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MSU sophomore breeds and raises pet snakes

“(Snakes) are not needy.

They don’t give a sh— if I pick them up or not.

They’re great wingmen and wing-ladies. I get attention and phone numbers.”

Sophomore Alex Moon, on keeping pet snakes

See page 9 Undecided sophomore Alex Moon holds his 5-foot jungle carpet python, Victoria, Tuesday at his apartment on Lake Lansing Road in East Lansing.

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The volleyball team reflects as the end of the seasons draws nearer. They’ll hit the road this weekend to take on the Cornhuskers

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Opinion

Casey Holland Opinion editor opinion@statenews.com @thesnewsopinion

Media coverage of Ebola virus in America spreads unnecessary panic

BY IAN MARTIN IMARTIN@STATENEWS.COM

Before American mainstream media outlets move on to whatever the next piece of news they can create more hysteria with, I have something to say about their fear-mongering coverage of the Ebola epidemic.

This isn’t the first time American media has tried to spread fear and panic to the public when the threat of a deadly disease makes its way into the world. Does “swine flu” ring a bell with anyone?

Except the thing with swine flu is that it actually killed more than 12,000 Americans in 2009, while Ebola has killed only one. One. Not 1,000, not 100, but one. As of Tuesday, the virus was complete-

ly eradicated in the United States only remaining Ebola patient in the country was cured.

Statistically speaking, you’re probably more likely to die by walking on campus and getting run over by Sparty on a golf cart than to die from the Ebola virus in the United States.

In fact, more students actually have died on campus this year than have died from Ebola in the United States. I don’t see any national news coverage for that.

Yet the media has been giving endless amounts of coverage to a disease that seems to pose little threat to any developed nation with a modernized healthcare system.

Essentially what the media has been telling us with their coverage of Ebola is that there is one very specific way in which we might die in the near future, that specific way being contracting the Ebola virus.

That same Ebola virus which, according to the CDC, can only be spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, objects

contaminated with the virus or infected fruit bats and primates. The disease can’t be transmitted through the air.

So it sounds like as long as you’re not a health care professional who is treating the virus, it would be pretty tough to catch it.

Not to detract from the seriousness of the disease itself, or the fact that Ebola has in fact become an epidemic in West Africa, but when the media coverage is excessive and disingenuous, we have a problem.

Influenza kills thousands every year. Why doesn’t that get round-the-clock media coverage?

Because it’s normal and expected that people are going to catch the flu during the winter months.

The word “flu” doesn’t create a stir quite like the word “Ebola” does. The word “Ebola” sounds foreign and scary, so it’s easy to see how a person can get wrapped up into the media’s coverage of it. I even found myself watching for the sheer entertainment of it.

From Newsweek putting a monkey on the

cover of their magazine titled “A Backdoor To Ebola: Smuggled Bushmeat Could Spark A U.S. Epidemic,” to Dr. Sanjay Gupta pouring chocolate sauce on himself live on CNN to show “how easy” it is to contract the disease, mainstream news outlets have truly demonstrated that their only purpose is to gain viewers, rather than report real news.

I’ve had enough of these hacks on what should be our most credible national news sources sweeping important issues under the rug just to create a panic amongst the public.

The only “disease” we need to worry about catching around here is the one you catch from watching cable news channels. Symptoms include fear, panic, delusional thinking and irrational behavior. The main cause of this extremely contagious disease is incorrect information being spread to people on a daily basis from mass media outlets.

Ian Martin is a reporter at The State News. Reach him at imartin@statenews.com.

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Perles’ re-election decision irresponsible George Perles was re-elected to his position on the MSU Board of Trustees last Wednesday, beating out fellow candidates Melanie Foster and Jeff Sakwa. His eight-year term will begin in 2015.

However, at 80 years old, Perles running for re-election to the board and the public’s decision to re-elect him in general was altogether irresponsible.

Times have changed since Perles received his master’s degree from MSU in 1961.

The struggles MSU students face today are different than the struggles he faced as a student. Tuition and the cost of living are higher, programs have changed and new buildings have surfaced — campus is a whole new place and MSU a whole new university compared to the way it was back then.

Perles will have this seat for the next eight years once the new term begins, but the seat should have gone to someone who could relate more with the issues students have to face today.

In fact, Perles rarely seems to be informed on different happenings at MSU — multiple State News reporters have gone to him for insight, such as when professor William Penn’s classroom rant went viral, only to be told he couldn’t comment because he didn’t know about the issue His lack of awareness toward these issues, and the fact that very little campaigning was needed for him to win the election, shows it was the brand recognition that comes with his name that helped him bring in the most votes.

