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RIVALRY? Game pits fierce foes in battle for division supremacy

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Bullough, Spartans ready for rival Wolverines Saturday matchups across board will define game’s outcome

By Dillon Davis ddavis@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

If looks could kill, Max Bullough would have created a bloodbath.

As one of three players available to the media during Michigan week, the senior linebacker was asked Tuesday if he felt the No. 23 Wolverines finally recognize a closing gap in talent

after a storied history of mostly one-sided physical superiority. The question was slow and calculated, looking to draw out the news from the third-generation Spartan, whose family has been part of the MSUMichigan rivalry for more than six decades.

But Bullough, well known for his confident yet brash personality, gave a hard stare and scoffed at the question, mak-

ing it understood the No. 24 Spartans play second fiddle to no team in terms of talent — a notion he expects the Wolverines know by now.

“If you ask the Michigan players that have played us the last four, five, six years, they wouldn’t even know what gap you’re talking about, and I quite frankly don’t either,” Bullough See SPARTANS on page 2 u

By Dillon Davis and Stephen Brooks ddavis@statenews.com and sbrooks@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

It’s not often two rivals can play for something on the line.

MSU is looking to avenge its 2012 loss on the road versus the Wolverines, and a victory likely will come down to key plays at a few positions.

Quarterback It’s been well-documented the Spartans have struggled at quarterback this season. However, it’s starting to look like a storyline of the past with the emergence of sophomore Connor Cook.

After battling three others, including incumbent senior Andrew Maxwell, Cook seized the position and started to turn the corner in wins against Iowa, Indiana and, most recently, Illi-

nois. Cook quietly has grown into a confident pocket passer with the scrambling ability for head coach Mark Dantonio to anoint him a potential 100-yard rusher.

But when it comes to quarterback, Michigan’s Devin Gardner appears to have the edge in this matchup.

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News Brief IM fields closed for tailgating Saturday Munn field and other intramural fields will be closed for parking before the Spartans face off against the University of Michigan on Saturday because of the heavy rains East Lansing experienced throughout the day Thursday, MSU police announced Thursday.

Tailgaters that normally revel at those sites will instead be directed to a number of parking lots further from the stadium.

The parking area across Harrison Road from Breslin Center will be available for parking, as well as at Lot 83 on Service Road east of Harrison Road and Lot 91 on Service Road west of Hagadorn Road.

Lot 91, a considerable distance from the stadium, will have free parking as well as a shuttle service to the game available for $4.

MSU police have asked for patience in lieu of the changes.

SIMON SCHUSTER

What to know Saturday Kickoff time is 3:30 p.m.

For those looking to watch the game on television, check out ABC. Spartan Stadium’s student entrance opens about two hours before kickoff.

Other stadium entrances open about 1.5 hours before game time.

Police advise visitors to be aware of stadium policies.

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Dantonio: “I don’t think it’s possible to be too fired up. …

You can’t be too fired up for this game.” from page one

said. “We’re Michigan State, we’ve got good football players here, we always have. We don’t take a backseat to anybody, Michigan or anything.”

Bullough is looking to close out his MSU career with his third win against the Wolverines, as the Spartans (7-1 overall, 4-0 Big Ten) welcome Michigan (6-1, 2-1) to Spartan Stadium on Saturday (3:30 p.m., ABC) for the 106th meeting between

breakdown

MSU holds edge on paper across some defensive units, including linebackers and DB’s from page one

Wolverine Denard Robinson, Gardner is a far more talented passer and can burn teams as well with his arm (503 passing yards against Indiana) as he can with his feet (121 rushing yards against Penn State).

And while he won’t come close to either of those career highs against the loaded Spartan defense, he’s a playmaking threat and should challenge MSU’s secondary all afternoon.

Advantage: Michigan Running back With the departure of Le’Veon Bell from the Spartan backfield, few knew what to expect from MSU’s remaining running backs coming into 2013, given one of their top returners, Jeremy Langford, had just nine career carries.

But given a more expansive role with this year’s team, Langford has become a feature back in MSU’s offense, leading the team with 655 rushing yards and nine touchdowns.

Langford leads a group, which includes junior Nick Hill and freshman Delton Williams, who have found ways to be productive on the ground this season.

On the flip side, Michi-

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the two teams.

Always a matchup fueled by fire, the rivalry reached a boiling point this week when Michigan running back Fitz Toussaint awoke the embers of formerWolverine Mike Hart’s “little brother” comment from 2007.

Hart’s comment set off a firestorm between the teams, which led to head coach Mark Dantonio’s “pride comes before the fall” press conference and fourconsecutive MSU victories.

Asked if the rivalry with MSU is nastier than the one between Michigan and Ohio State, Toussaint said he believes it is.

“We labeled them as a little brother. And, you know the little brother always want to prove themselves and try to beat up the big brother one day,” he told reporters after practice on Wednesday. “I think they real-

ly take offense to that.”

Yet, that rhetoric of distaste for the other side is ubiquitous in MSU’s locker room.

Senior cornerback Darqueze Dennard refused to say the word “Michigan” this week, instead electing to talk about “the guys down the road,” eschewing the opportunity to give any sort of credit to MSU’s rival.

“Yeah, that’s a bad word,” Dennard said. “I’m going to stay away from that. I don’t want to give them acknowledgment. I don’t want to give them more than they … you know. It is what it is.”

But that’s not to say the Spartans aren’t gearing up for another instant classic — one that could propel the winning team toward a Legends Division title and a shot at the Rose Bowl.

gan’s leading rusher Fitz Toussaint made headlines this week by rehashing former Wolverine Mike Hart’s “little brother” comment in regard to the MSU-Michigan rivalry. Don’t expect MSU’s defense to take the comment lightly, as the Spartans have yet to allow a 100-yard rusher through eight games, and likely won’t let Toussaint out of their sights on Saturday.

Advantage: MSU

of 2012, MSU’s offensive line this season has been as talented a group as there ever has been in East Lansing, according to head coach Mark Dantonio.

