12/10/13 - A local college student is offering gratitude towards fellow students who are pitching in to pay for a replacement car after his vehicle was destroyed in a near-riot on the MSU campus. 22-year-old Steven Ripley of Pinckney is a senior at MSU who watched in disbelief early Sunday morning as a group of students partying over the Spartan win in the Big Ten Championship lifted his 1995 Honda Civic and turned it onto its roof. MLive.com says the car was effectively totaled as the roof was destroyed and the engine ruined due to the mixing of multiple fluids. Ripley was devastated as he tried to figure out how he would pay for a new car on top of tuition and rent. But that soon turned to amazement when a roommate found an online fundraising page that another MSU student, Karen Wood of Fenton, had set up to help him out and prove that true Spartans were about more than mindless vandalism. She launched the page Sunday afternoon with a $500 goal, which she then upped to $1,000 when that was quickly surpassed. She later increased it to $3,000 and the page had garnered twice that by early evening at more than $6,300. Ripley called the generosity and compassion of his fellow Spartans âtotally amazing.â Meanwhile, East Lansing police continue to investigate that incident and dozens of others that happened when thousands of students and others gathered to celebrate MSUâs first Rose Bowl berth since 1987. (JK)
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