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East Lansing residents trek across Michigan

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A couple new to Michigan hiked across the state to bring awareness and raise money for the Flint Water Crisis

A bill that aims to regulate university power over student speech made progress in the State House

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EAST LANSING RESIDENTS MADELEINE AND ROSS MARCH-MEENAGH TREKKED THE 220 MILES OF THE MICHIGAN SHORE-TO-SHORE TRAIL TO RAISE MONEY AND AWARENESS FOR THOSE AFFECTED

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ast Lansing residents Madeleine and Ross March-Meenagh completed a 220-mile trek of the Michigan Shore-to-Shore Trail on Aug. 3 to raise money and awareness for the Flint water crisis.

Madeleine and Ross aimed to raise at least $5,000 for their Hike to Clean Water initiative.

They have reached their donation goal and raised $5,220.

Madeleine is a graduate assistant in the Michigan State Masters of Public Policy program and Ross is a third-year student in the College of Law. Both are originally from Indiana, but they decided to raise money for their new home state.

“We had started long distance hiking and really enjoyed it and wanted to take a longer trip, but we knew that being able to take off such a long amount of time was a privilege that we had, so we wanted to give back in some way and make for something other than our own enjoyment,” Madeleine said.

The money raised from the hike went directly to the United Way of Genesee County to help the Flint community recover from consequences of lead poisoning. The husband-wife duo trained for over six months and funded it completely out of their own pockets to ensure all donations go to Flint.

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“All in all we couldn’t have done it without so many people... It took a village.”

Madeleine March-Meenagh East Lansing resident “All the funds raised through this went directly to the purchase and distribution of bottled water, filtration devices not supplied by the state of Michigan and health access for children affected by lead,” Madeleine said.

She said that 75% of the donations came from people under the age of 30.

The couple started hiking at Lake Huron and finished at Lake Michigan. For them, this was to spread the message that from shore to shore, all Michiganders deserve clean water, regardless of zip code, income or skin color. In the end, they achieved their goal and raised over $5,000 for the community.

“We all have different ways of giving back, and this just happened to be the way that we chose to. We could’ve just as easily done the hike without raising money ... but if you’re going to be doing it anyway, you can see how you can leverage different opportunities to give back to others,” Madeleine said. “The people in Flint are

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going to be struggling for generations because of medical issues. ... (People) can continue to give to the United Way of Genesee County because non-profits are doing so much in the city of Flint right now” They both said that this was the longest hike they had ever taken. Madeleine stressed that they had planned everything down to the detail, but given the rough terrain of the hike, they ran into many obstacles along the way, including an injury to Ross’ toe.

“It took a village of people to make this trip possible,” Madeleine said via email.

She said the entirety of Curtisville and Bear Lake Christian Church were instrumental in assisting the two in their journey.

“George Golubovskis, a homeless man from Traverse City who ran for Mayor a few years ago, gave us some tips to stay safe,” she said. “All in all we couldn’t have done it without so many people. I just don’t want it to seem like we did this by ourselves; it took a village.”

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Making History

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Dantonio’s coaching tenure comes full circle as he looks to surpass Duffy Daugherty with his 110th win

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To find the real Mark Dantonio, start with his lakehouse, not the football field.

That’s where former Michigan State linebacker Darien Harris remembers seeing his coach as a person, with a life and mind away from schemes, play designs, X’s and O’s.

“You get to see him just being a guy, being a human being,” Harris said. “You see him out on the paddleboard. You see him in the water doing those types of things with a smile on

his face.”

It’s the Dantonio most people don’t get to see.

When Dantonio strides down the sidelines of football fields on Saturday afternoons, he displays one of his outermost personas: an all-business, no nonsense, ready to go to work football coach.

That’s the side of him most of the world equates to his success at MSU. Dantonio has accumulated 109 wins since becoming the head honcho at MSU. He’s won multiple Big Ten championships, a Rose Bowl and has been to the College Football Playoff.

He’s also tied with Duffy Daugherty

for the most wins in program history. With one more win, he will stand alone as the winningest coach in university history.

Thirteen years into his Spartan career, that’s how the public knows him.