The unit has been rotating positions and finding a way to succeed by employing different combinations at all five offensive line positions. This has allowed for the Spartans to get more touches and show off the depth they possess at various positions.

The result has been evident, as junior running back Jeremy Langford has reeled off three straight 100 yard rushing games, while sophomore quarterback Connor Cook has had plenty of time to make plays in the pocket — and finally has shown the ability to make plays.

Credit seniors Blake Treadwell and Fou Fonoti for leading this group, which has seen younger players blossom into terrific players. Michigan’s defensive line will pose a challenge to this group, but they’re incredibly young, so expect for the Spartans to stand firm and control this key area.

Advantage: MSU

Linebackers Cam Gordon and Jake Ryan are solid players for the Wolverines, so this isn’t a slight to them.

But MSU’s trio of Denicos Allen, Max Bullough and Taiwan Jones forms one of the most fearsome linebacking corps in the country. Allen and Bullough are threeyear starters in defensive coordinator Pat Narduzzi’s system, while Jones stepped in full-time this season. Equally stout against the pass and run, the versatility of all three Spartans speaks to the difficulty of solving this defense.

A solid D-line coupled with shutdown defensive backs allow the linebackers to roam free.

Advantage: MSU

Defensive line Both squads boast talented defensive fronts capable of making big plays. For the Wolverines, it starts with defensive end Frank Clark. Sophomore defensive end Shilique Calhoun is the big-play guy on MSU’s D-line, a pass-rush specialist with a formidable matchup against All-American tackle Taylor Lewan on deck.

Secondary Call it the secret sauce, the frosting on the cake — whatever you want. This is the unit that makes MSU’s defense go. Senior cornerback Darqueze Dennard is a potential All-American, and senior safety Isaiah Lewis likely should follow him to the NFL after this season. Junior safety Kurtis Drummond and sopho-

Wide receivers Three hundred and sixty nine receiving yards.

Michigan wide receiver Jeremy Gallon set a Big Ten record by accomplishing that in a single game in a win against Indiana. And combining with Devin Funchess, the Wolverines have as potent of a one-two punch at wide receiver as any team in the Big Ten right now.

For the Spartans, it seems the successes and failures of the wide receivers are based on the throws Connor Cook is able to make.

With the unit no longer dropping balls left and right, much of the pressure falls on Cook, who has struggled with accuracy.

Senior Bennie Fowler and junior Tony Lippett have been surprisingly solid targets for MSU, but they still don’t provide the consistent home run potential that the Wolverines have.

Advantage: Michigan Offensive line After battling injuries for much

“I don’t think it’s possible to be too fired up,” Dennard said.

“I mean, football is a very emotional game, and when you have a lot of emotions, that can also help the team, and that can give them a great advantage of momentum, and just them being excited, everybody being excited and ready to go. I think you can’t be too fired up for this game.”

Since Dantonio took the head coaching position in 2007, he’s 4-2 against the Wolverines, but dropped the most recent matchup a season ago on a last-second field goal by U-M kicker Brendan Gibbons.

However, the arrival of Dantonio signaled a new era of the

MSU-Michigan rivalry, where the Spartans of previous years had dropped five straight games and currently trail 32-68-5 in the all-team series. And for Dantonio, it’s the high level of competition with the Wolverines that has taken the rivalry to an entirely new level in his tenure.

“For it truly to be a rivalry, it cannot be one‑sided,” Dantonio said. “I mean, it can still be a rivalry, I guess, but I think it makes — when it’s much more competitive, obviously — things take on a whole new meaning.

If you can’t back up the words, it’s just empty words, and it just becomes — it sort of gets lost in its meaning.”

The Spartans’ strength is in their numbers, with a legitimate fourman rotation at defensive tackle that has been much better at rushing the quarterback this fall. MSU has better odds facing U-M’s young offensive line than the Wolverine defensive linemen do against the veteran Spartan O-line.

Advantage: Push

more corner Trae Waynes make up the rest of the self-proclaimed “No Fly Zone” and both are good players in their own right. MSU’s scheme puts a lot of pressure on the defensive backs, frequently leaving them in one-on-one situations to lock down receivers.

When they aren’t being called for pass interference, the Spartan defensive backs are sticky and unafraid to hit people. Because of that, the linebackers and defensive linemen focus almost completely on the opposing rushing attack. It’s hard to argue against the third-best pass defense in the nation.

Advantage: MSU Coaching Head coach Mark Dantonio gets the nod because of his 4-2 record against the Wolverines and his well-publicized passion for the rivalry. He and Michigan head coach Brady Hoke each have a win against the other, but Dantonio appears to have the formula to appropriately fire up the Spartans. They also have a defined identity built on punishing defense and physical running attack. Hoke and the Wolverines still don’t know if they’re a spread team, a pro-style team or some kind of unorthodox mix. He also has to worry about keeping his team’s emotions in check. The Wolverines feel they have bigger games to worry about. In MSU’s locker room, there is no bigger game.

Advantage: MSU

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Engineering students create voting joystick

By Celeste Bott cbott@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

MSU engineering students are helping to develop a joystick that could make it easier for disabled people to cast votes.

The joystick will create a force feedback, giving voters the opportunity to feel the movement as they go through the ballot. ““It can help filter out a tremor, for example,” said Stephen Blosser, assistive technology specialist in the MSU Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities.

The project began with funding through a grant from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

Two MSU engineering classes were involved — ECE 480,

known as the capstone class, and EGR 100, which is the introductory engineering class, said Blosser.

Many individuals with limited dexterity or problems using their hands choose to fill out absentee ballots or even abstain from voting because their handicap makes using voting machines a struggle, said Sarah Swierenga, director of usability/accessibility research and consulting within University Outreach and Engagement.

“Under the Help America Vote Act, disabled people have the right to vote on their own, privately like every other American,” Swierenga said.

Wheelchair users rely on joysticks, so a joystick design for interacting with a ballot made sense, Swierenga said.

“Ballots today usually involve

small button pads or touch screens, and none of these work for people with dexterity issues,” she said.

