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MSU Club Tennis Team earns national championship bid
Ten years ago, psychology senior Nikki Bishop wanted to play hockey, but her mom pressured her to play tennis.
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RHA swears in new officers
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, officially swore in its officers for the 2012-13 academic year at its Wednesday night meeting.
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Event highlights MSU innovation
MSU innovations might be infiltrating the consumer market more quickly once a new Spartan Innovations LLC initiative announced Wednesday is up and running. The creation of a technology transfer enterprise called Spartan Innovations was unveiled at Wednesday’s second annual MSU Innovation Celebration at the Union, which also displayed numerous technologies and innovations made by MSU student and faculty inventors.
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Interactive city council videos, agendas might be implemented
A new online software system could turn East Lansing City Council meetings into on-demand viewing, easing accessibility and transparency for residents and city staff. The council was introduced at its Tuesday night work session, held at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, to a software system operated by Granicus, a nationwide technology company that works with local, state and national government bodies to promote transparency.
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MSU Police awarded Green Certification
After undertaking extensive renovations and taking steps toward efficiency by updating office practices, the MSU Police Department is being honored for going green. The department recently was awarded a Green Certification, an initiative forwarded by MSU’s Office of Campus Sustainability meant to honor campus units that have attempted to reduce their environmental footprint, Office of Campus Sustainability Project Coordinator Lauren Olson said.
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COGS pushes for monetary support for renovations
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon reiterated her support for renovating Chittenden Hall to the representatives of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, Wednesday during the group’s last full council meeting of the year outside the building.
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Engineering CoRe Experience aims to bring academic, corporate resources to students
Like many first-year students, civil engineering freshman John Mandryk wasn’t sure how difficult the transition from high school to college would be. To help curb some of the confusion and anxiety of stepping onto MSU’s campus as a clueless freshman, Mandryk enrolled in the College of Engineering CoRe Experience, formerly known as the Engineering Residential Experience.
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Fire officials respond to burning log near East lansing Public Library
East Lansing Fire Department responded to a log on fire in the woods just north of the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road.
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MSU Beyond Coal protests Energy Transition Plan
On Wednesday afternoon, members of MSU Beyond Coal led a demonstration at the rock on Farm Lane in protest of the Energy Transition Plan, which will be voted on by the Board of Trustees this Friday.
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Police Brief 04/11/12
Two officers from the MSU Police Department caught a Caucasian 49-year-old Lansing male in the act of stealing a bicycle between 8:25-9:30 a.m. April 10 at the Butterfield Hall bicycle racks, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
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City Council discusses climate sustainability plan, new meeting coverage technoloy
The East Lansing City Council got its first look at what could be a step forward into the digital age at its Tuesday night work session. During its 7 p.m. work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, the council heard a presentation from Jack Melnicoff, a solutions specialist with a nationwide information technology company called Granicus that works with government municipalities to promote transparency.
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Students take their shoes off for cause
On her way out the door Wednesday to meet some friends at the rock on Farm Lane, advertising freshman Steph Benson bundled up for the chilly day, putting on her coat and mittens. But as she met the other students, they all had left an item of clothing behind — their shoes. Despite cold weather, about seven students met at the rock on Wednesday for a barefoot walk hosted by the MSU campus club for TOMS Shoes. The walk was part of a worldwide One Day Without Shoes movement on Tuesday in which people ditched their shoes to spread awareness about TOMS Shoes, an organization that donates a pair of shoes to a child in need each time a pair of shoes is sold.
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Michigan State Police History Month celebrates MSU roots
On April 19, 1917, a new homeland security calvary team trotted out onto the grounds leased from Michigan Agricultural College farmland with the goal of protecting Michigan residents from the threat of a looming war. About 95 years later, that team has grown to become what now is known as the Michigan State Police. Although state troopers no longer are riding horses and the land rented from MSU has been returned to the university, the institution is taking its upcoming anniversary to remember its roots.
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Word on the street: What is your opinion on Rick Santorum leaving the presidential race?
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum dropped out of the presidential race Tuesday, paving the way for former Massachusetts Gov.
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Students boost job opportunities in Africa with bra drive
More than just spirits will be lifted thanks to MSU students who donated their bras to help stop sex trafficking in Africa.
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Locals encourage fair trade
With fair trade goods and programs lining a room in the International Center, local fair trade enthusiasts and curious students had their eyes glued to Jeff Goldman, the executive director of the Fair Trade Resource Network, as he spoke during the MSU Students for Fair Trade Club’s Fair Trade Bash on Tuesday at the International Center. Goldman read one of his favorite quotes about fair trade by Gisele Fleurant, director of the Committee for Haitian Artisans, during the event.
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MSUFCU expands to new locations in, around E.L.
Students have a new option for cashing their checks and banking now that MSU Federal Credit Union relocated its Crescent Road branch to Farm Lane and Mount Hope Road.
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Facetime: Stefan Fletcher
Last month, members of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, elected Stefan Fletcher, who has been the COGS president for the past two years, to another term for 2012-13 after waiving a constitutional clause limiting executive board members to two terms. Fletcher and the other newly elected executive board members have spent the past few weeks transitioning before kicking off their new roles at the April full council meeting, which will be held at 5:30 p.m.
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Women learn strikes, kicks for self defense
Shouts of “no” and the sound of hands striking pads echoed in the halls of the Union on Tuesday evening at the MSU Self-Defense Program and Women’s Resource Center’s self-defense program to instruct women how to stay safe on campus. Most sessions were open to students, faculty, parents and women ages 13 and up and about a dozen people attended Tuesday’s workshop. Jodi Roberto Hancock, educational program coordinator of the MSU Women’s Resource Center, said she has gone through the session herself and found it to be powerful information. “Even for someone who has seen it multiple times, it’s always great to (have) it fresh in your mind,” she said. Angela Michael, assistant director of Recreational Sports and Fitness Services, said the first hour of the session was aimed toward discussing information about sexual assault and how to be aware of potential dangers. “We try to break down myths and stereotypes regarding sexual assault, particularly on a college campus,” she said. Participants sat in a circle as members of the Self-Defense Program discussed a number of sexual assault-related topics, such as how to stay away from dangerous situations, what constitutes as rape and how society often inaccurately blames the victims of sexual assault for the incidents. During the last hour of the session, the women learned a few techniques to protect themselves if trouble should arise. “(They’re) not going to be skilled martial artists, but we teach easy-to-learn moves that cause enough pain so that (they) would be able to safely run away and get help,” Michael said. Instructors taught the women defense movements targeting assailants’ body parts from head to toe.
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Company founded by MSU alumnus aims to increase student, teacher communication
A company called Remind 101, launched in summer 2010, aimed to give students homework notifications by way of emails and text messages. When an assignment was due, an alert would be sent.