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University to consider future of complex

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However, Vennie Gore, vice president for Auxiliary Enterprises, said the university is committed to providing a family-housing option.

“There will be the kind of housing that studentfamilies need — one, two and three-bedroom housing that’s affordable,” he said.

“That’s our commitment. As we start down the planning process we’ll make sure the student voice is heard.”

Residents were primarily concerned with future housing plans after the complex’s demolition.

“We know that the buildings in Spartan Village have served their time — they were constructed in the 1940s — and there’s a life cycle,” Vaughn Crichlow, a criminal justice doctoral student who lives in the village, said. “That point is not up for dispute. We are concerned about contingency planning and the future of family-oriented housing.”

The safety of Spartan Village is one reason it’s so valuable — children can play outside with minimal supervision and women can jog in the evenings without fear of being attacked, he added.

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The future of Spartan Village seems somewhat shaky after MSU’s Board of Trustees passed a resolution authorizing the start of a planning process for the complex’s future, including possible alternative housing options for residents.

The resolution was passed in spite of concerns from village residents, three of whom spoke at the meeting.

The three residents, all MSU graduate students, were concerned the demolition of the village would displace families.

They also said it would make MSU less competitive in attracting and retaining international and graduate students.

Up in the air

Soccer out of chances in Big Ten

Sophomore quarterback Connor Cook motions to his team during the game against Illinois on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill. The Spartans defeated the Fighting Illini, 42-3.

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HAMPAIGN, ILL. — Connor Cook was nearly perfect, and he penned his name in the Spartan football record book along the way.

MSU’s defense has been nearly perfect all season, and Saturday was no different.

The sophMSU 42 omore quarIU 3 terback threw the punches, passing for 208 yards and three scores while completing a school record 93.8 percent of his passes (15-for16). The defense crippled the spirit of the opposition, yielding a season-low 128 yards to the Fighting Illini.

When the dust settled at Memorial Stadium, the Spartans (7-1 overall, 4-0 Big Ten) walked away with a 42-3 win to spoil Illinois’ (3-4, 0-3) Homecoming and claim the outright Legends Division lead. Nebraska’s loss to Minnesota earlier in the day vaulted MSU to the top, setting up a pivotal clash with Michigan in East Lansing this weekend.

“We knew this had to be one of the games that we dominated to show the whole country that if you’re one of those elite teams, you beat teams by this much, by this many points,” senior safety Isaiah Lewis said. “You dominate the other team, and that’s what we did.”

One of Cook’s few flaws

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came late in the first quarter when he got caught peeking in the cookie jar near the goal line. MSU was looking at a 3-0 deficit after Illinois engineered an impressive 53-yard drive on the game’s opening possession.

Junior running back Jeremy Langford had rushed six times for 39 yards to the Illinois five-yard line and Cook was looking to cap the touchdown on an option play to the left. Cook found a running lane but made an overzealous dive heading to the end zone and was stripped attempting to stretch the ball across the line.

Illini offensive coordinator Bill Cubit tried to get fancy by calling for a reverse, but sophomore defensive end Shilique Calhoun destroyed the ball carrier, See FOOTBALL on page 2 u

CHAMPAIGN, ILL. — Standing at the podium in a dank, hole-in-the-wall press room, complete with dingy ceiling tiles, florescent lights and a drooping Big Ten Network backdrop and buried in the depths of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium, head coach Mark Dantonio knew what his team had done.

A week after sleepwalking through a 14-0 victory against Purdue, sophomore quarterback Connor Cook and the Spartans came alive on the road, spreading

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Senior defensive end Marcus Rush leaps for a fumbled ball during the game against Illinois on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Champaign, Ill.

the offense all over the field and routing an overmatched Fighting Illini team, 42-3.

It was a game where the Spartans (7-1 overall, 4-0 Big Ten) stood tall and dominated every type of way, certainly as good or better than at any other point this season.

Cook set a school-record with a .938 completion percentage, fighting through heavy winds to complete 15 of 16 passes for 208 yards and three touchdowns. Junior running back Jeremy Langford rushed for his third-consecu-

tive 100-yard game, finishing with 104 yards and two touchdowns. Even the defense, who’s been highly touted all season, came up with an incredible goal-line stop in the second quarter, setting up an improbable 15-play, 99-yard scoring drive for the offense.

Now, the Spartans have increased their lead in the Big Ten’s Legends Division, a result of their win and Nebraska’s loss to Minnesota, and have set themselves up to take a shot at the Big Ten Championship Game

with four games to play.

Who would have thought MSU would have the best chance of any team not named Ohio State to play for a Big Ten title? Coming off a 7-6 season and wrought with a heap of quarterback controversy, very few would have put them in this position.

Yet, here they are. And given that the Spartans take on in-state rival Michigan for the 106th time this weekend at Spartan Stadium, there are See COLUMN on page 2 u

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Family and friends remember MSU student as loyal, genuine

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Ever since he met his group of friends while living in Bryan Hall nearly three years ago, applied engineeri n g s c ie nc es senior Jared Kavinsky has remained the glue that held them all together.

Kavinsky Psychology senior Michelle Rizor, who remained friends with Kavinsky after meeting him in Bryan Hall, said he immediately drew people in with his positive attitude

and loyalty in friendship.

“A lot of times in college, you meet people and form relationships with them, but they’re not very deep,” Rizor said. “With Jared, it was really genuine, really real. He really didn’t like fake social relationships, and I don’t think he had any.”

