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A Close Call in South Bend The Spartans held off a Notre Dame comeback to defeat the Fighting Irish 36-28 at Notre Dame Stadium

Junior running back Gerald Holmes (24) runs for a touchdown during the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

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“I came in the game with a mindset that I was going to grind and work hard and play for (my grandmother).”

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MSU replacing drinking fountains for better access to filtered water

BY BRIGID KENNEDY BKENNEDY@STATENEWS.COM

MSU is replacing dozens of drinking fountains around campus to provide easier access to filtered water and bottle-filling stations.

The project is a result of continued student concerns about the taste and color of their drinking water, despite the safety of MSU tap water, project coordinator Sean Barton said.

“It’s not that the discolored water wasn’t safe at all, it just wasn’t as pleasant as it could be,” Barton said.

Barton, in conjunction with a fisheries and wildlife class, conducted a survey of approximately 1,260 MSU students and faculty and discovered that 61 percent of those surveyed did not know about or did not use the filtered water stations on campus.

“We saw that as an opportunity,” Barton said.

Even students who use the drinking fountains regularly said they won’t drink the water from just anywhere on campus.

“Some of the older buildings I don’t use,” journalism sophomore Emily Lovasz said.

“People have told me the water is really weird. I’ve never tried it because I’m too scared to.”

Neuroscience junior Alaijah Bashi said she likes the convenience of the water bottle fillers, but she doesn’t drink from many of MSU’s drinking fountains.

“I don’t drink at the ones where the water just tastes like metal,” Bashi said. “It tastes like you’re drinking blood.”

Inconsistent water taste at fountains around campus can drive students to skip reusable

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water bottles in favor of disposable plastic water bottles, and only about 25 percent of those get recycled, Barton said.

“MSU pays per pound for the landfill — we get paid per pound for recycling, typically, he said. In my book, that’s a no-brainer. Also, you’re diverting from the landfill and making that plastic live another life, which keeps the Earth greener for the next generation.”

Barton is working to find a way to make members of the MSU community more aware of the new filtered drinking fountains and water bottle fillers around campus.

Barton partnered with Jade Freeman from Geographic Information Ser vices to create the Water Bottle Filling Stations website, an interactive map with pictures and a description of all of MSU’s filtered drinking fountains.

Barton and Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, IPF, plan to push publicity for the tool later this semester.

Barton, who helped make an initiative to document all of MSU’s drinking fountains, said there are currently 768 drinking fountains on campus, and 128 of those are filtered.

Since IPF began replacing unfiltered drinking fountains this summer, “the filtered water number has gone up quite a lot,” Barton said.

As for when the project will end, Barton isn’t quite sure. Though IPF is only replacing the 33 drinking fountains that have been identified as being most impactful for the MSU community for now, Barton said they hope to keep working as long as they have funding.

“They ’re going to be replacing a lot of these,” Barton said.

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Human biology junior Nina Rackerby fills her water bottle at a drinking fountain on Sept. 17 in the Union. Rackerby said she had used fountains like this one on campus before. PHOTO: EMMETT MCCONNELL

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ASMSU’s bike share program to expand to 40 bikes despite setbacks, delays in the past

BY RACHEL BEARD RBEARD@STATENEWS.COM

Although the details are fuzzy, ASMSU’s bike share program is set to expand to 40 bikes.

At an ASMSU meeting Thursday night, Jason Barnett, the vice president for finance and operations, reported that the bike share program that was originally passed in 2014 will fully launch on campus Monday.

“The bike share, I know I’ve been telling you about it a lot, it’s going to be launching next week,” Barnett said during the meeting. “The goal is going to be Monday. It may or may not necessarily be Monday.”

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racks in preparation for the launch.

“IPF is still in the process of actually installing the racks,” Barnett said. “You’ll see them out there right now, but we just want to make sure that they’re actually bolted into the ground before we put bikes on them. So I’ll keep everyone updated as to when bikes are actually out there and they’re ready to be checked out at the front desks.”

The goal of the program is to provide students with a realistic alternative to the bus, walking or use of automobiles to create a more sustainable campus and encourage healthy living.

It currently exists in a pilot form at Bailey Hall with just eight bikes, but ASMSU now has 40 bikes that are set to hit the ground for the expansion.

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“All the bikes are available and ready to go,” Barnett said. “It’s going to be some time next week. I can’t pinpoint a date yet.”

After this expansion, students will be able to pick up and return bikes at five different locations on campus using their student ID: Bailey Hall, Butterfield Hall, Snyder Hall, North Hubbard Hall and East Wilson Hall, Barnett said via email.

“Last year, there was one (location),” Barnett said. “It’s a little bit more accessible to all students.”

Last year, the bikes at Bailey Hall were used more than 750 times, Barnett said via email.

ASMSU plans to market the program more heavily this year in hopes it will be even more successful.

ASMSU and Residential and Hospitality Services, RHS, have been working together on the $52,800 plan since it was first suggested in 2013. The expansion has been in the works for six months.

Residential and Hospitality Services Sustainability Officer Carla Iansiti said the bike share program has “been a very successful program.”

“Just on the RHS part is that RHS is definitely a partner with it,” Iansiti said. “It’s run out of the residential education system and we house the information in the books for students to borrow the bikes.”

