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MSU MOVES TO NO. 2 IN AP POLL AFTER VICTORY OVER AIR FORCE See photos and coverage from this weekend’s victory over Air Force at statenews.com

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A Lifetime Accomplishment Former MSU football player Clinton Jones has had his name added to the Spartan Stadium Ring of Fame and reflects on the program’s history — see pages 4-5

TOP: Defensive lineman Damon Knox, 93, celebrates with senior safety RJ Williamson, 26, after Williamson’s touchdown in the first quarter during a game against Air Force on Sept. 19 at Spartan Stadium. Williamson scored on a 64-yard fumble return. The Spartans defeated the Falcons, 35-21. PHOTO: JULIA NAGY ABOVE: Former Michigan State running back Clinton Jones looks out into the crowd prior to the game against Oregon on Sept. 12 at Spartan Stadium. Jones was recently inducted into the MSU Ring of Fame. PHOTO: ALICE KOLE

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Freedom of speech on Big Ten campuses How does MSU stack up?

These ratings are according to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education or FIRE. Green Light Institutions are colleges and universities whose policies nominally protect free speech. There is only one Green Light institution in the Big Ten Conference.

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In celebration of Constitution Day this past Thursday the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a legal consultancy and advocacy group that defends the first amendment rights for college students across the nation, hosted a seminar at the James Madison College to discuss students’ unalienable rights in the context of a college atmosphere.

According to FIRE’s website, MSU is a “yellow light” institution, meaning it secures the freedoms of the first amendment in some areas, while also needing improvement in others.

Certain ambiguities stand out in a few codes pertaining to speech conduct on campus. For example, the MSU Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiative’s definition of harassment is close to the Supreme Court’s definition in terms of severity and pervasiveness of the statement.

Azhar Majeed, an associate director of FIRE’s legal and public advocacy, said the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives prohibits any language, no matter how trivial, that could be perceived as offensive, a problematic notion.

“Hurting someone’s feelings is not the same as harassment,” Majeed said.

“We are lobbyists for liberty,” Legal and Legislative Policy Advocate Shelby Emmett said.

“We don’t pay attention to content.”

Emmet, an MSU alumna, paid mention to their defense of both pro-life and pro-choice groups in regards to their right to legally assemble and express their opinions.

Legislative and Policy Director Joseph Cohn and Emmett acknowledged the fact that defending freedom of speech can often appear as if they are defending the aggressor. However, Cohn welcomes the idea of certain individuals and groups “self-identifying their bigotry.”

This not only flags certain groups as intolerant, he said, but it gives the afflicted a chance to voice their own opinion, garner support and fight back using their own rights.

“Free speech has been the driving advancement in every single progressive movement in this country,” Cohn said.

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Yellow Light Institutions are colleges and universities with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.

A Red Light institution is a college or university with at least one policy that both clearly and substantially restricts freedom of speech.

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According to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education or FIRE, MSU is close to becoming the second Green Light university in the Big Ten Conference, meaning it will nominally protect free speech on campus. attended the presentation and, while it reinforced his beliefs on using free speech as a progressive tool, he had his own thoughts on the matter.

Washington said it is “extremely important for all individuals on campus to feel comfortable.”

“There is only so much an afflicted person can do,” he said, adding that some individuals do not have the legal means to combat larger groups.

Emmett believes that “education, not punishment,” is the way to move forward and freedom of speech will bridge cultural gaps.

Emmett recalls a specific MSU class that had a discussion regarding the impact of Hurricane Katrina. She said she feels that since conflicting viewpoints were able to discuss certain issues, “everyone left the classroom with a better understanding” of the opposing aisle.

This is the issue in Washington, Emmett said. Everyone only associates with people of a similar background and fails to “value other viewpoints.”

Yet, MSU does not infringe upon the student’s’ right to assemble and voice their opinions, Majeed said, which is “great to see.”

Compared to other universities in Michigan, MSU leads the way. University of Michigan has a red rating for example and as for other Big Ten schools, Ohio State University is a red as well.

MSU is “close to a green rating,” said Majeed, and individuals such as himself and Emmett believe MSU could be the first in the state of Michigan.

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Former MSU football player Clinton Jones discusses his legendary career

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You could hear the excitement in his voice when former MSU running back Clinton Jones talked about his return to East Lansing.