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Of course, this can also be attributed to a lack of research conducted by the general public.

The lack of campaigning done on Perles’ part shows that many voters weren’t paying attention to the campaigns at all. Had the public looked into the different candidates who worked at campaigning, their choices may have been different.

People tend to vote for what they know is safe and Perles, a name that has been well-known for nearly 30 years, would certainly feel like the most comfortable option.

But comfort is not a reason to cast a vote in someone’s favor.

There is a familiarity that comes with a household name like Perles. His career as head football coach from 1983 to 1994 brought MSU two Big Ten titles and a Rose Bowl win. He served as the athletic director from 1990 to 1992, and he has already served on the MSU Board of Trustees.

There is no denying that Perles has done great things for the university. But this should have been the time for someone else to step up, someone who is aware of the university’s issues and who can even relate to the problems that have surfaced.

While it is honorable that Perles wants to continue to serve the university, he deserves the chance to retire. His time has passed, and instead the time has come for him to let the position go.

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MSU alumnus and Vietnam veteran reflects on his experiences since serving

Recapping the field hockey season, players pleased overall

Mark Hollis considers heating the football student section

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From left, geography junior Daniel Kim, english freshman Terra Crown, and political science and theatre junior Jeff Jaeger fold a flag during a Veterans Day ceremony Monday at Burcham Hills Retirement Community. Read more on page 6. PHOTO: JESSALYN TAMEZ

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Anna Flowers, James Madison freshman To read more about the ROTC chapel service for Veterans Day, see page 7.

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In the business of raising money, MSU is ‘playing catch-up’ MSU’s Office of Advancement is a well-oiled fundraising machine. A recently announced capital campaign seeks to raise $1.5 billion. With continued cuts to state higher education funding, officials emphasize there is a greater need for private donations

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Exiting the elevator on the third floor of Spartan Stadium, it’s clear the office of University Advancement is tailored to impress.

Floor-to-ceiling windows offer sweeping views of campus’ western edge. Heading the university’s advancement efforts is Robert Groves, MSU’s vice president of university advancement.

Groves comes across in conversation as a person with deep convictions about the university’s mission, and while it’s difficult to dispute the sincerity of his “I ‘heart’ MSU” coffee mug, he is far from a lifelong Spartan.

Until 2009, Groves was the second-in-command for the University of Michigan’s advancement efforts. Previously he had worked for the University of Minnesota, and before that Pennsylvania State University and first for Ohio State, where he went to school.

Groves was recruited by MSU with an offer to head the university’s advancement efforts, and a bump to a salary that was already solidly in the six figures.

Two years after Groves took the job, the uni- and Support of Education. versity privately began a new capital campaign called “Empower Extraordinary,” a coor- LATE TO THE GAME MSU’s $1.5 billion goal is dinated fundraising effort to dwarfed by some other uniraise $1.5 billion. The public “That number versities in the Big Ten. portion of the campaign was U-M’s latest campaign has unveiled Oct. 24 with conis dwindling, in a goal of $4 billion. Northsiderable fanfare at Wharton terms of state western is shooting for $3.75 Center, after already having support. Now billion. Penn State’s most raised $780 million privately. recent campaign exceeded Groves’ appointment, and many institutions, $2 billion.

MSU’s advancement efforts the livelihood and Universit y officials offas whole, are indicative of the opportunities handedly quip that MSU is the importance private donafor growth... “playing catch-up” in the tions — and the business fundraising game. In the of acquiring them — have is through past, though, MSU wasn’t gained at public universities. individual giving.” in the game at all.

It reflects a future where “John Hannah didn’t want capital campaigns become to raise money, he didn’t like a perpetual cycle at MSU, Rob Henry, executive to raise money,” President because now “every institudirector of emerging Lou Anna K. Simon said. tion is either in a campaign constituencies at CASE “Our peers were aggressive… or they’re post-campaign,” ly fundraising for that marsaid Rob Henry, executive gin of excellence.” director of emerging conJohn Hannah, who was president of MSU stituencies at the Council for Advancement

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from 1941 to 1969, oversaw MSU’s expansion into a major research institution but did little to promote fundraising. “(Hannah) believed his mission was to the state of Michigan, and the legislature would support it,” Groves said.

Henry said that’s no longer the case for most universities, especially MSU. “That number is dwindling, in terms of state support,” Henry said. “Now many institutions, the livelihood and the opportunities for growth in institutions is through individual giving.”

As a result of the reluctance to embrace fundraising, Simon explained, a culture of philanthropy didn’t flourish.

“We didn’t lay the groundwork 30 or 40 years ago, so we’re not benefiting today from the maturity of those gifts,” Simon said, referring to the fact that many alumni do not provide significant donations until later in their lives.

