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Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for Hillary in Lansing as Election Day nears

BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM

Former President Bill Clinton held a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Saturday afternoon in Lansing at the UAW Local 652.

Former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard opened the rally.

“There’s no place in the world I’d rather be than right here,” Blanchard said.

Lansing resident Danyel Griffin was at the rally with her kids, ages 9, 4 and 1. “(We came to the rally) to support Hillary, and we love Bill,” Griffin said. “I’m glad my kids could see it.

I’m speechless that I got to be here.

He spoke the truth.”

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) was at the rally, and she spoke before Bill Clinton took the stage.

“Millennials should think about the fact that they can determine this election and really set the agenda,” Stabenow said. “The power doesn’t come from not voting, it comes from voting and from staking your ground on what your agenda is — climate change, jobs that help everybody, not just those at the top, and cost of college.”

Stabenow encouraged people to vote on Tuesday.

“Everybody gets one vote, and if you don’t vote you’re giving up your pow-

er,” Stabenow said.

Lansing resident Charron Basey attended the rally.

“I want people to get out and vote,” Basey said. “No matter who you vote for, get out and vote.”

Michigan 8th Congressional District candidate Suzanna Shkreli also spoke at the rally, and she introduced Bill Clinton.

Bill Clinton spoke about Hillary Clinton’s policies, including the economy, healthcare and college debt.

“It really ought to make you mad that you didn’t get to hear much about (policy during the debates),” Bill Clinton said. “Don’t you think it’s amazing that we’re two days before the election and you’ve never heard a discussion on (healthcare)?”

College loans are the only type of loan that cannot be refinanced, Bill Clinton said.

“If you take an AmeriCorps job … four years later (your college debt) is gone,” Bill Clinton said.

Public service jobs will also have loan forgiveness after 10 years in service, Bill Clinton said.

Bill Clinton gave heartfelt praise to his wife.

“I’ve known this woman a long time,” Bill Clinton said. “She has never touched anything she has not made better.”

Former President Bill Clinton gives a speech on Nov. 6 at UAW Local 652 in Lansing. Bill Clinton came to Lansing to campaign for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

Health inspectors find variety of violations at popular E.L. eateries

BY MCKENNA ROSS MROSS@STATENEWS.COM

Eating out is a popular pastime for MSU students, but what goes on in the kitchen might not always be apparent looking at your plate.

Health inspectors check every facility for priority, priority health and core violations to ensure consumer health. Priority violations are the most concerning, requiring immediate correction, according to the Ingham County health inspection website.

The State News compiled a list of several popular restaurants in East Lansing with health code violations in 2016. Most inspections were done earlier in the year, and violations were corrected or ordered to be monitored by the establishment.

Priority: Time as a Public Health Control.

Time-sensitive foods were observed with no time markers on them. At the follow up inspection, the violation was corrected.

“Food Code section 3-501.19 allows potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety) food that is ready-to-eat (RTE) to be stored without temperature control for up to 4 hours, after which it must be discarded or consumed or for up to 6 hours for refrigerated food.”

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Priority: Potentially Hazardous Food.

In the first inspection, Bagger Dave’s observed food above the required 41 degrees F temperature, used to ensure that food will not spoil and bacteria will not grow. The violation was corrected in the follow up.

Priority: An employee was observed handling ready to eat foods with bare hands. The restaurant re-educated the employee.

“Employees are the source of contamination in approximately one in five foodborne disease outbreaks reported in the United States with a bacterial or viral cause. ... Because of poor or nonexistent handwashing procedures, workers spread these organisms to the food.”

BEGGARS BANQUET

Priority: Ice Used as Exterior Coolant. Ice cannot be used as food after using to cool exteriors of food such as melons or fish. The report states that a separate bin is now used. “A separate ice bin is now used to cool food products separate from consumable ice.”

Priority: Safe, Unadulterated, and Hones. “No direct contamination of ice observed. The ice bin is now covered to prevent contamination.”

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Priority: Employee did not wash hands after using cash register then handled food. A follow up was scheduled to verify compliance, but no report is shown online.

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Priority: Potentially Hazardous Food. Foods were observed at a warm temperature, where it can grow bacteria and spoil. At the follow up inspection, the food was observed at the proper temperature.

“Improper cold holding was observed in the upper section of the pizza condiment cooler. - ham 50F - steak 47F - ground beef 48F Bacterial growth and/or toxin production can occur if potentially hazardous food (time/temperature control for safety food) remains in the temperature ‘Danger Zone’ of 5oC to 57oC (41oF to 135oF) too long.”

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Priority: Packaged and Unpackaged Food.

Egg shells in storage were observed by the inspector above readyto-eat food. Raw foods have to be stored away or under ready-toeat food. The violation was corrected.

“Several shell eggs stored over ready to eat foods at bakery station: Butter, Sour cream. Please store raw animal products below and away from ready to eat foods.”

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Priority: An inspector observed nine open and partially used bread loaves with dates earlier than the inspection dates. The loaves were discarded during the inspection.“Industry must implement a system of identifying the date or day by which the food must be consumed, sold, or discarded.”

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Priority Foundation: Common Name. An inspector found an unlabeled sanitizer spray bottle in the kitchen. Identification of sanitizor is required to prevent misuse. The bottle was discarded.

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Rocky Horror Picture Show at MSU

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“I hope people can find meaning in those darker routines that resonates with them personally.

It is really rewarding to get feedback from audience members who are struggling with mental illness themselves.”

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Clinton leads Mich., MSU poll suggests

BY MARIE WEIDMAYER MWEIDMAYER@STATENEWS.COM

MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, or IPPSR, recently released a State of the State Survey, or SOSS. The survey was conducted through phone calls, with 886 adults in Michigan responding. Of those surveyed, 746 said they were likely to vote.