Jones, a two-time All-American, was honored and put into the Spartan Stadium Ring of Fame before MSU’s 31-28 win over Oregon on September 12, eight months after he was named to the College Football Hall of Fame.

Jones was able to bring his children and grandchildren with him to witness his moment in front of nearly 80,000 fans at Spartan Stadium.

“It was an unexpected honor, but it was well-deserved,” Jones said. “I appreciate that, and it is an honor. It’s a lifetime accomplishment.”

Jones was extremely humbled by the opportunity, but it was bringing his family with him for the moment that really makes it special.

Former Michigan State wide receiver Gene Washington, left, and former running back Clinton Jones share a laugh Sept. 10, at Conrad Hall, while talking about racial segregation in sports at a preview of Maya Washington’s documentary “Through the Banks of the Red Cedar.” PHOTO: JACK STEPHAN

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“I would die for (Duffy Daugherty). I would die for my teammates. That’s the way I felt — when I went out there I was willing to put my life on the line to win.”

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ON COMING TO MSU At MSU, Jones accumulated 2,549 career all-purpose yards and 23 touchdowns in three years as a letterman from 1964-66.

In 1965 and ‘66 Jones was part of a Spartan team that went 19-1-1 throughout two years, capturing back-to-back Big Ten and National Championships.

“Clinton Jones, 19-1-1 in his time here (in 1965 and 1966).

Second pick overall in the (1967) NFL Draft, National Championships (1965-66), Big Ten Championships (1965-66),” head coach Mark Dantonio said during a press conference. “So, we’re very, very excited about him being inducted into the College Hall of Fame and also having his name put up in our Ring of Fame in the stadium. So this will be a special time for him.”

Before his wildly successful collegiate career, Jones was just an under recruited kid from Cleveland, Ohio.

“I wasn’t really highly recruited, because I didn’t really have an outstanding football career in high school,” Jones said. “I only had two touchdowns. There weren’t a lot of schools that were aggressively pursuing me — as a matter of fact there were very few.”

Jones had initially planned on going to Nebraska, then had a plan to go to Detroit-Mercy.

It wasn’t until his track coach convinced him to look at MSU that Jones gained an interest in the Spartans.

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GAM E O F TH E CE NTU RY Coincidentally, Jones’ return to MSU marked the first time since “The Game of the Century” that two top-ten teams met in Spartan Stadium.

As most Spartan fans know the “Game of the Century” was a 10-10 tie between No. 2-ranked MSU and No. 1-ranked Notre Dame on Nov. 19, 1966, Jones senior season.

Jones was a first-team All-Big Ten and first-team All-American selection in 1966. He led MSU in rushing that season with 784 yards and six touchdowns. He led the Big Ten in rushing in league games, picking up 593 yards. He also posted two 100-yard games in 1966. His best performance came in Week 8 when he had 21 carries for a then-Big Ten single-game record 268 yards and three TDs in MSU’s 56-7 victory over Iowa. Jones scored on runs of 79, 70 and 2 yards against the Hawkeyes.

my life on the line to win.”

For Jones, winning was everything in his time at MSU, in what was the most successful period for Spartan football.

“I wasn’t trying to stack up statistics,” Jones said. “What was most important to me at the end of the game is that we won... When I played I left everything on the field.”

It wasn’t easy, there always players who wanted to give up and go home Jones said and getting adjusted to living on a college campus and in East Lansing took time.

“Coming out of Cleveland, I just loved the university atmosphere,” Jones said. “But it was really an adjustment. It took a year and a half to really adjust.

“We encouraged each other. Every week somebody wanted to go home, but because we lived together in the dormitories we were able to discuss what we were going through we could have camaraderie and we ate together.”

Even though his recent induction was an honor for his own accomplishments, Jones saw this as a stage to thank his coaches, teammates and everyone that helped support him.

It is that attitude that helped the players stick

together in the 60’s and it’s what keeps Jones and his remaining teammates so close.

GIVING BACK Jones made his history on the football field, but now his life’s mission is to be a resource to the youth.

With racial tensions seeming to dominate the headlines these days, Jones made it clear that athletes have a responsibility to be involved.

“Because we’re playing sports doesn’t mean we can put our heads in the sand and be divorced from what’s going on,” Jones said.

“50 years ago what was going on we didn’t let that destroy our mission for what we were doing as student athletes.”