Kavinsky and another motorist were struck by a car in slushy and wet road conditions Thursday Kavinsky, 21, of Hartland, Wisc., was killed in a traffic accident Thursday night near Saugatuck, Mich.

“There wasn’t a pretentious bone in his body.

He always stood up for the underdog. … He would make sure you felt important.”

Jodi Kavinsky, Jared Kavinsky’s mother

At about 8 p.m that night, Kavinsky was driving south on I-196 when he lost control of his black Honda.

He struck a median cable barrier just north of Blue Star Highway.

According a statement from Michigan State police’s Wayland post, another motorist, 62-year-old Terrence Noone, pulled over to help Kavinsky when the two were struck by an incoming car.

The roads were thick with

slush, causing 26-year-old Joseph Willard to lose control of his Chevrolet Impala and hit the two men.

Kavinsky and Noone were pronounced dead at the scene.

Willard was transported to a nearby hospital after suffering serious injuries.

Rizor said Kavinsky was on his way to complete and present a long-term project for General Electric Healthcare, where he’d worked for the past two years.

He was expecting to graduate in December and planned to pursue a graduate degree.

Despite his various accomplishments, including several scholarships, Kavinsky’s mother, Jodi Kavinsky, said her son remained humble and caring about others.

“There wasn’t a pretentious bone in his body,” Jodi Kavinsky said. “He always stood up for the underdog. No matter what your special gifts were, he would make sure you felt important and included.”

MSU alumnus Griffin Vache r on, who b ec a me c lose w it h K av insk y dur ing his junior year, said he remained constant ly dedicated to academics but never bragged

about his success.

“He got very good grades, but he was not somebody that was always letting you know how dedicated he was or how driven he was,” Vacheron said.

Among his friends, Kavinsky was known a “goofball,” who would do anything to lift people’s spirits.

“He was ver y willing to accept things the way they are and make the best of them,” Vacheron said.

Even in the worst situations, Jodi Kavinsky said he found a way to keep it positive.

“He always knew if it was a bad situation, he would walk away with enough self confi-

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Police Brief Unarmed robbery investigated MSU police are investigating an unarmed robbery that occurred at about 2:30 a.m.

Sunday near Holmes Hall.

Early Sunday morning, officers responded to a call from a male student saying his cell phone was taken from him, according to an MSU police crime alert. The victim told police two men approached him near the southeast corner of East Holmes Hall, fleeing south toward Hubbard Hall after forcibly taking his phone.

Those with any information regarding the robbery are encouraged to contact MSU police at 517-355-2222.

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Conference at MSU The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, recently opened registration for its 2014 Graduate Academic Conference, taking place on March 27 in the Kellogg Center. It is primarily open to MSU graduate and professional students, but also to other Big Ten students.

The deadline to apply is Dec. 20.

“The main objective of the conference is translating your work,” said COGS President Stefan Fletcher.

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FOOTBALL

Cook, Spartan defense make big plays, carry team to blowout road win over Illini after slow start from page one

Ryan Lankford, forcing a fumble that was recovered by junior defensive end Marcus Rush.

With a short field ahead of them, Cook found redshirt freshman tight end Jamal Lyles for an 18-yard gain before Langford punched in a oneyard touchdown to give MSU its first lead.

The Spartans completed a punishing goal-line stand on Illi-

COLUMN

After big win over Illinois, MSU looking ahead to huge Saturday showdown at home against rival Michigan from page one

few places they’d rather be at this point of the year.

“We’ve handled some adversity,” Dantonio said.

“That’s the thing that is impressive to me. We’ve remained pretty resilient as a football team.

We’ve played very well away from home, really since 2010. You know our guys sort of come together, and we are confident when we go away.”

The win sets up a major showdown with the Wolverines (6-1, 2-1) in a game loaded with postseason implications.

A win puts the Spartans even further ahead in the Legends Division, allowing MSU to sit in the driver’s seat when heading to Nebraska the following week. However, a loss flipflops MSU and U-M, giving the Wolverines the tiebreaker if the teams finish with identical records.

And not to mention, it’s Michigan. It’s “Little Brother” and “Pride Comes

nois’ next possession, shutting the Illini out of the end zone on consecutive plays from the one-yard line and sending the MSU sideline into a flurry of cheers.

“Before that we really hadn’t built any momentum, so I think that’s where it kind of all started,” said senior linebacker Max Bullough, who collaborated with fellow senior linebacker Denicos Allen for the final stop.

Cook followed it up with a 99-yard scoring drive that chewed up more than eight minutes of clock. On third-and-25 from the Illinois 29-yard line, he rolled to his right under pressure and chucked it to the end zone, where senior wide receiver Bennie Fowler was double covered.

The pair of Illini defensive backs each got a hand

Before the Fall.” It’s T.J. Duckett catching the gamewinning touchdown in 2001 during Clockgate. It’s Braylon Edwards rallying the Wolverines over MSU in three overtimes in 2004 and Larry Caper returning the favor for the Spartans in overtime in 2009.

Finally discussing the famed rivalry on his Sunday teleconference after deflecting a question about it Saturday, Dantonio said the Spartans know what’s on the line when playing Michigan, and he elects to embrace every aspect of it.

“You know who your rivals are as you go through whatever football team you’re at,” Dantonio said on Sunday. “I’ve always chosen to embrace it. It’s there; why ignore it? It’s important to your program and to everybody surrounding your program. I’ve always embraced it, and I’ve always challenged our players to do the same.”

The matchup is set and the stakes are high. They always are. You expect it.

Now more than ever, courtesy of a big win in Illinois, the Spartans are ready for a game that could propel them even closer to a Big Ten championship.

