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Islamophobia hits home for MSU students Advertising junior Hauwa Abbas poses for a portrait on Sunday inside the gymnasium of the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing. Abbas works to help bring cultural understanding among Muslims and nonMuslims. The text to her left means “Muhammad is the messenger of God.” The text above, “In the name of God, the most beneficent, the most merciful.”

The text to her right, “God is the greatest.”

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In light of the recent atrocities in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad, many individuals of the Islamic community explore a duality between feeling total remorse for the victims of these tragedies along with fearing how their fellow Americans will now perceive them — a duality that can be see in MSU Muslim students.

“My first reaction is fear, and I just hope the attacker isn’t Muslim,” neuroscience junior Rafiah Anjum said.

The precedent set by reactionary vandalism against Muslim-Americans after 9/11 has had a profound impact on many Muslim individuals, including those who attend MSU. Communication senior Fatima Mroue said she was extremely nervous upon her arrival to campus, fearing judgment for being visibly different from other students.

“I was aware of the way people would look at me,” Mroue said.

However, as her first semester progressed, she said she noticed how welcoming her dorm community was, often working around her religious schedule to plan hangouts.

Professor Mohammad Khalil is the director of the Muslim Studies Program at MSU and said most individuals on campus are “educated enough” to know that radical fundamentalists do not represent the entirety of the Islamic community.

However, he said the fact of the matter is these terrorist groups invoke Islam when they conduct their attacks.

“There is so much ignorance behind groups like the Islamic State,” Khalil said. “This is not the Islam of Muslims around the world.”

Khalil drew attention to a common critique regarding the supposed lack of Muslim condemnation against radicals, a notion that simply isn’t true, he said.

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“There is so much ignorance behind groups like the Islamic State. This is not the Islam of Muslims around the world.”

Khalil said Muslims throughout the world have been continuously outspoken against acts of terror, including those directed at the U.S. For example, Khalil referenced an anti-ISIS march that took place in Afghanistan a few months ago. The march still took place in light Mohammad Khalil, of the turmoil that currently plagues the region, Director of Muslim Studies Program he said. Muslim scholars have almost universally condemned radicalism, specifically ISIS, Khalil said.

While Khalil thinks it is best to speak out against ISIS to disassociate Islam from the terrorist group, advertising junior Hauwa Abass disagrees.

“We just don’t understand why we should apologize for something we had nothing to do with,” Abbas said.

Khalil praised social media movements such as “#NotInMyName,” as well as movements to completely disassociate the religion of Islam

from radicalism.

“When you have all this hatred depicted on news outlets, it seems to affect all,” Mroue said.

“The action of one person unfortunately defines an entire religion.”

The two see this as especially present on anonymous forms of social media outlets, such as Yik Yak and the Twitter and Facebook accounts for MSU Confessions.

“This is exactly what ISIS wants,” Khalil said.

“To draw a line between Muslims and non-Muslims, to promote conflict, along with each side painting a cartoonish image of the other side.”

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Chabad House of MSU Your Jewish home, away from home 540 Elizabeth St. East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 214-0525 chabadmsu.com Friday evenings: 20 minutes after sunset followed by Shabbat dinner Saturday: 11am, Torah reading at 12pm

Little Flock Christian Fellowship A Non-DenominationalEvagelical Church MSU Alumni Chapel (Basement Hall) Sunday Worship Service: 10am-12 Noon.

Fellowship Lunch after the service Weekly Bibly Studies & Students’ Meetings.

Eastminster Presbyterian Church littleflock.msu@gmail.com 1315 Abbot Rd, East Lansing, www.littleflock.org MI, 48823 (517) 337-0893 Martin Luther Chapel www.eastminsterchurch.org 444 Abbot Rd. Sunday School for All Ages: East Lansing, MI 48823 9:30am (517) 332-0778 Sunday Worship: 10:30am martinlutherchapel.org UKirk Presbyterian Campus Sunday: 9:30am & 7:00pm Ministry Wednesday Worship: 9pm www.ukirkmsu.org Mini-bus pick-up on campus (Fall/Spring) Faith Fellowship Baptist Church Peoples Church 1001 Dakin St. 200 W. Grand River Ave. Lansing, MI 48912 East Lansing, MI 48823 (517) 853-9897 (517) 332-6074 Sunday Morning Worship: 11am www.peoples-evolution.org Wednesday Prayer and Bible Sunday Worship: 8:30am, Study: 6:30pm 9:30am Van service available to Tuesday: Love Life: 7-9pm church Wednesday: Dinner at Campus Bible Study: 5:30pm, Journey at 6:30 Thursday at 7:30pm in Chemistry Bldg.