Through the years, Jones has done countless interviews and he felt nostalgic giving another, recalling a time 50 years ago when he was an athlete.

He said he tries to put all of his effort into helping the youth, and gladly shares his thoughts and insights with anyone that seeks it.

“My wife and I, we’re devoted to young people,” Jones said. “We’re devoted to making this a better country and a better world.”

Clinton Jones during his playing years, 1964-1966. PHOTO COURTESY OF MICHIGAN STATE ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

OVERCOMING SEGREGATION Jones came to MSU as a freshman in 1963, a very different time for the average black student.

MSU’s 1966 team had 20 black players on it, which may not sound like much today, but as a point of comparison Southern California’s 1967 National Championship team only had seven black players.

Alabama didn’t dress its first black player in a varsity game until 1971, and LSU and Georgia didn’t field their first black players in a varsity game until 1972, as previously reported

by The State News.

Former MSU head coach Duffy Daugherty (1954-72) was a pioneer in the racial integration of college football. Jones and his teammates were more than just great football players on championship teams — they made history.

“I feel that Duffy Daugherty hasn’t been given the accolades that he deserves,” Jones said. “He accomplished more than just being a coach, he was a humanitarian and he was a very profound human being. My question is why he hasn’t been given more accolades in terms of what he’s done especially opening up and creating (a place for everyone).”

Jones was incredibly grateful to Daugherty for giving him an opportunity, and you could see the love that Jones had for his late head coach.

“Duffy was a very warm individual, I love Duffy, he was a great mentor we had a very warm relationship,” Jones said.

“I would die for him, I would die for my teammates. That’s the way I felt — when I went out there I was willing to put

ONLINE To read more about “Through The Banks of The Red Cedar”, the documentary about MSU’s role in desegregating college football by filmmaker Maya Washington and featuring Clinton Jones, see statenews.com

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Two MSU alumni create new barbershop

BY RYAN BOUDREAUX RBOUDREAUX@STATENEWS.COM

Long time friends and MSU alumni Randell Nichols and Terry Ward have plans to bring the quality and professionalism of barbers from Detroit to the East Lansing and Lansing communities by way of their new barbershop, Top Notch Cuts.

Located at 1454 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing, Top Notch Cuts is easily accessible to MSU students because of route one via CATA’s bus system.

Nichols and Ward are both from Detroit and said they are used to a certain standard of hair cutting and an ambience in barbershops becuase they both grew up around hair-cutting, with both their fathers in the industry.

Nichols and Ward said they couldn’t find the level of expertise they were looking for in the area, and wanted to start something as friends.

They both knew they wanted to create more than just a barbershop though, they wanted to create something to engage youth in the community, Nichols said.

“Top Notch is more than just about haircuts — it’s a lifestyle,” Ward said.

Media and information senior Andre Mosley is one of the first employees at Top Notch Cuts.

Mosley got involved with the shop because of his friendship with Nichols and said he believes his status as an MSU student and his experience cutting hair on campus will bring business and publicity to the shop.

“We’re not trying to be like an average barbershop. We want to do different things that’ll

separate us from like being an average barbershop,” Mosley said.

Top Notch Cuts won’t only serve as a barbershop but as a learning center for the community by providing college students and high school students opportunities to learn about business and entrepreneurialism as well as an opportunity to obtain their barber’s license.

“We plan to do small business seminars at least once a month, entrepreneurial seminars at least once a month, of course outreach events because me and the co-owner, our relationship started from us forming a mentorship program on campus when we both were in our undergraduate,” Nichols said.

It was an easy decision to implement these types of community engaging events for both Nichols and Ward.

“It didn’t take long before we recognized that we shared a common interest in wanting to give back to communities similar to the ones where we grew up,” Ward said.

Ward and Nichols hope these programs will create an opportunity to help integrate both the East Lansing and the Lansing communities. Nichols currently has plans to have a multicultural staff and integrate a salon into the shop as well.

Ward said overall, they want to be an example for young people who are growing up in the inner cities of America.

“Letting them know that just because you may come from a place of disparity, you don’t have to become a product of your environment, you can choose a better path and change the direction for younger generations to come,” Ward said.

Jazz student plays to advertise for concert Jazz studies graduate student Peter Tijerina plays the trombone for people passing by on Sept. 14 on Grand River Ave. He was playing to advertise the MSU Jazz Studies program and the concert series that the department puts on.

