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Football hype at all-time high; tickets not available

Stephen Brooks
July 15, 2012

For any students still hoping to get their hands on football season tickets this year — too late. The MSU athletics department confirmed Sunday that the ticket packages are sold out for the 2012 season. “I would say the demand is at an all-time high, and when we get the final numbers, I’m confident that we’ll break the season ticket record,” Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said. There were fewer than 200 tickets remaining on Thursday, and the last of them were sold over the course of the weekend.

COMMENTARY

Thoughts from abroad

Craig Pearson
July 15, 2012

Spartans appear to be taking over the world. In my two months abroad so far, I have not only been inundated with countless Facebook photo albums and blog posts connecting me with friends everywhere from Spain to Azerbaijan, but I have also crossed paths with many MSU students and alumni.

MSU

MSU, Lansing on track for high speed internet

Isabella Shaya
July 12, 2012

Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.

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NEWS

Uncommon Sounds

Stephen Brooks  and  Britteny Dee
July 11, 2012

However they chose to enjoy it, fans from all walks of life were having a good time Wednesday evening at Common Ground Music Festival, whether they were kicked back in the shade, standing in front of the main stage or indulging in a variety of food and beverages.

NEWS

Second man charged in death of former MSU student

Kellie Rowe
July 11, 2012

A second man involved in the death of MSU freshman Olivia Pryor was arraigned Wednesday in East Lansing’s 54B District Court, 101 Linden St., according to MSU police. Detroit resident Dishon Tyran Ambrose, 19, faces a felony charge of selling or furnishing to a minor causing death. Pryor was discovered dead in her room in South Hubbard Hall on the morning of March 19 by roommate, Quishanna Coleman.

NEWS

City council votes to allow food trucks in E.L.

Jesse O'Brien
July 11, 2012

East Lansing citizens will have the chance to get their meals from some nontraditional avenues in the near future. A policy resolution passed with a 4-0 vote by East Lansing City Council Tuesday evening, allowing for the addition of two food trucks to operate in the downtown area.

NEWS

Food stamps, Palin stop among political activity

Rachel Jackson
July 11, 2012

Significant cuts to the federal food stamps program are likely to be decided on in a U.S. House of Representatives bill that modifies authorization for food and farm programs across the country. The bill, a sweeping renewal of farming, nutrition and agriculture programs and a big point of contention, is a $1.6 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. U.S.

MSU

Possible 20th-century boiler room discovered

Rebecca Ryan
July 11, 2012

Tuesday morning, Campus Archeologist and graduate student Katy Meyers shoveled the West Circle construction site, searching for clues about a discovered wall belonging to a structure lost in time. A week earlier, MSU Physical Plant Geographic Information Systems analyst Nick Voss found a wall below the ground next to Morrill Hall, and archeologists were called to check the scene.

MSU

Iranian MSU student denied visa

Kellie Rowe
July 11, 2012

When Faramarz Vafaee heard his friend was leaving to go back to Iran to visit his ailing mother, he never thought his friend wouldn’t be able to make it back to MSU. After spending more than two years at MSU working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering, Saleh Rezaei Ravesh was denied re-entrance into the U.S. But his friends at MSU are fighting back.

MSU

Bailey Hall's hoop house will give Brody green eats

Rebecca Ryan
July 11, 2012

Brody Square has found a way to put some of its food waste to good use. With renovations taking place in Brody Complex Neighborhood, food waste from Brody Square has been turned into compost used in a new hoop house, a rounded greenhouse where plants are grown in the ground, that’s being built on the south side of Bailey Hall.

MICHIGAN

Em-barking on a new adventure

Julia Nagy
July 11, 2012

Dressed in a dog-patterned zip-up shirt, groomer Denise Culham removed her scissors from her waistband, and wisps of poodle hair fell to the floor. It was time for Cookie’s haircut.

COMMENTARY

Distance creates strong family ties

Alex McClung
July 11, 2012

I’ve always had a “best friend” during the younger years of my life; a friend I relied on more than any other. But recently, I find the term too loose to apply to any one person. Often, it gets thrown into casual conversation between fickle participants, deciding one day who their best friend is, then turning to someone else when the timing is most convenient.

COMMENTARY

Farmers market has many local benefits

The East Lansing Farmers Market continues into its fourth season this summer. As a weekly marketplace offering residents a variety of fruits, vegetables and other fresh ingredients, the farmers market also promotes local sustainability and benefits the local economy. The East Lansing Farmers Market runs from 10 a.m.

NEWS

Second man arraigned in death of former MSU student

Kellie Rowe
July 11, 2012

A second man involved in the death of MSU freshman Olivia Pryor was arraigned Wednesday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, according to MSU police. Detroit resident Dishon Tyran Ambrose, 19, faces a felony charge of selling or furnishing to a minor causing death.