Iansiti’s biggest goal with the program is to increase awareness “As far as I know, it’s success is growing every year,” Iansiti said.

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MSU won by sticking to its roots

5 mysterious places around campus

Sparticipation took place Sunday night

Read our football writer’s take on how MSU was able to beat the Irish on Saturday

From a giant bird to a stuffed bear, see mysterious landmarks on MSU’s campus

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“He’s worked himself into basically a starting role, I would say, starting role, semi-starting role. Big catch in the end zone, pulled it away from a guy, and big catch at the end of the game where he’s got to adjust to an underthrown ball.”

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Civil engineering junior Bakari Mays loses his balance while playing kickball on Sept. 15 at Adams Field. Mays played kickball with his step aerobics class. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

MSU granted $1.2 million to teach less common languages

BY BRIGID KENNEDY BKENNEDY@STATENEWS.COM

MSU has been granted $1.2 million to develop new, less commonly-taught language courses.

Center for Language Teaching Advancement, or CeLTA, faculty have been awarded funding by the Mellon Foundation for 38 months to create new language programs through a partnership with the Big Ten Academic Alliance.

Though MSU already offers 29 less-commonly taught languages, or LCTLs, CeLTA faculty hope to add many more, including Armenian, Burmese, Gaelic, Hmong, Serbo-Croatian and Sinhala, according to the Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages’ website.

The new LCTL courses will be taught via CourseShare, an online distance-learning program used throughout Big Ten Academic Alliance schools.

Although LCTL learners agree access to these languages is important, some students think the university could be doing more.

“Hopefully in the future MSU will show its commitment by hiring a full-time, in-person teacher instead of relying solely on digital language instruction,” doctoral student Shelbi Meissner said.

Meissner, a speaker of Ojibwe, did her dissertation on indigenous language revitalization.

“It’s really important that Native American students at MSU have the opportunity to learn their ancestral languages,” Meissner said.

Graduate student Jacob Jurss also believes in the importance of ancestral languages.

“I’m actually white, but my wife is an Ojibwe descendant,” Jurss said. “I want to be able to speak to my children in their language.”

“The history of the United States has worked to erase Native language, Native culture,” Jurss said. “So it’s about revitalizing the cul-

ture and keeping it thriving.”

Students without ancestral ties to a less-commonly taught language stand to gain a lot from these programs too, Koen Van Gorp, who will help develop the new courses, said.

“I think it’s kind of getting an alternative view of the world,” Van Gorp said. “It opens up new windows, new avenues, new horizons.”

Joseph Miller, program manager for academic programs at the Big Ten Academic Alliance, said if all goes well, the first students could begin using the new LCTL programs as early as fall 2017.

Despite Miller’s hopes to make new courses available quickly, “it’s definitely not an easy project,” Van Gorp said. “We are collaborating with a lot of other universities and with a lot of other professors — we also want to integrate as many people as possible in this project.”

If the new LCTL courses prove successful, the Big Ten Academic Alliance would hope to continue to expand to more languages, executive director Barbara McFadden Allen said.

“It’s really important that Native American students at MSU have the opportunity to learn their ancestral languages.”

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Spartans beat Notre Dame after late-game Fighting Irish push

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

South Bend, Ind. — An errant, seemingly innocent bounce of a football took a victim.

Notre Dame’s Miles Boykin, backpedaling and caught in a block, became a casualty of the game’s largest momentum swipe.

The punt brushed off his left foot and skidded right into the eager hands of a group of Spartans turning the ball back to the MSU offense inside Notre Dame territory.

After sputtering during earlier promising drives, MSU football was given the prime opportunity of the game, one they wouldn’t waste.

Taking the snap from the Irish 38-yard line, fifth-year senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor took his hurried drop and snapped the ball to the back end zone for intended target, true freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley.

Corley snared the 38-yard pass from the grip of Fighting Irish cornerback Cole Luke, wrestling it away with one hand while falling backwards into the end zone.

“He is that type of player,” Dantonio said. “We’ve got a lot of other good players that are going to make plays as well, but this was his time at this point in time.”

Corley’s touchdown spurred on an offensive breakthrough.

MSU ditched the conservative play calls that dominated the limping victory over Furman and opted for an offense willing to test the air and stay true to the ground attack.

Boykin’s stray foot became the break that propelled MSU to a 36-28 victory over then-No. 18 Notre Dame Saturday.

It all but ended the Irish’s College Football Playoff hopes and kept then-No. 12 MSU football in contention as the newest rendition of MSU football forges its identity.

Offensive Firepower Following Corley’s grab, the mojo of the game flipped from the Irish.

The Spartans opted for a two-point conversation and converted, going up 8-7 in the first quarter.

“Donnie Corley huge catch in the end zone,” Dantonio said.

“Two-point conversion after it sort of sends us going.”

MSU would rattle off the next 28 points unanswered behind the stellar passing and “moxie” of O’Connor.

MSU doubled up with sometimes ferocious running on the legs of junior Gerald Holmes and sophomore LJ Scott.

With the offense clicking and churning its way into opportunistic territory, the rhythm and hum materialized.

“When we win the field position battle get the ball in great field position it’s much more easier play calls, it’s better to take deep shots,” O’Connor said.

O’Connor was given more room with the offense taking shots downfield throughout the game, including four completions to Corley for gains of 11 yards twice and a key pick up late for 28 yards.