River Terrace Church www.ffbc.us 1509 River Terrace Dr. East Lansing, MI 48823 First Baptist Church of (517) 351-9059 Okemos www.riverterrace.org 4684 Marsh Rd. Service times: 9 & 11:15am Okemos, MI 48864 (517) 349-2830 St. John Catholic Church www.fbcokemos.org/worship and Student Center Sunday worship: 10:45am 327 M.A.C. Ave. Greater Lansing Church East Lansing, MI 48823 of Christ (517) 337-9778 310 N. Hagadorn Rd. stjohnmsu.org East Lansing, MI Sunday: 8am, 10am, Noon, (Meeting at the University 5pm, 7pm Christian Church building) Monday, Wednesday, (517) 898-3600 Friday: 12:15pm Students welcome!

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From left to right, English junior Kelsey Wiley, interdisciplinary studies in social science senior Kaitlin Powers and economics junior Ruth Archer attend a vigil to honor the victims of the Planned Parenthood clinic shooting in Colorado on Nov. 30 at the Rock on Farm Lane. Wiley is the vice president of the MSU Students for Choice.

Powers is the secretary of the organization.

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The State News has compiled a list of just a few of the many activist groups that students looking to make a difference in the community can join.

ACT CRITICALLY, ACT BRAVELY

Act Critically, Act Bravely is a student group that aims to discuss past activism and social movements in order to better understand contemporary issues expressed on college campuses. The group intends to hold regular meetings for purposes of discussion as well as book readings by various authors.

Duncan Tarr, president and history and jazz studies senior, said the club formed after he and another student helped organize a book reading on campus titled “Dixie Be Damned,” a text that discussed the history of insurrection in the American South.

“We’re not a group that’s going to be organizing protests but as individuals we often find ourselves in those spaces and it formed more out of a desire to understand past social movements, past struggles,” Tarr said. “And so basically a group of friends wanted to meet up and read and hang out and figure out, not like eschew activism, but do a lot of analysis and talking and figuring out the best ways to input our energies.”

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SLIGHT WORK

Slight Work is a club aimed at empowering black students on campus to find the right balance in maintaining studies, serving the community and still having a good time at school. The group regularly hosts parties every other weekend while also providing resources to help students manage their time efficiently. Slight Work also aims to establish a community service group called Slight Awareness, whose goal is to help people cope with diseases such as alcoholism, drug abuse, cancer, diabetes and other ailments that affect the Lansing and East Lansing communities.

The club has origins in Detroit, where founder Mykal Avery hails from.

“I had created a similar movement back in Detroit and when I came up here I threw a party and called it Slight Work,” Avery said. “My buddies and I then threw another party, then another party, then another party and we started to realize that our grades weren’t the best which made us realize that we needed to find a way to party and keep on top of our schoolwork.”

END7

END7 is an international non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. under the Sabin Vaccine Institute and the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that strives to eliminate seven of the world’s most neglected tropical diseases. The MSU branch of END7 is the latest to join the national collective of universities and organizations working towards a cure for these tropical diseases such as hookworm and onchocerciasis, or river blindness.

The END7 club was founded by human biology senior Mallory Wilson, who was put in contact with a representative in Washington, D.C. through a mutual friend at Georgetown University.

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The Stonewall Society of MSU is an advocacy group for LGBTQ students within James Madison College. Ben Schroff, president and social relations and policy junior, hopes to use the club to bring light to the unique issues LGBTQ students face within the halls of James Madison College and throughout the rest of campus.

“I took a lot of inspiration from the DuBois Society, actually, because they’re a Madison-specific group for black advocacy and there wasn’t anything within Madison for LGBTQ people so I took it upon myself to create something for that,” he said.

Some of the issues The Stonewall Society hopes to address include the lack of course material on LGBTQ issues and the erasure of LGBTQ identity because this topic is not brought up within the classroom “or there’s no opportunity to discuss in class,” Schroff said.

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The club only came into being near the beginning of the semester, where Wilson met with the representative to begin planning how to start the MSU END7 chapter just after the second day of classes. The stated goal of the group is to help raise awareness of these neglected tropical diseases in part, as Wilson explained, because they’re relatively simple afflictions to treat.

“The interesting things about these diseases is that all of them are easily treatable, easily curable and easily preventable so its really frustrating to hear they affect 25 percent of the global population,” Wilson said.

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In a rather tumultuous period of American politics, exacerbated by the upcoming presidential primaries, one issue captures the attention of all students alike — the cost of tuition.

