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Week to celebrate graduate students

Isabella Shaya
April 3, 2012

To help graduate students find their place and feel appreciated at MSU, local organizations are teaming up to celebrate the university’s first Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week. The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, Graduate Student Life and Wellness and various sponsors in the Lansing area are hoping to show graduate and professional students that they matter to the MSU community through the events.

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Roial players to perform one-act plays

Rebecca Ryan
April 3, 2012

The Roial Players will be performing “Red: An Evening of One Acts” from Thursday to Saturday in the RCAH Theatre in the basement of Snyder and Phillips halls. The show will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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Bogue Street traffic circle to be replaced with intersection in 2013

Andrew Krietz
April 3, 2012

The traffic circle at Bogue Street and Farm Lane has served its purpose for several years and tentatively has been green-lighted to be replaced with a traditional intersection next summer because of safety concerns, officials said. The estimated cost of the project is $4 million and construction is aimed to occur during summer 2013, university engineer Bob Nestle said in an email.

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Group promotes religious literacy this week

Kellie Rowe
April 2, 2012

Religious studies senior Sara Lone believes religious literacy is important for every person. “Religion is a part of everything (and) every field,” she said. “If you’re in marketing and you go to Saudi Arabia, you need to know you can’t put half-naked women on a billboard.”

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Study finds demand for college graduates higher than supply

Rebecca Ryan
April 2, 2012

Accounting senior Matthew Kravutske took his potential employability into consideration when picking a school, and like many students at MSU, employability still is one of his concerns. But a new study from the Lumina Foundation shows the demand for degreeholders might be higher than the number colleges are actually producing.

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Group hangs banner without permission

Rebecca Ryan
April 2, 2012

On Monday afternoon, four members of MSU Greenpeace hung a 20 by 20 foot sign that read, “SPARTAN GREEN? I WISH! We need 100% clean energy,” off the side of Ramp 2, a parking garage near Bessey Hall.

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IRONDOG run raises funds for needy dogs

Derek Blalock
April 1, 2012

Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs and scrappy dogs joined to help fellow canines get medical treatment Saturday morning in the second annual IRONDOG 5K Run/Walk. More than 500 participants, some of which ran alongside their furry friends, accompanied hundreds of dogs to help raise money for the IRONDOG fund.

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TEDx comes to East Lansing, talks global understanding

Rachel Jackson
April 1, 2012

A few years ago, when Constantinos Coursaris visited Japan with a group of study abroad students, they got lost in a subway station looking for a train. Insisting on helping out, a local man showed them in the right direction, missing his own train in the process, said Coursaris, an assistant professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.

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ASMSU, RHA to hold elections

Rachel Jackson
April 1, 2012

MSU’s undergraduate student governments, ASMSU and the Residence Halls Association, are holding elections this week for initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year. ASMSU’s elections take place from 8 a.m. today until 8 a.m. April 9 and serve to elect each college’s representatives to the group’s General Assembly for the next academic year.

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Campus race helps send aide to troops overseas

Rebecca Ryan
April 1, 2012

Adreanna Scribner, an out-of-state international relations sophomore, traveled about 800 miles from home to come to MSU. Being that far away from home was a challenge for Scribner, which got her thinking about how some troops overseas must feel being more than 5,000 miles away from their homes in the U.S.

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Alpha Phi Alpha puts on 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show

Kellie Rowe
April 1, 2012

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., celebrated its 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show on Satruday evening at Wharton Center. With 42 female models, nine different scenes and one musical performance, the show attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. The models showcased clothing from a variety of stores ranging from swimwear to formal wear.

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Concert to benefit VH1 Save the Music Foundation

Derek Blalock
March 29, 2012

Helping keep high school music departments running is why Samantha Brooks decided to host MSU’s first ever VH1 Save the Music Foundation Benefit Concert on Thursday at the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre. The recent graduate and Tau Beta Sigma’s event co-chair decided holding the concert would be the perfect way to raise money for a cause and bring the MSU and East Lansing communities together.

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Director of Supply Chain Management Department to visit White House

Isabella Shaya
March 29, 2012

David Closs, chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management at MSU, is one of 50 experts invited by the U.S. General Services Administration to contribute to a discussion Friday at the White House. Participants in the dialogue will explore ways to help the federal government create sustainable supply chains. The business, academic, nonprofit and government specialists will be presented with problems, and they will take their experience in supply chain management to try and find solutions, Closs said.

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Union to be closed for summer construction

Andrew Krietz
March 29, 2012

This summer, the bustling activity of students and visitors frequenting the Union will come to a brief stop. From early May through mid-August, the first floor of MSU’s traditional gathering space will be renovated as part of a $2.4 million project approved by the Board of Trustees in January. Guests already are seeing evidence of changes now as some of the Union Central Store shelves aren’t being restocked.

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OneVoice members discuss Palestinian-Israeli conflict solutions

Lauren Gibbons
March 29, 2012

Although lawmakers still have not come to an agreement on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, some grassroots groups such as the OneVoice movement still believe a solution is possible through youth leadership and cooperation. Members of OneVoice, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to making a two-state solution come to fruition for Israel and Palestine, came to MSU on Thursday evening to share their message and discuss ideas for change with student attendees.

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Hubbard Hall celebrates Latin American culture with Caldera night

Kellie Rowe
March 29, 2012

On Thursday evening, Mosher, an Arabic and comparative cultures and politics junior who has Latin American heritage, performed two poems — one about her Spanish heritage and another about her least favorite class — for an audience of about 50 people in Hubbard Hall cafeteria.