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Sorority hands out ribbons for awareness
To many, the pink ribbons pinned to students’ shirts Thursday weren’t just a fashion coincidence.
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RHA blood drive serves as response to FDA blood ban
Students will have the opportunity today to donate blood and simultaneously protest a ban preventing homosexuals from doing the same.
Beau Hayhoe
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Students compete using rubbish
On Tuesday, about 20 mentors and residents of Hubbard Hall competed to create functional objects using recycled household items that otherwise would be thrown away.
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New app offers modern form of help for nonverbal
A team of MSU researchers is working to determine if an app for Apple products that aims to provide nonverbal children and adults with a voice is doing its job well.
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Student launch personalized song company
When they’re not having rap battles and jamming together, economics junior Dan Ackerman and Austin Bowen, a telecommunication, information studies and media junior, are turning their passion for music into a business.
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Event to discuss solving problems through mediation
To discuss peaceful solutions through mediation, MSU’s Department of Resident Life and the School of Criminal Justice will host a restorative justice symposium today.
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Federal cuts affect MSU radio, students
With a proposed cut of up to $430 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting adding to the constant array of changes facing radio broadcasting, the futures of the medium and the students pursuing it as a career are in limbo.
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One Book, One Community selection focuses on Sept. 11
This year’s chosen novel for the 10th anniversary of One Book, One Community program recently was announced — “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by The New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer.
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MSU professors create veterinary training application
Professors from MSU have been working since February to create applications for iPhones, iPods and iPads to gather useful information and make it readily available for not only students, but practicing veterinarians.
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Students team up to bring comedian to MSU
A large group of dancing MSU students with props, costumes, music and a film crew overtook the Union on Friday afternoon to practice and film a video to vie for an appearance by the host of “Tosh.0.”
Krystle Wagner, Summer Ballentine
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MSU students prep pampered cows for Spartan Spectacular
With a can of hair spray and a brush in hand, animal science sophomore Lauren Bush styled hair for a different kind of runway.
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Board picks new editor, ad manager
On Friday, The State News Board of Directors appointed managing editor and English junior Kate Jacobson editor-in-chief and appointed English and advertising junior Colleen Curran interim advertising manager.
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Prices, tickets announced for upcoming Mike Posner concert
Tickets for ASMSU’s spring concert, featuring Mike Posner, go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday.
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Performance to celebrate lent
The University Chorale, one of the College of Music’s choral ensembles, will partner with the Lansing Symphony Orchestra for a performance to celebrate the season of Lent.
Alethia Kasben
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Students participate in MSU-focused scavenger hunt
About 60 students wandered Friday through MSU’s campus to take pictures of some of campus’ most treasured places.
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Hip-hop and its elements discussed at forum
Student organizations, local disc jockeys and emcees came together Saturday to discuss the expressive nature of hip-hop at the Hip-hop Forum in Bessey Hall.
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ASMSU passes resolution to support medical amnesty
ASMSU’s Student Assembly passed a resolution Thursday to support a bill in the State Legislature regarding medical amnesty. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. The bill would establish legal safeguards for underage students who consume too much alcohol and, as a result, seek medical attention. ASMSU has been trying to push the bill through the State Legislature for three years.
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Get everyone together on MSU’s campus — all the students, faculty and staff — and the campus population is equal to a city the size of Battle Creek, Mich.
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Women’s health fair held in Union
The MSU Women’s Resource Center, or WRC, hosted the sixth annual MSU Women’s Health Fair on Thursday in the Union to educate women and increase knowledge about personal health.
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Model UN connects college, high schools
This weekend, about 500 high schoolers from multiple states will come to MSU for one main purpose: saving the world through compromise.