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Culture, soul food connects students

The savory smell of creamy macaroni and cheese and crispy fried chicken mixed with the sounds of saxophones and booming music from DJ speakers drew students to the Hubbard Hall cafeteria for the Soul Food Extravaganza as a final farewell to 2013’s Black History Month. Outside the cafeteria Thursday night, a line of students wrapped around the staircase to the main floor.

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A well-cut brew

Microbiology senior Patrick Ropp patiently has brewed and parried his way through bottles and bouts for a months.

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MSU, U-M compete in Make-A-Wish competition

The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan is about to receive a big boost. The “Make Blue and Green Wishes Come True” campaign runs this week at University of Michigan and MSU. The fundraising competition is part of the lead up to the MSU vs. U-M basketball game this weekend.

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ASMSU says it’s more than event planner

For criminal justice sophomore Jake Range, ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, simply is known as the group of people who will bring Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to MSU.

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Router determined as cause of overnight Internet issues

As of about 5 a.m. this morning, Internet is back on with no interruptions across the state after last night’s difficulties. Just before midnight Tuesday evening, all of Merit Network’s Internet users had difficulty connecting to the Internet as a result of an issue with a router at a Merit facility in Chicago.

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Summer enrollment expected to continue rising

After absentmindedly missing an exam in his online TC 201 class, Jacob Shutty is re-evaluating his summer academic plans. The media and information freshman is one of many students who are considering taking a summer class — a move becoming more common among MSU students, according to the Office of the Registrar. According to the office, throughout the past 10 years, total summer class enrollments have increased steadily, reaching 48,695 total enrollments in summer 2012 — an increase of 2.5 percent from summer 2011.

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Health care plan cost to increase

The cost of MSU’s health care plan will continuously increase throughout the next six years to meet the new requirements of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. At Tuesday afternoon’s University Council meeting, Renee Rivard, the director of benefits with MSU Human Resources, or HR, presented the impacts the ACA will have on MSU from 2012 through 2018.

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New leader hopes to up RHA visibility

A week ago, current Residence Halls Association, or RHA, Communications Coordinator Zachary DeRade was nothing but smiles as he fought off many peers’ congratulations to conduct his first interview after being elected as the RHA 44th session president.