the OA’s high-visibility model of community involvement and service.

High visibility is precisely what seems to be going on at the corner of Shaw Lane and Harrison Road, where two huge teepees stand next to a 15-foot inflatable Boy Scout gesturing the Scout’s honor sign of three fingers pointed to the sky. You might have seen a hot air balloon decorated with the stylized image of an American Indian’s face in profile gracing the campus grounds.

But what do Native Americans have to do with Boy Scouts? The answer is —nothing — except that the Order of the Arrow has used American Indian “styled”

images and attire in its events and ceremonies for 100 years.

As a member of the OA, I participated in the secret (or as the organization calls it, “safeguarded”) ceremony of induction. The process involved a silent processional through the woods led by a white troop leader wearing a feather headdress that draped to the ground. He was followed by another white leader steadily beating a “native” drum.

Torches lit the way to a clearing in the middle of the woods where ceremony leaders wore fanciful colored masks, antlers, animal pelts and more headdresses. Before a roaring bonfire, nonsense “native” language was uttered and prayers chanted.

Then, the candidate scouts were forbidden to speak for the next 24 hours and sent away to sleep the night alone without shelter on the forest floor. As an honored scout, I performed the ceremony dutifully and fearlessly.

Although I never advanced the ranks high enough to get to wear a headdress, I proudly sported my white sash embroidered with a red “Indian” arrow at all scout events.

It wasn’t until I was an undergraduate student at Central Michigan University that the problem of appropriating Native American traditions for a white audience became clear to me.

Teepees constructed near South Neighborhood on campus for this week’s NOAC event. PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILIP RICE

While at CMU, I applied for a student grant to fund a project to collect Ojibwe music and compose it into a work for choir, piano and drum. The project was funded by university trustees

and performed for an audience of white spectators who hailed it with a standing ovation. When I posted the recording online and actual Native American people heard it, I received a very dif-

ferent reaction. One commenter said frankly, “Our [traditions] hold power. Ours, not yours. You saying this is ‘honoring’ and ‘reconciliation’ is about as sincere as a Pocahontas costume on Halloween.”

At first I was hurt and confused by this reaction. Like my OA brothers who taught me about “native” traditions, I believed I was honoring the “red man” by using his traditions in a context palatable to an audience of my peers. I had been enchanted by a romantic notion of aboriginal cultures that made it seem magical and exotic. But this notion of spirituality and mystery is not representative of how native cultures actually operate — and more importantly, it discards the right of those cultures to control who interacts with their traditions and how, when and where those interactions happen.

For years, the OA’s official logo was a stylized image of a generic “native” face with a swirling headdress. Their logo has since changed to a roughhewn arrowhead, and although it is better than a dehumanizing image a la CMU’s old “Chippewa” logo or the current Washington Redskins logo, it is still a symbol deliberately and shamelessly appropriated from a stylized stereotype of Native American artifacts. The OA website,

as of today, features a prominent image of the “original chief bonnet,” a feather headdress on a young white man’s head. There is nothing “original” about this “bonnet.” It is a symbol stolen from a culture that has absolutely nothing to do with the British tradition of Boy Scouts.

Although the Boy Scouts have made some very recent advances toward being more socially aware — just last week the national restriction on openly gay leaders was lifted — their honor society remains guilty of flagrant cultural appropriation and borderline racism.

I am deeply saddened to see that MSU agreed to host the national OA conference, and especially that such public displays of cultural insensitivity are going unreprimanded. At a public university where diversity is celebrated and racism shunned, I expected an organization like the OA would have been denied access to our campus.

I urge anyone in contact with University Conference Services to talk about these issues with those responsible for booking the event. Our university resources and land should not be used this way, nor our students exposed to this kind of public racism.

Phillip Rice is a doctoral student at MSU and member of the Order of the Arrow.

