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MICHIGAN

New dispatch center progresses

Facing an almost $1 million projected budget deficit for the upcoming 2012-13 fiscal year, the city of East Lansing is moving forward with plans to consolidate the city’s emergency dispatch center into one shared facility in south Lansing for all of Ingham County. East Lansing officials laid out their plans for the move — including addressing a $944,645 projected budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year — during a meeting last weekend.

MSU

Use of Spartan Cash increases around campus

When accounting sophomore Kate Good does laundry in her Shaw Hall residence, it doesn’t involve searching for spare change under the couch or fumbling around for coins in her pocket. Instead, Good pays to do her laundry with a swipe of her ID card, loaded with Spartan Cash. “It’s really helpful and convenient,” said Good, who uses her Spartan Cash at MSU vending and laundry machines, as well as the food court at the International Center.

Caleb Nordgren ·
ICE HOCKEY

U-M rematch has postseason implications

The biggest rivalry in college hockey couldn’t be any bigger this time around for the No. 17 MSU hockey team. As if a series rematch with the Spartans’ (15-11-4 overall, 10-9-3-2 CCHA) biggest rival Michigan wasn’t motivation enough to get geared up for the weekend, serious playoff implications are on the line for both squads.

COMMENTARY

Women’s lounge divides students

As a first-year student at Michigan State, my exploration of all that campus has to offer is far from over. However, as I’ve made my way through the many landmarks, as a female I was surprised to discover the women’s lounge in the Union.

COMMENTARY

Super Bowl ad shows failure of leadership

Super Bowl commercials usually get talked about just as much as the actual game does. Most are funny, and a few make viewers think, but this year one politician’s racist commercial made viewers wonder if they heard correctly.

NEWS

Cultural commerce

When marketing junior Chester Cao decided last year to start a business with his friends, they knew they wanted to bring a taste of home to East Lansing.

NEWS

Super Bowl commercial stimulates controversy

Former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra came under fire Monday for his campaign commercial that ran during the Super Bowl, which many political and ethnic organizations, including students, said catered to racial stereotypes of Asian culture.

NEWS

Police Brief 02/07/12

A 49-year-old man from New York City, was arrested between 12:45-1:15 a.m. Feb. 2 for being drunk and disorderly and for having an open container of alcohol near the College of Law Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

ASMSU debates internship credit

The cost of a college internship — and how MSU measures internship credits — is under examination by an ASMSU committee after some representatives noted a disconnect in the amount students were paying in tuition for credit and the instructional time they received. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.