Mo Gerhardt, a student adviser in MSU’s College of Natural Sciences, has muscular dystrophy and was one of the users who tested the joystick prototype. He said he has chosen to vote absentee for years because of his condition.

“One of the highlights of being able to vote is being able to do it independently,” Gerhardt said in a statement. “When you vote absentee you almost feel detached. You don’t have that same sense on Election Day of making a difference.”

Once the project officials turn in a report, information about the joystick will be available to voting machine manufacturers.

Fisheries and wildlife senior Chris Dohrmann, center, and zoology senior Matt Hiles, right, wait in line Thursday, outside of The Riv, 321 M.A.C. Margaux Forster/ The State News

East Lansing businesses prepare for big holiday, football weekend

By April Jones ajones@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS

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MSU to install artificial turf at Munn Field

By Justine McGuire jmcguire@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

A new artificial turf field in the southeast corner of Munn Field will be available for use by the Spartan Marching Band and others starting next August.

Artificial turf is much more durable than grass and the field will serve the band, classes, intramural sports, club sports and intercollegiate sports.

“I’m very excited about this opportunity because so many people will be touched by this,” said Bill Latta, assistant vice president for operations.

The price tag is about $1.3 million and will be funded by a gift to the marching band from the Forest Akers Trust and other donations. The field will have bleachers, a fence and a conduct-

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ing tower.

The artificial field will only be available for scheduled use and will not be open for tailgating.

John Madden, director of the Spartan Marching Band, spoke to the MSU Board of Trustees at last week’s meeting to explain the benefits to the band.

“We can beat up a grass football field like no other,” he said.

“If it rains once, the grass doesn’t have a chance.”

The band currently practices at Demonstration field, between Jenison Fieldhouse and Spartan Stadium.

The move creates mixed emotions for the band’s president, Brad Garrod, a computer engineering senior.

“They do their best to try to keep it up and get the grass to grow but there are divots and holes all over and marching on it

can be unrealistic,” Garrod said.

He added that a turf field will help the band perform better because they won’t be worrying about dodging holes.

But marching on Demonstration field is what Garrod has done for five years, and he said he’d be sad to lose that environment — in plain view of the stadium.

The artificial surface also will benefit recreational sports, said Rick McNeil, director of recreational sports and fitness services. Some sports that could use it are intramural and club flag football, ultimate frisbee, rugby, soccer and lacrosse.

The addition of artificial turf is also important because the space won’t be weather dependent and will be able to be used when the larger part of Munn would be out of commission, he said.

While it is uncertain whether MSU will knock off the rival Michigan this weekend on the gridiron, many local businesses are certain they will be winning when it comes to raking in high revenue.

Many of the local on- and off-campus businesses will be expecting high numbers throughout the weekend with Halloween and the MSU vs.

U-M football game falling on the same weekend.

With Halloween and the football game drawing plenty of attention from students and alumni, Dublin Square Irish Pub General Manager Eric Allchin expects the week to be one of the best the bar has ever experienced.

“Halloween falling on the same week as the Michigan game is one of those perfect storms,” Allchin said. “We’re prepared for it, and we look forward to it.”

To accommodate the increase in guests, Dublin plans to staff more bouncers, bartenders and servers. Allchin said there will be decorations, extra specials, events and DJs as well.

Businesses such as Dublin Square have been around for years and know what to expect in the upcoming weekend, but Peppino’s has yet to experience the MSU vs. U-M football atmosphere.

Ray Yentzer, a host at Peppino’s, said the restaurant is expecting a crazy turnout for both events.

“This Saturday, we do have extra staff to accommodate this weekend,” Yentzer said, adding the restaurants full capacity is 300 people. “It’s kind of a challenge just because we’re fairly new. Everyone wants to come in and have that first-time experience to see what we’re like.”

Despite the restaurant’s rookie status, Yentzer said the pizzeria is prepared and hoping for high revenues.

The Marriott at University Place has been booked for months, with this weekend being one of the hotel’s biggest events. To ensure

things go smoothly, Front Desk Supervisor Anne Wallenberg said the Marriott has a two-night-minimum stay this weekend, with everyone arriving on Friday and checking out Sunday.

“That just kind of helps with game day preparation,” Wallenberg said. “You don’t have people coming in and trying to checkin or anything so we can really focus on getting the guest to the games.”

She said because of the in-state rivalry, they are bringing their entire staff in to accommodate the already sold-out hotel for the weekend.

“What we’ve kind of noticed in the past years is that it feels like the whole state of Michigan is going to be in East Lansing when Michigan comes to Michigan State,” she said.

The Spartan Bookstore General Manager Robbin Manor said it should be the best out of the seven games as far as sales are concerned.

“It’s a big game and it’ll be one of the best sales of the season,” she said.

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Students are going to be abuzz with energy this weekend, thanks to the irresistible combination of a holiday and a game against MSU’s biggest rival, the University of Michigan.

beware of offensive garb this weekend EDITORIAL BOARD Ian Kullgren editor in chief Summer Ballentine opinion editor Celeste Bott staff representative Anya Rath minority representative

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alloween is the only time of year that a person can dress up as whatever they want without the risk of judgement from their peers — that is, until a costume takes a turn from clever to potentially offensive.

Racially stereotypical costumes have been a Halloween trend for many years, likely thanks to how easy it is to put one together. It isn’t too difficult to throw a sombrero on your head or to buy an American Indian outfit from Halloween

— Casey Holland, State News reporter Worse than unintentional offenses, Read the rest online at some costumes are so statenews.com/blog. undeniably racist and insensitive, they can hardly be considered “creative” or “humorous.”

