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BASKETBALL

Raymar Morgan speaks about his Israel experience

Derek Blalock
April 16, 2012

Some of the best memories of Raymar Morgan’s life came during his time at MSU. After playing basketball overseas for the past two years, he came back to the campus where he spent four years on the MSU men’s basketball team and speak to Jewish students about his time in Israel. Morgan spoke to students at the RCAH Theatre in Snyder and Phillips halls on Monday night. The Israel on Campus Coalition and MSU Hillel organized the event.

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Working in the name of Love

Jaclyn McNeal
April 16, 2012

Human biology senior Margaret Love takes a break after swimming laps Monday at IM Sports-West. Love and her sister, second-year law student Elizabeth Love, work out four times a week together and swim every Monday.

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New plant sciences building opens

Darcie Moran
April 16, 2012

Wind advisories on Monday did not stop kinesiology junior Max Golec from strolling through the courtyard and gardens behind the new Molecular Plant Sciences Building, which officially opened Friday.

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Trustees approve plan to build anaerobic digester

Rebecca Ryan
April 16, 2012

Each day, about 180 cows produce waste at the MSU Dairy Teaching and Research Center, and in the winter, it is not uncommon for that waste to pile up. Workers at the center try to haul all of the waste out to the fields, but sometimes that trip is difficult to make in the winter months, leaving the center with a mess too big to manage, said Bob Kreft, farm manager at the center.

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Upcoming finals week brings stress

Rachel Jackson
April 16, 2012

Remi Hahn isn’t worried about final exams. The interior design sophomore said although he has two exams and a presentation to complete before he can relax for summer break, he isn’t concerned with getting good grades.

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Runners splashed with paint to benefit charity

Derek Blalock
April 15, 2012

To Samuel Atangana, running a 5K while being sprayed with paint sounded like a silly idea at first. But as he got sprayed at the first paint station on Sunday afternoon, the run turned out to be a lot more fun. The physiology junior was one of more than 350 people to participate in the first Spartan Splatter on Sunday to help raise money for the MSU chapter of the international organization Engineers Without Borders — a group that does a variety of engineering projects to help a community in El Salvador with sanitation problems.

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5K run/walk draws support for relationship violence victims

Lauren Gibbons
April 15, 2012

Jogging or walking through 5 kilometers of campus Sunday afternoon, hundreds of students and community members took part in the 18th annual Race for the Place, an event meant to raise funds for MSU Safe Place. The race raised at least $18,000 in sponsorship dollars alone, not counting money coming in from participant fees, said Jonathan Kermiet, a health educator at Olin Health Center and one of the event coordinators.

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VOLLEYBALL

Sigma Pi hosts volleyball tournament for charity

Katie Harrington
April 15, 2012

More than 200 members of the greek community laughed and smiled as volleyballs flew through the air during Sigma Pi’s annual volleyball tournament Saturday afternoon to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that provides aid to servicemen, servicewomen and their families. The event raised about $1000 from entrance fees, donations and sunglasses the fraternity was selling.

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Successful Black Women promote social unity at Peace Summit

Darcie Moran
April 15, 2012

Women of all ages, as well as a lone man, were comfortably spread out in a parlor at the Union when Ashley Robinson finally had the opportunity to tell her thoughts on the topics of peace, unity and social justice at the Successful Black Women’s first annual Peace Summit on Sunday.

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High aspirations

Aaron Snyder
April 12, 2012

For comparative cultures and politics freshman Tommy Kladis, there’s more to school than hitting the books and studying day in and day out. Kladis has a passion for writing his own lyrics to express his thoughts through rapping. “What I’ve learned from James Madison (College) is you should do what you can to change the world, and I feel I could be the most effective influencing the world through music,” Kladis said.

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Students commemorate building with graffiti

Darcie Moran
April 12, 2012

Looking up at the words she had written across a wall in Morrill Hall, Melissa Downing could not help but feel nostalgic. Morrill Hall is scheduled to be torn down in March 2013, and the English Department hosted A Literary Graffiti Project on Thursday to celebrate National Poetry Month and the department’s place in Morrill Hall.

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Student organ donation recipients reflect on life during Donate Life month

Rebecca Ryan
April 12, 2012

When Sarah McPharlin was 11 years old, she almost died. After catching an autoimmune virus that caused her body to attack her heart, she was hospitalized and eventually placed on the organ donation wait list — she needed a new heart. After 38 days on the list, the kinesiology senior underwent a heart transplant. Although McPharlin realizes how lucky she was to have her life saved by organ donation, many others still are waiting for that chance.

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MSU's third annual Science University event starts Friday

Stephen Brooks
April 12, 2012

This weekend, MSU’s campus will be invaded by curious visitors and students of years past for the College of Natural Science’s third annual Science University event. Beginning Friday, about 140 alumni, faculty, staff, students and visitors are expected to make their way to MSU to attend an awards program for the college, tours of campus buildings and courses and presentations about the latest scientific happenings at MSU, Elizabeth Wheeler, College of Natural Science alumni relations coordinator, said in an email.

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Jamnesty 2012 brings music, awareness to MSU

Kellie Rowe
April 12, 2012

Born in Somalia, biomedical laboratory operations junior Salman Muridi holds the country close to his heart. But that’s not the only reason he cares about the famine currently affecting Somalians nationwide. “It’s not just the fact that that’s my homeland, it’s the fact that people are dying and nobody (is) doing anything about it,” he said.

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Students protest energy transition plan

Rebecca Ryan
April 11, 2012

A giant 18-foot-tall inflatable hand holding an inhaler swayed in the wind next to the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday afternoon while members of MSU Beyond Coal rallied against the Energy Transition Plan by singing songs, sharing stories and holding up 10-foot-tall wooden sunflowers.