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MSU

Event welcomes various gender identities

According to Lauren Spencer, finding the “safe space” where you can embrace your gender identity or sexual orientation is one of the most exciting things a student can come across for the first time when attending the LBGT Resource Center’s, or LGBTRC, fall welcome for new students.

MSU

Students return wiser from study abroad

Sam Kilberg and 1,700 other MSU students are back from traveling the world. The political theory and constitutional democracy and international relations senior participated in the largest study abroad program in the nation, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager in the Office of Study Abroad.

MICHIGAN

Student residents overtake East Lansing housing market

Because of a high number of nonconforming student rental properties in East Lansing designated for single families, the city staff is working on plans during the next four months to possibly alter the zoning in these areas to find a balance between student-rental housing and owner-occupied housing.

MSU

Face Time: Stefan Fletcher

Although the beginning of the school year can mean chaos and many adjustments, Stefan Fletcher has enough experience under his belt to lead the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, into a new school year with a fair amount of ease.

FOOTBALL

Maxwell ready to take reins of starting quarterback position

For the first time since Oct. 10, 2009, someone not named Kirk Cousins will take the first snap of the game for MSU’s season opener against Boise State on Friday night. After waiting in the reserves for three seasons, junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell is ready to take the reins and continue the success of his predecessor.

FEATURES

Trainers teach dogs to save lives

When clinical laboratory sciences junior Maggie Stach walks into class, she is met by curious stares and sideways glances directed at the four-legged companion at her side: her dog Albus, whom she currently is training to become a leader dog.

COMMENTARY

Warning signs could prevent tragedy

Ever since late July, when a terrible massacre occurred at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., police and media outlets have been looking for clues that could signify why James Holmes became an alleged murderer.

NEWS

Bullies abuse handicap passes

One of the touchiest things to even whisper to yourself in the confines of a locked bathroom involves those little blue placards that hang from the rearview mirror of a number of cars on campus and a myriad of cars across the nation.

Kellie Rowe, Justin Wan, Julia Nagy ·
NEWS

2012 political focus turns to Michigan

Before Nick Kowalski was a Spartan, he was a Mitt Romney supporter. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior started campaigning for Romney in 2008, when the Massachusetts governor was among a lineup of many trying to secure the GOP nomination.

Adam Toolin ·
MICHIGAN

Nature of recent assault yet to be verified

Tension regarding an assault on journalism sophomore Zachary Tennen continues to build as the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, released a statement that the assault likely was not an anti-Semitic hate crime, despite claims from the Tennen family asserting otherwise.

NEWS

Simon visits residence halls

Today marks the first day of the 2012-13 school year, bringing with it a new set of students, professors and administrators for the MSU college experience. About 7,800 incoming freshmen moved into the dorms Saturday and Sunday and received a surprise from MSU President Lou Anna K.