The offense shifted into calling end arounds for senior receiver R.J. Shelton, a play call he and former receiver Aaron Burbridge ran frequently last year. It proved effective as Shelton racked up 80 yards through the air, mostly on the quick toss of the end around.

“He’s done a nice job with that his entire career here,” Dan-

Senior tight end Josiah Price (82) celebrates the win against Notre Dame on Sept. 17 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

tonio said of Shelton. “And, you know, I keep saying if we have a great to believe team, seniors gotta have their best years, and you saw an example of that right there.”

The ground attack was formidable behind Scott and Holmes.

After the recent death of his grandmother, Holmes had a game-changing performance, often times chugging through the Irish defensive line.

“I came in the game with a mindset that I was going to grind and work hard and play for her,” Holmes said.

His 73-yard burst for a score capped the game, putting MSU ahead for good, especially as Notre Dame mounted a comeback late in the game.

The offensive line created space for the tailbacks all night as well, receiving praise from the running backs, as well as Dantonio.

“We’ve been working,” Dantonio said of the offensive line.

“(R.J. Shelton has) done a nice job with (adapting plays) his entire career here. And, you know, I keep saying if we have a great to believe team, seniors gotta have their best years, and you saw an example of that right there.”

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“We had a little extra time to work, and when you don’t play well and people sort of write you off a little bit, you have a tendency to rise up a little bit. I think that’s what we did.”

MSU stayed true to its roots, not winning with flash, but with grit, grinding Notre Dame down until the clock hit zero.

The Spartan Defense MSU’s defensive line, written off after Furman as a low-level unit, held Notre Dame to 57 yards rushing, keeping the mobile Irish quarterback DeShone Kizer in the pocket most of the night, except near the goal lines.

The secondary gave up 344 yards, though most came through the air in the third and fourth quarters under a leaky prevent-style defense.

Kizer exploited the miscues and on-top coverage, weaving the Irish into a comeback chance.

“Oh, yeah, it’s 39-6, (36-7) you’re saying let’s just play good defense not give them big ones, and let’s milk the clock a little bit,” Dantonio said of the play calling that ultimately lead to Notre Dame’s comeback. “That’s pretty much what we did until, you know, it got within 15, and then we had to play the game a little bit.”

Jon Reschke, after missing the opening game with a hand injury, blew up a Notre Dame rush attempt in the third quarter. One play later he snagged an interception.

Three plays later, Scott broke the plane boosting the MSU lead to 29-7, all from Reschke’s momentum-swinging pick.

As the Irish seemed about done, linebacker Riley Bullough knew Notre Dame would fight back.

“We knew we had to keep playing, we were playing hard but they were making plays,” Bullough said.

Spotlight “We certainly took a step from our first game, and we came down and we played a good football team away from home in a great environment, and on a national TV, national stage, and you’ve got to be able to measure up in those times.”

Mark Dantonio, MSU head football coach The defense stood tall in the end, after allowing 21 points on three consecutive Irish drives. A sack on third down and two by Raequan Williams set up a crucial punt by the Irish.

The decision to punt allowed MSU to retain possession and siphon the clock, effectively ending Notre Dame’s comeback chance and boosting the Spartans to a 2-0 record.

What The Win Means for MSU With a win over Notre Dame, MSU captured the Megaphone Trophy, giving them possession of all four of their rivalry trophies. With that, MSU currently holds the Old Brass Spitoon against Indiana, the Paul Bunyan Trophy against the University of Michigan and the Land Grant Trophy against Penn State.

Coming off that, however, will be a tough matchup

with a Big Ten foe.

Lying in the wings is No. 11 Wisconsin.

With stout offensive and defensive lines, Wisconsin upset then-No. 5 LSU, shaking up the college football landscape.

This will be MSU’s first chance to notch a Big Ten win and stay within contention for the Big Ten East Division.

A win here would help further the groundwork on developing an identity.

“We certainly took a step from our first game, and we came down and we played a good football team away from home in a great environment, and on a national TV, national stage, and you’ve got to be able to measure up in those times,” Dantonio said. “Lights come on, you’ve got to be able to make big plays when the lights come on, big time.”

Senior wide receiver R.J. Shelton (12) runs the ball down the field for a touchdown while evading Notre Dame safety Drue Tranquill (23) during the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17, 2016 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Senior wide receiver Monty Madaris (88) celebrates with junior running back Gerald Holmes (24) during the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

Head coach Mark Dantonio pats sophomore running back LJ Scott (3) on the back after scoring a touchdown during the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA MONDAY, S E P T E MB E R 1 9, 2 01 6

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After delays, new restaurant brings Mediterranean flavor to East Lansing

BY RILEY MURDOCK RMURDOCK@STATENEWS.COM

The East Lansing location of Mediterranean chain restaurant Tabooli opened its doors Aug. 30, after a nearly year-long wait.

The restaurant, owned by brothers and Lansing residents Mohammad and Fathy Shetiah, is the chain’s third location, joining restaurants on Waverly Road and St. Joseph Street and Michigan Avenue, both in Lansing.

The East Lansing Tabooli is located at 515 W. Grand River Avenue in the building previously occupied by GrandRiver Coffee Cafe.

Fathy Shetiah said Tabooli’s build-your-own model is uncommon with Mediterranean cuisine

and is appealing to a younger crowd.