Groves said building that culture is something that will take a couple of generations.

“Fundraising is more than just what you do today. It’s really building a culture among your alumni and you students that understand this

Spotlight is an important part of what keeps the university strong,” Groves said. “That’s more than what you can do in a single campaign.”

Still, he said MSU’s current goal is the result of significant research, and is a benchmark officials are confident can be met and even exceeded.

THE ROLE STUDENTS PLAY A key component of bolstering MSU’s ability to fundraise is cultivating a “culture of philanthropy” within the students currently at MSU, so the university can benefit far in the future.

“You want to get students engaged, because … they will be the ones supporting these capital campaigns,” Henry said.

But Josh Brawley, a communications senior and manager at MSU Greenline — which is the student face of MSU’s fundraising efforts — said the university has a lot of room to further a culture of philanthropy.

He said while Greenline employees are very aware of the importance of donations, the rest of the student body isn’t cognizant of fundraising efforts.

“I definitely think there is a lot more work to be done,” Brawley said. “That’s really our goal, to get (students) to give right after they graduate. … We’re really trying to make sure that we do get year-to-year donors, but unfortunately there’s still probably a long way to go.”

In a previous interview with The State News, MSU Trustee Brian Mosallam noted there is a “disconnect” students must move past.

“W hen I graduated from school and I received a call from the College of Engineering to make a donation, I didn’t understand the importance of it,” Mosallam said.

Simon spoke of the volunteers in the charity event Alex’s Great State Race as an example of students developing the sort of “philanthropic habit” that will benefit the university in the future.

“I’m just really, really proud of the students in their engagement of activities that also contribute, even though they’re stretched for dollars,” Simon said. “The groundwork is being laid, and that takes time.”

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MSU targets them through what Groves charBIG TARGETS acterized as a “matrix.” While there are develOn the eve of the U-M football game, a mas- opment teams within each college, targeting sive white tent had been erected next to Beau- alumni of specific major programs, there are mont tower. Students walking by could hear also about 14 employees around the country soft jazz, the clink of cutlery and the murmur that work in specific geographic areas. of conversation.

Each person can look over alumni records Inside the tent were about 700 diners, both which can provide detailed demographic prospective donors or those data and target 150 to 200 who had already given MSU alumni in their areas, which “I definitely at least $100,000. can vary from just Chicago think there is a Groves emphasized every to entire regions, developdollar donated to MSU is siging relationships with them lot more work to nificant, but it’s evident the “on a very personal level,” be done.

That’s wealthiest donors are the Groves said. He estimated really our goal, driving force behind MSU’s about 20 of the prospects fundraising efforts. end up making major gifts. to get (students) MSU Greenline reaches For major gifts, ironing right after they over 175,000 of MSU’s more out the details of how donagraduate.” than 450,000 alumni each tions in excess of a million year, resulting in about $4 dollars are used is not unlike million donated from 50,000 a negotiation. Lawyers from Josh Brawley, MSU of them, according to Greenboth sides meet and work Greenline manager line’s website. on a contract. Eli Broad’s But in the 2014 fiscal year, recent $25 million contribuMSU had about $210 miltion to MSU was the result of lion in donations, meaning a three- to four-month prothe efforts of MSU’s telemarketers would rep- cess, Groves said. resent just 1.9 percent of that total.

As a rule, Groves said, in university capital MORE SOPHISTICATED WORK campaigns, 1 percent of the gifts represents After MSU’s last campaign, which ended in about 80 percent of the dollars. In MSU’s last 2005 and raised more than $1.4 billion, Simon campaign, they represented 83 percent. said it became clear MSU “needed to be very The university looks to target directly alumni skillful in raising private dollars,” spurring who donate $100,000 or more, a pool of about Groves’ recruitment. He had just finished over10 to 12,000 alumni. They are assigned rela- seeing a $3.1 billion capital campaign at U-M tionship managers, university advancement and had campaigns at several other univer-

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sities under his belt.

“He really helped to hopefully leap over some of our competitors in terms of what systems we should put in place, how we should be organized,” Simon said. “He brought with him the lessons of other (institutions).”

As Groves entered his new position, the Office of Advancement was restructured to also encompass the Alumni Association. The office is now comprised of more than 240 employees.

“Without a doubt, there are some elements that are profit oriented,” Henry said. “We don’t like to compare our work to sales, but the more people you have on your sales team, the more likely you are to increase your overall revenue.”

And Simon said she is confident that revenue will continue to increase.

“That campaign really set the stage for the more sophisticated work we’re doing now,” Simon said.

