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UCue Billiards room to be removed for classrooms

Robert Bondy
February 3, 2013

UCue Billiards, a spot for pool in the Union, will be permanently closing after spring break. With the second phase of renovations for the Union planned for the upcoming summer, the room will be renovated as a high-tech classroom, said Tami Kuhn, interim director of the Union. “We are in the process of remodeling the ground floor, the second floor and some rooms in the third floor,” Kuhn said.

MICHIGAN

Mid-Winter Singing Festival brings music, history to city

Michael Koury
February 3, 2013

As snowflakes fell and a frigid wind blew Saturday outside the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, the city of East Lansing’s Children’s Concert Series and Mid-Winter Singing Festival brought a little bit of light to residents of East Lansing with music, laughter and dancing. The Children’s Concert Series was held earlier in the day in the banquet hall and featured music by folk singers Kim and Reggie Harris. They performed songs ranging from “Day-O” to “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” and told historical stories through songs of famed Negro League pitcher Satchel Paige and folk hero John Henry.

MSU

Spartan draws new Spider-Man comic

Christine LaRouere
February 3, 2013

MSU alumnus Ryan Stegman is making a stir among comic book lovers across the world with his newest project — illustrating the images in Marvel Worldwide Inc.’s latest Spider-Man series “Superior Spider-Man.”

MICHIGAN

Hundreds hear former sex slave speak out

Darcie Moran
February 3, 2013

A packed Union lounge Friday night told Malynda Jennings there might be hope for the thousands of children living the life she used to — forced to give oral or physical sex as a child sex slave. Jennings spoke about being trafficked by her parents even before she was 2 years old, in a small, eastern Michigan town to raise awareness about human trafficking in Michigan during the University Activities Board’s Spartans Against Slavery event. “It’s a horrific act that some other people do at the cost of innocence of another person,” Jennings said. “There’s no race, creed or color to it.” About 2,500 suspected incidents of human trafficking, mostly sex trafficking of children, in the U.S. were recorded between January 2008 and June 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. There were about 140 calls to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center from Michigan regarding human trafficking incidents from January to September 2012.

MSU

Study abroad trip gives inside glimpse into Cuban lifestyles

Simon Schuster
February 3, 2013

Last spring, with trumpet in hand, Gibron Lockhart would walk the Malecón — a broad promenade bordering the Caribbean Sea in Havana, Cuba’s capital — and meet people. They would ask to play music with him, to sing or to dance, and along the way he learned their dances and the subtleties of their music. “They’re so open and so warm and loving,” jazz studies senior Lockhart said. “You meet them and they give you a hug and a kiss on the cheek.”

MSU

Students speed date for Valentines, experience

Isabella Shaya
February 3, 2013

The annual speed dating event hosted by the University Activities Board, or UAB, gave students a chance to find that special someone just in time for Valentine’s Day. But many of the 350 students who attended the event Saturday night in the International Center were not in search of a date.

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

The Mittens come off

Stephen Brooks
February 3, 2013

Pink jerseys, Breslin Center, arch rivals. The last time those three factors for the MSU women’s basketball team came together was Feb. 13, 2011, and culminated in a 69-56 victory against Michigan in front of the first sellout crowd in program history.

FEATURES

IMPACT Radio's birthday bash

Omari Sankofa II
February 3, 2013

For Frontier Ruckus lead singer Matthew Milia, performing at the Loft Sunday night was a return home. The band was formed on MSU’s campus during Milia’s sophomore year, when he was living at Landon Hall in North Neighborhood.

COMMENTARY

Life lesson learned in Case cafeteria

Kyle Campbell
February 3, 2013

In my four years at MSU, I’ve eaten at 13 cafeterias and seen just about all there is to see — from future professional athletes to Darth Vader with a gaggle of Stormtroopers. You name it, I’ve seen it. Nothing could surprise me.