A photo recently circulated social media that showed two men dressed as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman at a Halloween party. The man dressed as Martin wore blackface makeup and a hoodie covered in is no excuse for this behavior. fake blood, while the man depicting Zimmerman Halloween doesn’t give people a free pass to sported a shirt that read “Neighborhood Watch.” behave or dress offensively. It’s okay to have To add to the costumes’ disturbing effect, the fun and wear ridiculous costumes, but people man dressed as Zimmerman shaped his hand as should be aware of how their costume makes a gun and pointed it at the man dressed as Mar- others around them feel. Stereotypes and stigtin while posing for the photo. mas are a daily reality for the people and cultures Their costume was not a naive mistake. It the costumes represent and seeing their culture was a malicious reminder of a tragedy that the portrayed in a ridiculing light, even if it’s just for entire nation witnessed. Even if the pair thought holiday fun, might feel like a slap to the face. A it would be a witty joke, Martin’s family likely person’s culture is a reflection of who they are, doesn’t appreciate them making light of their still and turning something that others hold meanfresh tragedy. There is nothing respectable in a ingful and close to their hearts into the punchjoke made at someone else’s suffering and there line of a Halloween joke isn’t a laughing matter.

stores, but there’s a difference between dressing up as Pocahontas and dressing up as a sexy American Indian. While one of them is an iconic historical figure and Disney character, the other could represent cultural ignorance to those of American Indian descent, despite the best of intentions.

On a campus as racially and ethnically diverse as MSU, it’s especially important to be aware of how others might respond to your choice in costume. Covering your face with war paint and wearing a headdress to portray an American Indian warrior is the type of costume that can be perceived as a mockery of the culture, even if the wearer doesn’t realize it.

It’s important when dressing up for Halloween to remain culturally aware of those around us to avoid being unintentionally disrespectful.

Something that might seem humorous to some might strike others as crude or offensive. Dressing in an Arabic turban isn’t a strikingly original costume and neither is wearing a sombrero and fake mustache while holding a taco. Unless the person wearing it is surrounded by fans of easy humor with little imagination, it won’t bring out many laughs, either.

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fall saturdays more than just sports

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very single fall, there are certain rites of passage that one goes through that personify what it means to be a Spartan.

The fact that the stadium was so close to my home lent itself to even more excitement.

My high school friends and I talked constantly about Spartan football, the match-ups and the upcoming opponent. And my dad’s ties to the football program as a walk-on in the late There’s no question that Spar1970s made it all the more spetan football games are one cial to get the (very rare and of the first true rites of pasoccasional) piece of insight from sage for those attending the a former program member. school or connected with The fact that my mom and the university in any way. her close circle of friends all Luckily, I’ve had more opporgraduated from the universitunities than most to experience ty only wound my ties to MSU the moments that define Sparmore tightly. When home foottan Nation, specifically withball contests came in the confines of managing editor around, seeing the a great stadium on true friendships one of the most picthey formed durturesque campusing their time in es in the country. school was touchThe pageanting and impressive. ry of Spartan StaThat lent itself dium only can to a lot of Sparbe described as tan-related epic, and it hasn’t introspection. changed in the Beau Hayhoe As an elemenyears I’ve been bhayhoe@statenews.com tary and middle going to games. school student, I wondered what Since I was about 9 years it would be like to attend footold, I’ve hardly missed a Sparball games as a student, and tan home football Saturday, and by extension, what it might be I certainly don’t plan on misslike to go to the university. ing what’s sure to be a huge Campus seemed exciting, contest versus our neighbors alive and full of life, particularto the south this Saturday. ly during big rivalry games.

Preparing for that game only In a way, all the time I takes me back to countless spent on campus during footdays on campus growing up. ball Saturdays made my colI vividly remember maklege decision pretty easy. ing the short drive from I learned quickly about SparMason, Mich., up to East Lantan pride and passion, and sing, fighting through gamealthough the MSU teams of old day traffic to a parking spot slipped up against the Wolverines near IM-Sports West. and others, I always came back Anticipation was always runto them. After sticking with this ning high as we set up our chairs team and university for so many and waited to welcome friends years, I wouldn’t go out any othand family from across the area, and from time to time, across the er way — one of the last home games of my career as a stucountry. The day was filled with dent, against our greatest rivals. reunions both big and small.

With only so many home Sometimes, a lot of peogames left (and with my final ple stopped by. Other times, chance to watch the Sparthe crowds were smalltans play U-M at home), opporer, more intimate. tunities to sing the fight song But, football still and alma mater are dwindling. brought us together.

At one time, it seemed like I The games were an excitwould be stuck in time — foring affair, whether we were ever attending Spartan home playing a preseason opponent games and going to MSU. like Central Michigan or a Big Now, those days are numTen power like Penn State. bered. Graduation (and before My family’s routine remained that, the end of football seapretty consistent — I always had to pick up a program, and I made son) are waiting, and there’s certainly nothing like attending sure my mom, dad, sister and an MSU football game or preI made it into the game to see game tailgate as a student. the band charge onto the field.

Add in the special atmoIt was exhilarating, and sphere surrounding a tremengrew to be one of my favordous game, and the magniite parts of every fall. tude is multiplied tenfold.

Such dedication inspired So on Saturday, although my me to stay through the pourparents won’t tailgate (a move to ing rain, through heartwrenchFlorida makes that difficult), I’ll ing losses and the relativestill take in the pregame atmoly infrequent big home win. sphere as a student. I’ll sing the Over time, I realized the fight song. I’ll watch the game. games were about more And I’ll take one last postthan just football, and defiMichigan stroll past ivy-covnitely more than just someered halls — more slowly this thing to do on a Saturday. time than any time before.

They were a big part of Beau Hayhoe is The State News my life — I looked forward managing editor. Reach him to them more than anything at bhayhoe@statenews.com. throughout the entire week.

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“There is such a thing as too much spirit” “…It’s U of Them. We HATE THEM! It’s also Halloween and it’s just a hung skeleton. People hang these all the time from trees this time of year. Oh boo woo that it’s wearing a michigan shirt?! “Insensitive”, “Frightening”?!?! Everything today is “insensitive” to those of you that have been brought up in this world.

Terrence Whitman, October 30

Really? A skeleton hanging from a tree - the week of Halloween - with Michigan gear is over the top?

81chains, October 30 Are you serious? It is a Halloween joke...there is much worse shown on the TV during the day.