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on the ball before it was tipped into Fowler’s hands in the end zone, giving MSU a 14-3 lead at halftime.

“I just go out there every single play and try to do whatever I can to make a play, to put our team in a situation managing a game and just trying to win a football game in general,” Cook said.

The MSU defense dug in for the final two quarters, surrendering just 18 yards and a single first down in the closing stretch.

Meanwhile, the Spartans scored touchdowns on four-consecutive possessions out of the locker room to pull away from Illinois.

Langford got his second of the day and finished with 104 rushing yards, while junior receiver Keith Mumphery notched his first touchdown this year on a 47-yard bomb.

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MSU graduate students express dismay over potential future plans for demolition of housing complex from page one

Crichlow lives in the village with his wife and three children.

Bernie Malonson decided to return to college at the age of 41, bringing his wife and two children along. The family lives in the village. He said on-campus, family-style housing was a big part of his decision to attend MSU. “It’s not just me going to school — it’s my family going to school, and that’s ver y important to me,” Malonson said. “Many non-traditional students make significant personal and financial sacrifices. A teaching assistant position or fellowship does not go very far. The ability to plan and have one bill is crucial, especially when you’ve gone from a 2,100-square-foot house to a 750-square-foot, one-bathroom apartment.”

He advocated for uninter r upted fa m i ly housing. There should be no

Continued Redshirt freshman tight end Josiah Price and true freshman tailback Delton Williams each registered their first career scores, on a 13-yard pass and a rumbling 42-yard run, respectively.

Cook’s day was done early in the fourth quarter, as senior Andrew Maxwell and redshirt freshman Tyler O’Connor split quarterback duties and milked the clock.

With O’Connor at the helm, MSU drained the last 6:42 off the clock to end the game.

“Obviously with this play, there’s always gonna be more expected of (Cook),” Dantonio said. “You see him play like this, (there will be) very high expectations.”

gaps between the demolition of Spartan Village and other options for families, he said.

Batool Atta, a doctoral student of curriculum, instruction and teacher education, has lived in the village since 2009.

She said when choosing a university as an international student, her biggest concern was the safety and comfort of housing accommodations.

She said the lack of family housing would give other universities an edge over MSU in recruiting international students.

“As a Spartan in spirit, that’s unacceptable to me,” she said.

Gore addressed concerns by telling the students that the university is committed to avoiding any displacement.

“It will be apartment-style, it’s going to have the amenities that student families need (and) we’re going to do it at an affordable rate,” Gore said.

“The planning process will give us the opportunity to figure out how to get there.”

OBITUARY

Family, friends remember Jared Kavinsky as dedicated, loyal and talented friend with positive qualities from page one

dence and sense of self to be able to make good choices,” she said. “People liked and respected him for who he was.”

At one point, he combined his drive with his compassion for others by starting Club Combo.

Members collect unwanted food other students obtained through MSU’s Combo-X-Change program and donate it to local food banks.

Kavinsky set up an organization called Club Combo to help needy individuals Kavinsky also participated in both the intramural basketball and volleyball teams throughout his time at MSU. Jodi Kavinsky said he became passionate about music during his time at MSU, teaching himself to play guitar and taking voice lessons.

Jodi Kavinsky said she and her husband, Marc Kavinsky, plan to set up a donation-based scholarship in their son’s name.

The family will hold a visitation from 4-7 p.m.

Thursday and 9:30-11:30 a.m. Fr iday at Ha rder Funeral Home in Brookfield, Wisc.

The funeral will follow.

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Impact 89fm launches new volunteers clean up red cedar river sports section on website

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Impact 89FM has elected to add to its content variety by launching a new sports section on its website covering MSU and Detroit sports.

The new web section, named Impact Sports, includes 13 shows and was launched on Oct. 12.

Impact Sports covers football, volleyball, men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, swimming and diving, water polo and ice hockey. The section also includes coverage of the Detroit Lions, Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings.

“The intention is to improve the value we can provide for students through the content we’re creating,” said Impact 89FM General Manager Ed Glazer. “The goal is ideally to cover every varsity and club sport on campus.”

Glazer said the radio station is trying to focus some attention on sports that don’t get much coverage by other media outlets.

Alex Scharg, founder and director of Impact Sports, said the new sports section is still in its infant stages, explaining that only half of the content they intend to eventually have is up on the website. The goal is to have the section ready in

its final form by the end of the spring semester.

“Our goal is to (cover) all MSU sports, from swimming to running, even Quidditch,” Scharg said.

Impact Sports includes articles and podcasts, with content varying from analysis of past games and upcoming games to opinions on sporting events.

The section’s Sports News Director Aaron Jordan said the articles are game recaps, whereas the podcasts are usually weekly in-depth analyses and discussions of the games.

Jordan said the sports staff, which includes 80 members, is working on adding wrestling, baseball and softball. The station is still looking for more people to fill different positions on the new sports section.

Scharg said one of the end goals also is to have more sports air time on the radio station.

Impact 89FM has a one-hour long weekly sports talk-show called The Pact, which was launched Oct. 14.

Scharg said the new sports show is a more in-depth feature show including debates with the guests about controversial topics in sports. The show substitutes Spartan Sportswrap, which covered MSU and Detroit sports, as well as national sporting events.

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The surface of the Red Cedar River Sunday morning was flat and still, betraying little of what was underneath.

Shortly after, waders were pulled on, canoes entered the water and grappling hooks were deployed. Ripples spread across the tranquil surface as more than 50 MSU students began to exhume the contents of the river’s murky bottom.