The information was gathered between Sept.

1 and Oct. 30, during the 73rd round of SOSS gathering voters’ opinions.

When the surveyees, who said they were likely to vote, were offered four presidential candidates — Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein— to choose from, 47 percent chose Clinton. Trump was at 28 percent, Johnson was at 11 percent and Stein was at four percent.

The spread between Clinton and Trump grew when they were the only two candidates to choose from. Fifty-two percent of likely voters

said they would vote for Clinton and 32 percent said they would choose Trump.

Those voting for Clinton are split almost in half on whether they are voting for Clinton or against another candidate. However, 57 percent of Trump voters said they are voting against another candidate, while only 41 percent said they are voting in favor of Trump.

According to SOSS, women are more likely to vote for Clinton than Trump, 60 percent to 23 percent. Forty-four percent of men said they would vote for Clinton and 42 percent said they would vote for Trump.

In southwest Michigan, which includes Ingham County, 56 percent of surveyees said they would vote for Clinton and 35 percent said they would choose Trump.

Of the surveyees who said they are likely to vote, 37 percent know who Tim Kaine is.

Kaine is Clinton’s vice presidential candidate.

Mike Pence is Trump’s vice presidential candidate and 61 percent of likely voters know who Pence is.

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MSU health services, counseling center to undergo restructuring

BY MADISON O’CONNOR MOCONNOR@STATENEWS.COM

Years of demands could finally be met.

With the student demand for health services on campus at an all-time high, MSU is finding that it needs to modify its methods.

On-campus health services have been available to students since 1893 and have been updated over time, but there is a new university effort to integrate the separate health service branches across campus, reorganize the structure and leadership of these services and expand human resources to meet growing demands.

An action committee made up of leadership and staff from the Counseling Center, Student Health Services and Psychiatry Services met this summer to discuss potential changes that could be made to the different student health services.

“There is growing concern about the number of students who present with behavioral health concerns, everything from anxiety to significant depression.”

June Youatt, MSU Provost With the help of Keeling and Associates, a higher education consulting firm, a report was formed by the action committee, titled “Strategy and Recommendations: Designing a Continuum of Student Health and Wellness Services.”

The report calls for an increase of staff in the health centers, an integrated network

between each service, the housing of services in one main location and the implementation of a common record between each branch of health services, among other proposed changes. These adjustments are looking to be made to meet the changing demands from students.

“There is growing concern about the number of students who present with behavioral health concerns, everything from anxiety to significant depression,” MSU Provost June Youatt, who helped identify the action committee, said. “What we’re trying to do is ask and answer the questions: are we best organized to provide the highest quality of care to our students? Are we there when students need us? Are they getting the help they need? Are they getting it quickly if they need it, and are we matching students who come looking for support to the right level of care provider?”

The report’s main goal is to push for the development of a continuum of health services for students, where all current branches of service would be fully-integrated and known as “Student Health and Wellness Services.”

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In the years since health services began at MSU, they have been expanded through health education, more facilities and collaboration with other university services.

However, the past few years have seen an overall change in student mental health and the demand for behavioral health services on campus. In fact, MSU’s Counseling Center reported a 100 percent increase of students seen in direct service from 2004 to 2014.

This trend is national. According to the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors, 93 percent of university counseling center directors reported an increased demand for services in 2012.

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Three of these conditions have demonstrated slow but consistent growth during the past five years, the Center for Collegiate Mental Health said in their 2015 annual report. Depression, anxiety and social anxiety have been an increasing concern for counseling centers across the country as the rates in which students experience them are growing.

These mental health trends could come as a result of overuse of digital technology like social media and video games, the de-stigmatization of getting mental health treatment, or even changes in parenting, but overall, it’s hard to say exactly where these changes come from, Scott Becker, the director of MSU Counseling Center said in a presentation to ASMSU. What’s clear, however, is the need for university health services across the country to adapt to these changes, and MSU hopes to do just that.

CONSOLIDATING THE SYSTEM

The Strategy and Recommendations report was generated during the summer of 2016 to

“What we’re hoping is that students who, at any time in their academic career, need behavioral health support or assistance, that they will be able to access that more easily.”

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Spotlight outline changes that could be made to the current MSU health services system. Nothing in the report is final, but it does provide an initial outline for solutions to the growing problems MSU faces.

“Even though people have been calling it ‘The Keeling Report,’ it’s actually the thoughts of the action committee of what might work best on our campus,” David Weismantel, the interim executive director for Student Health and Wellness, said. “It was our best attempt at a basic framework to start from to lead to that future implementation.”

“The expectation would be that by the start of fall semester 2017 that this new model be operational.”

David Weismantel, interim executive director for Student Health and Wellness As the interim executive director of Student Health and Wellness, Weismantel is faced with the task of coordinating and leading the efforts to make changes to the way students receive care.

The primary goal the report details is integrating the currently separated health service centers instead of running Psychiatry Services, the Counseling Center and Student Health Services as separate organizations. This reorganization will provide more coordination among services and allow these operations to work together better as a group, Weismantel said.

“What we’re hoping is that students who, at any time in their academic career, need behavioral health support or assistance, that they will be able to access that more easily,” Youatt said.

One proposed way to make this happen is through housing these services in one location. Another proposed idea is to create a single

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point of entry for students, so those employed in health services can send them where they can best receive help — whether that’s from counseling, psychiatry or other health services. An additional way to integrate these service centers is through the establishment of a common record system between each branch of health services through the EHR system AthenaHealth.

“And that’s underway right now,” Weismantel said. “It is going live on Nov. 8, so student health services and psychiatry will be using that starting on Tuesday, Nov. 8 and we plan to have the Counseling Center sometime in the coming months also up on that common record so they’re more able to coordinate care between the different services.”