Spartyprde, October 30

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City officials quietly repealed an ordinance preventing panhandling this month in the wake of a recent federal court decision.

T he ordinance was repealed as a part of the East Lansing City Council’s code review that concluded during the council’s Oct. 15 meeting.

The council’s decision followed a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit’s case of Speet v. Schuette making begging legal, East Lansing City Attorney Tom Yeadon said.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, East Lansing is the first city to repeal the ordinance.

The city charter has a provision that prevents ordinances from being a part of the code that are not in compliance with the state.

ACLU representatives recently sent Yeadon and more than 80 other city attorneys throughout

the state a letter asking them to repeal the anti-panhandling ordinance, The East Lansing City Council had repealed the ordinance two weeks before receiving the letter.

In the letter, the ACLU said East Lansing’s ordinance, “like the state law struck down in Speet, prohibits begging in a public place and is therefore unconstitutional on its face.”

Yeadon said repealing the ordinance merely was city protocol.

“When a court decision comes down, you adjust the ordinances accordingly,” he said.

ACLU Legal Fellow Sofia Rahman said the organization did not know East Lansing had already repealed the ordinance when the letter was sent.

“We hadn’t heard about it because we used Municode to find anti-begging laws in cities that listed their ordinances,” she said. “When we found out that two weeks ago they had repealed the ordinance, we were very happy about it.”

“What we’re hoping for is that other cities follow East Lansing’s example,” she said.

“We have heard that many cities are starting the process of repealing those ordinances.”

East Lansing Mayor Diane Goddeeris said she’s heard concern from some community members about the ordinance being repealed.

“Neighbors have concerns about people showing up at their door, but freedom of speech is an important right,” she said.

Goddeeris said it is too early to tell if the ordinance will have negative effects.

“I don’t know if we’ve seen anything different in the time we’ve had it,” she said. “It’s only been three weeks.”

Mayor Pro Tem Nathan Triplett said the ordinance hasn’t been heavily enforced in a long time.

“I think people are surprised it was on the books in the first place,” he said.

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Advertising sophomore Maggie Stewart leaves her class sporting rain boots and a large umbrella outside of Berkey Hall on Thursday afternoon. The rainfall continued at a steady pace throughout the day and had students trying to stay dry as they moved through their day-to-day activities.

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East Lansing adds moped parking spots to three downtown ramps

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The city of East Lansing is accommodating for the growing trend of moped use by designating free moped parking slots in downtown parking structures.

The three parking structures with new moped parking slots include the Division Street Parking Structure on 430 Albert Ave., Grove Street Parking Structure on 330 Grove St. and CVS Parking Lot on 310 Albert Ave. Each parking structure includes four moped park-

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ing slots.

East Lansing Parking Administrator Dan O’Connor said the city started working on installing the designated parking slots three months ago, starting with the Division Street Parking Structure. “ We ’r e j u s t s e e i n g a n increase in moped parking in the downtown area and we want to provide better space and better security,” O’Connor said.

He said there are no specific statistics showing the increase in mopeds in East Lansing, but said he’s noticed a growing trend.

“We’re just seeing an increase in moped parking in the downtown area and we want to provide better space and better security.”

Dan O’Connor, East Lansing parking administrator

Parking slots are equipped with anchoring points attached to the ground to lock the mopeds in and insure their safety.

He said moped users still are allowed to park by the bike racks downtown, in addition to the new designated motorcycle parking areas on Ann Street Plaza.

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motorcycle slots were added upon the request of bikers.

Parking in the motorcycle slots require paying a parking fee of 75 cents for half an hour and 25 cents for 15 minutes.

At h let ic t rai n i ng jun ior Stacey Glumm, who ow ns a moped, said it was a good idea to include moped parking slots, especially that it is free of charge, adding that the des-

ignated slots in parking structures would decrease chances of moped theft.

Glumm said she usually parks her moped by the oncampus bike racks.

Mopeds that are 50cc or less are allowed to park by the bike racks on campus, given they are registered and have a permit from the Parking Office, said Lynnette Forman, office supervisor of MSU parking operations.

She said moped users should not park by building entrances, attach their mopeds to signs or park them by fire lanes and ramps.

The safety of mopeds on campus recently came to the attention of police. Last month, MSU police began investigating a string of moped thefts believed to be orchestrated by minors from Lansing.

Students using mopeds that are more than 50cc can park their mopeds in normal parking slots in any of the ramps on campus for a parking fee.

The university offers designated on-campus moped parking areas but are only available for MSU employees. They are located in the Shaw Ramp, South Communication Arts Ramp and in Lots 10 and 59.

The art of fighting

Marketing sophomore Erica Gohil and neuroscience sophomore Joey Hemingway practice Capoeira on Wednesday at IM SportsCircle.

Capoeira is a martial art that combines fight and dance movements.

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hen it comes to the art of fighting, it’s mor e of a dance. Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art combining dance and fighting moves, was invented by slaves in Brazil during the colonial period and disguised as a dance to keep it hidden.

Kevin Hendrickson, a personal

defense professor at MSU, teaches Capoeira at IM Sports-Circle every Wednesday.

“There is an important aspect of it that no other martial art really has, which is the importance of music,” Hendrickson said.

Marketing sophomore Erica Gohil, who’s practiced it for a month, said it lets her express herself through fighting and dance.

Dimondale, Mich., resident Tom Jones has been practicing Capoeira for more than 5 years.

He thought he’d never enjoy Capoeira when he first started.

“After about six months, I

changed my mind,” Jones said.

— Georgina De Moya, The State News

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U-M fanbase refuses to move forward Let’s begin with a stroll down memory lane.

That’s not too much to ask for a university and fanbase obsessed with the past, right? In fact, many of you never left.

I understand most of you have simply gone along with the elitist, holier-than-thou rhetoric you’ve heard from Michigan fans and supporters all your life. The sense of superiority and arrogance has been passed along for generations. For those of you that picked it up from a real alumnus instead of in the WalMart clearance section, good for you! That’s a rare feat.