The biannual Red Cedar River Cleanup has been a longstanding tradition from the Fisheries and Wildlife Club, club president Kirsten Johnson said.

She believes conditions in the river have improved on the whole, but on Sunday, there was no shortage of items to haul from the water.

A chair, parking meter, fire extinguisher, toaster and a desk from Wells Hall were all found among more than an estimated 3,000 pounds of debris pulled from the river.

More than 50 bikes also were pulled from the river in less than four hours Sunday.

Some were covered in sludge and slime from months of submersion, but others still held the polished sheen of a recently discarded ride.

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Featuring miniature horses or llamas and face painting, the Lansing City Market was an interesting scene Saturday.

The festivities were a part of the sixth-annual Harvest Festival at the city market. The goal of the event is to engage the public and teach them about different farms in the area, as well as introduce people who aren’t regular market customers to what the market has to offer, Lansing City Market Manager Heather Hymes said.

The goal of the event is to engage the public about different farms in the area “Having these free family events are a great way for people to get an introduction (to the market),” she said. “It helps bring people here in a different way.”

Hymes said the market uses a number of MSU volunteers in

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up as scrap metal, but occasionally a bike can be refurbished to be sold at the Surplus Store.

“Basically the idea is to try to make it a zero-waste event,” Bryan said. “We decided it didn’t make much sense to throw in the river, take it out of the river, then throw it right in a landfill.”

He said students’ actions don’t reflect the more sustainable direction the university is trying to move in, and the amount of

waste hasn’t seemed to decrease.

“It’s kind of embarrassing when you see what some of the students throw in there,” Bryan said. “It seems like in this day and age, we would know better.”

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Chemical engineering sophomore Anthony Fiorini gets a desk out of the Red Cedar River on Sunday.

The Fisheries and Wildlife Club got people together to help remove more than 50 bikes and other miscellaneous objects from the river.

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Many students chalked up the constant plethora of bikes found in the Red Cedar River to drunken hooliganism, and a passing MSU police officer speculated the river might act as a convenient place to ditch a stolen bicycle.

The club’s research chair, fisheries and wildlife senior Alex Cuda, said contrary to many assumptions, the river is actually quite clean, despite the amount of debris dumped into it.

“It makes me a little disappointed that people really don’t care or understand the impact that they’re making,” Cuda said.

“But at the same time, it makes me feel good that I’m here, because that garbage is going to collect, so somebody has to clean it up.”

Fisheries and wildlife senior Danielle Boston organized the cleanup and said much of the event’s work is to inform students about the river.

“It’s important to get the word out that the river is clean, and all the pollution going into it is just going to degrade the quality,” Boston said. ”The river depends upon other people as well, it’s not just a natural resource. Anything that we throw in is not just going to affect the water, it’s going to affect the community around it.”

After bikes are removed from the river, they are taken to MSU’s Surplus and Recycling Center.

Operations manager Bob Bryan said 99 percent of the bikes end

addition to the four MSU interns this semester.

Dietetics junior Samantha Sullivan, a Lansing City Market intern, said the event is designed to educate people on healthy living styles.

“The main goal of this is to get people to start living healthier, and doing it on their own,” she said.

Psychology sophomore Chelsea Hull also is an intern with the Lansing City Market. She was face painting kids at the festival and said about 50 people were present to enjoy the festivities at any time throughout the day.

Hull said the location of the market on Lansing’s river trail helps attract people to come to events like the Harvest Festival.

“We have enough fun events to make people wander over (from the river trial),” she said.

Dietetics senior and Lansing City Market intern Mary Arnold said it was pretty easy for MSU students to volunteer at the market.

“It’s really fun, and everyone loves what they do here,” she said. “There’s always room

for more people. A lot of the times they don’t make you fill out an application to volunteer.”

Arnold said the local vendors that come are important to the education of the public during events like this.

One of those vendors is Sierra Rose Farm, from Dewitt, Mich. The farm brought miniature horses to the festival that were available for petting.

Sierra Rose Farms owner Lee Ann Hull said the farm has 30 miniature horses that are used as support tools for women and children in emotional crises.

Lee Ann Hull said last year was the first time the farm came to the Harvest Festival.

“Periodically, we’ll bring the horses to the market for other events,” she said.

On Saturday night, people packed the Crossroads Food Court in the International Center for MSU’s annual interactive showing of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”

For the uninitiated, Rocky Horror is the tale of a young couple’s car breaking down in front of Dr. Frank-N-Furter’s Castle, which houses a troop of sexually-unrestrained alien transvestites from Transsexual, Transylvania.

Devoted fans across the country have shown up to replays of the 1975 cult classic for 38 years.

The battle between conservatism and hedonistic liberation unfolded before about 500 excited and sometimes apprehensive Spartans. Some yelled profanities and jokes in key parts during the film, and most threw bread and cards while squirting water on each other and shielded their heads.

That’s the standard audience participation at most showings, and one of the reasons the film gained such an impressive and dedicated cult following across the country.

“I’ve been planning this for a month,” said Katherine Cox, a professional writing freshman.

“It’s very strange ... If you’re into it, you’ve got something in common with someone else here already.”

Clad in tight-fitting movie garb and white face paint, Saturday’s event was Cox’s first participatory showing. She and her friend Rox-

anne Partak, a criminal justice freshman, were visibly excited.

Partak first fell in love with the film in 6th or 7th grade. Now she’s a die-hard fan, dressing with frazzled purple hair and face paint like the character Magenta.

“It’s so different from any other movie out there,” Partak said.