“They give you a lot of options. ... It’s kind of like a Mediterranean Chipotle,” customer and packaging senior Marc Sorisho said.

Fathy said in a previous article from The State News the delayed opening was out of the brothers’ control because of construction, licensing and city approvals.

“That was probably one of the toughest stores for us to open,” Fathy said.

The Shetiah brothers have their finger in more than one piece of the Michigan business pie.

In addition to their three Tabooli locations, Fathy said the brothers own approximately 25 Biggby Coffee locations throughout Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, as well as 7C Lingo, a “cultur-

The outside of recently-opened Tabooli restaurant on Sept. 16 at 515 W. Grand River Ave. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN

al consulting” and translation service that helps corporations seeking to conduct business abroad.

Fathy said students have responded well to the restaurant so far.

“I think there’s a lot of excitement within this location, once the students come in and start learning a bit more about it they fall in love with it,” Fathy said.

East Lansing Tabooli manager Nicholas Florindi said the restaurant’s Mediterranean fare strikes a chord with current trends “One of the biggest things going on right now is … being more green, being more natural, having healthy alternatives, less processing... those are the things we do best,” Florindi said.

Lansing resident and Tabooli employee Deye-

abreon Rider said she enjoys serving the East Lansing crowd.

Rider, 15, said she wants to one day attend MSU. “My coworkers are really cool people,” Rider said. “It’s just so fun meeting new people, I get to see all these new faces.”

The East Lansing Tabooli might not be the end.

Fathy said he plans to open another Tabooli by next year, although he hasn’t decided on a location.

“We’re hoping to build something that we can grow into a franchising model someday,” Fathy said. “We’re hoping this would (become) something that is born out of Lansing, and maybe become(s) national or international one day.”

Restaurant manager Nick Florindi demonstrates serving a Mediterranean bowl on Sept. 16, 2016 in recently opened Tabooli restaurant at 515 W. Grand River Ave. The restaurant prepares all their food daily for freshness, and offers a variety of Mediterranean flavors. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN

Proposed tax increase would raise beer tax by 244 percent per barrel A newly-introduced bill would increase Michigan’s beer tax by more than 200 percent per barrel.

A tax increase of 5 cents per 12-ounce can of beer was proposed by Rep. Thomas Hooker (R-Byron Center).

“I definitely believe it would (have a big impact on college campuses),” Hooker said. “A lot of young people get involved in either high school or college in binge drinking.”

Some MSU students disagree and don’t believe the tax will have an effect on drinking.

“I don’t think that a 5 cent increase will deter anyone (from drinking),” clinical laboratory science senior Tessa Lanzen said.

The proposed tax would create an increase of 244 percent per barrel, which is almost triple the current tax, Scott Graham, executive director of Michigan Brewers Guild, said.

“If the tax is going from $6.30 per barrel to $21.70 per barrel, we’re probably looking to generate about $103 million per year,” Hooker said.

This would create a large tax revenue spike.

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Current beer taxes generate about $39 million, Hooker said.

The tax money would go toward alcohol prevention programs, including agencies throughout the state and the Michigan State Police, to help combat drunk driving and alcohol abuse, Hooker said.

The proposal has drawn its share of criticism.

A tax increase would hurt the growing brewery industry in Michigan, Graham said.

“It would slow down growth and be a hardship on businesses,” Graham said. “We’ve got something that’s been great for Michigan’s economy

and now (Hooker) wants to heavily tax it.”

Brett Visner, director of public affairs at Michigan Beer and Wine Wholesalers Association, said he believes the tax would hurt everyone who consumes and produces beer.

“Tripling the beer tax would hurt the breweries, beer pubs, retailers and the individuals,” Visner said. “Along state lines it will drive people across the line, again hurting revenues.”

The bill has been referred to the House Committee on Regulatory Reform, where it must pass before it can move any closer to being put into effect.

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Students crush grapes for course credit in winemaking chem. class

BY BRENDAN BAXTER BBAXTER@STATENEWS.COM

Kris Berglund takes students from grape to bottle in his class, Science and Technology of Wine Production. Berglund is a university distinguished professor at MSU. “We bring grapes in, we’ll crush them, we crush the stems, we’ll press, we’ll go through the fermentation process, we’ll go through all of the quality control and quality assurance steps,�

Berglund said.

One of the beginning steps of the process took place on Thursday, when the students crushed grapes during class.

Students do not crush grapes with their feet, but instead use a much more efficient tool that crushes the grapes and stems simultaneously, Berglund said.

One of the most enjoyable parts of the wine production class is watching students crush grapes, Berglund said.

The class is a part of a group of three classes, which are all a part of the Beverage Science and Technology minor.

Berglund said he likes teaching the class because he gets to offer students a better appreciation of winemaking. “There’s actually a lot of science that goes into (making wine), so we really try to emphasize that part of it, the more scientific element of it — it’s not just whipping up something in a vat,�

Berglund said.

Berglund said the winemaking class was added to the minor when Berglund and the course’s

other teacher, assistant professor David Miller, put together a proposal for the class and got the funding for the course. “It just seemed like there was an interest and a need (for this class) because the wine industry in Michigan is expanding quite a bit,� Berglund said.

Berglund’s claim of student interest is backed up by enrollment.

He said enrollment in the class has steadily been close to their maximum enrollment every fall.