In a recent study by the House Fiscal Agency, an interesting duality stands out as the cost of tuition seems to be rising with an apparent fall in state of Michigan funding to its public universities.

State appropriations to public universities make up about 12 percent of the state’s general fund.

The study also shows funding for public universities in the state of Michigan have decreased by $217 million throughout the course of the past decade.

Coincidentally, the sinking curve of state funding has crisscrossed the curve for rising tuition and fees allocated to each student, which is rising exponentially.

Dean of the College of Education Don Heller said “research has shown that there is a strong relationship between decreases in state funding and increases in tuition fees in public universities.”

Heller has drawn attention to the $1 billion surplus the state found itself with to utilize through the fiscal year of 2015.

While debate raged on what to do with the excess funds, Heller proposed the state repurpose the surplus to aid the steadily decreasing funding of the K-12 education and higher education alike.

“I believe the governor, and the leadership of the legislature, are missing out on an opportunity to reverse the decade-long erosion in funding for both K-12 and higher education in the state,” he said in the blog post.

Subsequently, Dr. Heller said he feels this will also lead to a decrease in tuition and fees as well as benefits for higher education.

“More money for higher education would allow the state’s public universities to moderate their tuition increases, and pump more funds into need-based grants, to ensure a college education is affordable for students from low and moderate-income families,” he said.

Press Secretary to the Governor David Murray agrees with that notion.

“Gov. Snyder has asked for caps on tuition increases to help keep the cost of attending college more affordable for more families,” he said.

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At Eli Broad College of Business, resident students are required to pay an extra $230 a month for ‘business college fees.’ However, the College’s filtered water is reportedly prone to turning brown after a few hours of bottling.

“If you fill up a water bottle from the ‘filtered’ fountains in the business college, by the end of one class the water will have turned brown,” accounting senior Aaron Strain said in an email.

Strain demonstrated this by filling an empty water bottle from a first-floor fountain in the college, which was then photographed next to a bottle of store-bought water over the next few hours, showing a stark discoloration.

“That’s filtered water right there. If I saw that water in a restaurant, I would leave immediately, I would never come back,” Strain said.

Strain said the problem has been going on since he was a freshman.

“Yeah, we get well water here, but we pay a

$230 business college fee every semester, they could, between water softener and whatever else they could do,” Strain said. “I think with all the money we’re putting towards the college, they (should be able to update something). Being here all day, I should be able to get clean water without having to buy it somewhere else.”

Stephanie MacPherson, hospitality business senior, had not experienced the discoloration, but avoids drinking water from the first floor altogether, as she claims quality differs depending on which floor of the building the fountain is on.

“I personally never drink first floor business college water, it really is undrinkable,” MacPherson said. “Sometimes I think I’m thirsty enough to drink it, then I change my mind as soon as I try it.”

MacPherson said she gets her water from the hospitality business school on the second floor of the building, which she said is of normal quality.

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The challenges of preparing for a home game so long that everybody kind of knows what the drill is. People go away from that first meeting, they all have responsibilities.”

That meeting, like much of the preparation for game days, is coordinated by Ianni.

“My job is to take these campus entities, bring them all together, and coordinate the communication between them all, so we’re all on the same page and this whole thing functions smoothly, so if somebody’s coming to the game, they enjoy it in a safe environment,” Ianni said.

After the initial meeting, members of the many groups involved get to work on preparing for game day.

“You have a lot of planning that goes into this, and you have to think about this well in advance of just the weekend before,” MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

The whole group reconvenes the Tuesday before each game to update Ianni and other groups on their plans and needs for that specific game. Any unique elements to the game are covered at this meeting. It is Ianni’s job to coordinate each entity’s separate plans, and make sure those plans do not come in conflict with one another.

“Our equipment staff is huge,” Ianni said. “Getting (equipment) in (the locker room), when the visiting team truck is going to arrive, when

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On seven Saturdays each fall, East Lansing makes its way onto the national stage. The weekend of a football game, thousands of fans, alumni and locals descend onto the MSU campus, most of them decked out in green and white.

Some show up to watch the Spartans play, others come to enjoy tailgating and the company of friends. But there are roughly 1,200 people in East Lansing who don’t have time to relax on a game weekend — these are the people who make such a large-scale event possible.

Those 1,200 people come from a wide variety of different organizations, with tasks as varied as keeping tailgaters safe to filming the game for national television, all of which must be coordinated to make sure everything runs smoothly.

The work to prepare for football season begins in early August, when representatives from all of the different groups who make home football games possible come together for a roundtable meeting.

