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MSU's dirty jobs

Despite the growing role laboratory research plays at MSU, not all jobs at the university involve lab coats and sterile tabletops. To keep campus running and advance agricultural education, MSU still has its fair share of employees who get down and dirty in their work.

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For MSU student housing co-op, containers provide means of practicing sustainability

In a world filled with perpetual change, sustainability can be a necessity.Sustainability served as a major theme in a Container Gardening Workshop held Saturday at co-op house Vesta. The workshop, created by AmeriCorps and the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council cooperatively with the MSU Student Housing Co-op, or SHC, highlighted the idea of sustainable living through the use of growing food planted in upcycled, or re-used, containers.

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Abrams Planetarium to receive birthday upgrades

As a result of its 50th birthday celebration in February, the Abrams Planetarium will be receiving an upgrade. Its 20-year-old DigiStar 2 projection system will be replaced by a DigiStar 5, a two-projector system with clearer images creating a more accurate representation of the night sky.

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Students with gym memberships obtain higher GPAs, study finds

Pivarnik said the data shows the correlation between purchasing a membership, GPA and retention. MSU isn’t only interested in the GPAs of the student body, retention — students completing a degree — is important, too. The study did not address whether or not participants actively used the gym membership.

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Sigma Chi MSU chapter house undergoes $1 million plus remodel

“It was decided (to remodel the house) a couple years ago,” Nemesi said. “We were coming up on the 50th anniversary of the house, it was built in 1963, and we started talking about the fundraising and all that type of stuff, and figured if we remodeled it right, it would be able to go the next 50 years.”

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Muelder Summer Carillon Series offers unique music experience

The MSU College of Music holds five consecutive carillon recitals on Wednesdays through July beginning at 6 p.m. at the John W. Beaumont Memorial Tower.

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Email fraud scam highlights concerns over MSU email

Every month there are 600,000 attempted network intrusions on MSU’s network. That is not to say there are hundreds of thousands of people attempting to commit cyber crimes. Many of these attempts are automated and MSU’s network security is able to shut out the majority of them with antivirus software and IT support.