Biochemistry and molecular biology senior Jack Yarema said the class is a journey in and of itself, and he is excited for the final product.

Skills taught in the class can have an immediate impact outside of school for him.

Yarema said his family owns a farm and has recently gone into the production of wine on their farm, so he is excited to help out with the winemaking.

For some students, the class isn’t just about picking up a new skill, it’s also a way to reconnect with their heritage.

Chemical engineering senior Evan Alger said he wants to study winemaking because his grandfather made wine.

Berglund said some students will give the wine as a Christmas gift to their parents.

But in addition to a full body and fragrant aroma, the gift can come with a touch humor.

Once the class end, students whose parents footed the tuition bill are able to gift their parents the most expensive bottle of wine they’ve ever had, Berglund said.

Food science senior Nick Zalewski, center, collects grapes from his classmates on Sept. 15 at 3900 Collins Road in Lansing. The grapes were put through a processing machine and were crushed for wine. PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

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Since 1966, MSU students have enjoyed on-campus movie screenings through Campus Center Cinemas. For 50 years, students have been behind the scenes of the iconic weekend screenings.

Thursday through Sunday nights, MSU students attend free movie screenings and get free popcorn in Wells Hall. The weekend screenings have are a tradition that unifies students under the big screen.

The movie showings are currently put on in a joint effort from the University Activities Board, UAB, and the Residence Halls Association, RHA. Students involved in both organizations come together to put on the events.

Packaging junior Nathan Fox is the Films Director for UAB. He leads a subcommittee of students who help him choose films to show that are popular and relevant, he said. “Generally, I look over some of the statistics about certain films that are available to us to choose, like which ones have been successful in theaters and maybe more so which ones are still relevant,� Fox said. “I put together some of my recommendations into a Google Form and I send it out to all of my committee members on a weekly basis and ask everybody to vote... I usually pick the top two films that were voted on and talk about them at the next meeting and make sure everybody is OK and on board with that.�

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Freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley (9) sings the MSU fight song after the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17, at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

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South Bend, Ind. — It was the biggest play yet of freshman wide receiver Donnie Corley’s collegiate career, and perhaps the biggest play in then-No. 12 MSU’s 36-28 victory over then-No. 18 Notre Dame at Notre Dame Stadium.

“It was amazing,” Corley said. “It was exciting to see the crowd and catch the ball near our stands ... especially in a big game like this.”

The play was a 38-yard touchdown pass that Corely leaped into the air to grab. He out-muscled Fighting Irish cornerback Cole Luke to put the Spartans on the board after Notre Dame scored first with a touchdown during the first quarter.

Corley’s touchdown was shortly followed by a successful two-point conversion secured by fifth-year senior tight end Josiah Price, giving MSU an 8-7 lead. The Spartans would use that touchdown to jumpstart the offense for the rest of the second and third quarters.

Corley’s touchdown reception was the first-ever collegiate touchdown for the six-foot-two Detroit native, and his longest-ever completion as well. Corley finished the game with three more receptions for 88

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total yards and his performance headlined among the Spartans’ receiving rotation, including a fourth-quarter 28-yard reception that extended and eventually secured MSU’s game-winning drive.

Corley’s performance against Notre Dame was a step in the right direction, and was built from his two-reception, 17-yard performance against Furman in week one. Head coach Mark Dantonio said the true freshman’s playmaking ability could land him a chance to become a part of MSU’s starting lineup. “(Corley is) a great football player,” Dantonio said during the postgame press conference following Saturday’s win. “He’s worked himself into basically a starting role, I would say, starting role, semi-starting role. Big catch

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In addition to putting MSU on the board, Corley’s touchdown served as a catalyst for MSU’s offense that would go on to barrage Notre Dame with four-straight touchdowns, including an explosive 73-yard run from junior running back Gerald Holmes.

“Having (Corley) go out there and playing like that, it had me hyped and it had the team hyped,” Holmes said.

The big game for Corley could have been foreseen by teammates though.

Senior wide receiver R.J. Shelton said it was only a matter of time before Corley had a big game.

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MSU beats U-M for Big Bear Trophy

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Junior midfielder Brad Centala had never hoisted the Big Bear Trophy and neither had junior goalkeeper Jimmy Hague.

On Sunday afternoon, the Spartans were determined to fix that.

“Coming into freshman year, we had it in our locker room, and then we lost it past last two years, so it will be good to get it back,” Centala said following MSU’s 1-0 win over U-M. U-M had mustered the last two head-to-head wins before Sunday, including one of two away wins in the series’ previous eight years. But in front of the largest DeMartin Soccer Stadium crowd ever, the Spartans curbed the Wolverines, winning the match 1-0 off of an eighth-minute Centala goal and an unrelenting, impermeable goalkeeping display from Jimmy Hague.

“I’m certainly happy for both of them,” MSU head coach Damon Rensing said. “(Hague) was special today, he was a bigtime goalkeeper. And Centala’s been playing well. He just doesn’t get rewarded a lot with goals or assists, so to see (Centala) get the goal (was good).”

Early on, senior defender Dewey Lewis delivered a throw-in high and deep into the 18-yard box. Jimmy Fiscus leapt the highest and nodded a header to Centala, who found the net to

give MSU an early 1-0 lead.