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Police investigate shots fired at Chandler Crossings

BY JESSICA STEELEY AND RYAN SQUANDA JSTEELEY@STATENEWS.COM RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

A shooting at The Village at Chandler Crossings over the weekend of July 31 has left some residents of the apartment complex feeling unsafe.

The shooting, which had no reported injuries, occurred near the pool at the tail end of a Friday night Glow Light Party, Alex O’Brien, an official from the

apartment complex’s management company, said.

Bath Twp. police Sgt. Matt Mardigian said police were originally dispatched to the scene around midnight in response to reports of an assault. It was then police heard gun shots from a nearby building.

Because of the large size of the party, police were unable to locate either the suspect or any victims when they arrived, but they were able to recover shell casings from the handgun.

Maegan Stokes, a resident at The Village, was surprised when asked for an interview, as she didn’t even know the incident occurred.

“I definitely feel ... as a resident, I should have had some sort of notice or something, like a phone call, an email; something that would have been sent out,” Stokes said.

Police and security were on-site for the event, so they responded promptly to the sound of gunshots, O’Brien said.

“We believe that the gunshots were

fired by a guest at the community, not residents, who illegally brought the gun onto the premise,” he said via email.

But Stokes still isn’t assured of her safety. She said having open gunfire at the pool is “kind of ridiculous.”

“Now that there (are) weapons involved, I really just don’t feel like this is a safe place to live, I feel like … anything can happen, so now that’s starting to freak me out,” Stokes said.

She said if such incidents continue to happen at Chandler Crossings, she

would rethink living there.

According to Title 13, Article J of The Village at Chandler Crossings lease agreement, residents are not allowed to have handguns or firearms in their apartments.

O’Brien said Chandler Crossings has security features on every building and unit, and security services on-site. He also encouraged residents to report suspicious activity.

The investigation is ongoing, Sgt. Mardigian said.

MSU student film premieres at Traverse City Film Festival

BY JESSICA STEELEY JSTEELEY@STATENEWS.COM

“(313) Choices” is a new feature length film made by MSU students in a collaborative effort between MSU’s College of Music, Department of Theatre and College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

The film premiered at the Traverse City Film Festival on July 29, MSU alumnus Brock Lewandowski said, adding there was a Q&A after the film with the executive producers and some of the students.

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about choices people have to make in their daily lives living in the 313 ZIP code of Detroit,” director of MSU’s Media Sandbox David Wheeler said.

The film, which was written

by MSU alumna CJ Valle, was written as a play with plans to turn it into a movie through MSU’s “Theatre 2 Film” project, Wheeler said.

The film switches between six different stories which take place in the 313 area code of Detroit, Wheeler said, and the stories all intertwine.

Wheeler said over 100 MSU students worked on the 90-min-

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ute film.

“Without a doubt, having all the people involved was the only reason this could even be made,” media and information sophomore Tyler Clifton, who was a director of the film, said.

He said with everything that had to be done on the film, everyone needed each other and had to work together as a team.

Lewandowski described those working on the film as dedicated, passionate people who wanted to be there, since they didn’t get paid or receive school credit.

MSU is one of the only universities to make a full-length film, Wheeler said, because there are a lot of challenges to working with so many different schedules, which is why the film has six directors and producers. "(313) Choices” allowed many students to receive notable experience while making friends and building connections.

“It was such a great opportunity because not a lot of colleges produce feature length films,” MSU alumna Andrea Raby, a producer, said. “To say I’ve produced a feature length film at 22 years old is a great thing.”

Clifton agrees directing the movie is an opportunity which will open up future possibilities, especially since he was a freshman during the movie’s filming.

“It ended up being the greatest thing ever,” Clifton said.

“Since freshman year of high school I knew I wanted to direct.”

Lewandowski co-produced a story in the film about two brothers, which he enjoyed because he has a close relationship with his own brother.

“Having the personal connection to the story was something that drew me into it,” Lewandowski said.