“In early August, we bring all these different constituent groups together who have something to do with putting on a game on a football Saturday,” MSU’s Deputy Athletics Director and event manager Greg Ianni said. “We’ve been doing this

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they’re going to unload their equipment, when they’re coming in on game day. They handle the specifics, but all that information comes to that Tuesday meeting, so everybody knows.

Because that impacts, for example, my stadium staff. ‘When do I have to have gates open? When do they need access to this space?’ So everybody has to know what’s going on, you can’t do it in a vacuum.”

Since MSU is a prominent Big Ten team, there is usually a TV crew that comes to East Lansing to broadcast the game. Depending on what network the TV crew is from and what time the game is, they may be looking for a different camera setup. “(Rick Church, the MSU Director of Broadcast Technology) will talk to the producer during the week,” Ianni said. “We get what their setup is, what they need from us, when they’re going to arrive, and those are all things we go through in that Tuesday meeting.”

Visiting teams and the TV staff are responsible for making their own arrangements to stay

overnight in town if need be. However, MSU is responsible for finding a place for referees to stay.

“We book hotel rooms for the year for our officials,” Ianni said. “We have an individual who just handles the officials. His job is, he gets in touch with the referees on Monday, they plot out when they’re going to get here, he handles their parking passes, (then) takes care of them from the time they get here on Friday until the time they leave.”

Friday is the day when the preparation for a game the next day kicks into high gear.

“Friday the television will show up, so they’ve got to set up in the stadium, visiting team equipment shows up, we have to determine whether we’re going to cover the field or not,” Ianni said.

“So this thing starts on Friday, and actually, when we have a night game where we need lights, it starts on Thursday, because Musco (Lighting) brings the portable lights in on Thursday.”

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Political science sophomore Samantha Perry watches a video during the quiz bowl team’s practice on Nov. 19 at Berkey Hall. PHOTO: SUNDEEP DHANJAL

BY ASHANTI SEABRON ASEABRON@STATENEWS.COM

The Academic Competition Club, better known as the Quiz Bowl Team, is a team that focuses on academic trivia questions.

A normal Quiz Bowl match consists of pyramidal tossup questions followed by multiple-part bonus questions.

The pyramidal questions are formed from clues progressing from harder to easier, and are designed to reward competitors for having deep knowledge of a subject. The multiple-part bonus questions are composed of two different parts — tossup questions and bonus questions.

Tossup questions are asked to both teams, and can be answered by the first player to buzz in. This player has the first opportunity to answer the question and if answered correctly, the player will have the opportunity to answer a bonus question. The team who answers the most questions correctly owns the contest.

“It’s kind of like competitive trivia,” physics junior and club president Brian Hanley said. “We have a team of four people, and we compete against another team of four people. We answer longer questions that go from usually about one topic, and they go from harder to easier clues about what the answer is. Anyone can answer it, and if they

get it right then their team can answer three additional questions.”

Hanley said this year’s team is not as strong as the team was in previous years, but associates that with the high number of freshmen on the team.

“The past three years we’ve had really good players and we came in first in a couple tournaments,” Hanley said.

“A lot of the upperclassmen have graduated – I’m a junior and I’m the oldest on the team.”

While the club may be known for its heavily academic side, it also has a friendly, bonding side as well Accounting sophomore and quiz bowl team member Sarah Wrase credits the Quiz Bowl Team for helping her form her friend base at MSU. “I really enjoy the people on the team,” Wrase said. “I’ve met most of my friends here, my roommate this year is someone who was on the team last year. ... I’m a competitive person, so obviously I enjoy that (aspect of quiz bowl) too.”

Political science sophomore and club ombudsperson Samantha Perry said she, too, found a welcoming group of friends since she’s joined the Quiz Bowl Team.

“I was really into Quiz Bowl in high school, because I enjoy trivia,” Perry said. “My main friend group is from quiz bowl. ... The vast majority of my friends, I’ve met through this. That’s what I get out of it.”

City Council welcomes Syrian refugees

BY JAKE ALLEN JALLEN@STATENEWS.COM

East Lansing City Council unanimously approved a resolution declaring the city of East Lansing a welcoming community for Syrian refugees at the Tuesday council meeting.

“We (the city of East Lansing) have always been welcoming to refugees and I see no reason to change our philosophy towards them at this time,” East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows said.

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acceptance of dif ferent bac kgrounds and culture in the city has allowed for a number of active community leaders — particularity from the Muslim community — to rise up and add to the experience of living in East Lansing.

Meadows said he would also like to note refugees go through rigorous screening before being allowed into the U.S. The resolution states that every day communities across the globe are recognizing that being welcoming makes them more economically competitive as well as more vibrant

places for all residents to live.