But inside the MSU football program, there is a lot more to Dantonio.

Which inner personas form the football coach with 109 wins to his name, and which moments helped Dantonio turn a failing Big Ten program back into a contender?

Dantonio’s former players can help tell that story.

He’s a family man. He’s a father figure. He’s as genuine as they come.

Head Coach Mark Dantonio walks out of the tunnel with the team before the game against Central Michigan on Sept. 29, 2018 at Spartan Stadium. PHOTO BY MATT SCHMUCKER

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“Guys are coming from all over the country and they are looking for another family,” Harris said. “And that’s what we got under Coach Dantonio’s lead.”

As former linebacker Taiwan Jones said, Dantonio is — shockingly — also a comedian. But the jokes come when they’re least expected.

“It’s not like he tries to be funny, but he would crack a joke and nobody will laugh ... he’ll do a little gesture and everyone will start cracking up,” Jones said.

And, yes, Dantonio has been a damn good football coach. With one more win, he has a chance to add another layer to his legacy.

Everything Dantonio has done — from the time he was given the keys to the Volkswagen that was MSU football in 2007 to transformed it into a well-oiled machine — has led up to this moment.

His former players knew this day would come.

“He came in and said what he was going to do ... and he’s a man of his word,” Jones said. “I expect nothing less than him to break this record. I’m looking forward to celebrating that.”

‘HE DID WHAT HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DO’ Justin Kershaw spent a lot of his college recruitment in deep conversation with Dantonio.

Dantonio recruited the Columbus, Ohio native to come play for the Buckeyes when he was their defensive coordinator. And then to Cincinnati when Dantonio got his first head coaching gig.

“I thought I was going to end up at Ohio State, but it didn’t work out, and then I wanted to go to Cincinnati because of him,” Kershaw said.

Kershaw, however, committed to MSU. “I remember him saying, ‘Michigan

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State is a beautiful place, isn’t it?’”

Kershaw said. “When coach (John L.) Smith got fired, the guy I wanted them to hire was Coach Dantonio.”

Kershaw said he was meant to play for Dantonio. And when he got hired at MSU, it was “divine intervention.”

“Simply put, it was a terrible program,” Kershaw said. “We had poor leadership. With Coach Dantonio, I knew the caliber of the coach he was.

I knew his pedigree and I knew what type of guy he was, so I knew what we were getting.”

Kershaw, a defensive lineman at MSU from 2004-08 only played two seasons for his dream coach. He remembers MSU’s 31-14 win at Notre Dame in 2007. That’s when he started to notice the culture in the program beginning to change.

The Spartans entered the season finale against Penn State with a chance to be bowl eligible for the first time since 2003. After MSU won 35-31, Kershaw said the culture change had come full-circle.

“It was an ugly game and it was cold outside. We really should have lost but we kept fighting,” Kershaw said.

“That’s when Jehuu Caulcrick ran that fake punt. It was really emotional.

It gave us a winning season and we clinched a bowl game for the first time in a while.”

The following season, MSU beat Michigan for the first time since 2001.

Kershaw said Dantonio made an effort to re-emphasize the rivalry.

Those small installations — the culture change included — were calculated.

And they changed the landscape of MSU football.

“The guy set an intention to do it right, do it slow ... to be intentional with every aspect of the program and he did what he said he was going to do,” Kershaw said. “I know he’s got a

SPOTLIGHT “He was definitely like a father away from home. He definitely had all of the guys’ — not only my — best interests in mind every day on the field (and) off the field.

“He was always a big father figure. And a big part of molding us into men.”

Demetrius Cox Former Spartan safety

Left: Coach Mark Dantonio, left, speaks with Michigan State men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo before the first half of the NCAA Final Four game against Texas Tech at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis on April 6. PHOTO BY NIC ANTAYA Top Right: Coach Mark Dantonio interacts with kids during the annual youth clinic at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building on April 13. PHOTO BY MATT ZUBIK

lot more left in the tank. But (even) if he stops now, he’s the best coach in Michigan State history.”