Slide those blue-and-yellow tinted glasses off and take a look at the real world, where quarterbacks don’t wear No. 98 and people don’t act like they reinvented the wheel for playing night games. Like the females in Ann Arbor, the past isn’t as glamorous when you take a longer look.

The almighty Wolverines claim 11 national titles in their 100-plus year history. The NCAA recognizes nine of them – and only four are claimed solely by U-M. The early championships date all the way back to the fiercely competitive days of

the early 1900s when only a fraction of schools competed and the Ford Model T still was years away from hitting the market. From 1901-04, the Wolverines ripped off fourconsecutive national titles before the forward pass was even legal. It’s too bad none of us were around for some of those classic games against Physicians & Surgeons, American Medical or Drake back in 1904. I bet those were great.

Since the Associated Press began crowning national champions in 1936, the Wolverines are credited with just one outright (1948) and one split national championship (1997).

That doesn’t scream “leaders and best” to me, but hey, I’m just an uneducated Spartan, right?

That’s the root of this rivalry hatred: perception. MSU supporters take issue with the disconnect between perception and reality with U-M people. We grow tired of Wolverines living in the past and the superiority complex that comes with it.

Call us little brother, it’s true. I don’t have to do the math for you studious folk to tell you U-M is older than MSU. Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, Peyton Manning – they’re all little brothers. They turned out OK. For a school that loves bragging about education, will somebody tell Brady Hoke the Buckeyes hail from Ohio State? The Ohio Bobcats aren’t on the schedule — probably for the best considering how tough MAC foe Akron was.

U-M is afraid to admit it’s threatened by MSU. It always has been, going back to when it attempted to block MSU from joining the Big Ten. Now, the Spartans are on

guest columnist the rise with a clear foundation and knack for winning the Paul Bunyan Trophy.

I can see how it’s so easy to cling to the past when the present offers such little hope.

U-M embarrassingly chased away a top-notch coach like a new kid on the elementary playground because he was everett cook different and didn’t conform evcook@umich.edu to “the Michigan way.” Then they tried to praise the hiring of a third-string candidate who’s still using Rodriguez’s players and only recently stopped using his playbook.

U-M continues to get pummeled by Ohio State annualOne of my earliest interly and shows no signs of beatactions with Michigan State started with a female Sparing MSU on a consistent basis.

The faux aura around tan screaming at me to suck the U-M football program a part of her body that she is as big a sham as a newscategorically cannot possess.

This was during my sophpaper staffed by kids that don’t major in journalism. omore year two years ago Like it or not, these produring the “touch” football game The Michigan Daigrams see eye-to-eye now. Big brother has grown old and ly and The State News play decrepit, a has-been that’s all every Friday before the real but faded into the shadows football players battle on of a once-glorious past. Little Saturday. I grew up in Calibrother is youthful fornia not knowing a thing and energetic, about Michigan State or his best years why there is such aniyet to come. mosity (for MSU Four Column Clash: fans reading this, wins in that means “bad State News five years, blood” ) between favored to these two schools. vs. be five of I’m not like a lot Michigan Daily six by the of my classmates, end of the the ones that grew up weekend. The with or knowing Sparpressure on U-M tan fans, or the ones who is evident, from the applied to both schools, faculty-endorsed skywriting just in case they don’t get to Fitz Toussaint’s false sense into Michigan. Everything I know about Michigan State of bravado. It desperatecomes from personal expely yearns to return to an era none of us were alive to see. rience — there were no preconceived ideas or steFor the Spartans, where’s the threat? reotypes that come with Stephen Brooks is a growing up in this area.

State News football reportSo, my relationship with Michigan State starter. Reach him at sbrooks@ statenews.com. ed on that field with

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The MSU cross country team is preparing for one of its biggest meets of the season on Nov. 3, the Big Ten Championship in West Lafayette, Ind. The Spartans raced well last year, as the women finished second overall with 75 points in the 6,000-meter race, while the men’s team placed seventh in the 8,000-meter race with 183 points.

Then-junior Sara Kroll placed first overall, running a personal-best time of 20:13 and earning first-team all-conference honors.

Walt Drenth, the head track and field and cross country coach for MSU, said even though they didn’t win the overall team meet last year, he thought they finished strong at the end of the fall. This year, he said he expects both of his teams to run well as they head to Indiana.

“We have a competitive group, and I would say the teams have

Years since MSU football won its first game against U-M.

The best part about the editor-in-chief screaming that anatomically incorrect barb? It was after she had picked up a first down.

Instead of being happy after a nice play, the insult was hurled out of pure anger. Anyone who thinks that inferiority complex doesn’t exist is delusional.

The game on Saturday — which will likely decide the division winner — is going to be close. It may not be pretty, because Michigan State has a dominant defense while Michigan has an exciting offense that has a tendency to turn the ball over. Also, the finest intramural quarterbacks in East Lansing probably could have equaled whatever Connor Cook and Andrew Maxwell are doing this season, but that’s beside the point. Michigan coach Brady Hoke has historically struggled on the road, while Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio has traditionally done well against Michigan. It’s going to be a dogfight.

And yet, the real game Friday, where the Daily goes for nine in a row, will be even better.

But I can guarantee that nobody wearing maize will be telling anybody to suck anything — just not how we operate. Maybe that’s an entitled thing to say, but I would rather be entitled than ignorant.

That’s not coming from someone who has been told that his whole life — that’s coming from someone who has had the pleasure to witness it himself, up close and personal, over the last four years.

Little brother, and the screaming editor-in-chief, brought it upon themselves.

Everett Cook is the sports editor at the Michigan Daily. Reach him at evcook@umich.edu.

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Men’s, women’s runners head to Big Ten Championship

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that foul-mouthed Spartan, who I later found out was the editor-in-chief of that esteemed publication.

Two years later, not much has changed. The State News scored only one touchdown in last year’s game for its eighth (yes, eighth) consecutive loss, there were several verbal grenades thrown toward our sideline, and I still don’t know a ton about Michigan State.