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East Lansing resident Robert F. Birdsall and applied engineering sciences sophomore Collin Gagnon talk during a Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday at Burcham Hills Retirement Community.

Birdsall, a WWII veteran, was honored with a retired flag from the MSU ROTC. PHOTO: JESSALYN TAMEZ

to actually be responsible for mens’ lives.”

As part of their observance of Veterans Day, the MSU ROTC and military science departChuck Willems has shaky, wrinkled fingers and ments visited multiple area retirement homes a surprisingly soothing voice for a man who, to share experiences with retired veterans.

Cadets read poems and prayers for Veterans in his youth, fought for his country.

Day and presented a foldWillems’ ser v ice took ed flag to a veteran living him to naval academies in in the retirement home. In Maryland, Naval Amphib“(These people) addition, cadets stayed to ious Base Little Creek in socialize with veterans over Virginia and across severare the generation cake and punch. al countries when he served before us.

These “It shows the cadets who in the Korean War. are the heroes we they are aspiring to be,” Now, Willems looks up assistant instructor David from his wheelchair with look up to, like Rocheleau said. “They get ice-blue eyes and closely our war heroes. to hear the stories of vetergrasps a celebratory certifIt tells them that ans who have been in many icate given to him by the different wars.”

Burcham Hills retirement we’re carrying Those stories are what home staff as he reminisces on this tradition, drew cadet and comparwith MSU military science we’re going to fight ative culture and politics students about his past as for you.” sophomore Lily Rau to an officer in the Navy. come to Burcham Hills on For Wi l lem s, sha r i ng Tuesday. e x per iences w it h MSU Lily Rau “(These people) are the Reserve Officers’ Training cadet and comparative culture generation before us. These Corps cadets is just anothand politics sophomore are the heroes we should er way to help them underlook up to, like our war stand the gravity of the heroes,” she said. responsibilities of service.

“It tells them we’re carrying on this tradi“It takes a lot of different approaches to appreciate that idea of (having) these people’s tion, we’re going to fight for you, you did this lives in your hands,” Willems said. “(Being in for us and now we’re going to pay that back the ROTC) gives them a little bit of the feel- because we want to defend our country just ing of the responsibility of being an officer, like you did.”

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For MSU veteran, appreciation is a new thing Jim McKillips served in the Vietnam War. But the MSU graduate and employee wasn’t always thanked for his service in the military

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Jim McKillips still isn’t quite used to being heralded as a veteran.

“Let’s put it this way,” he said. “Would you like to know how we were received coming home from being in a war zone for 11 months with people dying on our flight deck?”

The Vietnam veteran, who saved lives in the Navy as a hospital corpsman, rattled off horror stories. Lots of them.

When he came back to the United States in February of 1970, and his crew were greeted as they passed below the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

“The hippies went around and collected garbage from the restaurants, slop,” he said. “Rotten vegetables and grease, and they poured it on us as we came back.”

It got worse. Once his crew docked and

McKillips went out with his wife for the first time in almost a year, he was heckled.

This didn’t just happen for years, it happened for decades. It made McKillips want to hide his military participation from others.

“When I got home, I donated my sea bag with all my uniforms,” he said. “Because why would I keep it when they treated me that way?”

The first time McKillips can recall being applauded for his service, which ended almost 45 years ago, was in 2006.

“They cheered us,” McKillips said of the crowd at a Flag Day event he attended eight years ago in South Dakota. “That was the first time, as a Vietnam vet, I got thanked.”

But McKillips, a 1975 graduate of MSU and employee of MSU for 27 years, acknowledges things have changed for the better. He walked out of HopCat on Tuesday afternoon after enjoying a free meal on behalf of the

restaurant available to active and retired military veterans.

“We’ve had quite a few (vets),” said East Lansing HopCat’s General Manager Rick Smith. “Though I haven’t had a chance to talk to most of them directly.”

HopCat was just one of several businesses showing thanks to veterans, where service members can get anything from a free haircut at Great Clips to free pancakes at IHOP. “It’s been a halfway decent lunch (crowd), though it’s not an exorbitant amount of a difference,” Smith said.

But for someone who’s been a veteran for almost four and a half decades, receiving thanks and generosity for past military service is still a new concept to McKillips, and he’s grateful to see the very discernible difference.

“It’s different today,” McKillips said. “Now, I get hugged.”

ROTC cadets pay their respects on Veterans Day with chapel service The flag-folding ceremony give MSU’s cadets an opportunity to reflect on camaraderie, service

BY AJ MOSER AMOSER@STATENEWS.COM

“To me, it’s about support,” said James Madison freshman Anna Flowers at the Veterans Day ceremony Tuesday afternoon. “But also about reflection and looking to the future.”