Additional proposed changes include increasing the number of counseling providers for understaffed service centers, implementing a 24-hour phone hotline, extending the use of group therapy and workshops and developing advisory groups.

The efforts to make changes started in May, according to a letter from Youatt. At the end of August, the final report was established and implementation groups will help facilitate these changes from now until next fall.

“The expectation would be that by the start of fall semester 2017 that this new model be operational,” Weismantel said. “It might not have all the pieces because it’s going to take time to hire staff and we might need specialists, but operational by the fall.”

HOW WILL IT ALL WORK?

Weismantel said he hopes to reach out to students to participate in the planning of these changes. The implementation committee will host town hall meetings as a means to gather more student input. They also hope to work with different student groups to take their concerns into consideration as they move forward.

“We’re going to be reaching out to student groups to participate in the planning of this,” he said. “We’ll be reaching out for feedback

MSU Counseling Center: Increase of 100% in students seen in direct service from 2004-14

Increased demand for services was reported by 93% of university counseling center directors (AUCCD, 2012)

Prevalence of severe psychological disorders has tripled nationally since 2000

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Another point of consideration is funding. As far as budgeting, these questions and concerns will be addressed through the implementation groups, Weismantel said.

Overall, however, Weismantel said he believes there will be positive outcomes from making these changes. He hopes students will see an improved access to care, more timely access to care and an increased variety in services available, he said.

“It’s a lot of work ahead to figure out how to make this work – Lots of other schools have done this and it’s never an easy transition to make,” Youatt said. “Once you’ve been operating in one model, to say, ‘We’re really going to lay that down and create some-

thing new because we think it will be better for our students.’ So they’ve done really good work, there’s a lot of work ahead, but I think on the other side of it, it really will benefit our students.”

“Lots of other schools have done this and it’s never an easy transition to make.”

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Broad Art Museum hosts exhibit for the centenary of Easter Rising

BY BRIGID KENNEDY BKENNEDY@STATENEWS.COM

“Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born,” Irish poet W.B. Yeats wrote of the 1916 Easter Rising.

The Easter Rising was a rebellion by Irish nationalists against British rule with the hope of establishing an independent nation. Though the uprising lasted only six days, it changed Ireland’s course for the 20th century.

The year 1916 is now viewed as a watershed year in Irish history. To mark its centenary, in 2016, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum and the Lewis Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland, worked together to create “2116: Forecast of the Next Century.”

Participants in the Easter Rising had a vision for the future of Ireland, according to the exhibit’s description, and “2116” invites artists and audiences to envision their own version of Ireland’s future.

The theme of the collection presented some problems for curators. The events of 1916 continue to have great political significance, which could have been difficult to navigate.

“It’s a problematic thing for us as well,” Lewis Glucksman Gallery senior curator Chris Clarke said.

Curators wanted to avoid works that could be considered Irish nationalist propaganda, and at the same time find a way to make the events of 1916 contemporary.

The 2116 theme balanced the impact of the historical moment of 1916 with artists’ hopes and fears for the future of Ireland.

Although the exhibit focuses on Ireland, Broad curator Caitlín Doherty believes it will resonate with American audiences.

Doherty, who moved to the U.S. from Ireland, found that many Americans feel connected to Ireland already.

“People are so delighted to talk about all things Irish here,” Doherty said. “I was just blown away

by it.”

Some of the works in the exhibit consider Irish experiences of migration, a key element of Ireland’s past and present.

“Iteration III,” a work by artist Eleanor Duffin, consists of a plastic orchid, which is slowly calcified by water dripping from two plastic bags.

Duffin, who recently moved from Ireland to Antwerp, Belgium, noticed that many of her neighbors owned orchids, and she felt the flowers were out of place on display in Belgian windows. The orchids have, in a way, migrated out of their original locations.

“We have this history of migration over hundreds of years,” Duffin said.

Duffin chose to leave Ireland because of the nation’s suffering economy, but her national identity has been strengthened while living in Belgium, she said.

Living in Antwerp around people from many cultures helped Duffin distinguish what it means to her to be Irish. ”I think I feel more Irish being abroad than I do in Ireland,” Duffin said. “I think Irish people just love to have fun.”

One particularly striking part of “2116” is the performance art by Amanda Coogan. Coogan performed her piece at the Broad during the opening of the exhibit, along with 20 MSU students.

Dressed in orange robes, the students walked through the museum backwards guided only by small mirrors.

Most of the MSU students were selected from the Department of Theatre, but journalism sophomore D’Vonne Williams secured her spot in the piece through her involvement with MSU Orchesis, a dance team.

Performance art is a lot like dancing, Williams said.

“It’s the way you place the mirrors, your posture,” she said.

Coogan was pleased with the students who worked with her.

“They brought such beautiful presence,” she

Students, who are acting as performance artists look into mirrors during “2116: Forecast of the Next Century,” an Irish art exhibition at Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on Nov. 5. PHOTO: VICTOR DIRITA

said.

Although Coogan encouraged audiences to find their own meaning in her work, her performance at the Broad appealed to her for its danger.

“I just love that it’s dangerous,” she said.

Performers face a small amount of physical danger moving backward throughout the gallery, Coogan said. There is also a sort of danger in the “double vision” of looking to the past and the future at the same time.

“Performance art in its very nature is wrapped up in time anyways,” Clarke said. “It’s all about the now, it’s all about the present.”

“2116: Forecast of the Next Century” will be on display at the Broad Museum through April 2, 2017. The exhibit concerns itself with past, present, future and the ways we grapple with the uncertainty we face moving forward. ”Human beings aren’t tidy, history isn’t tidy,” Coogan said. “The future isn’t going to be tidy.”

MSU student wins college ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Comparative cultures and politics junior Amber Applewhite is feeling pretty fortunate.

