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Maple syrup project makes sweet return

Sweet wafting steam billows out of the “little Frankenstein-looking thing” in a field off Hagadorn Road. That “Frankenstein thing,” as Jason Darling describes it, is a maple sugaring evaporator.

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Disabled icers get shot at club team

Nicole Letourneau grew up watching her four younger brothers play hockey. “They’ve been doing it since they were as young as 2,” Letourneau said. “That’s the way I wanted to start. When I stepped out on the ice at that age, I cried to play.”

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Police work to contain thousands at Cedar Fest

A few thousand people descended upon Cedar Village tonight for Cedar Fest, where police have patrolled a rowdy crowd that has shouted various Spartan chants, occasionally tossed beer cans and bottles into the air and sparked several small fires.

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MSU banner to fly at '08 Olympics

As thousands of people walk into the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, they will be greeted with 100-foot banners with the signatures of people from around the world — one sporting the John Hancock of MSU students.

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Graduate Employees Union approves strike platform

Following a late meeting of the membership, the Graduate Employees Union approved a strike platform Wednesday to establish a list of the bedrock issues to be included in a new contract with the university. With more than 210 members in attendance, the union voted to include a 5 percent wage increase, increased medical coverage and parking rights in the platform.

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Greek week focuses on fundraising

Thirteen teams, 135 dancers and about $195,000. Greek Week at MSU was the fourth-largest fundraising event nationwide for the American Cancer Society last year, and Panhellenic Council President Julia Lyskawa is confident this year’s event will rival that sum.

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MSU committees wrap up semester goals

As the end of the semester approaches, the standing committees of MSU’s Academic Governance system are assessing their agendas to determine what they’ve completed and what they have left to do.

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To bind a book

Lead letters are arranged on a “KWIK PRINT” gold-stamping machine. Unadorned white walls rise from the black laboratory surfaces where Eric Alstrom is working on his next book. His inspiration does not come from his work space, but from the fascination of what one person can create with a few sheets of paper, a leather binding and a sliver of gold leaf. “It’s a mixture of the hands-on, the artistic and the historical,” Alstrom said. Alstrom, the collections conservator in the Conservation Lab of Giltner Hall, has been conserving and creating books for about 20 years.