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Accafellas take the stage on the Morning Express

Taking their voices from the stage to the big screen, the Accafellas, an all-male a capella group at MSU, performed on Morning Express with Robin Meade on Sept. 23. Though the group was founded in 1996, this is the first time they’ve sung for a popular TV program.

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MSUnicyclers hope to get the wheel spinning

MSUnicyclers: a new MSU club that’s taking over campus one wheel at a time. That’s the legacy environmental studies and sustainability junior Evan Fischer said he hopes to create with the club he helped cofound in the spring of 2016.  Although he and current Lansing Community College emergency medical technician student Miranda Lieblein, had the idea in fall last year, it took them a while to get the ball rolling he said. Both students participated in the MSU Outdoors Club at the time, after those meetings they would go in the basement of IM West and practice their unicycling skills.

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MSU ROTC cadets get their first ruck march experience

Despite the pitch-black sky, discouraging 5:45 a.m. flashing on nearby clocks and the 35-pound backpacks tugging on their shoulders, each cadet proudly and without hesitation went to attention as soon as the flag was raised. MSU’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, meets three times a week to practice road marches, a three-mile march around campus. Sept. 21 was the first time many of the newest recruits would perform a road march. Mastering this skill is crucial to one’s success in the program and in the military as well.

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MSU alumnus competes in Paralympic Games in Rio

Stargardt’s disease: “The most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. The progressive vision loss associated with Stargardt disease is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells in the central portion of the retina called the macula,” according to blindness.org. In short, Stargardt’s disease decreases the sight of the carrier and makes their central vision progressively more blurry and distorted. 

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MSU dean integrates memes as a form of stress relief for students

Stress barreling down on students and faculty, associate professor Robert LaDuca has found a new way to help relieve stress and help students better connect with their class material. Memes, pictures with texts to invoke a comedic response, help with the stress of college, LaDuca said.  LaDuca believes that people learn better with a laugh on their face and will enjoy life the more they laugh.

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How the story of a refugee changed the lives of 18 MSU students

Being a stranger in a new place can be scary, especially for people who don’t speak the language, don’t know anyone and don’t know where they’ll be sleeping that night. Those are the struggles many refugees face, Jennifer Rumler, managing director of the sales leadership minor and also the faculty lead for the Made in Italy Study Abroad program, said.

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Emmy-Award winner Timothy Busfield joins the MSU staff

Briefly ditching the cameras for the classroom, Emmy-Award winner Timothy Busfield joined the MSU staff as an artist-in-residence, sharing his professional knowledge with young filmmakers. Born and raised in East Lansing, Busfield has always had a strong personal connection to the city and to MSU.

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Students attend CreativeCollaboration to connect with others

When neuroscience freshman Keilyn Broussard woke up on Sept. 10, she had some expectations for the day, she said. Those expectations were that she would be exposed to art, have the chance to get food and that she would have the chance to make friends, she said. Her plan for meeting all of these expectations was to go to the third annual CreativeCollaboration at the Wharton Center, held from noon to 4 p.m.