‘HE WAS ALWAYS A BIG FATHER FIGURE’ Dantonio and the Spartans had just completed their comeback against Iowa in the 2015 Big Ten Championship game. Naturally, Dantonio’s — along with Harris’ — first motion was to run on to the turf at Lucas Oil Stadium.

The celebration had begun.

Harris made his way onto the trophy presentation stage. Only there was one problem: He didn’t have a

championship hat.

Dantonio had him covered.

“Coach D actually handed me his hat and said, ‘Hey, you can wear this right now,’” Harris said.

Harris, an MSU linebacker from 2012-15, did eventually have to give the hat back when it was time for Dantonio to accept the championship trophy.

Harris said he’s held on to a picture of that funny moment.

This is the real Dantonio.

The one who creates and establishes life-long relationships with players — like they’re extended family.

“He was definitely like a father away from home,” former Spartan safety

Demetrious Cox said. “He definitely had all of the guys’, not only my, best interests in mind every day on the field (and) off the field. He was always a big father figure. And a big part of molding us into men.”

Dantonio is more than just a football coach to his players. He has been a source of wisdom and assistance to anyone who asked for it. Jones said he could sit down and talk about anything with Dantonio.

“It would be, you know, ‘How is everything?’” Jones said. “If I had a girlfriend, ‘How is the girlfriend?’ Just trying to get to know me as a kid and as a man rather than everything being

Coach Mark Dantonio talks to former cornerback Trae Waynes during the game against Illinois on Oct. 26, 2013, at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill. STATE NEWS FILE PHOTO

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football, football, football.”

That’s something Dantonio’s former players appreciate about him. The bond created between them extended far beyond the football field. Some of Harris’s best moments spent with Dantonio didn’t take place between hash marks or in end zones — rather, at that lakehouse. Dantonio invites seniors as well as Eagle Council members on the team. Harris had a chance to go twice.

That’s where he really witnessed the Dantonio that nobody else does.

The man — not just the football coach — that made Harris want to come to MSU. “He was the reason that we all came to Michigan State,” he said. “When I think of my class, we all committed before that Big Ten title in 2010, just on the fact that Coach D came into our homes, sat down with our families and told us how it was. He told us that they were building something special there, and based on his words and his actions, we believed him and we trusted him and, obviously, he was able to deliver.”

‘CHASE THE MOMENT’ Time and time again, things seem to line up during Dantonio’s MSU coaching tenure. Aaron Burbridge, a wide receiver from 2012-15, referenced moments during his college career that still have him perplexed today.

Burbridge said Dantonio had a special meaning for the number seven.

It signified completion.

For the Spartans, that meant winning the Big Ten and making a trip to Pasadena, California. When MSU shared the conference title in 2010, it played in the Capital One Bowl rather than in the Rose Bowl. But, three years later, the Spartans got their chance.

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Bowl appearance since 1988.

Completion.

It doesn’t stop there.

In 2015, Burbridge and the Spartan buses rolled into the bowels of the Big House in Ann Arbor. But, before the team could walk into the stadium, Dantonio had them soak in the moment.

“We sat there in silence for 10 seconds and then we got off the bus and got ready for work,” Burbridge said.

Sure enough, hours later, only 10 seconds remained on the clock before Jalen Watts-Jackson returned a muffed punt for a game-winning touchdown.

“That was crazy,” Burbridge said.

It’s fitting Dantonio announced MSU’s mantra at Big Ten Media Days for this season as “Chase The Moment.”

He said it referred to the Spartans chasing their dreams.

Dantonio has inched closer to Daugherty’s record at MSU. And, of course, the same season he made the goal for his team to chase their moment, Dantonio has a chance to stand alone in Michigan State record books — securing a spot in Spartan lore.

So, Dantonio, in a way, is chasing his own moment. One that began 13 seasons ago.

He sits only one win away now.

“I go back to what I said before, I look at all the players that have come through here, made plays, had some outstanding moments in that time, that’s, again, why we are trying to chase the moment,” Dantonio said before the season opener against Tulsa.

“I think that’s what you get when you have continuity in the program and you have opportunities like this coming. We came here with an opportunity to make a mark and that’s what we’re trying to do.”

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Free speech bill passes state house committee

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A bill aiming to regulate universities’ and colleges’ power over student speech made progress in the State House.