“We can make sure that our community stands on the better side of history,” the resolution states.

“When we look back 10 or 20 years from now, we will remember that we weren’t hindered by our fears.

Instead, we invited diverse new neighbors to join us in building a stronger community, and we all became better for it.”

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MSU “one step” away from College Football Playoff

How MSU football will beat Iowa and head to the playoff

BY RYAN KRYSKA RKRYSKA@STATENEWS.COM

Iowa, ranked No. 4 in the CFP after boasting an undefeated (12-0, 8-0 Big Ten) record, will present MSU, No. 5 in the CFP (11-1, 7-1 Big Ten), with a disciplined set of schematics to plan against.

Head coach Kirk Ferentz has been at the helm of Hawkeyes’ football since 1999, giving him ample time to piece together his jigsaw puzzle.

Both teams have a “seven-year book” on each other, MSU head coach Mark Dantonio said, but pairing that with a high level of respect and championship experience has the Spartans feeling confident as they prepare for Indianapolis. “(Ferentz has) built a culture there,” Dantonio said. “He’s built a program, he’s built a legacy there, and it will be a great challenge for us to be able to play and be successful, but we’re looking forward to that.”

Here is what MSU needs to do to get the job done and make its way to a College Football Playoff semifinal game.

Senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun motions to the crowd prior to the game against Penn State on Nov. 28 at Spartan Stadium.

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BY MATTHEW ARGILLANDER MARGILLANDER@STATENEWS.COM

The goals for MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio and his Spartans have been clear all season long — reach higher. Dantonio has also said they’re taking this season one step at a time.

For MSU, step one was winning the Big Ten East Division, step two — win in Indianapolis and step three, is to inevitably reach the national championship.

This season, the Spartans (11-1 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) have wins over defending national champion Ohio State (11-1 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) and national championship runner-up Oregon (9-3 overall, 7-2 PAC-12).

“We have asked our guys to reach higher,” Dantonio said. “As simple as that sounds, we needed to do things that we didn’t get done last year. We beat the two teams that played in the championship game last year. We’ve moved forward. But I think there are still things out there for our football team to accomplish. We’ve got the East Division Title but I think our players want more. They want it all.”

Standing between the No. 5 Spartans and their goals is No. 4 Iowa (12-0 overall, 8-0 overall). The narrative surrounding the Hawkeyes has been that their schedule was weak and they’re not as good as their record suggests.

The Hawkeyes have a power football offense and a technically sound defense highlighted by Tatum-Woodson Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year Desmond King and First-Team All-Big Ten offensive guard Jordan Walsh.

And for senior linebacker Darien Harris, an undefeated season is an accomplish-

ment no matter who you play.

“I think anybody on the team would be a fool to go in and take an undefeated team lightly,” Harris said. “They’re 12-0 for a reason. They have done a great job this season in all facets of the game and obviously, they have been really successful, and at the end of the day, both teams are playing for a shot to go to the playoffs, so I’m expecting a hard-fought battle.”

Step one is complete. Step two, the Big Ten championship, is Saturday and the winner of that game should find themselves in the College Football Playoff.

However, just three weeks ago the Spartans were coming off a loss to Nebraska and the national media seemed to forget about MSU. For the team, that loss was a wake-up call and they still believed its goals were in reach whether they were getting the publicity out or not.

“You go back to the Nebraska game and the loss there, Shilique (Calhoun) was one of the first players I went up to after in the locker room and asked if he was all right,” Co-Defensive Coordinator Mike Tressel said. "He was a little teary-eyed, but he said that it was one of the best things that could’ve happened to our team. Then a whole switch changed. The guys changed from thinking we were going to be the best defense in the country because everybody was going to do their job to decide that we’re going to be the best defense in the country.”

A few teams in front of MSU in the rankings suffered defeats and the Spartans found themselves back in prime position to achieve their goals.

“We feel like if we look at our goals and we say we want to be champions,

that helps us understand the amount of work that is needed to go into that kind of season,” junior linebacker Riley Bullough said. “We know it’s one game at a time.

We’re mature enough to know each and every week you’ve gotta go out and play as hard as you can, but in the end you gotta know what you’re working for.

“We’re working for a championship — it’s no secret. We talk about it every week.

So, you know, it’s time to be about it this weekend at Indianapolis, and we couldn’t be more excited.”

As strange as it sounds, it appears a loss is exactly what this team needed to realize its potential.