He also directed and co-produced the story which he

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The student crew prepares a shot for their film “(313) Choices.” PHOTOS COURTESY OF CJ VALLE

English senior Seth Kalis, left, and media and information senior Aaron Snyder work on a segment of “(313) Choices.”

describes as the “comic relief” of the film, and he was the film’s post production supervisor as well.

“There are several milestones you hit along the way and it’s hard to see the end product … so to see the film come togeth-

er on the screen … was a really exciting experience,” Lewandowski said Wheeler describes the film as realistic, mature and relevant, with a production quality to match professional films.

“It is different; it’s not like

most movies you’re going to see at the cinema,” Wheeler said, adding the film is unique because few feature films are made by students.

“It’s something we can all say is ours and be proud of together,” Lewandowski said.

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City Council delays action on roof ban

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East Lansing City Council deferred action on an ordinance that would prohibit the recreational use of roofs at its meeting Tuesday night.

Council will discuss the ordinance at its work session on Aug. 18 with the possibility to once again take action at their Sept. 1 meeting. Council’s decision came after a lengthy argument against passing the ordinance by East Lansing resident Patrick Rose.

Rose, who has been a private practice lawyer for 22 years and was a former clerk at the Michigan Supreme Court, said he wanted to “slow down the train” because he didn’t like a

have better ways to spend that money,” Rose said. “Get it right the first time. Figure out what judges have already said yes to.”

Rose said going forward the city attorney must consult a model ordinance that has worked somewhere in Michigan or around the country. He also said the attorney should consult the Michigan Municipal League and the National Municipal League to look at other rooftop ordinances and include language that narrows the ordinance so it allows for owners to go on their roofs when it’s lawful to do so.

“The ordinance is limited to recreation use only, and that is not a precise category and it doesn’t cover all the activities that you want to allow,” Rose

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a criminal record,” Rose said in a memo to council. “The head injuries and harm from student falls after this ordinance passes will most likely increase, rather than decrease.”

Council decided to work with “Version C” of the ordinance moving forward, which would make being on roofs for recreational purposes a civil infraction instead of a misdemeanor. This was the extent of council’s discussion addressing the issues of safety the ordinance may cause.

Although council voted unanimously to defer action, not all members agree with Rose’s assessment that the ordinance is too broad and outlaws a number of legal activities.

“I really think it (the ordi-

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number of different elements he saw included in the ordinance.

The first, and perhaps most concerning issue for East Lansing tax payers, was that the ordinance could attract “valid lawsuits,” according to Rose.

Rose said these lawsuits would stem from the city not having the right to tell property owners how to use their roofs.

Rose said the ordinance is too broad and that the city has spent substantial money defending similar ordinances in court. He cited one ordinance in particular that regulated signage and billboards in East Lansing. A lawsuit was filed against the city regarding this ordinance which went to the Michigan Court of Appeals twice and cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend, according to Rose.

Rose said the ordinance deferred at Tuesday’s meeting would have attracted lawsuits and eventually would have had to be amended by council after a ruling by a judge.

“This has happened at least three times, but it seems like we

said.

Rose said he was concerned the ordinance would outlaw legal activities such as sunbathing on roofs. He also said he was motivated to come and speak at Tuesday’s meeting because he was recently up on his roof dealing with an issue of red squirrels who were using his roof to access his home.

“I figured out how the squirrels were getting on the roof by sitting on the back of my low, flat back porch roof. Was I engaged in maintenance? I don’t think I was and I don’t want to be made a criminal,” Rose said.

The ordinance would have prohibited the recreational use of roofs, but would have allowed access for maintenance purposes.

Rose said he also believes the ordinance presents a safety issue for students.

“If you make it a crime to be on a roof without handrails during a party, students will be running off the roofs. They will come down and push the person in front of them to avoid getting

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nance) is pretty clear the way it is written, but I would like some additional information about when roofs are safe for occupation and when they are not,” councilmember Kathleen Boyle said.