Costumes often are encouraged at showings, which have always been packed close to capacity during the 10 years MSU has hosted them, said Cathy Fitzpatrick, a UAB advisor at the event.

The event, which took about a month to prepare, cost the university less than $3,000 for movie

rights and other expenses.

Fitzpatrick said she has a tender history with Rocky Horror not unlike many cult classic followers.

“My parents were hippies,” she said. “They took me to this movie in probably eight or 10 different states.”

Another student present, sophomore Jalen Adams, recalled the first time he saw the movie.

“I just remember having this weird feeling after it was over,” Adams said, adding that he hopes work for a video game company. He said he wants it run by alien transvestites.

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f women didn’t buy sexy Halloween costumes, they wouldn’t be sold in so many stores. That’s simple economics.

One thing I’ve observed about Halloween (particularly this one, since it will be my first on a college campus) is that many people are up in arms about the “over sexualization” of women’s Halloween costumes.

I completely agree that women’s costumes are becoming increasingly more sexualized — but so are many other things. Everything from comic books to video games to television shows portray women as sex objects.

The only difference is, when picking out a Halloween costume, women have the choice to not purchase risqué ones if that makes them uncomfortable.

So here’s my rationale: if you want to be sexy this Halloween, do it. If you don’t, that’s great too.

The only thing that’s not great is categorizing women as “sluts” if they choose to put on a little black dress and kitten ears and call themselves a cat.

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Read the rest online at statenews.com/blog. on the front with a Just as it is important to recognize that measuring tape belt women don’t need to be sexy to have a fun around the waist, Halloween, it’s also important to acknowlwas obviously inapedge that some simply like to show more propriate and offensive. skin or be a bit more steamy in their attire.

Thus, it was Multiple news articles and discontinued in posts on social media talk about guest columnist 2007 and very few “empowering” women by having stores carry it today. them show less skin on the holiConsumers really have day, but dressing in a certain way more power than they think to feel confident can be just as een,” a site that encourages women to find they do when it comes to cosempowering for some women. creative, less sexy costumes for Hallowtumes for All Hallows Eve. There’s no reason to blame big een and even offers some great ideas.

The wares that certain stores are chain stores for pushing the sexy And for the ladies that want to bare it pushing still leave plenty of room costumes when these businesses all this Halloween: more power to them. for variety — you don’t have to are just meeting the demand that olivia dimmer Because empowering women doesn’t many women obviously create. odimmer@statenews.com conform to what stores are selling. just mean giving them the option to So for the ladies out there If the costumes didn’t wear a more conservative costume. that don’t feel the need to go out sell or enough patrons comIt means letting women have the dressed as a sexy ear of corn (a strange, plained, the stores wouldn’t stock them. choice to wear whatever makes them skin-tight costume that popped up this Such was the case with infamous happy without inciting harsh critiyear) or a scantily-clad Miley Cyrus, there “Anna Rexia” costume, which spoofs a cism from those around them. are tons of DIY options to choose from very serious eating disorder that milOlivia Dimmer is a State News staff reporton websites like Pinterest and from othlions of Americans suffer from. er. Reach her at odimmer@statenews.com. er organizations like “Take Back HallowThis costume, which had a skeleton image

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SU’s football team is playing Michigan this Saturday and, for the first time all year, I expect to see a sold-out Spartan Stadium.

Michigan (Wastern?), South Florida (who?), Youngstown State (not even in Division I), Indiana (lol!) and Purdue (more like Purdon’t).

After the Michigan game this weekend and the last game of the season against the Minnesota Golden Gophers, which likely will be another snoozIf you watch college footer, I count one game out of sevball on Saturdays, you’ll notice en that is definitely worth going entire sections of empty seats in to (Michigan). Then, there are some of the nation’s most notathe six others that either were, ble venues, and Spartan Stadior will be, over by halftime. um is no exception. MSU is leadWith a schedule like that, why ing the Legends Division of the should people show up with any conference and is undefeated at consistency? I understand MSU home, but this weekend will be cannot do a thing about the teams the first time all year that they’ll play in front of a sold-out crowd. they play within the conference, but this is a problem that is only But it’s not just in East Langoing to get worse when the Big sing; attendance in college footTen gets even weaker with the ball has been down across the impending additions of Marynation. Throughout America, land and Rutgers. fans and students guest columnist With athletic proare staying home grams around the because there country loading up just isn’t that their non-confermuch incentive ence schedules with to go to the stathe Youngstown dium anymore.

States of the world, Did you see universities get the Michigan’s best of both worlds: student secan easy win that tion this year Greg Monahan doesn’t hurt the gmonahan@statenews.com when the Wolschool’s chance verines played of getting to a good bowl at the Akron? That was so poorend of the year and a big fat payly attended, I thought it was check from all the clueless fans a Detroit Pistons game.

Everyone wants to say students who paid a small fortune to watch their school stomp on a secondare lazy; that students would rate opponent for 60 minutes rather stay home, sleep off their in a matchup that even the othhangover and er team didn’t expect to win. watch the game But now fans have finally had on their couch enough, and I don’t blame them. in front of their For the general public, a sea60-inch LCD TV. son ticket package this year at While that Spartan Stadium was a little actually doesn’t more than $300. Sure, it’s about sound like a bad half of that price for students, idea at all to me, Students but it’s still insane to charge so that isn’t the reaaren’t much money and still expect stuson why students to show up when nearly dents aren’t comcoming ing to games any- every home game becomes a bore to games more. Students when it’s already a four-touchdown game by the third quarter. anymore aren’t coming to Now every game can’t be anymore because games Michigan-Michigan State. I get because college college that. But when you consistentfootball is going ly offer fans only one or two down the drain. football home games to get excited about Teams’ schedis going each season, is it any wonder the ules are a joke, games aren’t selling out and studown the especially in the dent sections are half-full? games played outdrain.”