“When you have someone take it away from you, you kind of sit back and re-evaluate yourself. Recheck yourself, and we did that,” senior quarterback Connor Cook said. “We know what it feels like to lose, and it’s the worst feeling in the entire world.”

And now, as the Spartans prepare to take on the Hawkeyes Saturday at 8:17 p.m. in Indianapolis, the Spartans are exactly where Dantonio has built his program to be.

“There (are) no secrets here,” Dantonio said. “We built this program to a point where those are our goals now. Initially our goals were to do other things but these — this is where we’re at now. This is why we’ve come here. We recruited to these goals, and the fact that we’ve reached to this point we’ve reached here, we’re at this point, gives credibility to what we talk about here.”

CONTROLLING THE TRENCHES “(Our players) can’t play sideways in this football game,” Dantonio said.

Iowa will look to establish a sound running attack against MSU and they have proven themselves capable of doing so with an average of 203.7 yards rushing per game. But the Spartans having held their opponents to just 118.2 yards per game this season and a peaking defensive line led by fifthyear senior Shilique Calhoun, a three-year All-Big Ten firstteam selection, should keep the yardage margin in MSU’s favor.

“I think the match-up is a good match-up for us, but we are going to have to play square and be in our gap,” Dantonio said. “Because they’ll split you.”

With Iowa’s passing offense being underdeveloped to this point in the season, a stout rushing defense for MSU will likely put the Hawkeyes in a fit, which, they don’t have much experience in getting out of.

BURBRIDGE VS. KING Iowa junior defensive back Desmond King leads the Big Ten in interceptions with eight. King is a product of Detroit and was named the Tatum-Woodson Big Ten Defensive Back of the Year. “(I) still can’t believe (King) got away, but anyway, is an outstanding player, eight interceptions, kick returner, punt returner, has been a very good player for them,” Dantonio said.

A huge impact will be made in the game when either King or MSU senior wide receiver Aaron Burbridge pull away from their counterpart.

Burbridge, who was named the Richter-Howard Big Ten Receiver of the Year after totaling 1,158 yards receiving and seven touchdowns thus far, has been able to go up, over and around defenders in tight coverage all season. And with passes reaching Burbridge from the arm of fifth-year senior quarterback Connor Cook, the Griese-Brees Big Ten Quarterback of the Year.

“King is around 6-foot-1, 6-foot-2, so he’s a relatively bigger corner, but it’s just something — we have great receivers so we are looking forward to the match-up,” Cook said.

CHAMPIONSHIP EXPERIENCE For MSU, the notion of ‘been there, done that’ will give its players a leg-up in knowing what to expect.

“This is the third time in five years that we have been able to go and play for a championship,” Dantonio said. “So I think that — that can’t hurt us. That can only help us.

“Our players can talk to the other people and give them that experience, what the stadium is like, what’s this like, what’s the climate like, the atmosphere like. It’s a sell-out.

It should be very exciting for them.”

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BY NATHANIEL BOTT NBOTT@STATENEWS.COM

The MSU volleyball team is slated to play No. 24 Arkansas State at 7 p.m. on Friday night in Seattle in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Head coach Cathy George knows the season was filled with ups and downs, especially playing in a volleyball powerhouse conference such as the Big Ten. MSU ended the season on a four-game winning streak, but had lost seven in a row pri-

or to that — its longest losing streak since 1993.

“It makes it rough along the way when you are playing such great competition because sometimes you get it handed to you,” George said. “You got to rebound, respond, get back at

it and improve, and I think our team has done that. So going into this match, we know that we have been battle tested.”

The Spartans’ fifth-straight tournament appearance is the third longest in the Big Ten behind Penn State and Nebraska.

The Spartans were on the fringe of a tournament berth, but might have solidified their standing after defeating then-No. 14 Purdue on the road. Then they turned right around and swept the Iowa Hawkeyes on senior day.

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“You got to rebound, respond, get back at it and improve and I think our tem has done that. So going into this match, we know we have been battle tested” Cathy George, MSU head volleyball coach

“It was a difference maker,” George said. “We knew we had to put ourselves in position by beating Purdue, a 14th ranked team, a very talented team, and it was a must-win for us.”

Although the Spartans had a feeling they would make the tournament field of 64, despite an 18-13 record, it was quite the relief to the team hearing its placement. MSU built its resume all year, defeating ranked opponents like Ohio State and North Carolina, and defeating other teams selected into the tournament.

“We all watched it together, so we were at the stadium watching it on TV,” senior captain Halle Peterson said. “It was just kind of an intense moment, we knew we had a chance but we didn’t know how big our chance was, so when we found out we were ecstatic.”

