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Death of Egyptian religious leader startles community
Egyptian student Nehal Amer was shocked when she learned one of her country’s major religious leaders died last Saturday.
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Indian culture highlighted by Satrang at Auditorium
As East-meets-West mixtures of American and Indian music filled the Auditorium on Friday evening, many students couldn’t help but bob their heads and tap their feet to the powerful beats of Satrang 2012: Afsana. About 500 students, friends and families attended the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students’, or CIUS, annual show to celebrate the multiple facets of Indian culture.
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Match Day decides medical students’ fates
With an empty envelope sitting in front of him, and after a momentous amount of hugging, handshaking and congratulating, fourth-year medical student Dan Abenroth leaned over and gave his wife, Valerie Abenroth, a kiss.
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Warmer temperatures help bring more business to MSU
At the end of March last year, MSU was preparing for another snowfall, and students were bundling up in coats and boots to walk across campus. But this year, the warmer weather is kicking off what could be one of the busiest seasons for campus organizations in the past five years and giving students sunny days to look forward to.
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Satrang show highlights Indian culture
On Friday evening, the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students invited MSU students, friends and families to Satrang 2012: Afansa at the Auditorium.
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ASMSU advocates to make Main Library open 24/7
ASMSU passed a bill Thursday night in support of extending the Main Library’s hours during the weekends to allow students more study time.
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MSU Dairy Club promotes agricultural awareness
It’s not every day you see cows grazing at the rock on Farm Lane.
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Students celebrate East Asian culture in Brody Hall
For graduate student Tingli “Chilly” Cai, seeing a mixture of faces from all cultural backgrounds on Thursday evening made him feel at home.
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RHA elects vice president
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected another student to its leadership ranks Wednesday night, as the group begins to build its executive board for the 2012-13 year.
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Smoked out
Once about every two weeks, David Schmitt and a few of his friends make their way through the campus and city in the dead of night, shrouded in shadows as they hunt for a place where they can get high in relative peace.
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New York Times reporter details experiences covering the White House
The first thing New York Times Washington Correspondent Sheryl Stolberg did when she took the stage in the Kellogg Center Auditorium on Wednesday night was show everyone how to ride a hovercraft. Pulling up a video, she shared her experience touring a factory with President Barack Obama, who personally called her out to ride a hovercraft in front of other members of the press.
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RHA presents country singer Easton Corbin
When marketing sophomore Nick Kurtenbach saw country music singer Easton Corbin in concert two years ago, he wasn’t familiar with the musician, who was the opening act at the show. But the rising star’s performance stuck with Kurtenbach, and when he heard Corbin would be performing at MSU next week, he couldn’t pass it up.
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Students advised not to over-edit Facebook
When Rhone Eppelheimer was preparing for his career search in fall 2010, he made sure to edit what might seem like an unlikely source — his Facebook.
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Council of Graduate Students elects new leaders
Representatives from the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, voted to elect next year’s executive board at their council meeting Wednesday night. All candidates won unanimously, and COGS President Stefan Fletcher was elected as a third-term president.
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Students volunteer in Honduras
Instead of relaxing on a beach somewhere, Jeff Cross volunteered his time to give medical care in a Third World country during spring break.
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Building address system changes continue
Getting lost on campus might soon be a thing of the past after the completion of the Campus Addressing Project next month.
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Corporate partnerships help start careers
Continuing an increasing trend of interaction between academic programs at MSU and outside companies, the game design and development specialization — which recently was ranked as one of the best programs in the country by the Princeton Review for the second consecutive time — has added a new corporate partner.
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Debate team’s young talent prepares for tournament
With a slew of successful sophomores and freshmen, the MSU Debate Team has a shot at a national title later this month, after earning a top-16 ranking in the country and garnering wins at other national competitions. MSU Director of Debate Casey Harrigan said the team’s successes this year have earned members a spot in the upcoming National Debate Tournament, or NDT, to begin March 29 at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Professor researches black market for organs, shares information
Monir Moniruzzaman spent a year overseas searching for people who had sold their kidneys on the black market and what he found left him shocked. In his research on the organ market in Bangladesh, which was recently published by the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the assistant professor of anthropology and faculty member of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences said organ brokers and the media take advantage of the people in desperate need of money and manipulate them into selling their organs to local or overseas residents.
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Muslim Students' Association hosts Islam awareness week
For international relations sophomore Kanza Khan, Thursday won’t be the first time she has worn a head scarf. But it will be the first time she wears it for an entire day. “I’m kind of nervous to see reactions in classes,” she said. “Obviously, people are going to ask questions. I hope to give them the proper answers.”