On Nov. 1, in a College Week episode of “Wheel of Fortune,” Applewhite represented MSU and walked away victorious, winning a trip to Barbados and a cash prize.

“I didn’t know that I was going to audition for ‘Wheel of Fortune’ until after I came back from my study abroad trip in Santander, Spain,” Applewhite said. “As soon as I arrived back in Grand Rapids, my mother told me I had my audition for ‘Wheel of Fortune’ three days later.”

Applewhite didn’t know her mother had sent in her photo and information to the show, so it came as a surprise when the studio invited her to audition.

“I was really shocked and anxious about it,” Applewhite said.

Applewhite auditioned with many other students at the Westin Book Cadillac Detroit, a hotel in Detroit.

She was chosen to be on the show.

The show was filmed just a few days into

the fall semester. The episode aired on Nov. 1, which showed Applewhite’s win.

“Playing on the show is not like it is at home,” Applewhite said. “At home, answering the puzzles comes out easier and you’re against yourself.”

There was a lot of pressure, but the experience was thrilling, Applewhite said.

Since it was College Week, Applewhite never forgot she was a Spartan.

“I knew I would be representing the whole school and I was proud of that,” Applewhite said.

Other students and “Wheel of Fortune” staff enjoyed playing up school rivalries. A producer, who was a graduate of Notre Dame, teased Applewhite about the then-upcoming MSU-Notre Dame football game.

“One girl from Yale even told me that she hated our mascot because she was jealous,” Applewhite said. “I felt the obligation to really walk away with the win.”

For now, Applewhite’s life is back to normal at MSU — but she hasn’t ruled out the possibility of returning to game shows.

“If any opportunity like this was to present itself again, I would take it,” Applewhite said.

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Money lost to cyber criminals a growing issue

BY COLTON WOOD CWOOD@STATENEWS.COM

In 2015, Michigan businesses and residents lost a reported $20,591,750 to cyber criminals, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, IC3.

Michigan recorded the 10th most losses in the country. California had the most losses in 2015 with $195,490,403 reportedly lost.

The 2015 report indicated that females lost more money than males did. In 2015, females in Michigan lost more than $11 million while males lost approximately $9 million.

The report also indicated that 3,249 males were victimized and 3,016 females were victimized in 2015.

The age group that contained the most victims was males older than 60 years old, which had 762 victims of cyber crime.

Michigan State Police Detective Sgt. Richard Cruz, a cyber crime specialist, said the amount of money lost to cyber criminals is much higher than what is reported.

“They’re not necessarily reporting out the expenses in regards to bringing in the third party to help clean up or overtime for individuals that are helping take care of incidents, so those dollar amounts are usually much, much, much greater than what’s reported to the IC3,” Cruz said.

Cruz added that some businesses do not want the publicity of reporting a cyber crime, so they won’t come to the police or the IC3.

Cruz said a great quantity of the cyber crimes that occur are related to business email accounts.

These sophisticated scams usually target American businesses that regularly wire transfer payments overseas and work with foreign businesses, which resulted in losses of $8,760,475, according to the IC3.

“It’s one of these things where it doesn’t sound like that you’d have a lot of people fall for it, but they do and usually when they’re hit, they’re hit for several thousands of dollars,” Cruz said. “We’ve had Fortune 500 companies hit with millions of dollars in losses with this compromise.”

Cruz said these criminals research and look into a specific business to find the perfect person and area to target.

“They’ll discover the inner workings of the organization and a lot of the times it’s based on what that organization, what that business is posting online,” Cruz said.

Cruz said the majority of the time, the money lost to cyber criminals is sent overseas and the chances of getting the money back from these criminals “is not even possible.’’

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Measurement, Analysis, and Design of Financial Systems in Developing Economies In this talk, Professor Townsend describes an approach to analysis of financial systems in developing economies, and to regulation and payments/liquidity policy, based on first principles. Theory with data can be used in a policy algorithm to assess allocations and institutions, allowing obstacles to trade. Specific applications include optimal design of P2P lending and market place exchanges: the number and type of financial platforms, the contracts to be traded there, and requisite information flows. A second application concerns micro-founded models which allow us to think about, and resolve problems associated with payments systems including policy towards emoney and liquidity.

Professor Townsend is a theorist, macroeconomist, and development economist who analyzes the role and impact of economic organization and financial systems through applied general equilibrium models, contract theory and the use of micro data. Professor Townsend is known for his seminal work on costly state verification, the revelation principle, optimal multi-period contracts, decentralization of economies with private information, models of money with spatially separated agents, forecasting the forecasts of others, and insurance and credit in developing countries. Townsend is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at the University of Chicago and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics.

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Human biology sophomore Vito Vitale ties the edges of a blanket on Nov. 4 at Bessey Hall. Vitale is the treasurer of the volunteer group Cozy CoverZzz, which makes hundreds of blankets annually for children in need. PHOTO: DEREK VANHORN

BY BRYCE AIRGOOD BAIRGOOD@STATENEWS.COM

A new club on campus is trying to bring a little more comfort and warmth to children.

Human biology junior Mariah Fielder is the president and founder of Cozy CoverZzz, a club that makes blankets for children in hospitals, homeless shelters and domestic abuse shelters, Fielder said.

“They’re like kid-themed blankets with patterns and colors and animals or sports or whatever ones we buy,” she said.

Fielder said she got the idea for the club when she participated in SPARTANS WILL. POWER Global Day of Service last year. For the service day, Fielder and a friend went to Grand Rapids to make blankets for kids in hospitals. When she returned to MSU, she checked to see if there was an organization that did something similar on campus, but said she didn’t see one.

Fielder decided to start Cozy CoverZzz, whose name was inspired from the sleeping face emoji, she said.