Mayor Nat ha n Tr iplet t addressed some of the behaviors many would consider legal activities on roofs. He confirmed that, technically speaking, if the ordinance passed Tuesday night it would have prohibited rooftop sunbathing and similar activities, but Triplett said it is highly unlikely police would enforce the ordinance this way, instead focusing their main concern on large groups of people partying on roofs.

Triplett also said he could see where much of the concern about the ordinance is coming from and that council will work to address these concerns moving forward.

“Our objective is to draft something that deals with problems we want addressed and doesn’t capture innocent behavior at the same time,” Triplett said.

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Campus converted into grounds for Boy Scouts celebration On the 100th anniversary of the National Order of The Arrow Conference, more than 15,000 Boy Scouts have taken over MSU’s campus. In addition to activities and ceremonies, some use this opportunity to reflect on issues affecting the organization.

Ohio resident Samuel Pulley, a staff member at NOAC, takes badges from people passing by and puts them up on the map. The conference has more than 15,000 Boy Scouts from all across the country.

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Those walking around campus trying to get to lunch in a cafeteria might be surprised to see a huge line filled with young boys and men in very specific scouting attire, or shirts with a city from halfway across the country, represented in force.

The gathering is the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference, or NOAC, in which 15,000 Boy Scouts from across the country gather.

“Arrowmen come together from around the world to share ideas, learn from one another and, most importantly, experience an outstanding conference that is unlike any other event in Scouting,” according to NOAC’s website.

NOAC 2015 has been in the works since the last NOAC on MSU in 2012. Crowding dorms, local hotels and most places on campus for the week, they are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Order of the Arrow.

One icebreaker activity included a game where

scouts used a device, called a spark, to connect with other scouts. Scouts are awarded points based off of how many others they connect with over the course of the conference.

Published daily over the course of NOAC is The Current, the newspaper of the conference where spark leaders are listed.

The conference opened with a prayer and a ribbon cutting on Monday at the Goodman Edson Observatory, a museum located in the basement of the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, chaired by Kyle Palmer.

“While we remember the past, we are here in the present. We look to the future and we build that together with you and your spirit among us,” scout historian Terry Grove said, leading the scouts in prayer.

One of the exhibits was the history of the national chiefs, the “head of the Order of the Arrow.” Ron Temple, it’s first and only black national chief, was at the museum signing sashes.

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people ... it’s a tradition of maintaining the scouting tradition,” he said.

A scout working security, California resident Albertus Hoogeveen, said the museum was completed only the morning before it opened. He said scouting allowed him to travel across the world, from Scandinavia to Spain to Africa.

One issue, raised by doctoral student in music and former member of the Order of the Arrow Philip Rice, was the cultural appropriation of Native American customs by the Order of the Arrow, especially revolving around teepees set up off Harrison Road near Munn Ice Arena.

Rice also pointed out troop names made up of “a mixture of real Indian tribes, European-derived words and completely made-up terms,” and didn’t agree that the university should allow that on campus without some sort of guidelines.

“I would have preferred that a public university like MSU would have ... done some research and found out what the organization stood for and that they wouldn’t support that,” he said.

Though his full concerns can be read in The State News’ Opinion Section, his criticism focused on both the public cultural appropriation as well as the more secretive rituals of the group, including using Native American headdresses and antlers during Boy Scout induction ceremonies.

“Especially for young kids who don’t know any different, it’s just a really bad example to set and as a young kid I had no idea that was offensive to people,” Rice said.

MSU, however, treated campus as a venue and not an endorsement.

“Each year we welcome hundreds of organizations on campus and we kind of have a commitment to welcome groups of all walks here to campus and that’s what we’re doing with the Boy Scouts,” MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said.

“We’re simply a venue ... just because they’re here on campus doesn’t mean that MSU does or does not support everything that group stands for or does.”

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Scouts for Equality find victory as ban on gay scout leaders is lifted

Joe Getto, 24, of Kansas walks around the MSU campus offering Boy Scouts a free “Equality Lodge” badge and asking them to spread the word on social media. MSU is hosting the National Order of the Arrow Conference for the Boy Scouts of America.

