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By Sam Ruiz,

Zoology senior Brent Tluczek, right, finishes his beer on Saturday outside Orion cooperative house to donate the bottle to labor relations and human resources graduate student Jon Barth’s fund for biking across the United States.

• Wheels of change

Repairing Kids, Repairing Bikes

Curt “Grandad” Eure didn’t realize a trip to Lansing to visit his family eventually would lead him to devote 15 years to teaching kids how to build and maintain bicycles.

Tom Izzo Press Conference March 15, 2010

Men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo talks about his team’s matchup with New Mexico State. The Spartans and Aggies will meet in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday.

Money for Music

Criminal justice sophomore Madison Boden puts a dollar in the instrument case of Lansing resident Hugh Cochran as he plays the tin whistle Thursday on the corner of Grand River Avenue and Charles Street. Cochran also had a fiddle and a mandolin for playing traditional Irish music. “I’m supposed to be running errands, but I needed some gas in my car,” Cochran said.

Paradise Park

MSU professors Richard Paulsen and Gail Vander Stoep, who are serving in an advisory role for the world park concept in Micronesia, discuss the characterics of the islands. Under the proposed world park concept, the nations of Micronesia-Federated States of Micronesia would be preserved as a living park.

Taking & Giving

Marty Dolan takes tickets at the men’s basketball game against Ohio State on Feb. 21 at Breslin Center. Dolan is a 1955 MSU graduate that has been taking tickets at men’s basketball games for 50 years. He donates a large portion of his earnings from his ticket job back to the university’s Spartan Fund, which supports student-athletes.

A Veteran's View

Flint resident Maurice Teer joins Vet to Ag, a program designed to train unemployed veterans how to perform agricultural jobs. The veterans live, study and train together during their stay. Teer, one of the 19 veterans, shares his personal story in the military and his perspective of the program.

Senior Day Emotions

Women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant talks about her emotions while seeing her players go through Senior Day festivities.

Spartan Sleepover

MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo talks about the sleepover his team had at Breslin Center on Friday night. The sleepover was sophomore forward Draymond Green’s idea.