House bills 4435 and 4436 were both introduced by Republican State Representative John Reilly and aim to protect speech and protests performed by students and staff of Michigan universities.

The bill passed the House Committee on Oversight and has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary last Thursday, where it is likely to receive modifications.

“We have a problem on campuses right now ­ — and public schools — in that we’re not allowing free speech. It’s really getting curtailed,” Reilly said.

The legislation was submitted in the wake of clashes between college students and far-right speakers on Michigan campuses, specifically when white nationalist Richard Spencer spoke at Michi-

gan State. During his speech, far-right and anti-Spencer protesters clashed, resulting in several arrests.

Reilly said the financial burden on people’s taxes drove him to write the bill. “(Students who feel their free speech is violated) sue the schools and basically get tax dollars to pay these different judgments,” Reilly said.

“In the majority of cases, the schools are losing.”

Indeed, Battle Creek’s Kellogg Community College settled a free speech lawsuit in January 2018 for $55,000, which imposed a revision of the school’s free speech policy.

The case centered around two students arrested for trespassing while recruiting for Young Americans for Liberty, a libertarian student activism organization.

The college said that recruiters needed approval from their Office of Student Life. The students said their constitutional right to free speech was being violated.

“I think it’s also important that while the university respects free speech, that there is also an abudance of response...”

Maysa Sitar MSU College Democrats Press Secretary Changes to the policy clarify a continued practice of allowing free speech without regard to content of expression.

Free speech legislation as introduced would require similar policy changes across the board and provide legal remedies to any violations.

Reilly said he expressed pride in the bill’s bipartisan support and that some Democrats supported the proposal.

“Most people are in favor of free speech,” Reilly said.

House Fiscal Analyst Perry Zielak said in a legislative analysis that the bill would have a minimal affect on university funds.

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The bill also protects college and university staff from being fired based on free speech.

Jeremiah Ward, MSU College Republicans Communications Chair, said the group wholeheartedly supports the bill.

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he Lansing Regional Sister Cities Commission appeared at the Sept. 3 East Lansing City Council discussion meeting to urge the city to join Lansing in a partnership with other cities across the globe.

Sister Cities International aims to develop and maintain relationships with several cities in the United States with Japan, Korea, Italy, Mexico, Kenya, China and Tanzania — just to name a few examples. Residents from these cities travel to the Lansing area to learn about the region. The organization also connects leaders and students from Lansing to other cities to do the same.

The commission is requesting East Lansing to join Lansing and other municipalities into the regional Sister Cities commission, to provide $5000 in funds each year and to provide representation on their board of commissioners.

The commission celebrated its 25-year anniversary of its start in Lansing on Sept. 7. The city of Lansing’s budget cut their funding in half from $40,000 to $20,000, which is viewed as a message to gain greater regional support.

“I thought the presentation was great. I am interested in getting the program moving forward,” said Aaron Stephens East Lansing City Council member. “It’s a great program and expands across many different cities and cultures and I am looking forward to expanding it.”

Chris Holman, Lansing Area Sister Cities board member and CEO of Michigan Business network gave a presentation on Sister Cities and its goals for the year.

“East Lansing more than any other of the areas and municipalities in this Capital region,” Holman said. “This relationship makes pretty good sense.”

Jack Davis, another board member, also spoke during the presentation.

“We’re not asking for a whole lot here we’re asking just for some interest,” Davis said at the meeting. “I wanted to let you know the Sister Cities organization in itself has a very important international reputation and we’re using that reputation to see what we can do not only in cultural interchange but also in the economic area.”

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p/t, includes weekends. Apply @ 3380 E Jolly Rd. 394-4685 or roy@delphiglass.com

Houses/Rent House for Sale by owner near MSU. 2BR, 2 baths, living room, fam. rm, w/ fireplace, patio & deck, den, sun rm, 2 car gr., G furnace,a.c.,new carpet & stove in fridge in dining area, MI basement, low taxes, large lot by Crego Park.$129,000 Ph.517-372-5284 LIC FOR 4. Close to campus.

Excellent rates. Call 517-4101198 or 517-203-5157

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