As for Arkansas State, the Red Wolves are 28-1 with their lone loss coming in their fifth game of the season.

The Red Wolves ride a 24-game winning streak and won the Sun Belt Conference regular season and tournament championship.

Arkansas State’s lineup is littered with talent, having four all-conference first team selections.

“They have an offense similar to Minnesota, so we have seen it before,” Peterson said. “It’s pretty fast, so we are just going to have to adjust to that and dig some balls. They are going to be scrappy. We are going to have to stay patient and hang with them.”

If the Spartans defeat Arkansas State, their next opponent would most likely be the No. 5 seed Washington Huskies.

The No. 5 seed is deceptive, since Washington finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AVCA Coaches Poll and were co-champions of the Pac-12 conference.

But for MSU, they hope its tough Big Ten schedule has prepared them well for the postseason.

“You know, to play great competition and we have been in pressure moments almost every night,” Peterson said. “We know what it’s like to be under pressure.”

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Senior and soccer player named prestigious 2016 Rhodes Scholar W H Y T H I S M AT T E R S

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They say hard work pays off and the saying seems to be true for senior Sarah Kovan.

Balancing a double major in comparative cultures and politics and human biolog y, SARAH KOVAN studying abroad and playing starting midfielder for MSU’s women’s soccer team has paid off in the best way — she was named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Scholarship is an American program that sends students to study postgraduate work at University of Oxford.

Kovan plans on studying for a master’s degree in philosophy in development studies, with a focus on how health and development intersect.

Kovan said she wants to eventually work in international health care, but at the moment she is not sure what context that will be in.

She said she thinks studying at Oxford will help her get a clearer idea of what her goal is.

“Throughout my studies at Michigan State,

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Human biology and comparative cultures and politics senior Sarah Kovan has been named a Rhodes Scholar for 2016.

The prestigious scholarship gives students the chance to study at the University of Oxford in England.

She is the only recipient this year from Michigan.

I’ve come to realize there’s a lot more to working abroad with international medicine,” she said. “My major in comparative cultures and politics has kind of shaped that and made me realize there’s this broader context for understanding it. So before pursuing any type a career within the health-related field, I want to understand how do we develop health care efficiently and sustainably abroad.”

But Kovan already has had hands-on experience in her field.

In addition to a research fellowship in Sri Lanka and hospice care in Michigan, Kovan studied abroad and worked in ambulances in Israel.

She spent five weeks the summer after her freshman year working with EMTs and gaining the experience in her field. She said her

study abroad opportunity showed her just how her two majors related.

“It was interesting because I had limited Hebrew at that point, and I had to learn really quickly,” Kovan said. “But that interaction with working with patients without necessarily having as much of the language and having to find other ways to communicate was really interesting for me. After that to go study the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was a nice addition to the ambulance work. ... I got to see what it looks like to work in the medical field but also to see how the culture and conflict in that area affect medicine. I think that kind of solidified it — I knew that I was what I wanted to do and I was going in the right direction.”

MSU helped Kovan find her future plans.

She said while looking into post-undergraduate studies and scholarships, several mentors encouraged her to apply to be a Rhodes Scholar.

“I’m not sure I would’ve gone through with it if I didn’t have that extra push,” she said.

“It’s hard to find what you’re doing next year and what is right for you.”

Despite the extra guidance, Kovan worked hard largely on her own volition. Kovan, a self-described “driven person with a definite sense of scheduling,” knew what she wanted

“I’m not sure I would’ve gone through with it if I didn’t have that extra push. ...It’s hard to find what you’re doing next year and what is right for you.”

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and how to get it all done.

Still, Kovan credits the opportunities and support she’s had at MSU to where she is now.

“My coaches with athletics have been incredibly supportive,” she said. “A lot of time with athletics it’s hard to go study abroad (but) they’re all about academics as well as athletics so they’ve encouraged me to go take those opportunities.”

She also acknowledged the support of the James Madison faculty and being able to double major.

“All those little things I think have come together to spark what I want to do in the future and give me a better understanding of that,” she said.

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For senior, activism and modeling go hand-in-hand Shortly after her research position ended, England started to volunteer with the Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention, or SACI, team, a volDevoting so much emotional energy into any- unteer group of students overseen by MSU’s Sexthing is daunting, especially as the obstacles ual Assault Program, which works as an entity within the MSU Counseling Center. begin to mount.