“Dewey (Lewis) threw the ball in and Fiscus got a nice headon, and I just happened to be at the right spot at the right time,” Centala said, reflecting on his first goal in a three-year collegiate career.

As the game progressed, U-M had more and more commanded possession and scoring opportunities. Two great chances came on either side of halftime, with midfielders Michael Kapitula and Robbie Mertz trading bullseye crosses at each end for two open headers. Hague, however, was able to block the net and keep the Spartans up a goal.

Centala “wasn’t sure” if the goal was going to be enough, and MSU constantly peeked at counter-attack chances, including a back-post header that could have given Centala his second goal. Yet as the game went on the Spartans increasingly compacted into a defensive shape to protect the lead, restricting U-M to several long-range shots.

In the 81st minute, U-M sliced open the back line.

Sophomore forward Francis Atuahene, the leading goal-scorer for the Wolverines this year and last, was sprung free by a key through ball and charged straight towards goal. With no defenders in sight, Hague was all that stood between the Wolverines and a leveler.

The Spartan goalkeeper charged Atuahene, and met him

Sophomore forward Ryan Sierakowski, left, and Junior defender Brad Centala, right, celebrate with the Big Bear Trophy alongside their teammates on Sept. 18, at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field. The Spartans defeated the Michigan Wolverines, 1-0, earning bragging rights and possession of the trophy for the year. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN

right as the U-M striker poked the ball towards net. Hague slid to the ground and extended, pushing the goal-bound ball out of the danger zone.

“I just saw it, and I knew I had to cut down the angle,” Hague said, playing in his first ever battle for Big Bear. “I just kept my body big, and I made a big save.

The defense helped tremendously in this game, so I couldn’t have

done it without them.”

With Hague’s save and a dramatically narrow miss in the 90th minute, the Spartans prevailed, elated and relieved. The game was a monumental victory for them.

“I’ve been waiting a while,” Hague said, having saved seven shots against U-M strikers.

In the victory, MSU’s defense recorded its third-consecutive

shutout. For the Spartans, the result also marked their first time ever starting off the Big Ten season 2-0-0.

“It’s not just Jimmy Hague,” Rensing said. “It’s not just our back four. It’s all 11 players, it’s our subs, and we’re starting to gel together.”

With the win, MSU reasserted its ownership of the series against U-M, in which the Spar-

tans rule 31-8-6. MSU will try to stretch its Big Ten winning streak to three on Friday at Maryland. The Terrapins, however, are the No. 4-ranked team in the nation, according to the NSCAA Coaches Poll.

“Yeah, I heard they’re pretty good,” Rensing said following the celebration. “I guess I’ll have to start thinking about that in about five or 10 minutes here.”

MSU sweeps Notre Dame, MDES and DePaul

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The MSU volleyball team concluded their non-conference schedule when they wrapped up their last home invitational — the Spartan Classic— at Jenison Field House.

The University of Notre Dame, the University of Maryland Eastern Shore and DePaul University fell in straight sets to No. 22 MSU, and now the Spartans are standing high with an 11-1 overall record and Big Ten play right around the corner.

Prior to MSU’s first match against Notre Dame, senior and captain Chloe Reinig was honored on the floor for her 1,000 career kills in a Spartan uniform.

The Spartan Classic marked MSU’s fourth tournament win of the season. MSU was led all weekend by juniors Alyssa Garvelink and Rachel Minarick. Both were named to the All-Tournament team for their efforts.

The Spartans, however, heavily leaned on their redshirt-junior transfer, Autumn Bailey. Bailey was named tournament MVP as she filled up the box score in a variety of stats — including a recorded 38 kills while also chipping in 16 digs.

Head coach Cathy George said she saw a blend of aggressiveness from Bailey the Spartans haven’t seen before.

“I thought (Bailey) did a really nice job,” George said. “She really started to do some of the things

we haven’t seen her do as much of … I think she continued to get stronger and stronger, more confident with her coming off the (torn ACL last season). I think she’s continuing to gain confidence.”

While Bailey was playing well out on the court, she said that there wasn’t too much going through her mind in the middle of play. But she did mention there was a competitive edge in the Spartans’ play now that the team is ranked in the top 25.

“I think that we have that competitive edge to get to the top 25,” Bailey said. “I think that we know we can push further into the top 25. I think that gives us a little chip on our shoulder. But we’re still the underdogs and we still have a lot to prove.”

Throughout the weekend, MSU started each of their matches with an early lead, but struggled to close it out, which kept the door open for their competition. The impact was seen in their hitting percentages. In the third set of all their matches, the team’s attack efficiency suffered across the board.

George knows this might be a problem heading into conference play. George said cracking down on that as a team will be vital to be competitive going forward.

“I think we have to stay disciplined throughout the match,” George said. “We don’t want to continue to rely on our serve, we’ve got to make sure we’re continuing to execute as well in every area.”

In terms of their service game, the Spartans were on point all weekend.

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Senior outside hitter Chloe Reinig (11) spikes the volleyball against Notre Dame on Sept. 16, at Jenison Field House. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 3-0. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

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When Queens Link Up works to empower and connect women

BY DANIELLE DUGGAN DDUGGAN@STATENEWS.COM

Just like the links of a sturdy chain, When Queens Link Up helps women of different backgrounds come together and support one another while working to reach their full potential.