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As the 2016 election draws near, political groups at MSU are prepared to answer the call to action and demonstrate their support for their respective parties.

One such group is the MSU College Republicans, an organization that aims to represent republican values through various activism, fundraising and awareness events, political theory and constitutional democracy junior Jeff Litten said.

Litten has been a member of MSU college republicans since his freshman year and is currently serving as the chair of the organization.

Economics junior Charlie Kolean emphasized that the benefits of taking part in College Republicans go beyond campus involvement. The organization is a way for members to establish connections and network both inside and outside the political sphere.

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“I’ve personally worked as a full time field representative on a US senate campaign, and with the connections I’ve made through politics, I got a job in finance,” Kolean said.

Litten has also reaped the networking benefits that taking part in the organization provides.

Litten said he worked in the governor’s office this past year as a result of being in the College Republicans.

In addition to the networking benefits, Kolean said that involvement in College Republicans is a great way to meet people and make friends. Litten added that being involved in a political organization as a student is important because regardless of your chosen path in life, you will always be impacted by politics.

Though the organization does not formally support any candidate at this time, Litten said as soon as there is a republican candidate, the group “will 100 percent support them and be ready to campaign for them

and work for them.”

Litten said that it’s this campaign involvement that he most looks forward to as the election draws near.

“Next fall especially and in the end of the spring, if we have our candidate decided already, then we will definitely be out there supporting the campaign and helping support our republican values and how to get him or her elected to the white house,” he said.

FOR STUDENTS If you’re looking to get involved with College Republicans, meetings take place every other Wednesday in Wonders Hall. New members are welcome to join at any point in the year. For more information, contact Jeff Litten at littenje@msu.edu.

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From left to right, Lansing resident Juan Burgos, political science sophomore J’haira Johnson, interdisciplinary humanities Juan Carlos Hernandez and Lansing resident Daniella Burke play a match during a Smash Club meeting on Sept. 15, at Shaw Hall. Super Smash Bros is a Nintendo game franchise with tournaments at the professional level.

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Physics junior Andrew Euscher has played Super Smash Bros. Melee for 14 years.

“I played it so much as a little kid,” Euscher said. “It’s got a little bit of nostalgia to it for sure.”

But what keeps Euscher playing is the game’s difficulty. He and other MSU students have found a competitive dimension to their favorite childhood game.

“If you’re trying to do something, you might as well make it hard,” Euscher said. “You can spend years and years trying to master the movement, and it changes the game completely as you get better and better at moving around.”

MSU Smash is a group for MSU students looking to challenge and improve themselves through a competitive, mental video game.

“No other game I’ve played is this hard,” packaging junior Jeffrey Luce said. “It’s a lot to work on, constantly. The challenge never stops.”

Luce is an active member of MSU Smash. The group organizes tournaments and events primarily for Melee, Project M, and Smash Bros. for Wii U. Euscher is a player who values analysis more than most, regularly commentating on the online stream during MSU Smash’s tournaments.

“I’ve always thought it’s really cool to be able to really in-depthly break something down,” Euscher said. “I think that’s really cool to be able to do that on commentary, and that’s encouraged.”

And any high-level game of Smash Bros. contains plenty of material for tactically-minded players like Euscher to think about.

“There’s a high degree of decision making,” actuarial science junior Travis Conte said. “It’s not like chess even, where there’s a limited number of squares. You can go all over the stage. There’s multiple stages, multiple characters, so there’s all these different variables.”

Conte was president of MSU Smash last year and is still an active participant at the group’s events. He spoke fondly of his early days playing Smash with the people

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Super Smash Bros. Club This club allows students the opportunity to take part in a mentally stimulating gaming experience with other students. in his dorm.

“I destroyed them — it was bad,” Conte said. “The skill gap can get pretty big between someone who just plays and someone who goes to tournaments.”

MSU Smash is beginning a new tournament series this fall.

“It’s for both new and experienced players who want to get better overall,” computer science junior Frederick Lee said.

Lee began his involvement with MSU Smash last summer. “Overall, it’s just a good way to meet new people, have fun with Smash if you’re into that, or play competitively — try to get better.”

The first tournament of the series, called Project SSBMSU, took place Sept. 13, and both games were given equal attention.