Flowers attended the United States Air Force and Army Reser ve Officers’ Training Corps Veterans Day Ceremony at the MSU Alumni Chapel to support her boyfriend Alex Kaiser, also a James Madison freshman.

Kaiser and Flowers have been dat i ng for about a month, and Kaiser became an MSU Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadet over the summer. Kaiser said it is has always been a dream of his to be a pilot in the Air Force.

Although around 60 cadets and their families gathered in the Alumni Chapel, the service was non-denominational and open to members of any religion. ROTC military science cadet and nursing senior Andrea Harris welcomed everyone and introduced the ceremony.

“The folding of the flag represents the religious principles that our country was founded on,” Harris said. “And it honors those who gave their lives

From right, psychology senior Sheldon Holmes, political science junior Weston McJames, and packaging junior Daniel Thomas hold flags outside of the chapel Tuesday after the Veteran’s Day Chapel Service at The Alumni Chapel, 600 Auditorium Rd. PHOTO: ERIN HAMPTON

“The folding of the flag represents the religious principles that our country was founded on.”

Andrea Harris, ROTC military science cadet

serving our country.”

Members from the Army and Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps recited the creeds of their respective branches, and animal science

sophomore Hannah Piper read the St. Crispin’s Day Speech from William Shakespeare’s play “Henry V.” “On Veterans Day especially, the speech reminds us of

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the bond we all share in service,” Piper said.

Psychology senior Sheldon Holmes led his fellow cadets in the flag folding ceremony to close the service.

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News QUIZ

Do you have what it takes to be an entreprenuer?

Do you have a budding entrepreneur in you? A number of MSU students aren’t just students. Some are in school but at the same time running their own business or in the process of developing one. Do you have what it takes to be one of these people? Take the quiz to find out. Choose one answer that best applies to you. — AMANDA CHODNICKI

1) Which of the following choices best describes the type of student you are when it comes to your major?

A) You love your major and are very passionate about it, going above and beyond in your classes.

B) You do the work that’s required of you but don’t do much more than that.

C) You are more of a slacker and tend to miss a lot of your classes because you sleep in or because you simply don’t feel like going.

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1 Union foes 5 Sing like Joe Cocker 9 Cowl wearer 13 ‘90s-’00s Lakers great 15 Kevin’s “A Fish Called Wanda” role 16 __ sprawl 17 Progressive Era muckraker 19 Walk away 20 Charms 21 Grain Belt st.

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perhaps 54 One of four in Minnesota: Abbr.

55 Chicago trains 56 Sun. address 57 Balthazar, Caspar, and Melchior 59 In again 61 NSA surveillance activity ... or, the process needed to dig out the info hidden in 17-, 25-, 37- and 50-Across?

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Actuality.”

28 Core muscles 29 Knee protector 32 Traffic problem 33 Officer-to-be 35 Unlikely tomboy 36 Pair on a football field 38 “Storage Wars” network 39 Boston Bruins’ home 40 Letters after mus 41 Lincoln Ctr. site 46 Man of fables 47 Sigh with relief, say 48 Carpe __ 50 Grazing groups 51 Wide awake 52 Insistent words from a sandbox 53 Commonly dusty room 54 Capital of Yemen 58 Open __ night 60 Ticket word 62 Bird: Pref.

63 Sporty Pontiac

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2) If you lost your work or something happened where you had to start over on a big paper or project, you would …

A) Understand failure happens and be willing to start all over again, working harder than ever before.

B) Do what you could to whip up something to turn in.

C) Give up and think of reasons to support your decision of not trying again.

3) In one of your classes, your teacher asks you to come up with a different tool other than silverware to eat spaghetti with. How would you react to that question?

A) You would be thrilled! You’d be visualizing ideas in your head right that second and maybe even start sketching some of your ideas on paper.

B) You wouldn’t be too excited, but you’d start brainstorming ideas. After all, it’s for school, so you have to do it.

C) You probably would’ve missed that class because you’d be sleeping. But when someone told you about the assignment, you’d laugh at the idea and say, “Good thing I missed that class.”

4) Which of the following is the reason behind your drive?

A) Your passion B) Money C) Not a whole lot 5) If your friends wanted you to go skydiving with them, your response would be which of the following?

A) “Heck yeah! Let’s do it.”

B) “Let me think about it.”

C) “There’s no way you’re getting me to jump out of a plane!”

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A) You’re a leader. You don’t follow the crowd.

Instead, you do what the majority isn’t doing.

B) You just kind of go through the motions, try to blend in and sometimes catch yourself following others.

C) Oh, you are the definition of a “follower.”

You don’t ever say no to anyone and let people walk all over you.