“We like to think of this organization as more than an organization — it’s more like a movement to us,” communication senior and co-founder of When Queens Link Up Arriel Franklin said.

Franklin and co-founder, advertising senior Morgan Caver, created the organization last year and it was approved July 15.

After Caver overheard Franklin explaining her vision for this group to a mutual friend, the pair met, collaborated and created When Queens Link Up. “We are not just an organization, but the organization is one entity of me and Ari’s (Franklin) entire movement,” Caver said.

“It’s not about me, but it’s about all of us.”

This organization encourages women from all backgrounds to join and attend their networking events while getting to know other ambitious women.

“We’re a support group for all women, for all races, to come together, link up and support each other,” Franklin said.

In order to make all members feel included, they must join one of the five teams. These teams include: health and fitness, beauty and style, event planning, fundraising and media and branding.

“When you know that you have a part and you feel more welcome to a space, you’re more excited to put forth the effort to make something happen in the organization,” Franklin said.

“You feel included.”

Though the organization is relatively new, the team has a lot planned.

On Sept. 29, the group is hosting a Social Network Launch Party Kickoff. MSU students and faculty are encouraged to attend and will be connected with employers and recruiters.

They are also hosting a live talk show to get the student body engaged, as well as starting an online clothing store.

However, their biggest goal is to expand the organization to other schools.

Members of When Queens Link Up pose for a picture. The group hopes to help empower women. Photo courtesy of Arriel Franklin.

Not only have they started planning events where their women will be able to network with women at other schools, but they also hope to expand their organization to other campuses.

Franklin and Caver are both seniors, but refuse to leave the organization in the hands of someone they don’t consider qualified.

Though Franklin only has a few more classes to take, she said she plans on staying in East Lansing for the next year or so to ensure that the organization continues to grow.

To learn more about the group or to become a member, visit http://whenqueenslinkup.wixsite.com/queen.

Emmy-Award winner joins the MSU staff Briefly ditching the cameras for the classroom, Emmy-Award winner Timothy Busfield joined the MSU staff as an artist-in-residence, sharing his professional knowledge with young filmmakers.

Born and raised in East Lansing, Busfield has always had a strong personal connection to the city and to MSU. Though he isn’t an MSU alumnus, he insists that he bleeds green.

“I’m all green and white and I’ll always be green and white,” Busfield said. “This is the only school in my mind that I’ve had romantic attachment to.”

After living in Sacramento, Calif. for most of his career and commuting to Los Angeles when he had work, he moved back to Michigan and decided he was going to spend the rest of his career there.

When a position working with WKAR, along with teaching film courses, opened, he was given the job.

Busfield played Danny Concannon in the television series “The West Wing,” an American political drama that takes place in the west wing of the White House, where the Oval Office is located.

His role in the television drama series “Thirtysomething” earned him the Emmy for best supporting actor in a drama series in 1991. Busfield also played alongside Kevin Costner in the movie “Field of Dreams.”

He now works with students in the College of Arts and Letters and College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

His course teaches students how to create films without fundraising, getting scripts approved and other topics in film making.

“I want these young students to know they don’t need to push a boulder up a hill to get a movie made,” Busfield said.

He’s able to use his professional experience to show students what’s useful knowledge and what’s information in a textbook that they’ll never utilize.

Busfield also wants to increase the number of films students are able to make while at MSU. Film students make one or two films during their time in school and are expected to be prepared for the working world, Busfield said.

In his class, his students will create roughly 22 films throughout the term, sometimes putting together an entire film in one day, he said.

“I really want to encourage these kids to develop a skill set based on repetition, not theory, and that’s what I can offer,” Busfield said.

Though he has a deep passion for acting and teaching, he loves spending time with his wife even more.

“My favorite thing is acting with my wife,” he said. “I’m just so smitten with her and she constantly surprises me as an actress and to throw the ball around with her is just so fun. We have such great chemistry that at this point in my life,

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Emmy-Award winner Timothy Busfield takes on a new role as an MSU faculty member. Busfield was in the television series “The West Wing.” Photo courtesy of Timothy Busfield.

if I could just do everything with her it would be really, really great.”

Busfield also has a passion for giving back.

After working with younger students during various charity event and nonprofit organizations, he isn’t new to teaching.

“It’s a great feeling watching someone turn a corner or make a breakthrough or figure some-

thing out that they’ll remember together,” Busfield said. “That satisfies me and I get a lot of watching them evolve.”

His plans for the future include making TV shows at MSU and on other forums, along with eventually retiring and being able to show others the state of Michigan.

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Spartans Welcome the Strangers uses experiences to help refugees

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Being a stranger in a new place can be scary, especially for people who don’t speak the language, don’t know anyone and don’t know where they’ll be sleeping that night.

Those are the struggles many refugees face, Jennifer Rumler, managing director of the sales leadership minor and also the faculty lead for the Made in Italy Study Abroad program, said.

“Oftentimes these people arrive and their families have been murdered, so they arrive without family,” she said. “They arrive without friends, they arrive without a job. They arrive without money, they arrive without a place to stay.”

This past summer, Rumler and 18 MSU students left the U.S. for Italy. There they spent time both in the classroom and at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center. In the classroom, students learned about marketing, communication and sales. At the center, they learned about so much more, Rumler said.