Each game allowed 72 players to enter. Melee reached that cap, and Project M was nearly filled at 71 players.

A Smash for Wii U side event was added at the last minute, and it maxed out at 32 entrants.

Electrical engineering sophomore Alec Russell said some players drove for over two hours to attend the event.

“It’s definitely very rewarding to bring people from hours away,” Russell said. “We all like hanging out together and playing Smash and just making fun memories.”

Much of what draws people from so far away is the competitive community itself, Russell said.

“Everyone has their own style,” Russell said. “No two people play the exact same. … You gain a personality playing Smash. Like being your own person and playing your own way.”

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LGBTQ students find a place to pray with Christian group at MSU Veterinary medicine graduate student Mary Sinnamon hands out candy during Spartan Remix on Sept. 10 at Auditorium Field.

Sinnamon is a member of Q-Cross, a nondenominational religious organization that focuses on reclaiming sexuality and spirituality.

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W H Y T H I S M AT T E R S While members of the LGBTQ community are continually fighting discrimination, not all religious groups accept them as equals. Q-Cross is a safe space for MSU students who align themselves with the LGBTQ community to and pray.

They accept all branches of Christianity if the person identifies with Jesus.

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When graduate student Mary Sinnamon came out as lesbian, she said she did not want to lose her connection to the Christian community. Luckily, Sinnamon found Q-Cross while searching online for LGBTQ student organizations with a Christian focus.

“I was involved in a Christian group previously and,

when I started coming out, they wouldn’t let me be in a leadership position,” Sinnamon said. “They wanted me to sign a contract stating I wouldn’t participate in homosexual activity. I was done hiding who I was so I told the group’s leader I couldn’t sign the contract because I am a lesbian. Q-Cross allows you to be all of who you are, it is a good support network.”

Q-Cross is a place where

what only matters is the individual’s will to walk on the Christian path.

According to the Q-Cross website, the organization is a “gay christian organization that affirms alternate sexualities. No matter where you are on your path, we welcome all in this safe environment; so that you may walk with Christ, and be comfortable with whom you are.”

Q-Cross works to provide

fellowship for Christians who Christians on campus.

According to Q-Cross webidentify as members of the site, the organization facilLGBTQ community.

“We have people who are itates “open discussions on Baptist, Episcopalian, Catho- topics from a queer Christian lic, Methodist, Lutheran, and perspective” and also celeany where in between and brates Christian holidays, hosts those who are non-denomi- exam-unwinding game nights and monthnational but ly Christian who identify services. with Jesus,” “Q-Cross is there Q-Cross Q-Cross Spirto show students also has a it u a l A dv iyou can come presence in sor Reverend the greatJ e n n Ta f e l to terms with er Lansing s a id. “ We yourself and be a Christian h av e m a ny Christian, we want communidifferent to bring Christ’s ty. intersections This year, a nd ident iloving message Tafel said ties to navito other LGBT MSU Wesgate but it’s a students.” ley Founsafe space for dation, One people who Andrew Shutt, Community identify with Q-Cross President (Lutheran/ any of that Episcopal spectrum can Campus Ministry), the Peocome and feel affirmed.”

Q-Cross President and doc- ples Church Campus Ministry toral student Andrew Shutt and Q-Cross came together for said members of Q-Cross also student training and worked together on the planning of spread the Christian word.

“Q-Cross is there to show stu- different events throughout dents you can come to terms the year.

Q-Cross is currently advowith yourself and be a Christian,” Shutt said. “We want cating for the implementation to bring Christ’s loving mes- of gender-neutral bathrooms sage to other LGBT students, around campus.

“It’s really just about being to know they are not shunned.”

Q-Cross accomplishes its mis- hospitable and that’s a lot of sion through a mixture of advo- what our advocacy comes down cacy and social activities to to,” Tafel said. “We’re called to build a community for LGBTQ love the neighbor.”

Despite: new student group and safe space

BY ZOË SCHUBOT ZSCHUBOT@STATENEWS.COM

During Spring of 2015, a group of students in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities sought out to create a safe space for students to discuss the adversities they had to overcome in order to make it to college.

“The premise of Despite, hence the title, is kind of like ‘despite any given adversity I made it to college,’” said former Vice President and founding member Meghan Zimmerman, a Residential College in the Arts and Humanities sophomore. “So defying the odds of certain challenges that college students have been through whether that’s, sexual assault or racial conflict or coming from a home with economic issues or growing up in a bad neighborhood. It’s really just ‘insert your adversity here’ and despite that you made it to college.”

