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Beau Hayhoe ·
MSU

Event tries to ease tough transition

For the third year in a row, the Spartan Armed Forces Council and the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, or RCPD, hosted the MSU Student Veterans and Service Members Welcome Reception on Wednesday night at Bessey Hall, providing information about on-campus resources.

MSU

Packaging crew box up medical ties

It is common for people to examine the packaging of a smashed cereal box, but when sitting in a doctor’s office or hospital, people aren’t thinking about how the needle in their arm was packaged.

MSU

High speed rail will increase efficiency, create 800 jobs

Train travel between Detroit and Chicago — two metropolitan areas many MSU students hail from — soon will become more efficient once a project to install a high-speed rail system linking the cities gets underway, according to a Wednesday press release from U.S. senators Carl Levin, D-Mich, and Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.

MSU

MSU’s Mobile Animal Clinic not to continue this summer

MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine has canceled its Mobile Veterinary Clinic, a three-week summer program that provided MSU veterinary students with an opportunity to assist in affordable spay and neuter procedures and other animal health services for low-income pet owners around the state.

MSU

Word on the street

The weather on Tuesday was 72 degrees and sunny in East Lansing, according to the National Weather Service.

FEATURES

Freshman fifteen Q's: 10/05/11

College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, of a new face on campus and his perspective of his new frontier. Meet RYAN MILLER *1.

Rachel Jackson ·
MSU

On-campus housing sign-up begins

When anthropology sophomore Kelsey Carpenter prepared to sign up for housing for the 2011-12 academic year, she had her mind made up to stay in Landon Hall because of convenience and proximity to her job as a desk receptionist.