I’m aware teams have been side of the conscheduling creampuffs on their ference. And schedule for as long as footwithin the conference, you’d ball has been played, but it be lucky if half of the conhasn’t always been this bad. And tests on the schedule are though this is miles away from worth getting excited about. being Michigan State’s fault, In the year 2000, Michigan they are part of what seems to State’s non-conference schedbe an institution-wide issue. ule had three teams: MarAll fans want to see is real comshall University, the Univerpetition. For heaven’s sake, take sity of Missouri and Notre a page out of Coach Izzo’s book Dame. All of those teams were and start the season with some ranked in the top-25 at the tough teams so you’re actually time, and all of those games ready to go at the end of the year. ended up giving fans a pretOr, go ahead and play ty entertaining game to watch.

Youngstown State again. But Fast forward a little more I won’t be showing up. than a decade and take a look Greg Monahan is a State at MSU’s home football schedule so far this year … it’s terrible. News guest columnist. Reach They’ve gone up against Western him at monaha32@msu.edu.

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MSU volleyball seeing season turnaround In the past couple weeks, a storybook season for the volleyball team steadily declined into anything but.

After being ranked No. 5, winning six-straight matches at the start of Big Ten play and posting the best start to the season since 1996, the Spartans (17-5 overall, 6-4 Big Ten) lost the fire that enabled them to topple some of the top teams in the nation.

After losing to then-No.10 Minnesota and then-No. 15 Wisconsin on the road, MSU fell to No. 17 Michigan at home last Wednesday and suffered a fourth-straight upset against Indiana on Saturday, who hadn’t won a Big Ten match before leaving East Lansing.

The Indiana game was MSU’s chance to regain its footing.

No. 24 Ohio State and No. 2 Penn State are coming to town this weekend and, with the Spartans slumping, it looks like the perfect time for the two teams to seek their revenge.

There has to be a sense of

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Senior outside hitter Lauren Wicinski gives the team a pep talk Saturday at Jenison Field House. MSU lost to Indiana, 3-2.

growing urgency for the team.

The hot start to the season and the high rankings in the AVCA coaches poll all mean nothing if they can’t re-spark the fire that made them look like a possible contender.

“It isn’t just like we all of a sudden forgot how to serve or do certain things,” head coach Cathy George said after falling to Michigan last Wednesday. “We have to be bold enough to do that.

“The program has been blowing (up) over the years, and we have to be ready to push into that next state and accept that and push through that, and go for it.”

Something seemed off during the losing streak. Errors, which have been a problem for the team all season, are now more numerous. The timely digs and kills are now less timely.

Perhaps it’s a mid-season slump. They lost three-straight matches last season before winning six-straight shortly after.

The undefeated start to Big Ten season was uncharted territory, and perhaps the early success brought doubt. But as George said, the team has to be ready to push to that next step.

This is still likely the best MSU team George has ever coached. But with her team

slumping, George has been steadfast that it’s time to go back to basics.

The team has been beating themselves up over sloppy play. It’s time to regain the attitude that made them a top-five team.

“We have to be comfortable with the position we find ourselves in at Michigan State,” George said. “We’re really moving up the rankings — we have to be ready to push through to that next step.”

Omari Sankofa II is a State News sports reporter. Reach him at osankofa@statenews.com.

For the second-consecutive season, the MSU women’s soccer team will not make a trip to the Big Ten Tournament.

After a 2-1 victory at Northwestern on Friday to stay in the hunt for a tournament berth, the Spartans (9-7-2 overall, 3-7-0 Big Ten) couldn’t find a way to win against Illinois (9-7-2, 4-5-1), losing 2-0 Sunday afternoon.

The Spartans and the Illini stayed scoreless for much of the game, but in 80th minute Illinois midfielder Allie Osoba beat sophomore goalkeeper Gabrielle Gauruder to the right off a pass from a flip throw and found the back of the net for her fifth goal of the season.

“They had a flip throw that was quite dangerous, and we created more of the actual live chances and had some ver y good ones we probably should’ve put away,” head coach Tom Saxton said. “They took one of the flip throws and it got deflected and bounced in-between our backs and the middle of the goal, and they knocked it in and gave them a spark. We had to clear the ball.

It’s that simple, and it cost us the game.”

Less than four minutes later, the Illini iced the game when

the nation’s leading-scorer, Illinois forward Jannelle Flaws, scored her 19th goal of the year to give Illinois the twogoal lead. Her goal also broke Illinois’ school record for goals scored in a season.

Flaws got the ball on a free kick and curled it past Gauruder into the top right corner.

MSU had a few opportunities and couldn’t create any goals.

MSU was once again outshot by an opponent, 17-5 . It was the 14th game MSU was outshot.

Despite Flaws’ goal off a restart, Saxton said he was proud of his team’s defense for cont rolling Flaws t he entire game, especially without senior defender and team captain Kelsey Mullen, who is out with an injury. "(The defense) played fantastic, honestly, other than that let down,” Saxton said. ”(Flaws) is one of the top goal scorers in the nation. We gameplanned to keep her in front of us, and they defended her great and never had a chance on a live play… She never had any chances on a live play, which I’m very pleased with the defense in terms of that performance.”

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One win against a top-15 opponent, and two players scoring their first collegiate goal.