Human biology sophomore Vito Vitale is another member of Cozy CoverZzz. He said Fielder encouraged him to join the club during one of their classes together.

“She was just extremely passionate about it,” Vitale said. “It was a great idea. Once she explained it to me I was all for it, and I knew eventually a lot of other people would join, too.”

Although turnout for the club was low at the first meeting on Oct. 5, both Fielder and Vitale said the numbers grew exponentially for the second meeting. Membership dues for the club are $10 and students have two weeks in between meetings to produce at least one blanket, Fielder and Vitale said.

So far, Vitale has made four blankets for the club. During Halloween weekend, he and his roommates, who are also in the club, put on a scary movie and each cranked out a blanket, he said.

The materials for the blankets come from Wal-Mart, as it’s generally cheaper than Michaels or Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores, Fielder said. She usually gets 30-35 blankets to pass out at their meetings. Instead of using two blankets to produce a single tie blanket, they only cut and tie one so they make twice as many, Fielder said.

Vitale likes to go with designs he thinks will resonate with kids more. When making the blanket, it’s hard to keep the ties at the end even. He described tying the blan-

ket as being similar to tying a water balloon and said the first blanket was rough to make, but was worth it.

“I feel like there’s not a lot of opportunities where we actually get to give back,” he said. “I guess a lot of clubs are just like resume boosters and people just join like, ‘yeah I don’t really know what I do.’ But you go to a fundraiser every now and again. I guess it helps but here you actually get to see the difference that you’re making. You make the blankets for the kids in the hospital, then you can come to the hospital and actually drop them off.”

Sherri Szilagyi, Women and Children’s Shelter manager for City Rescue Mission of Lansing, said when organizations like Cozy CoverZzz drop off blankets to her shelter, they get added to the blanket supply and are given on an as-needed basis. This is to make sure the shelter is being a good steward of the donations it receives.

Some people are overwhelmed at first when they come to the shelter and are in need of many things. After becoming acclimated with their new environment, guests are able to appreciate donations like those made by Cozy CoverZzz, Szilagyi said.

“Once here and settled, many guests will share their happiness with their accommodations and care, which includes the nice, warm blankets,” she said. “They are greatly appreciated by our guests, and guests are grateful to be able to take the blankets with them when they leave for their new place.”

Although they were unable to meet with the children they donated the blankets to at the City Rescue Mission of Lansing, Vitale said as the club donates to more places they will be able to see the difference they are making.

Fielder said for Cozy CoverZzz meetings, students can stay just long enough to gather the supplies to make their blankets, or they can stay and make a blanket at the meeting.

The time it takes to make a blanket depends on the person making it, Fielder said it takes her between 30 and 45 minutes to make a blanket while Vitale said it takes him around an hour. The next meeting will be Nov. 16, Fielder said.

Fielder said that she is thankful to the Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, for funding Cozy CoverZzz for the semester and the club is always looking for new members.

“It’s really easy and it’s fun and it’s not a big time commitment,” she said. “You can give an hour out of two weeks to help a little kid.”

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Strange Matter Coffee entertains regulars with cool foam designs

BY SASHA ZIDAR SZIDAR@STATENEWS.COM

Walking into Strange Matter Coffee Co., a wholesome vibe paired with soft alternative rock playing overhead embodies the tan foam designs in their coffee.

Strange Matter Coffee Co. is located on 2001 E. Michigan Ave. in Lansing. The urban coffee shop was started by owner Cara Nader, who received help from a Kickstarter campaign and many others to make her coffee shop come to life.

“Cara is a very long-term coffee person, she’s been doing coffee for longer than anyone else I know,” employee at Strange Matter Coffee Co. Santino DallaVecchia said. “It was just a long standing goal of hers.”

Strange Matter Coffee Co. opened two years ago and has since had a regular crowd of coffee lovers. James Sailor, a Strange Matter Coffee Co. regular, knew Nader before she created her shop and is there almost every day.

“Cara was doing stuff at the farmers market down on Allen Street and I would go there every Wednesday and then when this place opened, I started heading over here pretty regularly,” Sailor said. ”(I come here) close to five days a week. ... (The coffee) tastes better than most of the other places I’ve been to in Lansing.”

One signature of the coffee shop is the foam designs employees create in their oversized teal coffee cups.

Many can’t resist capturing the mas-

terpiece and posting it to social media.

Other techniques used at Strange Matter Coffee Co., is their pour over coffee set up.

Walking toward the coffee bar, it might look as if one is walking into a lab.

“This is a pour over, it’s a way of brewing coffee and it’s really essential to what we do here,” DallaVecchia said. “It’s a very precise and scientifically artistic process. ... It really gives the most authentic taste in coffee.”

This method of brewing coffee is all about controlling the variables, DallaVecchia said.

Although it is a more involved process, it allows them to control the brewing speed.

“It’s sort of a newly popular way of doing coffee ... it’s a combination of factors that makes this more conducive to bringing out the coffee,” DallaVecchia said. “We have water that’s between 200 and 201 degrees, and then it’s a fresh ground mound of coffee, all very freshly roasted beans.”

Current roasters of the shop are Populace Coffee Co., Four Barrel Coffee, Cafe Grumpy and Onyx Coffee Lab. Along with their handcrafted, high quality coffee brews, they also offer specialty teas by Kilogram Tea and fresh baked goods, specially delivered from Zingerman’s Bakehouse, according to the Strange Matter Coffee Co. website.

Though many regulars visit to drink their daily dose of Strange Matter Coffee Co., there is always room for newcomers.

Lansing resident Santino DallaVecchia laughs while interacting with a coworker and pours water through a filter to create a cup of coffee on Nov. 5 at Strange Matter Coffee Co. in Lansing. Strange Matter Coffee Co. uses the pour over method for each cup of hot coffee, which brings out a full spectrum of flavors. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

MSU physics professor Marcos Daniel Caballero visited the coffee shop for the first time after hearing about it from a friend. He was

working on assignments for his lecture for the upcoming week.

