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COMMENTARY

‘Competency’ student aid not without flaws

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education sent a letter to colleges across the country permitting federal aid to be provided to students enrolled in “competency-based” programs. These programs include tests, portfolios, clinical observations and other assessments of current and prior knowledge.

COMMENTARY

Future of energy lies in graphene

Graphite substances, developed by research pioneered by Peter Boehm starting in 1962, have long been heralded as the future of energy. The material has been hoped to be a magic bullet to the primary ailments of energy storage and utilization.

FEATURES

Building the Beat

Dustyn Frolka doesn’t have a TV in his room. What he does have is music production program FL Studio 10, a sound card to convert his microphone recordings into a digital format, and recording software Mixcraft 5.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

MSU women’s basketball ready for March Madness

The MSU women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Tournament for the fifth-consecutive postseason. “The Spartans who fell to Purdue in the “finals of the Big Ten Tournament on March 10 — were given a No. 5 seed, sending them to College Park, Md., to face No. 12 seed Marist.

BASKETBALL

MSU men's basketball team prepares for NCAA tournament

The story always reads the same way.

MSU

MSU receives $3 million dairy grant

The College of Veterinary Medicine banked nearly $3 million from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for veterinary medicine professor Ronald Erskine’s dairy research.

FOOTBALL

Football spring practice starts, open positions seek players

Entering his seventh spring as head football coach, the goals largely remain the same for Mark Dantonio and the MSU football team.

COMMENTARY

Where are the moderates?

During the past presidential election and now into 2013, I noticed something that really bothered me. It caught me by surprise, but when I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that it actually might be at the core of all the problems we have faced, now face and will continue to face in the future.

MSU

ASMSU giving away Macklemore tickets

ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, is giving away tickets and meet and greet passes for the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert, trying to get as many fans to Breslin Center tomorrow night.