8) Out of the following three words, which one best fits you?

A) Confident B) Average C) Timid 9) What is your attitude toward new opportunities?

A) You grab each and every opportunity you possibly can. You don’t let anything get in the way of your dreams.

B) You enjoy receiving opportunities and earning them, but you let them come to you. You aren’t much of a go-getter.

C) You do the bare minimum to get by. Again, you’d rather be sleeping than enduring something, such as an unpaid internship.

10) You want a job where you’re …

A) Your own boss.

B) A general employee that works their way up.

C) Not working. In other words, you don’t want a job.

11) Which best describes your ability to be independent?

A) You are very independent. You can make do on your own and rarely need the help of others.

B) You are pretty well-off on your own.

But you often need to ask a friend or your parents for help. It happens.

C) You still need your mom to hold your hand.

You aren’t ready to grow up yet.

12) You may be passionate about your major and what you’re pursuing in school; however, with things that don’t interest you, you …

A) You are able to be honest with yourself and say, “This isn’t working. I need to try something else.”

B) You keep trying and trying to make it work. You’re pretty stubborn, after all.

A) Tend to get bored easily. You still stick to it though.

B) Work through the pure hate for it.

C) Refuse to have anything to do with it.

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6) When something isn’t quite working, how do you respond to it?

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C) Once again, you give up and say, “It just wasn’t meant to be.”

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MOSTLY A’S You are an upcoming entrepreneur! You’re a risk taker, creative, passionate, independent and everything else that comes with being an entrepreneur. You understand when you’re wrong and accept your failures. However, when you do fail, you get right back up and try again. You are always thinking of cool ideas and sharing them with friends. You’re different.

MOSTLY B’S You don’t scream, “entrepreneur,” but that doesn’t mean you don’t have what it takes. You know how to work hard and do what is expected of you. You

may not be the most creative person around, or even the most adventurous, but you sure are realistic when it comes to things. You are well-rounded.

MOSTLY C’S You don’t have the same characteristics as most entrepreneurs. A lot of entrepreneurs are really passionate and have an incredible drive when it comes to something they care about. If you’re missing classes and sleeping in all of the time, maybe you just haven’t found your passion quite yet. That’s OK! It will come to you one day. Keep trying new things and maybe you’ll find it sooner than you think!

Features

Emily Jenks Features editor features@statenews.com @sn_features

MSU student breeds and sells snakes from his apartment Some students will adopt a pet cat or dog, but undecided sophomore Alex Moon has more unusual companions

BY MEAGAN BECK MBECK@STATENEWS.COM

Undecided sophomore Alex Moon’s apartment is littered with pizza boxes, half-eaten macaroni and cheese bowls, empty liquor bottles and 10 live snakes.

In the apartment, shared with his brother, Moon houses 10 python snakes with different genes – butters, cinnamons, and normal pythons to name a few.

The snakes are kept in clean, open plastic tubs and glass terrariums in the living room and Moon’s bedroom.

His interest in snakes came about in March 2014 when his cousin had a project involving snakes.

The pair are now “business partners,” selling snakes.

Of the snakes, Moon is looking to sell five, ranging in price from $50 to $400 — his cousin houses more snakes which could sell for $2,000.

For Moon, having pet snakes is easier than other animals because he said they are cheaper to feed and prefer to be left alone.

“They’re not needy. They don’t give a sh** if I pick them up or not,” Moon said. “They’re great wingmen and wing-ladies — I get attention and phone numbers.”

Moon feeds the snakes on rats and mice he gets from pet stores or other suppliers.

Over the summer, Moon could be spotted walking up and down Grand River Avenue with a snake draped around him.

On two occasions, Moon said he walked into American Apparel with one of his larger snakes named Victoria, a jungle carpet python, wrapped around his neck.

He went up to the cashier and said Victoria makes a “pretty cute necklace,” but he wanted to return “it” — referring to the snake.

“I was hoping to catch a clerk that’s not paying attention, writing some papers, and then she’d look up and see a snake and maybe sh** herself,” Moon said.

Unfortunately, Moon said both times have been unsuccessful, but the prank could happen a third time.

Since Moon sells some of his snakes, he also breeds the reptile and jokingly said the process involves “lighting some candles and letting them

ABOVE: Undecided sophomore Alex Moon holds his 5-foot jungle carpet python, Victoria, on Tuesday at his apartment on Lake Lansing Road in East Lansing. Below: Undecided sophomore Alex Moon’s pastel python digests a dead mouse. PHOTOS: RAYMOND WILLIAMS

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listen to Marvin Gaye.”

“First of all, you normally isolate the snakes.

They’re non-communal: they don’t like to live together,” Moon said. “You put the male and female in the same enclosure briefly and wait for them to link up.”