“I normally go to Espresso Royale, but I decided today that I’d come

here and try it out,” Caballero said.

“The coffee is really good, it might get busy and loud but the white noise ... helps me focus.”

MSU alumna finds solidarity in Lansing’s Comedy Coven and help with depression

BY JAIMIE BOZACK JBOZACK@STATENEWS.COM

Imagine a room filled with dozens of people all waiting, watching and whispering. Imagine a room where tension builds and audience members can sometimes be hard to please.

For some, this scenario would be a nightmare, but for the women in Lansing’s Comedy Coven, this is a dream.

The Comedy Coven is made up of three women, and two of them attended MSU before pursuing comedy full time. Members include Tricia Chamberlain, Stephanie Onderchanin and Emily Syrja.

Syrja was a women’s studies major and attended MSU from fall 2009 to the spring of 2012. Onderchanin studied biochemistry from 2009 until 2012 and again in 2015. Both said they found their passion for comedy in college.

“I got my first taste of comedy performance in the Last Spartan Standing competition in my very last semester,” Syrja said via email.

Since beginning in 2014, the group has gone from playing cramped shows in Syrja’s basement to playing shows at The Robin Theatre in Lansing. The Robin Theatre holds a little more than 90 people. The group has sold out two shows.

“We didn’t find our audience right away,” Onderchanin said

via email. “When we embraced being ourselves and stopped trying to please everybody, that’s when we started to gain a following.”

Echoes of laughter can be heard throughout the intimate venue. The performance includes many styles of comedy including stand-up, sketch and musical comedy.

For Syrja, the Comedy Coven is much more than a daily hobby. The comedy show offers an escape for her, as she struggles with depression and PTSD. She said comedy has provided her with an outlet to reach people with similar problems.

“I hope people can find meaning in those darker routines that resonates with them personally,” Syrja said. “It is really rewarding to get feedback from audience members who are struggling with mental illness themselves.”

The Comedy Coven’s monthly shows have had steady attendance.

“I just want to keep growing,” Syrja said. “First Lansing, then the Midwest, then the world. I think we have a comedic sensibility that already resonates with more people than we could have imagined.”

Chamberlain said the most important thing for her is the three women stay together.

“These girls are the most thoughtful and intelligent people I know,” Chamberlain said via email. “We started off doing com-

edy together but it has become so much more than that, we are here for each other through thick and thin.”

MSU engineering senior Michael Hall has performed comedy all around Lansing and East Lansing, including at the Comedy Coven venue.

“For that small cozy venue they sure do pack quite a few people in,” Hall said via email. “The Coven brings in people with good vibes. Audience: 10/10. Atmosphere: 10/10. Could not have asked for a better crowd.”

The next Comedy Coven show will be held on Nov. 15. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m.

“It is really rewarding to get feedback from audience members who are struggling with mental illness themselves.”

Emily Syrja, MSU Alumna

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MSU advances in Big Ten Tournament

BY ISAAC CONSTANS ICONSTANS@STATENEWS.COM

In an attempt to advance to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals, the MSU men’s soccer team would have to defeat a Penn State team they lost to 1-0 in double-overtime on Oct. 11. On Sunday MSU gave retribution to the Nittany Lions in the form of a 2-1 victory for the first ever Big Ten Tournament game at DeMartin Soccer Stadium.

MSU began the game on the front foot, just seven minutes into the game, nearly snatching an advantage. Senior fullback Dewey Lewis had a long throw that bounced through the box and onto the head of junior attacking midfielder Ken Krolicki. Krolicki’s strong header made its way into the top left corner before Penn State goalkeeper Evan Finney sprang across goal and scraped the attempt away from danger.

The wait wasn’t long for MSU, however. Senior winger Andrew Herr played an incisive ball to Ryan Sierakowski, who found space in the attacking box. Sierakowski turned toward goal and thundered a shot, but Finney again denied entry, but his save didn’t clear the ball.

After a hectic scramble inside the area, Krolicki passed a ball backwards to freshman Giuseppe Barone. With the right side of his right cleat, Barone hit the ball on first contact and the strike hovered just into the bottom left corner. Behind the barricade of defenders, Finney was late seeing the strike and MSU took a 1-0 advantage.

MSU was the aggressor for much of the rest of the first half, with Krolicki again just wide on a header. Yet, Penn State had the solution on a rare attack.

As Penn State surged forward, Krolicki took down Penn State leading scorer Connor Maloney

with a swinging arm. Maloney got his revenge on the free kick, when from straight away and 28 yards out he sank his shot into the bottom left corner.

At halftime, the game remained level, despite MSU enjoying a 6-3 lead in shots.

In the second period, MSU again was in control but out of a goal until late.

In the 48th and 69th minute, respectively, Sierakowski and Krolicki both headed efforts toward the goal but did not find the back of the net. Krolicki again elicited a swat from Finney, and Sierakowski’s attempt skidded just wide.

Sierakowski was tenacious, though, trying in the 64th minute an angled move forward, only to have his shot turned out at the near post by Finney.

In the 75th minute, Sierakowski retrieved a cleared ball at the top of the box and turned.

Under the grave duress of three Penn State defenders, MSU’s leading goal scorer back-pedaled and fired in audacious fashion. Despite the level of difficulty, the shot was well weighted and targeted, eddying into the near post and past the fingernails of Finney.

Again on the wrong side of luck, however, Sierakowski saw his shot careen away from the goal. His misfortune was Jimmy Fiscus’ treasure, however, as the junior defender dove and headed the ball into the gaping net from pointblank range.