Over 15,000 are attending the conference.

Although the Boy Scouts of America recently ended their ban on openly gay leaders, problems facing the LGBT community in the scouts still require work, Joe Getto, a chapter head of Scouts for Equality, said.

The State News sat down with Getto, who is from the Kansas City area, to get his take on the issue and the steps that can be taken to alleviate it.

With the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference occupying campus this week, Getto is here to raise awareness for the cause and hopefully provide an avenue for support among scouts who still do not feel welcome in the organization.

“The national body and the indiv idual councils themselves, in terms of hiring, employment and all that, but individual troops, if they feel that homosexuality is against their beliefs or whatnot, they can choose to have adult leaders and volunteers who are homosexual,” he said.

Getto is openly gay and said he felt the need to resign from his position within the Boy Scouts after a number of offhand moves from other leaders to “protect” him. Others have faced open discrimination, including being forcibly removed.

Getto said a number of loc a l c ha r ter i ng orga n izations, a troop’s sponsor, include churches — specifi-

Cooper Sheldon from New York hangs from grappling hooks as he tries to ice climb, one of the many activities set up for the visiting scouts at the Hub at Cherry Lane Park at MSU. “You have this perception it’s going in that it’s going to be like a video game,” he said.

“Once you get up there and you try you think, how can I do this?”

cally the Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints — that have strong moral objections to homosexuality and homosexual behavior. They are allowed to prevent openly gay leaders in that sense, although Getto said the Boy Scouts as a whole are accepting of gay leaders.

He questioned why homosexuality was specifically condemned by religious sponsors, especially when, for example, Catholics would allow members of other religions to be troop leaders when those religions were condemned by Rome.

“This whole thing that people have been bringing up

recently of religious liberty — that it’s really just thinly-veiled homophobia,” he said.

He attributes an interest in Boy Scout policies to a resurgence of the ultra-rightist in the culture war, especially with gay marriage, claiming they realized they were losing on the national front and turned their attention to more local organizations.

Getto said the core of the scouts is not religion-based, although belief in God or a higher power is part of it. However, Scout leaders at the conference seemed to disagree.

“Scouting is founded on a sense of belief in God and spirit,” scout historian Terry Grove

The Equality Lodge patch shows support for the Scouts for Equality movement, a group that pushed for the Boy Scouts of America to allow openly gay men to serve as leaders. The Boy Scouts of America National Executive Committee lifted the ban on July 27.

Father and son Brian (left) and Keith (right) Kroeger of Missouri take on the Lumberjack challenge. The team was judged based on the time that it took them to cut through the log and the diameter of the log.

said at the Centennial Exhibition ribbon cutting on Monday, before leading the group in prayer.

Getto, pointing toward values like being a good citizen and community responsibility, said ideas like that, while always existing in the scouts, are fairly recent in terms of how prevalent it is, calling it “silly.”

The organization saved his life after discovering he was diabetic at a conference.

“If it wasn’t for my brothers recognizing that fact, I could have easily gone into a coma and they were surprised I wasn’t already in a coma,”

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he said.

The next day he was called for the Vigil Honor, the highest award that can be granted for service to the Order of the Arrow.

At the conference itself, Getto and a few others are trying to help their cause with a social media campaign where scouts tweet @Scouts4Equality or use Facebook to upload a picture of a scouting insignia with Scouts for Equality on it.

Though the ban on gay scout leaders was lifted, registration for the conference filled up in February, effectively keeping those affected from attending the conference this year.

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HUMANS OF EAST LANSING

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18 EKTORP sofa seller 19 Ninnies 20 Simply marvelous, with “the” 22 Besides 23 Kipling title orphan 24 Pro Bowl team, briefly 25 General-turned-author Wallace 26 Cult following?