Though the club is based and fundThough the club’s initial mission focused on individuals and how they ed through the Residential College in t he A r ts and cope with the strugHu ma n it ie s, t he gles they face, Zim“It’s a group for door is open to any merman said these social change as students who want d i sc u s sion s ab out a place to discuss personal adversit y well as coping and their own adversioften ended up escareally recognizing ties or take part in lating to wider dispeople who have a wider discussion cussions about topics about the impact really had to including race, sexuthey have at MSU. al assault and issues overcome the Residential Colwithin education. odds and are still lege in the A r ts “It ’s a group for overcoming them.” a nd Hu m a n it ie s social change as well sophomore Audrey as coping and realMeghan Zimmerman, Matusz said though ly recognizing peofounding member of Despite these topics can be ple who have really uncomfortable to had to overcome the odds and are still overcoming them,” address, the club is an educational Zimmerman said. She added that the space where people who aren’t well group aims to provide a safe space versed in talking about sensitive social where nothing spoken inside meet- issues can come and learn without fear of being judged. ings is shared outside the doors.

Additionally, Zimmerman said executive board members all underwent facilitation training when the club was founded to ensure they would be able to generate safe and healthy conversations about sensitive topics.

“One thing that we were taught is that when someone says something that’s off or not politically correct to not shut them down but to ask them why they think that way,” Matusz said.

“So it’s not a place for all politically correct people to meet and just talk about adversities that they see in the world. This is kind of how people are actually facing those problems. ... As well as people that have no connection to it at all and the can say something kind of off color or wrong and it can be educational for them as well.”

Despite meets once a month and any student interested in being a part of the group can contact Zimmerman through her email at zimme258@msu.edu.

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Ryan Squanda Sports editor sports@statenews.com @thesnews_sports

Former MSU rower talks Olympic dreams Emily Regan, fourth from left, helped the U.S. Rowing women’s eight crew capture its tenth straight gold medal at the 2015 World Rowing Championships in Aiguebelette, France. PHOTO

SN: WHAT GOALS DID YOU HAVE FOR YOUR CAREER AT MSU?

My goals as an athlete at MSU changed as I developed in the sport. It started with the goal of winning a Big Ten Championship and developed into the goal of winning the National Championship. We weren’t able to win the NCAA title while I was in school but we won two Big Ten team titles and my boat won three event titles at the Big Ten Championships.

SN: YOUR BIO ON USROWING. ORG MENTIONED THAT HEAD COACH MATT WEISE HAD A LARGE IMPACT ON YOUR CAREER. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT HE DID FOR YOU TO HELP YOUR CAREER? He taught me a lot about the sport and developed me to a point where I was able to be invited to the national team training center.

He also encouraged me to aspire towards the national team and then when I was invited, he helped me decide if that was the path I wanted to take with my life after college. Matt is still incredibly supportive as is everyone within the Athletic Department at MSU. I’m really lucky to have all the support from the university that I have.

COURTESY OF ALLISON FREDERICK, USROWING

BY STEPHEN OLSCHANSKI SOLSCHANSKI@STATENEWS.COM

Emily Regan might be MSU’s most successful alumna athlete you’ve never heard of.

Regan has been silently compiling medals on the national and international stages, and is vying for a spot on US Rowing’s women’s eight olympic team. We caught up with Regan and asked her about her time as a Spartan and the title bestowed upon her as “MSU’s most decorated rower.”

THE STATE NEWS: HOW DID YOU FIRST GET YOUR START IN ROWING? Every year MSU Rowing has a booth set up at AOP. I don’t remember it being there, but my mom apparently talked to the people running it. When we were driving home afterwards she started talking about the rowing team and how

REGAN

SN: WAS THERE A MOMENT YOU CAN REMEMBER THAT SPARKED YOUR LOVE/INTEREST IN IT? The moment when I really fell in love with the sport was probably in my sophomore season.

My freshman year the team struggled and we didn’t make the NCAA Championships regatta. We spent the entire next year with the goal of winning the Big Ten and making it back to the National Championships. Our first race my

Faculty strives to improve sports journalism program

BY BARRY LEWIS BLEWIS@STATENEWS.COM

A team of faculty in the MSU School of Journalism has been hard at work to build one of the strongest sports journalism programs in the country.

