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Verdehr trio to celebrate 40th year of performances

Zach Smith
June 12, 2012

Tomorrow evening at Wharton Center at 7:30 p.m., the Verdehr Trio will showcase their unique sound for music lovers to enjoy. Walter Verdehr, violinist for the trio and professor of violin at the College of Music, said that this concert will kick off the 40th year of performances by the group, which was founded with his wife in 1972. Verdehr said the trio has performed in many large-scale concert halls, including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and the Sydney Opera House. Still, he said he continues to love working and performing at MSU. “MSU is a wonderful place to work because the administration encourages performance,” he said.

NEWS

Pro-choice advocates gather at Capitol

Rachel Jackson
June 12, 2012

A swarm of pink invaded the Michigan Capitol Tuesday afternoon when hundreds of pro-choice advocates clad in Planned Parenthood T-shirts gathered to protest a series of anti-abortion legislation going through the House of Representatives.

NEWS

Deleted

Darcie Moran
June 11, 2012

Alana and Steven Tuckey are MSU alumni. And former graduate-level teachers. And sometimes-students who frequently return to MSU to take nondegree classes. And MSU’s current plan to delete all email accounts for alumni who have not been registered in over two years has them worried.

MICHIGAN

Magic Johnson and Virg Bernero endorse judicial candidates

Kellie Rowe
June 11, 2012

As the mid-Michigan August primary inches closer, two MSU alumni vying for the title of Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court judge received endorsements from friends in high places. Last week, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, a former NBA player who attended MSU in 1978, endorsed local attorney Wanda Stokes for the position.

MSU

MSU professor published in The New York Times

Zach Smith
June 11, 2012

When MSU law professor Mae Kuykendall found out she was being published in The New York Times, she knew it was a race against the clock. Kuykendall wrote an Op-Ed piece entitled “A Way Out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess” that was published on May 23.

COMMENTARY

Religion should be kept private

Caleb Nordgren
June 11, 2012

I’ve always found religion … interesting. I had it shoved in my face a bit last semester. First, when I was sent to take pictures of the Wells Hall preacher on a random Monday and spent 20 minutes trying not to listen to him telling anyone who would listen — and of course, everyone who wouldn’t — that we were all going to hell.

COMMENTARY

Alumni should have option to keep emails

An email is a type of communication college graduates utilize to approach possible employers and to remain in contact with college associates. For alumni who still use their MSU accounts, this form of communication could be truncated, leaving many angered and confused about how to handle transferring their information and alerting their associates of this change in contact information.

NEWS

Crafted from Scraps

Britteny Dee
June 10, 2012

Surrounded by piles of metal stacked several feet high, 16 groups of artists, welders and sculptors gathered to collect recycled material to be used in the fourth annual Old Town Scrapfest. The event, which is hosted by the Old Town Commercial Association, or OTCA, took place at 1 p.m.

NEWS

Selling back textbooks saves more than renting

Rebecca Ryan
June 10, 2012

For Jay Martello, selling textbooks back to bookstores at the end of each semester isn’t worth the hassle when he considered how much he’d actually get paid back. The graduate student said he prefers to buy his books and save them to hopefully sell to another student in his graduate program.

BASEBALL

Major league ballers

Stephen Brooks
June 10, 2012

The MSU baseball team will have a new look in the infield in 2013, as it is tasked with replacing three players who started all 60 games this season.

MICHIGAN

Come together

Isabella Shaya
June 10, 2012

After leaving his job with Afghanistan’s government and fighting for his home country of Afghanistan, losing one of his legs to an exploding land mine and spending time in a refugee camp in Moscow, Mohamad Nurzayee came to the U.S. in 2003 with goals and dreams he is now fulfilling.