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Students earn the most first-place TV, radio awards

Robert Bondy
February 4, 2013

Last Friday, MSU radio and television broadcasting students received the most first-place awards at the 2013 Michigan College Broadcast Awards. Students, some of whom were members of Impact 89FM and Focal Point television, received a total of nine awards from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters, or MAB, with 13 students involved. MSU boasted the most first-place finishes out of the Michigan colleges that participated in the event, according to a press release from the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.

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DACA students to be issued driver’s licenses as of Friday

Kellie Rowe
February 4, 2013

Lansing groups gathered Monday to celebrate a victory for what many hope will be the beginning of widespread U.S. immigration reform, starting with students. Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced Friday the Department of State will issue driver’s licenses to young immigrants who are part of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program implemented last June.

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School of Hospitality Business to host auction

Alex McClung
February 4, 2013

For travelers hoping to get away from Michigan’s cold weather this year, students in the School of Hospitality Business might have the trip they’re looking for. The 22nd Annual Destination Auction will take place Saturday, Feb. 9 at Kellogg Center. The event is planned, organized and presented by students in The School of Hospitality Business. The auction includes a silent auction beginning at 5 p.m. and a live auction beginning at 6 p.m. “Our theme this year is coast to coast to really emphasize that we have hotel packages, restaurant experiences spa packages, items and gift cards from everywhere,” said Kayli Delamielleure, the director of marketing for the auction.

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MSU-bred company seeks national attention

Lilly Keyes
February 4, 2013

When Rob Privette and the rest of the researchers at XG Sciences, a spinoff company that was born at MSU, decided to combine silicon with graphene, they hoped their research would yield something useful. They didn’t fully realize this combination would help make batteries more efficient — more minutes for a smartphone’s battery and more miles an electric vehicle can travel. The engineering company is hoping for more votes through the website Future Energy, which will provide eight new energy companies the chance to get attention from the U.S. Department of Energy. If they receive enough votes from anyone who visits the site, they could be highlighted at the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Energy Innovation Summit.

NEWS

Apartment fire under investigation, injured firefighter back to work

Darcie Moran
February 4, 2013

The East Lansing firefighter injured during a fire at Ville Montee Apartments, 241 Rampart Way, Thursday night is back to his normal work duties, East Lansing Fire Department Public Information Officer Lt. Leo Allaire said. An investigation is still underway to determine the cause of the blaze that damaged a total of eight apartments. Six apartments had damage due to both fire and smoke, while two others only had smoke damage, Allaire said.

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To Boldly Go…

Samantha Radecki
February 4, 2013

MSU isn’t perfect. Even MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon can attest to that. But in the past academic year, Simon and other administrators have been mulling over ways to decide how to overcome some of the obstacles facing MSU.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.”