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NEWS

Hollis meets with media after being named top AD

It’s been an eventful year for Mark Hollis. In the past 12 months, MSU’s Athletic Director has orchestrated the first ever game played on an aircraft carrier, watched as the football team played in the inaugural Big Ten Championship game and as the men’s basketball team win the regular season Big Ten title before winning the Big Ten Tournament.

NEWS

Michigan police buckle down with Click It or Ticket campaign

Packaging senior Adam Weiner thanks his seat belt for keeping him from a trip to the hospital. When his two-door car was rear-ended four years ago in the parking lot of his favorite yogurt shop, the sturdy piece of fabric saved him from launching across the steering wheel clear into the dashboard. “If it had not been for the seat belt, I could’ve gotten a concussion easily,” he said. After that incident, Weiner fully realized the importance of buckling up, and he isn’t the only one.

MSU

MSU displays FRIB research with national organization

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, will be part of a national organization to commercialize research from the labs, after MSU joined the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer, or FLC, a national network of federal labs last week.

BASEBALL

MSU defeats Nebraska in Big Ten matchup

For eight and two-thirds innings, it appeared that MSU would cruise to a blowout win in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Leading 10-2 to begin the final frame, a comedy of errors led to a seven-run inning with two outs on the board as the Spartans narrowly escaped with a 10-9 win against No. 4-seed Nebraska.

SPORTS

Face time with Matt Weise

Despite not generating the headlines of football or men’s basketball, Matt Weise quietly has built one of MSU’s most successful varsity sports. The eighth-year head coach of the MSU rowing team has maintained the success of a program that has qualified for the NCAA National Championship Regatta in 14 of the last 15 seasons.

SPORTS

Men’s crew seeks club title

The MSU Crew Club is leaving today to head to Atlanta, where it has earned several of the highest seedings in program history at the American Collegiate Rowing Association Club Nationals.