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Word on the street

Who would you pick for a commencement speaker? “Barack Obama, because I think he’s going to be our president and I would like to say that I saw our president speak. I think that a lot of his message is about our responsibilities. It’s not what he’s going to do for us, but what we need to do. I think that’s the sort of thing we need to hear upon graduation – our responsibilities as adults.” Kate Leitch zoology senior

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MSU professors give to Democratic campaigns

MSU professors fit a national trend among educators by donating more to Democratic presidential candidates than Republican candidates, even though Republicans nearly doubled the amount of contributions received from Michiganians.

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Graduate union members could picket graduation

When graduates pose for pictures outside Breslin Center this May decked out in caps and gowns, flanked by family members and diploma in hand, a line of graduate students thrusting picket signs in the air could be in the background.

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Exhibits teach about veterinary care

It was udder madness as hundreds of kids and parents anxiously awaited their turn to milk a cow, pet farm animals and stick their hands inside a cow’s stomach Saturday during the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual Vet-a-Visit.

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MSU sheep farm awaits spring

Spring’s first blue skies have a way of making students wish they were outside enjoying the sunshine instead of sitting in an artificially lit lecture hall, but it could be worse.

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GEU discusses potential strike platform

Stirring nervously in a cavernous, anonymous lecture hall and tapping a pencil against a desk, an MSU student waits to take a final exam — but it never comes. Because without teaching assistants to proctor for larger classes, some exams can’t be administered.

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Copyright confusion

It fills coursepacks, is printed on handouts and makes up many documents posted online — copyrighted material within the university is something most students and professors come across every day in their academic lives.

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U-M grad employees plan to stage walkout

Following a tense, five-month-long contract negotiation, the clock is ticking toward a walkout for graduate employees — but not at MSU. The University of Michigan’s union for graduate student employees, the Graduate Employees’ Organization, approved a plan to stage a two-day walkout today and Wednesday for all graduate student instructors and workers after the union and university were unable to agree to a contract.