27 Soft drink that sounds like a bit of footwear 29 Get wind of 31 Sent by 32 Some bolt holders 34 “The Fisher King” Oscar winner Mercedes 36 Home theater feature, and a hint to this puzzle’s 10 border answers 40 Shades of blue 41 Southern Russia’s __ Republic 42 Pair of giraffes?

45 Actress Hudson 47 Seas, to Sartre

48 Common reason for absence 49 Card game cry 50 Never, in Nuremberg 52 No. after a period 54 Discovered by accident 56 Is humbled 58 Formerly employed by The Company 59 Charity 60 Nepal locale 61 Preserves, in a way 62 Skelton’s Kadiddlehopper 63 It operates under the Dept. of Homeland Security 64 Album segment 65 Aperture 66 Small meal

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8 New Deal dam org.

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10 Small step 11 Bravery, in the RAF 12 Banderillero’s target 13 Vegas strategy 21 French teacher 22 Mother __ 25 Sing the praises of 28 Wounds 30 Dadaist Max 31 Magical item in a 1791 opera 33 Permeate 35 Elementary fellow?

37 __ Bator 38 Jonquils and daffodils 39 D.C. part 42 Outcome 43 Bending muscle 44 Pivot points 46 Nail covering 49 “Find out” 51 Reply from outside a door 53 Performance place 55 Friend of Pete and Julie on “The Mod Squad” 56 Cockney greeting 57 Smear 59 Berlin beef?

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Caleb Adgate Plant biology senior Adgate works as a plant recorder, taking record of the different types of trees and vegetation on campus.

He also does research on a collection of pine trees on campus.

“The research we do now could help us save trees in the future environment. I’m just happy to keep things alive and make the world a better place.”

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Patrons mourn the loss of Woody’s Oasis Bar & Grill

BY RYAN SQUANDA RSQUANDA@STATENEWS.COM

To the dismay of many in the East Lansing and MSU community, Woody’s Oasis Bar & Grill closed its doors for good at its location at 211 E. Grand River Ave. on July 30.

During its 12-year run in East Lansing, the bar became a beloved melting pot for people of all backgrounds to congregate and make conversation.

On the last day of Woody’s Oasis Bar & Grill’s operation, the bar held a going away party where many of the restaurant’s patrons met and talked about what Woody’s Oasis meant to them and their favorite memories of the bar, as well as the unknown answer to the question of where their new favorite hangout will be.

Benjamin Hall

Derek Peterson

City of East Lansing employee and 2010 MSU alumnus

2011 MSU alumnus

“Out of all the establishments in East Lansing, this is probably the one that we come to the most often. Julie is a friend of the family. My wife used to bartend here. We had our rehearsal dinner, bridal shower, I think we even had (my oldest child’s) baby shower here. So this is a family tradition ... I think that, unfortunately, this is one of the few places where students and the general public hangout cooperatively and there aren’t a lot of those places and it’s a shame that we’re losing one.

So this is kind of a place to go and hang out and meet like-minded people and be able to enjoy yourself.”

“I got a new job and a couple of friends that I worked with went here all the time. I started going here when I was 21 and I spent way too much time and money on this place ... I took off work tomorrow as soon as I found out (it was closing) because I realized I wasn’t going to be able to make it in on time ... A bunch of my roommates throughout the years worked here and I know (Woody’s Oasis owner) Julie (Sawaya) pretty well. She’s an awesome lady and it’s a really sad day that it’s closing. It’s my one standard every time I come up here.”

“A couple of my friends who were older than me, we would come here and we would get dinner and I’ve gone on a couple dates here … so I am really sad to see it close because this is like a go-to hangout because it’s not like going to Rick’s or Harper’s where you have to ... scream and yell to talk to your friends, whereas ... here you can just go and have a good time with your friends.”

“I actually found out on Monday (it was closing), and I was pissed. I was like ‘are you kidding?’ because there are other locations, but it’s not like this. It’s not like where you can just go and it’s not as homey.”