With just one shot in the second half, Penn State was unable to gear into an offensive plan, and MSU took the game 2-1.

Fiscus’ first goal of the season means MSU will play the winner of the University of Michigan and Maryland in the Big Ten Tournament semifinals on Nov. 11.

The Spartans celebrate a goal on Nov. 6 in DeMartin Stadium. The Spartans defeated the Nittany Lions, 2-1 ,to advance to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals. PHOTO: EMMETT MCCONNELL

Harris, McQuaid contribute in exhibition win The upperclassmen showed signs of growth as did the underclassmen as the MSU men’s basketball team was back on the court for its second and final exhibition game. On the young season, the Spartans proved victorious for the second with a double-digit victory over the visiting Saginaw Valley State University Cardinals.

The game didn’t come without its struggles for the home team. Throughout the game, there were multiple stretches where the Spartans were unable to score or were turnover-prone. Head coach Tom Izzo said while the competition was good, he wasn’t pleased with the unpredictable effort from his team.

“We had moments in this game when I thought we played exceptionally well,” Izzo said. “I think we had moments in this game we played horribly poor. The inconsistency, or the lack of sustainability, was very disappointing.”

After the new-look Spartans’ first preseason win over Northwood, Izzo mentioned he wanted to see some of his key returners — especially guards fifth-year senior Eron Harris and sophomore Matt McQuaid — get more involved in the scoring.

With the team in “uncharted waters,” he said the contributions of his veteran players would be even more important.

Combined in the first game, the two guards were responsible for just nine shots from the floor. Eight of those came from Harris, leaving McQuaid with just one 3-point attempt the entire match. While the Spartans scored 93 points total, Izzo said he needed to see more from his veterans than just the seven points they contributed.

From a scoring point of view, Izzo got what he wanted when the two elevated their games against SVSU. McQuaid had a personal 7-0 run on his way to contributing 12 points. “(Tonight) was just me trying to be more aggressive,” McQuaid said. “I think last game I passed up a couple shots, in this game I was taking them. I got into a good flow.”

Harris, on the other hand, improved his efficiency from the floor. He took six shots, but converted on four of them for a 66.7 percent field-goal percentage. Adding in the five free throws he made from the free throw line, Harris doubled his Northwood point total from seven to 14.

The veteran guard was a catalyst to the Spartans’ red-hot 13-3 start last season, combining with freshman forward Miles Bridges for all the points in the stretch. Harris said that specific run to begin the match was reminiscent of last season.

“It felt good (playing),” Harris said. “It kind of reminded me of playing last year, just high energy. We came out with a lot of energy. We just have to sustain that energy.”

While Harris said there was an effort to get himself going early in the game, it wasn’t just him the team was looking to jumpstart the match.

“We have to get everybody going,” Harris said.

“It was an effort to get me going, get Miles going, to get McQuaid going, get our scorers going. And then everything else from there trickles down.”

The young forward, Bridges — the Spartans’ leading scorer thus far — agreed with the sentiment that the team needed to get its scorers going early. In the past, the freshman said he looks to be a facilitator as part of his game, Bridges said feeding the experienced guards felt natural.

“We tried to get (McQuaid and Harris) going

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Sophomore guard Matt McQuaid (20) and freshmen forward Nick Ward (44) high-five fans after the game against Saginaw Valley State University on Nov. 2 at the Breslin Center. The Spartans defeated the Cardinals 87-77. PHOTO: EMMETT MCCONNELL

early,” Bridges said. “McQuaid took one shot last game and Eron, he had a decent game last game.

We had to get them going early. When they get started going, that’s when everyone gets going because they’re our leaders.”

Compared to the seven total points in the first game, McQuaid and Harris chipped in 26 points together, both with double-figures. The two were part of a balanced Spartan attack, featuring four players scoring more than 10 points.

While the points were nice, Izzo was critical and said even though the duo played well, they still needed to work together and be more consistent

throughout the game.

“We had a couple guys play good,” Izzo said.

“McQuaid played good for a stretch, then he went to the tank. Eron played good for a stretch, then he turned the ball over. We got completely out of control.”

Izzo admitted it was hard to correctly judge McQuaid because of his off-season injury. As a result of it, he missed the entire summer. McQuaid, though, said he wasn’t feeling any aftereffects of it.

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Mixed defensive line performance reflected in split against Mich. Tech

BY SOUICHI TERADA STERADA@STATENEWS.COM

During the week’s practice leading up to the MSU hockey team’s matchup against the Michigan Tech Huskies, the team was without one key defenseman — redshirt-freshman Jerad Rosburg.

Rosburg was out with an upper-body injury, leading a void to fill in MSU’s lineup during the weekend series. Instead of the usual six blueliners to suit up, MSU dressed seven to bolster its defensive efforts.

With the change in personnel, two key defensemen — sophomore Zach Osburn and freshman Butrus Ghafari — were pressed into action and played the bulk of the minutes. At points throughout the weekend, they were playing every other shift on the ice.

In game one against Michigan Tech, both players saw significant playing time. Osburn, a member of last year’s All-Big Ten Freshman team, chipped in two points and scored a goal while assisting on another.

Osburn said he credited a lot of his offensive production to the forwards he was playing with. In particular, the duo of freshmen Taro Hirose, Patrick Khodorenko and sophomore Mason Appleton, all of which combined for five points. Osburn said playing with them helped him with the type of game he plays.

“I see myself as kind of an offensive defenseman,” Osburn said.

“When those guys are out there, I know they’re going to be making plays and something’s going to happen. Something’s going to open up and we can focus on, for the most part, playing offense that shift.”

Osburn said Ghafari, on the other hand, made his contribution with small things on the ice not seen in the box score. Osburn said Ghafari had a game-changing impact in MSU’s overtime win Friday night. "(Ghafari) ended up having a really good night,” Osburn said.

