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MSU police install public address towers on campus
MSU police announced Wednesday that eight new public address speaker towers are now operational across campus.
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Woody's Oasis Bar and Grill scheduled to close doors on Thursday
Add Woody's Oasis Bar and Grill to the list of downtown East Lansing restaurants closing this summer.
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Week in Review: July 24, 2015
The final candiates for the East Lansing City Council are in, although as of Friday at noon the candidates have four hours to withdraw from the race. Current East Lansing Mayer Nathan Triplett is trying again for mayor and the other candidates are Mark Meadows, a former councilmember, East Lansing resident and MSU professor Erik Altmaan, MSU graduate Shanna Draheim, MSU professor emeritus John Revitte, 2008 MSU graduate Steve Ross and 2007 MSU graduate Jermain Ruffin. Seven candidates have filed to run for three vacancies, and council members Kathleen Boyle and Diane Goddeeris will not be seeking reelection.
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MSU's scenes in 'Batman v Superman' revealed
The new trailer for the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie featured a brief shot of the exterior of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum during the 2:34 to 2:36 minute marks.
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Postgrad employment survey yields encouraging results
Each year, MSU conducts a survey of the graduating class to track where each graduate has found employment six months postgrad. The results for 2014 shed some positive light on what has recently been a tough job market.
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Week in Review: July 17
Here are the top stories for the week of July 17. Meng Long Li was sentenced to one year in the Ingham County Jail by Judge Clinton Canady III for his involvement in the assault of fellow international student Yan Li during the 2014 Chinese New Year at a local karaoke bar.
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VIDEO: University Stores aim to service students on campus
Rotating carousels, maneuvering forklifts, boxes stacked to the ceiling—this is the scenery of MSU’s University Stores, located at 166 Service Rd. Aside from the large warehouse, University stores also has a small shop in front where apparel, office supplies, batteries, etc. is sold.
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Couch fire in Cedar Village reported early Saturday morning
Although not a single MSU sporting event took place Friday night, people in Cedar Village evidently found some reason to burn a couch.
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Religious expression is always a possibility on a college campus
If you've never seen the glorious piece of art that is the film "God's Not Dead" then you, my friend, need to. But not if you are looking for any sort of realistic depiction of religion on campus or a reasoned defense of God in front of a largely secular higher education system. If you don't know anything about the movie, it's premise is that an atheist college professor threatens to fail a Christian student for not writing "God is Dead" on a sheet of paper for a philosophy course, unless he proves God's existence in front of the entire class.
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Where to worship on campus
Though organized religion may be declining among millennials, for students and community members who still want to sit in a pew during their holy day to worship God or engage in community life with like-minded individuals, the East Lansing area boasts a number of different houses of worship for those of many different faiths.
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College of Human Medicine breaks ground on Grand Rapids research center
Construction begun for a new nexus of innovation on June 18, 2015, with the groundbreaking of the new MSU Grand Rapids Research Center.
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Who's who in MSU administration
By Cameron Macko cmacko@statenews.com Lou Anna K. Simon University President Lou Anna K.
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MSU celebrates students from around the world
MSU embraces and accept diversity internationally on campus. There are students from more than 130 countries on campus. Here you can learn different cultural values and manners by making friends with international students; taste foods from different countries in the resident halls; and try to learn another languages through courses or your international friends. For international students, if you are worried about your immigration status, your official paper work, such as I-20, passports and so on.
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Giltner Hall evacuated after minor explosion Friday morning
At 10:45 this morning, a small explosions occurred in Giltner Hall, according to a statement from MSU police. It took place in an empty lab room and remained isolated there.
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Week in Review: July 10
In a recent CBS Best in College Sports rankings, MSU was ranked No.
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Andrew Singler Memorial Cup supports scholarship fund
More than two years after MSU student Andrew Singler was stabbed to death at his apartment by Okemos resident Connor McCowan, for which McCowan was sentenced to 20 to 60 years, the family plans to remember Singler’s life at the second annual Andrew Singler Memorial Cup in Ann Arbor.
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Call for Spartan Virtual Choir celebrates 100th anniversary of Fight Song
MSU is celebrating its fight song's 100th anniversary in 2015 by inviting those in the MSU community to send videos of themselves singing the song to create the first-ever Spartan Virtual Choir. A video published on July 1 asked viewers to record a video of themselves singing along to the song and upload the recording to www.msu.edu/fightsong. MSU's fight song was composed by cheerleader and civil engineering major Francis Irving Lankey at Michigan Agricultural College in 1915 and most of the words were written by Lankey's friend and fellow MAC student Arthur L.
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Abrams Planetarium to host show with animals Saturday
The Abrams Planetarium is bringing the constellations to life this weekend. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the planetarium is offering a free, special show called 'Star Safari' that pairs learning about the constellations with meeting their small animal counterparts brought from the Potter Park Zoo.
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Common Ground Music Festival begins today
The Common Ground Music Festival 2015 is set to kickoff today, after a last minute hiccup in the lineup.
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MSU's gardens among best in the U.S.
MSU's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden and Hidden Lake Gardens have both been ranked by Best Colleges Online among the "50 Most Amazing University Botanical Gardens and Arboretums in the U.S." The rankings and ratings for each garden were assessed on a points system which awarded gardens for not only having a wide and manicured variety of plant species, but also for categories such as previous awards won, conservation and education, having a connected university degree program and 'Wow' factors. "I was certainly pleased and excited when I found out," Curator of the W.