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Young Democratic Socialist group hopes to discuss and educate on new ideas

Sariah Metcalfe grew up watching her mother help run a program in the local juvie called PeaceJam, teaching students about peace and peace building, something Metcalfe herself described as a “do-good-for-the-world organization.” She, alongside a few other students, are recreating the Young Democratic Socialists, or YDS, at MSU and hope it to be an active way to do good for the MSU community.

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MSU bans use of hoverboards on campus

With MSU administration’s recent decision to ban the use of self-balancing two wheeled scooters, commonly called hover boards, the campus says goodbye to one of it’s less common but more colorful modes of transportation.

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Only one MSU-affiliated person in Belgium, 35 miles away from attacks

Earlier on Tuesday, bombing attacks in Brussels, Belgium at its Zaventem airport and Maelbeek subway station killed 34 and injured a little under 200 as of 11 a.m. Tuesday. As Belgium, Europe and the United States respond to this latest act of terrorism, of which no group has claimed responsibility yet, concerns about the safety and security of family members and friends naturally abounds.

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How to stay private on social media

It's a fact of life that our personal information is floating around cyberspace, with basic facts like hometown, gender and alma mater freely available with a quick Google search. This is the tradeoff that's been accepted ever since online shopping and social media have come to dominate how we buy goods and keep in contact with people.  In the wake of recent concerns regarding phone privacy and the now widely known mass surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden, concerns about the security of personal data is becoming more pronounced, particularly information put on social media profiles.