“One of my friends who is in there right now, she celebrated her 21st birthday here and (on one of the menus) one of our friends wrote ‘Happy 21st Birthday’ on it and it has her name on it and she found the menu today or yesterday or something like that ... it’s cool that she got the menu and she has the memory of her first legal drink ... here. So that was kind of a cool thing for her.”

Mary Herman Social relations and policy junior

Customers talk outside of Woody’s Oasis Bar & Grill at 211 E. Grand River Ave. on July 30. PHOTO: JOSHUA ABRAHAM T H U RS DAY, AU GU ST 6 , 2 01 5

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Sports Former, current Spartans score bronze in Pan Am Games

BY MATT ARGILLANDER MARGILLANDER@STATENEWS.COM

Representing MSU at the recent 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto were senior bas-

ketball guard Denzel Valentine and recent graduate and sprinter Jellisa Westney.

Valentine and the USA basketball team managed to capture a bronze medal at the

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games and the senior guard was able to produce despite limited opportunity.

Valentine averaged just 11.4 minutes a game, good for the second lowest on the team on a team of 12.

Despite t he low minute totals, Valentine came in at No. 7 for highest average point totals with 7.4 a game.

The team won its first two games against Venezuela and Puerto Rico before falling to Brazil in the preliminary round.

The team then lost to Canada in the medal semifinals before defeating the Dominican Republic in the bronze medal game.

Valentine scored in t he double digits in three of five games — dropping 15 against Puerto Rico, 11 against Canada and 11 against the Dominican Republic.

Valentine didn’t score at all in the other two games, with just seven total combined minutes of play.

Brazil went undefeated, capturing gold by defeating Canada in the gold medal game.

The USA Pan Am team now has a 90-17 all-time win-loss record with eight gold medals, three silver medals and three bronze medals.

Westney, who is from Cambridge, Ontario, competed for Canada in the 4x100 relay

team race.

“Credit should be given to both her and Coach (Vanitta) Kinard for being ready for such high-level competition this summer,” MSU director of Track & Field Walt Drenth said on msuspartans.com.

Canada finished third, earning a bronze medal with a time of 43.00, while the U.S. claimed gold with a Pan Am record time of 42.58, and Jamaica grabbed silver with a time of 42.68.

“We are extremely proud of Jellisa’s accomplishments this summer,” Drenth said. “It is always a great moment in an athlete’s career when they are able to represent their country. To be able to represent Canada at home and be part of a medal-winning 4 x 100m team is incredible. In addition, her personal performance has earned her a spot in the Canadian relay pool for future events, including the 2016 Olympics,” Drenth said.

In total, the U.S. finished with the highest medal total — earning 265 total medals: 103 gold, 81 silver and 81 bronze.

Canada finished with the second highest total — earning 217 total medals: 78 gold, 69 silver and 70 bronze. Brazil managed third with 141 total medals: 41 gold, 40 silver and 60 bronze.

Senior guard Valentine averaged 7.4 points per game on the 2015 U.S. Pan American men’s basketball team. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

Senior Jellisa Westney nears the finish line during the women’s 400 meter relay competition at the Big Ten Conference Championships May 17th at Ralph Young Field.

PHOTO: WYATT GIANGRANDE/THE STATE NEWS

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Director of African American and African Studies Internal Posting Limited to Tenured Faculty at MSU DUTIES: The College of Arts and Letters invites applications for the Directorship of the Program in African American and African Studies (AAAS), beginning January 1, 2016. The successful candidate must be tenured at the level of Associate Professor or Professor. The Director will oversee the graduate-level AAAS Studies Program and the Undergraduate Specialization. AAAS, now in its 13th year, is an interdisciplinary course of study leading to the Ph.D. and involves faculty and curricula from several colleges.

Ishino grew up in California with 5 older brothers & was raised by loving immigrant parents from Japan. She was married to her beloved husband of 67 years — Dr. Iwao Ishino, professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.