The team consists of Lori Anne “L.A.” Dickerson, Joanne Gerstner, Troy Hale, Sue Carter, Stacey Fox and Brian Kusch. Everyone on the team brings assets that not only add diversity to the staff, but also a wide range of skills that are useful in training other aspiring sports journalists.

“Between all of our different skill sets, we can hook you up and really give you a glimpse of what you want to do,” Gerstner said. “Not a lot of places can give you everything — most places will specialize in one thing or another.”

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successful the program is. She thought this would be a perfect opportunity for me. I had no interest in doing a sport in college, so I didn’t really listen to her, but when I moved into my dorm I ended up trying out with my roommate. I’ve been rowing ever since.

sophomore year we went to Princeton, NJ and raced traditionally strong programs Princeton and Brown. We beat Brown and were only point-three seconds behind Princeton. That’s definitely when I started believing in our team and learned to love racing and rowing.

SN: WHAT DOES ROWING MEAN TO YOU? Rowing is my life and for now, there isn’t time for anything else. I’m investing all of my time, emotions and energy into the sport. It’s helped me learn how to work a lot harder and has taught me how to be more driven and focused on one goal than. Before I began rowing I had a lot of different interests, but I didn’t put much effort into any of those things. Rowing has helped me realize what I love and that is athletics. I see myself committed to a career in athletics beyond my time as an athlete.

offered to students in the realm of sports journalism.

“There wasn’t really anything for sports students but there were a lot of students interested in sports,” Dickerson said. “So we started a five-week seminar on sports class which eventually developed beginning news reporting.”

From this five-week seminar, Dickerson said other classes have sprouted up, resulting in a strong sports department at MSU. One of the main things Gerstner attributes to the strength of the sports department is the strong sports culture on MSU’s campus, as well as a high sports climate in the Midwest in general.

“We are very blessed to have amazing teams to cover so the sports culture is already here,” Gerstner said. “If you’re at other schools it might be a little bit harder to integrate sports into academia, but here, the whole place is marinating in (sports)” In fact, the department took students to ESPN’s College GameDay the Friday before the Oregon vs. MSU game.

“It was kind of interesting because a lot of them had not seen the individual jobs that go into journalism that goes into get things on the air,” Gerstner said. “We had the Senior Operating Producer come by and she went through all the skill sets you need for the different jobs. And it was fascinating because you could see their wheels turning.”

Dickerson said she attributes the department’s success on the its ability to help people network with not only alumni, but provide them with the opportunity to meet professional journalists.

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SN: MSU CONSIDERS YOU THE MOST DECORATED ROWER IN PROGRAM HISTORY. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO YOU? It’s pretty special. I hope that my success will encourage another girl from the team to work a little harder and maybe shoot for a national team career after MSU. SN: LOOKING BACK ON YOUR SPARTAN ROWING CAREER, WHAT DID YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT IT? WHAT WAS IT THAT MADE IT WORTHWHILE? The best thing about being on the rowing team is the people involved with it. My teammates made the experience so much better. The workload that we went through together created a really special bond and the girls that I competed with at MSU are still my best friends.

To read the rest of Emily Regan’s Q&A, head to statenews.com.

W H Y T H I S M AT T E R S Several faculty members of MSU’s School of Journalism have been working for years to make the sports journalism department elite.

As part of helping con nec t st udent s with professionals, the team has created the Spartan Sports Jou r na l ism Classic, an event which invites MSU alumni that currently work in the field to come back to MSU and

assist students.

“Our biggest thing is our ability to help people network,” Dickerson said. “Our alums give back big time. On Oct. 23 we’re going to have over 50 or more professionals coming from ESPN, New York Times, from all over the country. … To spend the day to help our students.”

MSU has also added two new features ­— a study abroad program, in addition to a $1 million grant which will fund a functioning newsroom in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.

“It means something,” Gerstner said. “This school of journalism has been around for more than a century. So when you go to Michigan State, people know that you have been trained by really strong people in the profession and you’ve gotten good experience.”

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Meagan Beck Features editor features@statenews.com @sn_features

Grad student balances love of science with activism

BY RACHEL FRADETTE RFRADETTE@STATENEWS.COM

Most people would look at the study of experimental nuclear physics focusing on gamma ray measurements of nuclear excited state lifetimes and be completely lost.

