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MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo smiles as players say goodbye during a press conference June 15 at the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center, where Izzo announced he will stay at MSU instead of taking an informal offer from the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers.

Editor’s note: This sto-ry original-ly was pub-lished June 17.

It doesn’t get much better than Tom Izzo

when it comes to NCAA basketball coaches.

With six Final Fours and one national championship in the last 12 years — some-thing only UCLA’s John Wood-en and Duke University’s Mike Krzyzewski have done — Izzo

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Use SN as tool for transition to MSU, E.L.

Hello again.With only

about onemonth untilyou arrive atMSU, The StateNews wants tohelp make yourtransition as

smooth as possible.That’s why we’re here with our

second mail home edition.Inside you’ll fi nd the important

news that’s happened this sum-mer, as well as some useful infor-mation about East Lansing.

Want to know the best place toyour late night grub on? Check usout. Curious about what the MSUadministration has been up tolately? We’re here for you. Needthe latest news about Spartansathletics? We got it covered.

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By Emily WilkinsTHE STATE NEWS■■

Editor’s note: This story origi-nally was published June 21.

On June 18, the MSU Board of Trustees approved the universi-ty’s 2010-11 budget, including a 2.5 percent tuition increase for in-state students for the 2010-11 aca-demic year, an increase of about $273.

The board in June 2009 planned for a 4.9 percent increase as part of its 2010-11 preliminary budget. The 2.4 percent remain-ing from that original number

was suspended until summer 2011.

Tuition for graduate students, out-of-state students and inter-national students will increase 5 percent for the coming aca-demic year. MSU’s 2010-11 bud-get is more than $1.018 billion, an increase of more than $36 million

from the year prior. The board also passed a preliminary bud-get for 2011-12, including a stip-ulation that any tuition increas-es not exceed 7.2 percent for that academic year.

The university’s new fi scal year began July 1.

The increase in tuition is nec-

essary due to basic upkeep of the university and Michigan’s strug-gling economy, Trustee Melanie Foster said.

“Foremost important from the board perspective is maintaining the academic impact of the insti-tution,” Foster said. “Costs esca-late on an annual basis, be it fac-ulty costs, utility costs, staff costs … (and) unfortunately tuition continues to be a larger part of the budget because of the dimin-ishing state (appropriations) for higher education.”

The budget projects MSU will receive about $282.7 million in

Beloved MSU coach vows to work harder

Izzo’s decision

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UNDERGRAD PROGRAMS IN DUBAI ENDBy Emily WilkinsTHE STATE NEWS■■

Editor’s note: This story origi-nally was published July 8.

When Sana Siddique fi rst heardthrough her Facebook accountthat MSU Dubai was ending itsundergraduate programs, shethought it was a prank.

“Almost nobody was taking itseriously, and the ones who sawit as a possibility thought it can-not shut down immediately; anotice of at least an year wouldbe necessary,” Siddique said inan e-mail.

But during a telephone pressconference July 6, MSU PresidentLou Anna K. Simon announcedthe fi ve undergraduate programsat MSU Dubai, which openedin fall 2008, will end “effectiveimmediately” because of fi nan-cial problems and a lack of enroll-ment. An offi cial announcementwas made to students in DubaiJuly 6.

Now, about 85 undergraduatestudents and two-dozen facultyand staff members are left withuncertain futures. University offi -cials have said MSU will work toensure a seamless transition forstudents, be it to the East Lansingcampus or another university.

But with about two monthsuntil fall semester begins, somestudents said they might be outof luck.

“I’m defi nitely angry, since itwas careless on (MSU’s) part tomake this announcement so late,” said Siddique, who was going tobe a sophomore studying comput-er and electrical engineering at

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MSU increases in-state tuition 2.5 percentS T U D E N T F I N A N C E S

is one of the best in the game.However, at the same press

conference on June 15, at which Izzo announced he would stay at MSU and not leave for the NBA’s Cleveland Cava-liers, he said he is far from sat-isfi ed with what he’s done.

“I like some of the things we’ve accomplished,” Izzo said.

“But, as I tell my play-ers, you’re judged on the last guy standing. It’s nice to go to Final Fours, (but) that’s not how you’re remembered.”

Most college coaches would kill to do what Izzo has done.

But the fact there are oth-er coaches out there who wouldn’t trade their résumés for Izzo’s eats him up inside.

So not only is Izzo remain-ing in East Lansing, he plans on being even bet-ter than ever before.

That’s a scary thought for opposing coaches throughout the country.

The man who thrives on challenges and uses every-thing under the sun to moti-vate himself also said he is

coming back with more pas-sion and more of a desire to be the best than he had before the events of last month.

“I think I’m going to work at even a different level now to make sure we get those things done,” Izzo said.

Already known as one of the hardest working coaches in the country, Izzo will need to do a lot to work harder. But don’t be surprised when he does.

Izzo has spent his career try-ing to prove people wrong. It’s part of the reason he almost went to Cleveland. Along with the possible opportunity to coach LeBron James, one of the world’s best players, he want-ed to be one of the only col-lege coaches to ever transfer NCAA success into the NBA.

However, that also happened to play a major role in why he decided to stay. Izzo, who said he never talked to James during the time he took a look at the Cavaliers job, knows it’s going to be tough to catch Wooden or Krzyzewski for national titles.

But if the odds were

in his favor, he might not be here anymore.

Izzo said it himself that his pursuit of Coach K, who has three more titles than him, helped keep him in East Lansing.

“Maybe a couple years ago, winning one more (champion-ship) might have been enough,” Izzo said. “That damn Krzyze-wski keeps winning them, and because of that, it keeps motivating me to do more.”

As Izzo chases Coach K and tries to fulfi ll his goal of mak-ing MSU the best program in the country, he said he’s going to need some help, especial-ly from his administration.

Fortunately for Izzo, he has an athletic director in Mark Hollis who has a similar burn-ing desire to make MSU bet-ter than any other program in basketball or any sport.

“I want to be the best in everything that we do with-in our athletic depart-ment and across this uni-versity,” Hollis said.

“I want to compete for

Rose Bowls, and I want to compete for nation-al championships.”

Hollis, who said Izzo nev-er asked for a dime to try and keep him at MSU, add-ed that Izzo’s decision only marks the beginning.

And although Izzo is 55 years old and has led the Spartans for 15 years, even he can improve.

“This is not a time to rest,” Hollis said. “This is a time to move forward as an entire athletic depart-ment in a direction where every staff member, every student-athlete makes a commitment that Tom Izzo made to make our athlet-ic department the best.

“Not the best it can be. The best.”

It might seem like a lofty goal to make MSU the best athletic department in the country. But with people in charge as self-motivat-ed and determined as Izzo and Hollis are, it is in no way out of the question.

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Izzo announces, ‘HERE FOR LIFE’

“(The 2.5 increase) affects 80 percent of our students. We wanted to give the greater group of students the higher benefit.”

Lou Anna K. Simon, MSU president

state appropriations for 2010-11. The university’s year-to-date state appropriation is about $291.8 million, accord-ing to analyses by the nonpar-tisan House and Senate fi scal agencies.

The 2010-11 budget con-tains a stipulation that allows MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to increase tuition mid-year with prior board notifi -cation to offset appropriation shortfalls.

Although the increase is

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