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Potential presidential candidate visits campus
Potential 2012 presidential hopeful Gary Johnson was at MSU on Thursday evening to share his views on key issues with students.
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MSU suspends Booster Club’s raffle in wake of investigation
Sources within the Downtown Coaches Club booster organization said the group will be disciplined by the Michigan Lottery Commission for the mishandling of funds.
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Trustees to discuss 2020 Vision plans
In 2020, the center of campus might be composed of academic buildings and green space instead of the parking lots currently near the Farm and Shaw Lane intersections.
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First Fridays offer local entertainment
Starting today, the first Friday of every month could get more interesting in Greater Lansing as businesses, the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, and downtown planning agencies collaborate to provide a fun, cheap way for residents to travel and entertain themselves throughout the area.
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Queer and Career Conference slated to be held Saturday
Helping LBGT students transition from college to corporate America, the Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender, or LBGT, Resource Center and the Career Services Network will host the first Queer and Career Conference on Saturday.
Beau Hayhoe
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CASA raises awareness about group, cancer
An MSU cultural organization held a fundraiser for 150 people Wednesday to help fund an event supporting cancer victims and survivors.
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Business college dinner teaches students international etiquette
An MSU group put a twist on its annual business etiquette dinner by informing students of international cultural manners at the Taste of the World Etiquette event on Wednesday at Kellogg Center.
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Sustainability key goal for Brody Square
After serving about 4,000 students in a day, Brody Square only has one 40-gallon bag of trash to its name. About 11 percent of the waste made at Brody Square is sent to a landfill, said Robbia Pipper, marketplace dining services manager in Brody Neighborhood Culinary Services.
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Sorority hands out ribbons for awareness
To many, the pink ribbons pinned to students’ shirts Thursday weren’t just a fashion coincidence.
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RHA blood drive serves as response to FDA blood ban
Students will have the opportunity today to donate blood and simultaneously protest a ban preventing homosexuals from doing the same.
Beau Hayhoe
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Students compete using rubbish
On Tuesday, about 20 mentors and residents of Hubbard Hall competed to create functional objects using recycled household items that otherwise would be thrown away.
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New app offers modern form of help for nonverbal
A team of MSU researchers is working to determine if an app for Apple products that aims to provide nonverbal children and adults with a voice is doing its job well.
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Student launch personalized song company
When they’re not having rap battles and jamming together, economics junior Dan Ackerman and Austin Bowen, a telecommunication, information studies and media junior, are turning their passion for music into a business.
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Event to discuss solving problems through mediation
To discuss peaceful solutions through mediation, MSU’s Department of Resident Life and the School of Criminal Justice will host a restorative justice symposium today.
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Federal cuts affect MSU radio, students
With a proposed cut of up to $430 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting adding to the constant array of changes facing radio broadcasting, the futures of the medium and the students pursuing it as a career are in limbo.
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One Book, One Community selection focuses on Sept. 11
This year’s chosen novel for the 10th anniversary of One Book, One Community program recently was announced — “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by The New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer.
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MSU professors create veterinary training application
Professors from MSU have been working since February to create applications for iPhones, iPods and iPads to gather useful information and make it readily available for not only students, but practicing veterinarians.
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Students team up to bring comedian to MSU
A large group of dancing MSU students with props, costumes, music and a film crew overtook the Union on Friday afternoon to practice and film a video to vie for an appearance by the host of “Tosh.0.”
Krystle Wagner, Summer Ballentine
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MSU students prep pampered cows for Spartan Spectacular
With a can of hair spray and a brush in hand, animal science sophomore Lauren Bush styled hair for a different kind of runway.
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Board picks new editor, ad manager
On Friday, The State News Board of Directors appointed managing editor and English junior Kate Jacobson editor-in-chief and appointed English and advertising junior Colleen Curran interim advertising manager.