Along with manning SACI’s 24-hour crisis line, For others, passion naturally comes to them, as is the case with Kara England. A crimi- England has also undergone additional training to become a medical advonal justice and psycholocate. Advocates stay with gy senior, England said she victims of sexual assault who has always been opinionat- “I don’t believe that I ed and passionate. have to act like a lady, choose to admit themselves Sparrow Hospital in Lan“I’ve always been a femiI don’t like that saying to sing in order to relay legal nist, but it wasn’t until coland medical information, lege that I learned what fem- and so I think that if provide a sense of safety to inism was and was able to I feel a little unsafe or victims and support to the identify as one,� she said. basically unsafe then victim’s friends and family. “So looking back in retro“We get to raise awareness spect I can go, ‘Oh I was I have a right to say together, I get to facilitate always a feminist, I’ve something.� discussions, help set up panalways wanted equality, I’ve Kara England, els, a lot of cool things and always stood for awareness Criminal justice and psychology senior I love being a part of it but of sexual assault and learnmore than anything I love ing about consent,’ but it wasn’t until recently that I was able to put a working with sexual assault survivors and community members who want to know more about label on it.�

England’s transformation, as she calls it, into what they can do,� England said.

Though surrounded by equally supportive and an advocate for women’s rights began when she conducted research for the community psychol- passionate individuals at SACI, England is still beset by daily by issues all women face. ogy department.

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Psychology and criminal justice senior Kara England poses for a portrait on Nov. 16 outside of the Student Services Building. She is a volunteer for the Sexual Assault Crisis Intervention Program at MSU and does everything from running social media for outreach purposes to volunteering with the 24-hour sexual assault hotline. PHOTO: CATHERINE FERLAND

Be it catcalling, harmful jokes or hearing myths peddled as fact, England has had numerous instances where she has had to put her training and beliefs into practice. “I try to approach it with respect but I don’t believe that I have to act like a lady, I don’t like that saying and so I think that if I feel a little unsafe or basically unsafe then I have a right to say something,� she said.

In addition to raising awareness for sexual assault, she modeled for a body positive lingerie store in Lansing’s Old Town.

Acknowledging the difficulty of remaining calm and respectful on an emotional topic, England keeps a single bit of wisdom present in her mind.

To read the rest of the story about Kara England, visit statenews.com. “It’s about holding people accountable and it’s also about making sure that I am also responsible for not doing things like that. ... That’s

the thing that if I want equality than I have to be practicing what I’m saying,� England said.

One way England put her beliefs into practice was a recent modeling gig she did for Curvaceous Lingerie, a boutique women’s apparel shop located in Lansing’s Old Town. The store’s stated goal is to empower women of all sizes by offering nightwear that can fit anyone from a size 00 to 24.

Approaching the end of her undergraduate career, England is in the process of deciding what to do in the near future. Doctoral programs have factored heavily into England’s plans, though her real goal is to help chart advocacy programs herself. “I really want to see change. ... Like as an advocate I provide a lot of resources for survivors and I want to be the person that helps with those resources, that makes them better, that just gives survivors, close survivors, community members a better experience overall,� she said.

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After MSU beat Penn State on Nov. 28, many fans waited patiently in anticipation of their chance to order tickets to the Big Ten championship game, which were set to go on sale that night at 9 p.m. Many students were outraged, however, when tickets went on sale early and were sold out by 9 p.m.

Sunday, an email from the Spartan Ticket Office was sent to students who purchased tickets announcing students would not be allowed to resell or transfer their tickets to anyone else. No reason was given, upsetting fans who might have hoped to resell their ticket for more money or transfer it to a friend.

Executive Associate Athletic Director for External Operations of MSU Athletics Paul Schager said reselling of tickets and transfers is prohibited because the student tickets are sold at a discounted price.

Journalism freshman Alexis Downie said she thinks not being able to sell or transfer championship game tickets is a negative thing.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know a lot of people want them and they havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been able to get them,â&#x20AC;? Downie said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know once you buy it, you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do anything with it. And what if you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get a ride there?â&#x20AC;?

Mechanical engineering sophomore Zohaq Syed said he feels transferring a championship game ticket could be a good alternative. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know their reason, it sucks, but if you could that would be great,â&#x20AC;? Syed said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially if one friend wants to join and you want to get a ticket, transferring would be a good option.â&#x20AC;?

However, for people who were unable to get tickets Saturday night, tickets students are returning to the Spartan Ticket Office are being sold to students on a waiting list. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had 2,500 tickets for student allotment and we have exceeded that number to accommodate an additional 282 people,â&#x20AC;? Schager said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The waiting list is determined by the order (students) contacted the ticket office.â&#x20AC;?

He said the total of student allotment is 2,782 students.

Schager said if someone cancels, the next person on the list is taken care of.