“He had a lot of ice time, he played with me for I think every shift.

He got his ice time tonight, and I think that’s a big stepping stone for him, becoming a better player and developing here.”

Junior goaltender Ed Minney explained how he has to work along

Junior goaltender Ed Minney (45) leans over as the puck enters the goal during the game against Michigan Tech on Nov. 4 at Munn Ice Arena. The Spartans defeated the Huskies in overtime, 3-2. PHOTO: NIC ANTAYA

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with the defensemen to be on the same page mid-game.

As a result, Minney said he’s seen just how good the duo has been, not just defensively but on the attack as well.

“I thought (Osburn and Ghafari) played really well,” Minney said. “I thought that was one of their best games of the year, defensively and just transitioning into offense. Overall, they were moving the puck well and they were taking guys in front of the net. I thought they looked really good.”

While the duo excelled in the first game against the Huskies, it was a different story in game two. Neither scratched through with a point and defensively made detrimental mistakes. Ghafari had trouble with the puck next to the net, which resulted in freshman goalie John Lethemon left vulnerable and Michigan Tech capitalized on the opportunity with a goal.

Both Osburn and Ghafari struggled on the ice, showing some of the inexperience that comes with being an underclassman. However, head coach Tom Anastos said it’s still a learning experience for the two young blueliners.

“Those guys competed hard,” Anastos said. “I thought Osburn had a very good weekend overall. I think Ghafari continues to get better each night, too. I think he got frustrated giving up that goal, as anybody probably would, but you have to play over it and move on.

Those guys will be fine, they’ll keep getting better.”

While Osburn and Ghafari received a bulk of the time on the ice, the reshuffling of the lineups led to one freshman being pushed into action — Anthony Scarsella. Scarsella wasn’t on the dress list for all of the games thus far this season, but was the next man up with Rosburg out.

Scarsella was out on the MSU power play unit whenever it had the man-advantage. Anastos said that was by design because Scarsella has a left-handed shot, like the injured Rosburg does. As a result, he would see some reps out during practice and the team slotted him in during actual game play.

Along with the special teams time he saw on the ice, Scarsella saw some valuable playing time as part of the rotation. While inexperienced, an underclassman in Osburn said he saw some impressive things out of his play. “(Scarsella’s) slowly getting his feet wet right now,” Osburn said. “He had a good night tonight when he was out there. He did his job, focused on doing the little things well. I think he accomplished that. He played good, sound defense.”

While the trio of Ghafari, Osburn and Scarsella got some of the spotlight this weekend, redshirt-senior defenseman Rhett Holland said as a whole, the defensive unit stepped up this weekend in the midst of an injured Rosburg.

Holland, however, said there were things that can and must be improved on as the season goes along.

“We dressed seven defensive linemen,” Holland said.

“I think (Mitch Eliot), (Damian Chrcek) and Scarsella had a great weekend. Carson Gatt had a good weekend.

I think in the back end we had a couple breakdowns and it cost us, so we’re just going to have to fix those.”

Overall for the weekend, it ended in a loss in game two of the series, but some of the young defensemen received necessary experience moving forward, Holland said. With the regular season now in the full swing of things, Holland explained his team will continue to get better while also creating its own identity.

“We have to look at the positives this weekend,” Holland said. “I think our game got a lot better, we started building an identity a little bit. Even though we lost tonight, 5-1, I think we still had a lot of moments and bursts in that game where we showed who we can be.

I think for our young guys, they have to learn what it’s going to take to win two games in a weekend.”

The team will continue its regular season when it faces Ferris State University in a home-and-home series.

Game one is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. on Nov. 10 at Munn Ice Arena. The second game will be in Big Rapids, Mich. on Nov. 12.

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ANOTHER LOSS

The Spartans walk off the field after losing the game against Indiana on Oct. 1, 2016 at Memorial Stadium in Bloomington, Ind. The Spartans were defeated by the Hoosiers in overtime, 24-21.

PHOTO: CARLY GERACI

MICHIGAN STATE VS. ILLINOIS FINAL SCORE spartans vs. fighting illini

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PLAYERS OF THE GAME no. gain loss net td lg avg

rushing

HOLMES, GERALD

12

81

3

78

1

20

6.5

cmp-att-int yds td long sacked

passing

O’CONNOR, TYLER receiving

23-35-0

0

47

2

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7

SHELTON, R.J.

265

80

1

17

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2

3

4

3

3

11

10

0

7

10

14

The only time MSU lost every game in their season was when the Spartans went 0-9 in 1917 and 0-11 in 1994. The Spartans forfeited five wins in 1994 because of a tampering scandal under then-head coach George Perles.

NEXT OPPONENT

Rutgers University

(2-7 overall, 0-6 Big Ten) Nov. 12, 2016 at Spartan Stadium, East Lansing, Mich.

The last time MSU lost seven games in a row was the 1982 season when the Spartans finished with a 2-9 overall record.

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3-6

28 175 315 490 1

FIRST DOWNS

FUMBLES

14 164 140 304 0

10 for 89 YDS

PENALTIES

2 for 10 YDS

41:36 8 of 19 5 of 7 0 for 0 yds 0

TIME OF POSSESSION

18:24 4 of 13 3 of 3

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NET YDS RUSHING NET YDS PASSING TOTAL OFFENSIVE YDS

3RD DOWN CONVERSIONS RED-ZONE SCORES-CHANCES

SACKS

2 for 11 yds

POINTS OFF TURNOVERS

3

There’s always a future for everybody, everybody has a future. Whether you are a freshman, coach, player who is a senior, you have a future. So you better play well in the future. You have opportunities to show in the future and you need to continue to press forward. I think that’s what you do when you’re a competitor.

- head coach Mark Dantonio

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