For out-of-state students who don’t have family members or anyone from the bottom half of their high school at MSU, this intra-state tension feels a lot different. Still, over the course of an undergraduate career, Wolverines meet Spartans, usually through mutual friends. It happens. Truly, they are not all bad people. But when the topic of school comes up — what’s your major, etc.

— if a Spartan got into Michigan, they will let you know.

It’s never, “Yeah, I’m studying to be a veterinarian and I really like the program.”

It’s always, “Yeah, I got into Michigan but decided to go to State because the program was a better fit for me.”

It doesn’t matter that Michigan State has a very respectable veterinarian program — if that Spartan got into Michigan, you’ll know very soon.

For an out-of-state student, this inferiority complex doesn’t make any sense. Michigan State is a fine school with decent athletic teams. Its football team has won four of the last five meetings between the two schools. The all-time record of 68-32-5 in Michigan’s favor changes that perception a bit, but hey, four of the last five!

Even if you had never heard of this “little brother complex” before — which a good chunk of out-of-staters haven’t — it became painfully evident during the touch-football game.

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set their goals,” Drenth said. “The men want to be in the top tier of the group and make some progress from last year. We just want to be as good as we can be and maximize who we are.”

Leah O’Connor, a junior and member of the women’s team, placed fourth overall in last year’s championship and also earned first-team all-conference honors. She won the Spartan Invitational this year.

As she prepares for this coming Sunday, she said there are a few things she is keeping in mind.

“Individually, I want to run my best, have confidence going into the race and not have any regrets leaving the course,” O’Connor said. “I want to have fun with it and not make it so outcomebased because I understand that it’s not about me. I want to get the lowest place I can possibly get for my team (because it’s the least amount of points).”

O’Connor said the team has been working hard since the summer. Even though their workouts

have recently become a bit lighter, she said they are still mentally gearing up for this meet.

“Big Ten is like going into battle,” O’Connor said. “There’s certain teams that you’re gunning for and you really have to build up team morale. It’s about how your team does, so we’re all working together to pump each other up.”

Caleb Rhynard, a sophomore for the men’s team, was the first Spartan to cross the finish line in the Big Ten Championship last year, with a 24:22 time. He said the men’s team wants to improve in the Big Ten this year and hopefully finish in the meet’s top three.

“We kind of have to have an ego going out there,” Rhynard said. “(We have to) show people that hey, we are talented, we do have the runners. Now, it’s just a matter of putting it on the paper.”

Drenth said the opportunity to run in the Big Ten Championship is an honor. He said his main advice as head coach is to

manage themselves. If they do that, he said things will turn out just the way they’re supposed to turn out.

“Our objective is to be mentally and physically fresh and excited to compete,” Drenth said.

“They just have to stay calm, and do the things we normally do in practice.”

O’Connor said the coaches have worked very hard to get them to this level, and the program has grown tremendously since her freshman year. She said she loves running for MSU, and being able to represent her school in the Big Ten Championship means a lot to her.

“Every time I put on my uniform and I get to race and represent MSU, I’m just really proud,” O’Connor said. “I want to do the best that I can do because so many people at MSU invest so much into us. Just knowing we can gun for a Big Ten title, and work really hard all year round for these people has been awesome.”

kelsay, spartans ready for rematch Senior setter Kristen Kelsay serves the ball Sept.

20, 2013 at Jenison Field House. The Spartans defeated Eastern Michigan in 3 straight sets.

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record shop owner starts small Former MSu basketball player receives grammy nomination

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Twice a week, David Bernath, the owner of Flat, Black & Circular, has had the opportunity to do what he calls his “dream job” for the past 36 years.

Flat, Black & Circular, or FBC, is located in the Campus Town Mall on Grand River Avenue and filled wall-to-wall with vinyl records, CDs and DVDs. Bernath said FBC holds at least 10,000 records and 5,000 CDs in a range of genres.

Bernath and his previous partner began the vinyl haven in 1977 when the duo decided to jump in to the industry.

“We decided we should start our own store,” Bernath said. “(We could) do it ourselves and do it better.”

Bernath, a jazz and blues music enthusiast, did not find his niche in music right away. Bernath grew up on a farm in Bannister, Mich., where he went to elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse and was one of two students in his class. He graduated from Ovid-Elsie High School in Elsie, Mich.

Bernath’s father wanted him to pursue a career in farming as well, which Bernath considered, but ultimately decided against it.

“Twenty years was enough,” Bernath said. “It’s very hard work for minimal income.”

Bernath began college at Western Michigan University studying engineering, however, a calculus class stopped him from going down that road.

He then moved to Lansing to attend Lansing Community College, and decided to open FBC with a friend.

Bernath, 27 at the time, and his partner amassed a collection of records from radio stations and MSU students for about a year.

They accumulated several thou-

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Owner David Bernath sorts through records Thursday at Flat, Black & Circular, which has been operating for the past 36 years.

“You have to carry everything, or you’ll be a limited store.”

David Bernath, owner of Flat, Black & Circular

sand records before opening up shop.

“You have to carry everything, or you’ll be a limited store,” Bernath said.

The record shop developed a strong customer base from the very beginning. Bernath said customers that had been there from day one still come in and that many alumni come back to reminisce on the ‘70s and ‘80s.

Bernath said the store’s heyday was the ‘90s when both vinyl albums and CDs were selling strong. He said CDs are facing “death” now and vinyl is having a resurgence in popularity.

“I think vinyl will outlast CDs,” he said.

Bernath, who now is the sole owner of the store after his partner moved away three years ago, said there are more things to keep track of since the beginning and that FBC sells products online now. "(I’m on a) first-name basis with all the postal people,” Bernath said in reference to the high number of products he ships to customers.

FBC also purchases records from customers. Bernath recently was contacted by a relative of a deceased customer who didn’t

know what to do with all of the records the customer had purchased over the years. Bernath ended up buying back almost 2,000 albums that he had previously sold the customer.