For graduate student Charlie Loelius, it’s the research he does everyday at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory on campus.

Many students are puzzled by the Cyclotron. Last spring when an experiment went awry and the fire department was called, a conversation was started, one that had many students asking “what on Earth is a Cyclotron?”

But Loelius works in it every day.

Loelius, originally from New Jersey, studied at Rutgers University for his undergrad, triple majoring in mathematics, physics and philosophy.

As a graduate student, Loelius focuses his professional interest on nuclear non-proliferation.

There is an unwritten belief that most researchers at MSU do not have a life outside of their labs, but Loelius said differently.

In addition to his research and

teaching, Loelius involves himself in social activism.

“I try to balance the research work I do with activism and work for the community,” Loelius said.

He said he is passionate about diversity and inclusion, ending sexual assault on and off campus and labor rights among other things.

“We need to make sure MSU isn’t like other colleges, it shouldn’t be making life difficult for survivors of sexual assault,”he said.

Loelius serves as the recording secretary for the Council of Graduate Students. As a member of the executive board, Loelius and his colleagues serve as the voice for more than 10,000 graduate and professional students.

Loelius said the COGS executive board is an amazing team that he’s proud to be a part of.

“My number one goal is almost universal,” Loelius said. “The improvement of the lives of people in our community, standing up for the marginalized and making sure people are safe and their well-being is prioritized in the community.”

He said COGS provides him

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Spartan family legacy lives on in Shaw Hall in the MSU community. All four of his children took classes at MSU – two received degrees and all three of his sonsin-law received degrees from there. Additionally, three When alumnus Jerry Hull came to MSU in 1949, he had no of his four grandchildren are currently studying at MSU. “We grew up here in East Lansing, and all of us went to idea it would be his family’s home for the next 60 years.

As the years went on, his family became rooted in MSU school here at one point or another,” Hull’s daughter and alumna Mimi Patterson said. and the East Lansing community. Two of his Hull’s granddaughter, accounting grandchildren would even go on to live in “It provided a living senior Kristen Patterson, moved into the same residence hall as him. for him (Jerry), and Shaw when she was a sophomore, Hull, who has a BS and PhD in Horticulexactly 60 years after he moved out. ture from MSU and later worked for the it’s providing a living Though it was her first year living Department of Horticulture, grew up on a for us, and hopefully in Shaw, Kristen was no stranger to fruit farm in Ohio. When he first arrived, it’ll provide a living MSU’s campus. he lived in cylindrical-shaped metal huts “I grew up being around camwith 15 other men while Shaw Hall was for (Kristen) with pus because of those two (Hull and being built. that degree.”

Mimi Patterson) and because my dad “There was not sufficient housing on camMimi Patterson has worked here since before I was pus for students so they put up this field of MSU alumna born,” she said. “So it was no secret huts,” Hull said. “One day I got a phone call that I wanted to come here.” (saying) we have a room ready. So I packed Accounting sophomore and Kristen Patterson’s cousin up my clothes and moved over there.”

He said Shaw Hall was the first building south of the Ethan Wingrove also currently lives in Shaw.

Kristen and Mimi Patterson both said growing up in East river. At the time, all of campus was going to be north of the river and everything south would be agriculture. Lansing and having parents who worked for the university “In fact, every spring we’d open our windows and we kept them involved in the community. They went to sportcould smell the cows,” Hull said. “Shaw was a real step ing events, classes, workshops, and cafeterias on campus.

“I referred to MSU as ‘we’ my whole life. It’s kind of nice up. It was like going to the Taj Mahal after being in that that we all went here and we’re all from the area,” Krisquonset hut.”

Since then, Hull’s family has continued to live and learn ten Patterson said.

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From left to right, accounting senior Kristen Patterson, her grandfather Okemos resident and alumnus Jerry Hull and her cousin accounting sophomore Ethan Wingrove pose for a portrait on Friday in front of West Shaw Hall. All three lived in Shaw Hall. Patterson lived there from Fall 2013-Spring 2014. Wingrove lives there currently. Hull lived in the dorm from 1950-1951. PHOTO: JULIA NAGY

But Mimi Patterson said she thinks the most valuable thing MSU gave their family is education.

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