“They (the students) were completely oblivious to the global refugee crisis,” Rumler said. “But throughout the six weeks that we were in Rome, the more we discussed and learned about the refugee crisis, the more they went from ignorance actually to advocacy.”

It was this same want for advocacy that drove Rumler to create the non-profit organization Welcome the Strangers. According to its website, the organization supports “the development of political refugees from all around the globe.”

There was one refugee that stood out

from the rest. Rakeen, who changed his name for protection purposes, has been a refugee for almost eight years. Back in his home country of Afghanistan, he was kidnapped by a mafia-type group who asked for $500,000 for his return, Rumler said.

During the four months he was held captive, Rakeen was regularly beaten and filmed.

The video tapes were sent to his family to encourage them to send the ransom money.

He eventually escaped when his captors forgot to tie him back up after using the bathroom one day. After squeezing out a window and falling two stories, Rakeen begged a taxi driver to take him to a police station. His troubles were not over, though.

In retaliation for his escape, the kidnappers killed almost his entire family, Rumler said.

She also said his story is not unique, and many refugees face similar horrors.

According to the Refugee Development Center website, between 400 and 700 refugees are resettled in Lansing every year.

The amount of refugees in mid-Michigan is between 10,000 and 13,000, according to the website.

Although there are many refugees so close by, Rumler said generally students are unaware of the plight of refugees until they go on a trip like the Made in Italy study abroad.

“I would say that the typical MSU student knows nothing about that,” she said.

“When the students finally learned about what was happening, and not only learned about the phenomena but then also met the people that were affected by it and became friends with them, developed a relationship with them, that changed them from being pretty unaware to wanting to advocate for

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the behalf of these people.”

When students on the Made in Italy study abroad arrive at their destination, one of the first things they experience is “a day in the life of a refugee” tour.

On this tour, five refugees take the students around the city to show them where they get basic services.

These places included: where they have to register with the police, where they first arrive at the train station, where they have to go if they want to get meals or shower and where they would sleep, Rumler said.

“They showed us the parks they slept in, the benches that they slept on, the fields that overlooked the Coliseum,” she said. “It was a beautiful field with wildflowers and poppies and grasses, but you could see the indentation of where the cardboard had been laid out flat for them to sleep on.”

During the tour, which lasts from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., students walk up to 15 miles, Rumler said.

Seeing how the refugees lived sparked a passion to help others, communication senior Katherine Harvey said. Harvey said Rumler approached her about the Made in Italy study abroad program and she was roped in right away. Rumler said she wanted to do something bigger, something greater.

This led Harvey and other students to start Spartans Welcome the Strangers.

“We decided to make this group and this organization because it touched us that deeply,” kinesiology senior and president of the group Kyle Gomes said.

“We just want to bring back what we learned and how we felt and hopefully touch some people the way we were touched.”

Gomes said Spartans Welcome the Strangers mainly works to raise awareness and educate the local community as well as the MSU student body about what they learned about the refugee crisis that’s happening internationally.

“We had a lot of information kind of shoved in our

face and we got pushed off a cliff to learn about it,” Gomes said. “Spartans Welcome the Strangers is our way to give back, in a way.”

As of now, the group is mostly working on getting their name out there, Gomes said. He said in a couple years he would love for the group to have a table at Sparticipation and have people not only know what it is already, but also be excited to sign up.

Communication junior Kaila Baroff said that another big goal of the group is to educate and bring awareness of the misconceptions of refugees.

“Mostly for us, the term ‘refugee’ has a really big misconception,” she said. “People think very negatively about them just because they’re not educated.

Before we went to Rome we all had zero clue what they were. It sounds so cliche, but it was a life changing experience where, again, it was uncomfortable, you were forced to hear stories that were really painful to hear about and that you didn’t want to know about in your own little world. But it’s really opened all of us up to being more understanding, not just with refugees but also in our daily lives with every situation that we have to handle.”

Baroff and Gomes agreed people often jump to conclusions on topics they are not educated on. Even if an idea is a wrong one, it can spread like an infectious disease, Gomes said. That’s why it’s important to keep an open mind about refugees, Baroff said.

“How can you say a refugee is lazy and doesn’t do anything, they’re dirty, they’re whatever, when you don’t really know what they experience or what they go through? And again that’s what we had, that eye-opening experience,” Baroff said. “With this organization we hope to actually educate and spread that awareness so that these negative connotations don’t take over and become a mindset, because they’re extremely inaccurate.”

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Junior Linebacker 8 tackles (6 solo), 1 INT, 1 tackle for loss, 1 forced fumble.

A LOOK AHEAD

VS

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THE STATE N E WS

GERALD HOLMES:

Noon, Sept. 24, at Spartan Stadium

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Mark Dantonio, Head Coach

JON RESCHKE:

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“Our MO was we came here to win. I kept saying it the whole time, we came here to win, just win.”

Junior Running back 13 carries, 100 yards, 2TD

1 INTERCEPTION 2 FUMBLES

PASSING

VICTOR DIRICA

PLAYERS OF THE GAME: TURNOVERS:

401 yards

Senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor (7) throws a pass during the game against Notre Dame on Sept. 17 at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Irish, 36-28. PHOTO:

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MONDAY, SEPTEMB E R 1 9, 2 01 6

3-0

WISCONSIN RECORD:

Wins over then-No. 5 LSU, Akron and Georgia State