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Student strives to be stand-up comedian

On any given day, Chris Ryan can’t go more than a few sentences without cracking a joke. The marketing freshman and budding comedian, who was chosen as the audience favorite at Last Spartan Standing last fall as a first-time stand-up performer, is trying to create a profession of laughter for himself.

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Connecting cultures

A little more than three years have passed since one of the largest earthquakes on record struck the coast of Japan and shook a nation to its core , killing more than 15,000 people . Thousands more went missing, and the amount of destruction the earthquake and the subsequent tsunami caused millions of dollars in damage to the country’s infrastructure.

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Anastos, Spartan hockey looking forward to Big Ten Tournament

By Robert Bondy?The regular season has officially come to an end, with MSU hockey on the verge of participating in history in the making this week.With the Big Ten Tournament only a few days away, head coach Tom Anastos addressed the media at his weekly press conference, touching on MSU’s latest goaltending situation, among other subjects.