On the morning of the MSU men’s basketball game against No. 14 seed Valparaiso, two MSU students found Sparty vandalized.
English junior Garrison Rasmussen said his brother, graduate student Jourdan Rasmussen, first spotted the unofficial Valparaiso gear on Sparty early Thursday morning.
The items on Sparty included a yellow sign with “VU” on it and a hard-hat resembling a basketball.
“When I got here as a freshman, I remember hearing that we had to protect the statue, so when I saw it I was like, ‘Oh I’ve got to clean it up,’” Garrison Rasmussen said.
The bothers tweeted a photo of Sparty and removed the gear.
Karen Zelt, communications manager for Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, said in an email that the unit was not aware of or involved in cleaning Sparty.
MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said police had no record of the incident.
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