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Bill Beekman, who serves as secretary to the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, speaks to reporters after a board meeting on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018, at the Hannah Administration Building on the MSU campus in East Lansing, Mich. Beekman will temporarily take the place of former President Lou Anna K. Simon. Simon submitted her resignation Wednesday after Larry Nassar, a former Michigan State employee, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting young girls and women under the guise of medical treatment.