“To see the stuff I haven’t seen in 30 years — that’s exciting,” Bernath said. “It’s exciting for our customers to see stuff (that hasn’t been available.)”

Bernath, president of the East Lansing Film Festival, is also a film connoisseur and reviews movies. Bernath plans to work for a few more years and then wants to retire to focus on traveling.

“There’s a lifetime of places I’d like to go,” Bernath said.

“Time and money are running out.”

As a kid growing up in Detroit, alumnus Maurice Ager had two very prominent dreams — to become a professional basketball player and a successful rapper — both of which he has made a reality.

The former MSU men’s basketball player has become the first NBA veteran to be nominated for a Grammy Award since former basketball player Shaquille O’Neal in 1997.

After playing in the NBA for four years, Ager’s single “Far From Home” from his debut album “Moe Town” is one of 44 Grammy nominees for Best Rap/ Sung Collaboration. His song is one of several tracks from different artists that will be narrowed down to five official nominees on Dec. 6.

“Far From Home” features artists LP, J. Peso and G. Curtis.

Ager said the unique collaboration and original track stemmed from a competition between him and artist LP. “Me and LP were sitting in my studio one day with nothing to work on and he challenged me, he said, ‘Let’s see how fast you can make a beat,’” Ager said.

“I made a beat in 10-12 minutes and he wrote the hook.

We wrote the verses, recorded it and had our buddy come over and sing the hook.”

After returning home from visiting his alma mater for Homecoming weekend, Ager received the news that he was on the Grammy ballot, which he said was a blessing and surprise.

“The song was submitted to the Grammy board about a year ago and I had no idea it was submitted,” he said. “When I found out it was on the ballot I didn’t

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The song touches on Ager’s experience with leaving home to pursue his dreams and embodies a uniqueness that Ager said makes the song Grammy-worthy.

“It was an unusual collaboration considering the beat was not necessarily a hip-hop beat,” Ager said. “It has a soulful sound; it’s different and unique. I think that made it an easy pick.”

Ager’s sister Celeste Stevenson said his nomination is something he has worked toward his whole life.

“Since he was really, really young, basketball and music has always been a part of his life,” Stevenson said. “When he wasn’t playing basketball, he was in his room with one of those little Casio keyboards. It’s always been a part of him.”

The Grammy-nominated song is one that Ager said is a definite reflection of his wide-ranged and theatrical style of music.

“The best way I can describe it is, it’s like a movie,” Ager said.

“My music tells stories. When I’m making a song I always visualize it.”

The 56th-annual Grammy Awards are Jan. 26 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where the Detroit-native now calls home.

As a 2006 first-round draft pick, now with a production company, a radio show and Grammy nomination, Ager has accomplished what many would deem impossible. However, Ager said there’s still more to come.

“I have the ‘Interlock System’ (music) video coming out and a TV show I’m working on,” Ager said.

Ager also is involved in a charity in Lansing called Original Heroes that works to end poverty.

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Human biology sophomore Rachel Rosinski takes a photo of a periodic table made out of pumpkins Thursday near the entrance of West Holmes Hall.

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It’s a classic Halloween tradition to carve pumpkins, but this year, the resident assistants of Holmes Hall teamed up with Lyman Briggs College to put together a large-scale pumpkin activity with a different approach.

Students and resident assistants, or RAs, created a periodic table carved out of pumpkins that is on display through the end of today in West Holmes

“It’s also a way to celebrate Halloween with a scientific twist.”

After much organizing, planning and advertising for the event, participation was even higher than graduate student and Holmes Hall Assistant Community Director Lora DiBlasi and others had hoped.

“We had a lot of residents come up and say, ‘This is the best event of the year,’ and that they aren’t normally into this kind of stuff, but this was the first event they’ve ever really wanted to come to.” DiBlasi said. “Knowing that we actual-

Hall. The 98 pumpkins needed for the display were carved and completed in about two hours.

The idea arose when physiology senior and RA Sara Dykowski saw a picture of pumpkins carved to represent each element on the periodic table and thought it would be a good idea to try.

Each pumpkin was assigned an element on the periodic table and the symbol and atomic number of each element was carved in the side.

“We wanted to create a really fun, community-building activity for the residents,” Dykowski said.

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Elementary education senior and RA Meg Thompson said she was happy to see how many students showed up to carve a pumpkin.

“My favorite part was just seeing the turnout in general and seeing so many of the residents together in one place,” Thompson said. “I definitely think, considering how successful this event has been, we’ll try to recreate something similar for next year.”

Media and information freshman Peter Burroughs has always had an interest in art and, according to a new study done by MSU researchers, the time he has put into his artwork might be a wise investment.

The recent study shows people who receive more exposure to art and music before the age of 14 are more likely to steer themselves to become successful business owners, inventors and entrepreneurs.

The interdepartmental study looked at graduates of MSU’s Honors College from 1990-95 who majored in math and science-related fields. The findings showed a link between involvement in the arts and success, and revealed valuable information that might help leaders in economic development discover more about what drives creativity and success, Rex LaMore, director of MSU’s Center for Community and Economic Development and one of the researchers who conducted the study, said.

LaMore said he found that individuals who participated in arts and crafts were more likely than those who didn’t to have generated a patent, started a business or published a book or article. He

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said he further found that those who started in the arts young and continued participating as adults were most likely to have had these accomplishments.

“If you want highly creative and competitive global businesses, this combination of arts and science seems to be an important element of that,” LaMore said.

The strong correlation indicated by this study makes sense to chemistry sophomore Nick Verbanic, who has been playing music since sixth grade and currently is a member of the Spartan Marching Band.

“I’m able to express myself through music,” Verbanic said.

“I’ve felt like I can be more inventive, creative and intuitive because of my skills in music.”

Verbanic said he notices that a lot of the students in the marching band are in an honors college, have high GPAs or have a strong work ethic.

LaMore said the reason for the link between success and art still is undetermined, but it might eventually be discovered by looking at how the brain works.

Burroughs has been involved in art classes since he was a kid and he also plays piano. He said the study makes sense because talented people are drawn to art and music.

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