Overall, it was a good weekend for the MSU hockey team (1-3 overall).

MSU lost to preseason No. 1, and currently No. 18-ranked UMass-Lowell Friday night before scoring three goals in the third period to upset No. 13 Boston University on Saturday.

After starting the season with a pair of losses to UMass last weekend, head coach Tom Anastos said each time they take the ice, there is noticeable improvement.

“Looking from start to finish over two weekends, we’ve gotten better every game we’ve played and that’s a good thing,” Anastos said. “To the guys’ credit, we just stayed after it. It showed good character.”

Freshman forwards Mackenzie MacEachern and Joe Cox each scored their first goals in green and white. Cox’s goal was the

game winner Saturday night.

He said the win was something the team needed, and the confidence gained will be a big factor going forward.

“The first win is something that everybody has been waiting for,” Cox said. “We held to our fundamentals, and it really worked out for us.”

After starting the season 0-3, MSU rallied in the third period to topple the Terriers, 3-1 MSU continued to improve their shoot-first mentality, outshooting BU 33-27, and getting 25 pucks toward the net on Friday against UMass.

Sophomore goalie Jake Hildebrand played both games and made a total of 55 saves throughout the weekend and said he saw something from the team this weekend he hasn’t seen before.

“Every game we’re getting better and better,” Hildebrand said.

“We outplayed them the entire game, and once we popped one in the boys just kept going and

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One of the biggest areas of the game Anastos stressed all week was the special teams.

The Spartans were 0-12 on the power play and 6-7 on the penalty kill between both games, but Anastos said he still saw some progress in the area.

“We had some good looks and we put some people in different spots,” he said. “Two of our best power play players are (junior

“The first win is something that everybody has been waiting for. We held to our fundamentals, and it really worked out for us.”

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forward Matt) Berry and (junior forward) Tanner (Sorenson), and they haven’t played. During the game we put (sophomore forward) Matt DeBlouw on the point. He had never practiced it

and I thought he did a good job.”

The Spartans have a two-game set at Munn Ice Arena against American International on Friday and Sunday.

For Anastos, this weekend

proved his team is capable of both working hard and competing hard.

“Sure they want to win bad, so I told them to continue to work hard,” he said. “I want to make sure that we competed hard, and to me there’s a little bit of a difference. That’s what I saw right to the end. It was gut check time.

They were doing whatever necessary to help keep the puck out of the net.”

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Kalamazoo resident Elizabeth Martinez untangles pink balloons Sunday at the rock on Farm Lane.

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The sky above the rock on Farm Lane was covered with pink Sunday in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Sigma Lambda Gamma sorority held a balloon release, each carrying a message of encouragement and awareness, to raise money for Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

The event was hosted by the West Michigan Alumnae Association of Sigma Lambda Gammadg, which started this year and is comprised of Sigma Lambda Gamma chapters from across West Michigan.

Genevieve Padro, the vice president of marketing for the West Michigan Alumnae Association of Sigma Lambda Gamma and an MSU alumna, was in charge of the organization’s first balloon release.

The group’s efforts this year have raised more than $600 for

Fuentes, graduate student and Sigma Lambda Gamma alumna, gave a speech to attendees prior to the balloon release and shared some statistics about breast cancer.

“Twelve percent of women have been or will be diagnosed with breast cancer,” said Fuentes, pointing to every eighth balloon marked with a purple ribbon to symbolize a woman diagnosed with the disease.

She also stressed the importance of preventative measures, telling the women that yea rly ma m mog ra ms a nd breast self-examinations are keys to catching signs of the disease before it is too late.

“T he best way to catch breast cancer is to become educated about the disease, you have to know the warning signs,” Fuentes said.

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Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is the sorority’s national philanthropy, Padro said.

At the event Sunday, the group collected donations before the event and sold 45 balloons to raise more money.

In addition to collecting money for charity, the event also served as a reunion for the past and present sorority members from across the state.

Spanish junior K imberly Germain said she released a balloon on Saturday for her grandmother, a breast cancer survivor.

“These events are empowering to (my grandma),” Germain said. “It helps my grandmother and I know how important it is to her.”

Psychology senior Titi Oladipo said she was contacted by Padro about the balloon release and was excited to participate.

“I’m excited to be able to raise awareness for this issue” Oladipo said.

Before the release, Sonia

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participated in Acapalooza and the event sold out both nights, with a total of 960 people attending Each group had a distinguishing characteristic that set them apart from each other, such as the groups’ outfit choices or their onstage behavior.

Ladies First, MSU’s only all-female acapella group, wore black dresses and each girl wore flowers in their hair and different colored heels.

The Accafellas stampeded onto the stage on Friday and sent the crowd into fits of laughter with exaggerated dance moves, while the Spartan Dischords had a penchant for witty remarks midperformance and impromp-

tu piggyback rides.

On a more cultural note, Spartan Sur melded popular songs in the U.S. with Hindi songs to give a colorful taste of fusion music.

Some of the songs performed throughout the night were the acapella group State of Fifth’s rendition of “Royals” by Lorde, Ladies First’s version of “I Knew You Were Trouble” by Taylor Swift and Spartan Dischord’s mashup of “We Can’t Stop” and “Wrecking Ball” by Miley Cyrus.

Hilena Tibebe, a member of Spartan Sur, said Acapalooza really displayed each of the groups’ different styles.

“It’s a fashion show for music,” Tibebe, a hospitality business and linguistics junior, said.

Sherwood, a history senior, said the responsibility of the show is rotated within the participating groups and this was the Accafellas’ year to host.