Mary was an Ikebana artist, community organizer, teacher & golfer. In 2011 Ishino was made Woman of the Year. She was an ardent fan of MSU football & basketball!

QUALIFICATIONS: Doctorate or other terminal degree.

Qualifications other than degree- Applicants for the position should have an international/national reputation in the field of AAAS and be eligible to serve as an active/core faculty member of AAAS. The applicant must have a significant record of scholarship and teaching, evidence of commitment to faculty governance and knowledge of the workings of MSU governance structures. Candidates must have a commitment to working with AAAS faculty to articulate a collective vision for the Program as well as a willingness to embrace and a plan to implement that vision.

Candidates must be familiar with and respectful of the range of departmental disciplines, be aware of national and international scholarly developments in the field, and be alert to interdisciplinary opportunities. A successful candidate will demonstrate the personal qualities necessary to lead and manage growing interdisciplinary programs; show the ability to represent AAAS interests effectively within the University and in the larger community; demonstrate a record of working with diverse faculty and students and a record of sensitivity to and rapport with students.

Surviving Mary K. Ishino are her 4 daughters & their husbands, 9 grandchildren & 4 great grandchildren.

A private memorial will be held in California.

In her honor please make contributions to: Michigan State University, Dept of Anthropology, c/o Dr. Iwao and Mary Ishino Memorial Fund. Address to: Development Office-College of Social Science, 509 East Circle Dr, Berkey Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824-1111

Internal search limited to tenured faculty at MSU. MSU is an affirmative-action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The University actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans, and persons with disabilities.

Special Instructions to Applicants: Review of applications will begin on September 16, 2015, and continue until the position is filled. Applications must be submitted electronically to the Michigan State University Human Resources web site https://jobs.msu.edu/. Posting #1594. All candidates must submit a statement highlighting their experience and qualifications pertinent to the position that includes a description of their leadership style, a curriculum vitae, and the names and email addresses of three references.

For more information contact chair of the search committee, Professor Lee June at leejune@msu.edu, 105 Eustace-Cole Hall, Honors College, 468 East Circle Drive, MSU Campus

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Sports

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A few changes are coming to the MSU football game day experience for students this fall.

One of the first changes will be a pilot program involving ticket transfers. MSU students will be able to transfer tickets to non-MSU students for any non-premium game. The only premium game in the 2015 season is the matchup with Oregon.

“We’re doing a pilot program with open transfer of student admissions to other individuals for their brothers, sisters, friends, etc.,” associate athletics director Paul Schager said. “Basically it’s an opportunity for non-MSU students to sit with MSU students in 12

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the student section. This is a result of students requesting this from engagement that we’ve had with them.”

In an effort to make closer connections between MSU students and the football program, the MSU Athletic Department will be continuing a feature that debuted at the Spring Game, allowing some students to run onto the field in the way the team does before the game.

A major complaint from students attending football games is the length of the admissions lines, which causes a lengthy wait to get into Spartan Stadium.

To help with this concern the MSU Athletic Department will be increasing the number of gates dedicated for student entry to improve efficien-

cy. This should move students through faster so there is less wait time in getting to their seating area.

There will also be a new handicapped accessible platform in the student section to ensure all students are fully accommodated. “ We’ve added a ha ndicap(ped) accessible seating area in the student section this year. This will accommodate students that in the past have been isolated and had to sit far removed from other students,” Schager said.

The addition of the handicapped accessible platform eliminates some seats, but lower bowl seating has been added so the total capacity for students remains unchanged.

There will still be upper and lower bowl student seating.

There will also be an effort to improve communication between the students and the MSU Athletic Department prior to games.

“We’ll try to do more communication, more outreach (and) more student engagement on game day to inform them how long the lines are.

(We’ll) show photos of the lines (and) the sections that are filling up through social media,” Schager said.

This will provide students with a time frame of when they should arrive to the stadium to obtain their desired seating location.

Overall, it seems as if the MSU Athletic Department has addressed some of the major concerns brought up by students in the past concerning football games.