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BASKETBALL

Spartans value defense with smaller rotation

A player has to be able to guard the person in front of her. That is what women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant said after the MSU women’s basketball team defeated Virginia Tech 57-29 on Sunday, allowing the fewest amount of points in a regular-season game since it gave up only 27 against Michigan in 2009.

MSU

Face Time: Dr. Gerald Urquhart

Dr. Gerald Urquhart, assistant professor in the Lyman Briggs College and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, will head into the rainforests of Nicaragua for one purpose: to help save an endangered species known as Baird’s tapir, which are related to elephants. They have been eating farmers’ crops and have been largely hunted by farmers.

MICHIGAN

House committee debates Blue Cross changes

Attorney General Bill Schuette testified about proposed legislative changes to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, or BCBSM, in front of the House Insurance Committee Monday morning, stressing the importance of keeping continued coverage for “Michigan’s most vulnerable” citizens and calling for careful review of the proposed legislation before any action.

MICHIGAN

MSU ties for first for most attractive students in retracted survey

Bloomberg Businessweek has been taking heat for a survey released last week asking readers to rate the attractiveness of male and female students at top business colleges across the country. MSU tied for first, according to survey results, but the report wasn’t up for long, as readers complained the survey was offensive to women.

COMMENTARY

Importance of ‘voting local’

While I’m as thrilled as anyone that political advertisements are over, we now find ourselves in the midst of another election season: holiday shopping season. But this time around, we’re voting with our dollars.

FOOTBALL

A Familiar Ending

As MSU fans filed out of Spartan Stadium for the final time this year, it was with the same, stale taste in their mouth.

FOOTBALL

Football loses last home game, 5th Big Ten game

For the past two months, the Spartans (5-6 overall, 2-5 Big Ten) have seen game after game slip through their fingers.