The time it takes for a snake egg to hatch can take anywhere from 55 days to two months.

Since Moon houses and cares for a pet other people might find uncommon, he said people will call him names and he gets rude comments for having snakes as pets, but the comments don’t matter to him.

“I don’t really care what people think, it’s just fun to me,” Moon said.

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Sports

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Despite loss to Ohio State, Dantonio believes Spartans have plenty to play for

BY GEOFF PRESTON GPRESTON@STATENEWS.COM

The mood was different this week when Mark Dantonio stepped up to the podium for his weekly press conference, following No. 12 MSU’s (7-2 overall, 4-1 Big Ten) 49-37 loss to No. 8 Ohio State (8-1 overall, 5-0 Big Ten).

Dantonio talked about the goals in front of his team following the loss, the play of sophomore cornerback Darian Hicks and the state of the program as a whole.

TOUGH GAME FOR DARIAN HICKS There weren’t many bright spots on the defensive side of the ball for MSU, and one player who got exposed a lot was Hicks.

Dantonio said games such as this, following some shut-down performances from Hicks in earlier games, can be good for young players.

“Yeah, he had a difficult game,” he said. “But if he makes the decision and he grows from that, he’ll grow, he’ll be more competitive as he moves forward, and that’s what he’ll do. He’s a tough guy. He’ll survive.”

NEW GOALS? There is still an outside chance that MSU could make it to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship Game. They would need Ohio State to lose twice and they would need to win the rest of their games.

As long as there is a chance, Dantonio said that is still their goal, because that would mean playing in a big bowl game on New Year’s Day. “I think our goal remains to win a championship in the Big Ten conference,” he said. “That’s the standard, I think, we’re trying to set — to always be a football team that’s in the conversation.”

Dantonio said he watched the game film of the loss Monday again, something he said he doesn’t do often.

“I did that with the (Big Ten) championship game we lost to Wisconsin (in 2011),” he said. “There’ve always been big disappointments.”

STATE OF THE PROGRAM Dantonio said there is still plenty to play for, but

Sophomore cornerback Darian Hicks, 2, and junior safety RJ Williamson, 26, walk across the field Saturday during the game against Ohio State at Spartan Stadium. The Spartans lost to the Buckeyes, 37-49. PHOTO: RAYMOND WILLIAMS

said the perception of MSU is still a work in progress for his staff and players.

“I don’t ever want to start the season by saying ‘I hope we’re 7-2’,” he said. “I don’t know if you ever arrive. We were 7-1 last week at this time and I didn’t feel like we had arrived. We were still pushing, but I know we had a great opportunity and we let that opportunity slip by us.”

Dantonio said part of building a program is understanding that just because one opportunity passes, it doesn’t mean others don’t become available.

“That doesn’t mean that we’re not going to have another opportunity this year,” he said. “It just means that that opportunity went by us and we’ve got to create another one for ourselves.”

One thing Dantonio did like was the way his team didn’t stop competing even when the score got a little lopsided.

“That’s what you ask your players to do, and they did that,” he said. “So that ultimately doesn’t mean you’re going to lose or win, but they did that, and that’s the first question you have to ask yourself.”

Volleyball will face Nebraska on the road Wednesday The Spartans will have the opportunity to avenge a winless Big Ten weekend with the end of the season drawing near

BY TROY JEFFERSON TJEFFERSON@STATENEWS.COM

The volleyball team will have a chance to avenge a tough loss from earlier in the season Wednesday night.

MSU (13-12 overall, 6-7 Big Ten) and No. 11 Nebraska (167 overall, 10-4 Big Ten) will face off for the second time this season, this time in Lincoln, Neb. “I think we’re really ready for what (Nebraska) is going to throw at us,” sophomore middle blocker Allyssah Fitterer said.

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The Spartans come into the game on a two-game losing streak while the Cornhuskers enter the contest on a fourgame winning streak, all of which have been sweeps.

PREVIOUS MATCHUP The two teams met before Oct. 10 in East Lansing when the Spartans fell to the Cornhuskers in four sets, 3-1 (2025, 18-25, 25-22, 23-25).

“I think both teams have improved since the last time we played,” head coach Cathy George said after watching film. “We’re looking for a

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strong rematch. Nebraska is playing very well.”

In the previous matchup, MSU led early in the first set as they jumped out to an 18-13 lead. However, the Spartans gave up 12 of the next 14 points in the set and allowed the Cornhuskers to take not only the first set but also the momentum.

In the fourth set, MSU and Nebraska went toe to toe as the score was tied on six different occasions.

