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Residential assistants and intercultural aides help students feel at home
Being a student on campus can be extremely stressful. There’s so much going on in life and it can be overwhelming.
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Freebies galore at Sparticipation
On Tuesday, students will have the opportunity to get some freebies and learn more about clubs and registered student organizations on campus. Sparticipation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cherry Lane Field.
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Plans for new Spartan Village Apartments approved by MSU Board of Trustees over summer
Plans for a complex to replace the old Spartan Village Apartments was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees over the summer, and will be located at the corner of Harrison and Kalamazoo roads.
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New cadets and parents introduced to ROTC program
On Saturday, MSU ROTC held a parent orientation at Demonstration hall. The event provided the new cadets and their families with the opportunity to learn about the ROTC program at Michigan State.
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Night receptionists transition still in limbo
Two years after a pilot program to phase night receptionists out of Brody and North neighborhoods, Residence Education and Housing Services will still not move forward with expanding the program to East and South.
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Move-in day has freshmen thinking about their futures, independence
For the freshman moving into the dorms, Sunday marked the beginning of a new life.
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Week in Review: August 14, 2015
Here are the top stories for August 14. MSU Football held its media day earlier this week, where its goals for the season were discussed. Despite their recent success, including being ranked No.
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VIDEO: Camp Monet educates young artists on MSU's campus
Googly eyes, painting with flowers, and yarn art are just some of the activities at Camp Monet, an art camp put on by the MSU Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.
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VIDEO: Violin and Piano duo rock MSU's Botanical Garden
Michigan State's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden hosted its third concert of the summer on Friday, Aug 7, when Oleg and Natalia Bezuglova performed a their duet at lunchtime. The Bezuglova's are both graduate students here at MSU and their performance is exactly what organizers of the event had in mind when setting up the Music in the Garden program. "This is exactly what we were shooting for on this sort of event," Botanical Technician Pete Murray said.
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VIDEO: MSU Police run test of Spartan Stadium evacuation
MSU police ran the evacuation, allowing most of the boy scouts on campus for the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference into the stadium and, after a brief exercise, ordered them out in a simulated weather emergency.
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Twitter round-up from Monday's flooding
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Afternoon downpour causing flooding at roadways, houses
The East Lansing area was hit by a torrential downpour this afternoon, causing a number of safety hazards and floods.
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New MSU research center aims to revitalize legal field
A new legal research center at MSU could provide a hopeful future for those entering the law profession, which has stagnated and faced tough times since the last recession, the research center's director claims.
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Week in Review: August 7, 2015
Here are the top stories for the week of Aug. 7. The 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference used MSU as a venue this week, with 15,000 boy scouts foraging onto campus just a week after the scouts voted to allow openly gay leaders. Beginning on Monday and lasting until Saturday, the major events included a ribbon cutting where the Goodman Edson Observatory, a museum to the last 100 years of the Order of the Arrow, was opened.
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Members of the Indigenous Graduate Student Collective stage protest on NOAC
If you've been on MSU's campus this week, you have most likely noticed the presence of the Boy Scouts of America and the Order of the Arrow for their centennial exhibition.
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Scouts for Equality find victory as ban on gay scout leaders is lifted
Although the Boy Scouts of America recently ended their ban on openly gay leaders, problems facing the LGBT community in the scouts still require work, Joe Getto, a chapter head of Scouts for Equality, said.
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Campus converted into grounds for Boy Scouts celebration
Those walking around campus trying to get to lunch in a cafeteria might be surprised to see a huge line filled with young boys and men in very specific scouting attire, or shirts with a city from halfway across the country, represented in force.
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VIDEO: Abrams Planetarium and Broad Art Museum partner for interstellar exhibition
Looking up at the sky at night you can see a lot of stars but not everything you see is what you think it is.
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MSU’s struggle with retention, affirmative action ban
One way universities have tried to help the underprivileged is through what is commonly called affirmative action, which in higher education means allowing an applicant’s race or ethnicity to be taken into account during the admissions process to offset structural disadvantages that might come from attendance at lower-performing high schools.