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Kristi Pollum, a Residential College in the Arts and Humanities freshman, sold candy and soda on both nights of the show.

The money raised from the concessions is going to a different cause than what the ticket sales generated.

“Specifically selling the concessions, the money is going straight to feed the hungry in Africa,” Pollum said. “We’re going to buy them goats.”

Pollum said the goats could be used to produce milk and cheese and would eventually serve as meat.

Althea Davis, a member of Ladies First and an elementary education sophomore, said the acapella community is extremely supportive.

“I think it’s incredible that we get to come together and collaborate,” Davis said.

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Acapalooza is the annual acapella showcase that gives MSU’s various acapella organizations the chance to show off their unique voices to an audience the groups might not normally have.

MSU Accafellas, Spartan Sur, RCAHpella, State of Fifths, Ladies First, Capital Green and Spartan Dischords performed to a soldout audience of about 480 people each night, said Daniel Sherwood, president of the Accafellas and primary organizer of the event.

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TWO HOUSES in the 400 Block of Grove St. Both 4 bdrm/2bath.

Licensed for 4. 1 year lease, begins 8/20/14 Email rwesley46@yahoo. com

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321 E Grand River 517922-0013

S T U D E N T PAY O U T S .

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ATTENTION MSU Students! Now hiring students to raise money for Public TV & the Arts.

Evening and weekend hours. Earn $8-12/hr.

Call 332-1501 today for an interview

PET CARE looking for hardworking individual, 25-30 hrs/week, days and wknds. Animal exp preferred. Resume to Melissa @ PO Box 277 Haslett 48840.

COMPETITIVE SALES position openings at The State News. Gain real life sales and advertising experience at one of the largest college newspapers in the country. Seeking freshmen, sophomores and juniors to work 15hrs/wk.

Sales experience not necessary but preferred.

Commission based pay with opportunity for bonuses. Visit statenews. com/work for an application. Please include cover letter describing any experience as well as qualifications.

Applications can be turned in at 435 E Grand River Ave between the hours of 9-5 or emailed to brandon.venti@statenews.com.

Apts. For Rent

1230 LILAC. 3 lg rm avail now, w/d. New updates. $500 per room. Near Breslin. 927-1338.

‘14 A+ Nice Houses. Lic. 3-4. Great Locations.

481-6313. bairdrentals. com 15+ HOUSES & Apts.

May/Aug, w/d, lic 1-6.

517-351-0765. hrirentals.com 2014 HOUSES. Licensed for 4 or 6. Super Locations + Conditions!

517-490-3082 269 HAGADORN lic 4; Lg 4br/1600. 312-5506745 eclausen@hotmail. com 4 BDRM across from McDonald’s.

Huge Livingroom with fireplace.

Srpmgt.com 332.8600.

631 STODDARD for rent, Aug 14, 4 bdrm, 2.5 bath, lic 4, $425 ea.

282-6878.

ABOVE AVERAGE 264 Lexington Lic. 4, Eamon Kelly 714.654.2701 or enkellyjr@gmail.com AVAIL AUG ‘14 Houses lic 3-6, apartments 1-4 bdrms. Great location, Top cond. Check out our visual tours at hudginsrealty.com Call 517575-0008, no pets.

CUTE HOUSE, 251 Gunson. Lic. 2.$650 per person. No smoking, hot tub, a/c, w/d, 333-9595 HOUSE FOR rent ‘14 Aug. lic 3 3 bdrm 1 block from Campus. 211 River Street. 517-881-2236

ONE 4 bdrm, 2 bath house left. $1500.

Garage. Close to campus. 517-482-3624

HOLIDAY HELP! Great Pay! Flex sched around classes. no exp nec. we train. call 517-333-1700 or www.collegestudentwork.com

AVAIL AUG ‘14 Studio, 1 and 2 bedroom Apartments.

Heat/ water inc. Great location, Top cond. Check out our visual tours at hudginsrealty.com Call 517-575-0008, no pets.

1 to 4 BDRM. Large modern apartments near Union. Srpmgt.com. 3328600.

‘14 AUG 2 bedroom apt. Great EL location.

Lic. 2-3hudginsrealty.com 517-575-0008. No pets.

3312 STONELEIGH Dr. $600/ mo. All util included. Grad student preferred. 517-393-5161 A+ LOCATIONS! All across from MSU, downtown, best of the best! Great studio, 1,2,3,4 bdrm apts. Gr River, Collingwood, Evergreen, Mich Ave, Beal St and more! www.cronmgt.com

AWESOME POOL views!

9 pmnt lease only. 2 bdrm next to campus.

New Hot Tub! Spacious floor plan, tons of closet space, newly remodeled.

Heat and water incl. Call 517-268-8481.

BOGUE/GRAND RIVER 2 bed, 1 bath d/w, a/c on site w/d. Lic. 2. 3510765. hrirentals.com BRAND NEW! 500 Michigan - Luxury 1 & 2 bdrm apts, under construction now, ready for move-in fall 2014! All granite, w/d in apt, parking, quality furnishings, fixtures & more! www.cronmgt. com or 517.351.1177 ONE BEDROOM apartment in house on 500 block of Grove St. D/W. Parking spot. No pets.

332-8600. Rent negotiable. Move in now.

Houses/Rent 1-3 PEOPLE, Aug ‘14.

Flower Pot neighborhood, Near Breslin. Nice home. 927-1338.

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SPACIOUS 4 BDRM Lic. 4. d/w + w/d. security deposit + utilities 517599-5731

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