The game came down to the final point as Nebraska led 24-23. Senior outside hit-

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ter Kadie Rolfzen sealed the thriller at Jenison Fieldhouse with a kill down the left line.

SPARTANS TO WATCH MSU’s middle blockers have been essential to the Spartans’ balanced offensive attack — as they go so goes the rest of the team.

“It’s always important to have balance especially when you’re going against a team like Nebraska. If you don’t have balance it becomes more difficult on the rest of your attackers,” George said.

Fitterer and freshman mid-

dle blocker Alyssa Garvelink turned in two of their more i mpre s sive p er for ma nce s against the Cornhuskers.

Fitterer finished the matchup with 10 kills and a teamhigh .200 hitting percentage.

Garvelink had nine kills and two blocks.

“Rachel (Minarick — freshman setter) did a great job of giving me one blocker so that I could execute,” Garvelink said. “Hopefully we can do that again.”

If Garvelink and Fitterer can get going, it’ll make the job of MSU’s outside hitters easier.

“When I can give (the outside hitters) a one on one, it’s ideal,” Garvelink said.

Sophomore out side h itter Chloe Reinig was on the receiving end of some of those one on ones in the previous matchup and took advantage of it, totaling a team-high 15 kills.

First serve is set for 8 p.m.

750TH WIN The next MSU win will mark the 750th in program history. Spartan volleyball is in its 42nd season of varsit y competition.

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Field hockey fought until the end in 2014

Senior back Jenni Smith, 11, rushes past Central Michigan forward Kianne Hinkle, 16, Oct. 26 at Ralph Young Field. PHOTO: RAYMOND WILLIAMS

BY JONATHON CHUN JCHUN@STATENEWS.COM

Coming into the 2014 season, MSU field hockey (10-9, 4-4 Big Ten) had high hopes.

A year removed from an impressive Big Ten Tournament championship and an Elite Eight run that

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saw the Spartans end Syracuse’s 45-game home win streak, MSU’s sights were set on improving on their 14-10 record in 2013. The year started off in the right direction with MSU winning seven of their first nine games, including two exhibition games, but the season became plagued with inconsistent play and an inability to finish close

games. Still, the Spartans are proud with what they accomplished and the challenges they overcame.

“Overall, the season was pretty good,” senior captain Heather Howie said. “We had a few games that looking back we probably should have won, especially some of the ones in overtime.”

On the topic of overtime, MSU played in an unheard of five overtime games through their first seven games alone. They would go on to play just two more throughout the remainder of the season, possibly pointing to why MSU started off playing well and struggled through the last two-thirds of the season.

“I think it was a good season,” senior back Jenni Smith said. “There were a few close deciding games that could have gone either way. That’s just what didn’t sit with us.”

In the early parts of the season, MSU was playing highly competitive hockey, starting 5-2 by losing two overtime games and winning three more of them. The two early losses came to ranked opponents, Duke and American. There was reason to be optimistic for head coach Helen Knull, but things changed after those first seven games.

In arguably the Spartans’ most important weekend of the season up to that point, MSU welcomed No. 7 Penn State and No. 4 Maryland into East Lansing for a huge Big Ten tilt. MSU ended up on the wrong side of both games, losing 2-1 to PSU before dropping a 4-2 against the Terrapins two days later.

Even though MSU rebounded and won two games the following weekend, they were never able to regain the form that helped lead them to that 5-2 start. The true low point of the year came during the second week of October when

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Ball State, a team that finished 5-11, handed the Spartans a devastating 2-1 overtime loss.

Down the stretch, MSU finished the season 3-3 after generating big wins over ranked opponents Iowa and U-M. The two victories were focal points for Knull, using them as an example of what her team is capable of when they play “70 minutes of Spartan hockey.”

“We kind of picked up our groove and started to play our real game near the end before tournament time,” Howie said.

After closing out the regular season with another loss to Louisville, a ranked opponent, the Spartans knew, much like the previous season, the only way into the NCAA Tournament was to win the Big Ten Tournament championship.

Holding the fifth seed in the tournament after finishing 4-4 in the conference, the Spartans were matched up with the Nittany Lions. Having being defeated by PSU earlier in the season, MSU knew what to expect out of their opponent and nearly pulled off the first round upset. PSU went on to shut out the Spartans 1-0, but MSU fought to the very end and nearly forced overtime as time expired.

“There’s always ups and there’s always downs,” Smith said. “It’s a building year. We can use it on to next year. ... Everyone knows you don’t want to go out in the first round, especially for our freshmen who have never experienced it.”

It was a testament to how the season went for Knull. While execution and fundamental skills could be questioned at times, never questioned were the determination and fight these Spartans demonstrated game in and game out.

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