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COMMENTARY

MSU choosing profits over children

For more than three years, Action of Greater Lansing has been working with MSU’s Children’s Health Initiative and Sparrow Hospital to build a system that benefits the children within our region by creating a robust system of pediatric subspecialists as close to home as possible.

COMMENTARY

Spartans respectful during break

Spring break in college is both a delighted and feared time across many communities. For many students, it is a time to get away from school, head somewhere warm with friends and enjoy age-appropriate beverages and free time not found during your average week of classes.

Kellie Rowe ·
NEWS

Unrest and uncertainty

After a massacre in Homs, Syria, on Sunday, lifeless bodies and charred remains of desolate homes fill some streets of the same city where international relations junior Anas Attal once played soccer.

FOOTBALL

Single-ticket sales might be eliminated for football

As the success of the MSU football team grows, so does the number of fans who wish to be at every game. The Spartan Ticket Office has received a high volume of orders for season ticket packages for the upcoming home football season, to the point where Associate Athletics Director Paul Schager said MSU is expecting a record number of sales.

NEWS

Entire police video containing Genetski’s arrest released

New details regarding the arrest of State Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, by MSU police show a more vivid picture of what happened during the early hours of Jan. 19, when he was taken into custody on campus for drunken driving.

MSU

Accounting major ranks high

When accounting senior Mike DeBona came to MSU, he had the intention of majoring in a business-related field. After initially choosing marketing, he eventually changed his major to accounting because of the strength of the program. “The economy’s tough and I wanted job security,” DeBona said. “The fact that (the program) was recognized so highly and challenging … I thought it would provide me with a versatile degree.”

MSU

Students, alumni attend Southwest Music and Media Conference

As the worlds of entertainment and technology unite in Austin, Texas, thousands of people — including some from MSU — are attending the annual Southwest Music and Media Conference. The conference, commonly referred to as South by Southwest, or SXSW, hosts several sessions to showcase the latest in interactive media, said Tim Bograkos, the young alumni coordinator for the MSU Alumni Association and a conference attendee. During Twitter’s infancy, years ago, the service was first shown off at the conference.

MICHIGAN

Study takes closer look at US citizenship exam format

Results of a recent study questioning the legitimacy of the U.S. Naturalization Test might cause concern for immigrants, including some MSU students vying for official citizenship status in the U.S., according to an MSU professor. Paula Winke, assistant professor of second language studies and lead researcher on the study, said the analysis largely focused on the randomness and level of difficulty of different questions asked in the civics portion of the U.S. Naturalization Test and determined the test structure might be unreliable.

FEATURES

Student brings passion for volunteering to Venezuela

Although interdisciplinary studies in social science junior Megan Smith grew up volunteering regularly, she said she truly did not understand how easy it is to take little things such as food and water for granted until she took a mission trip to Venezuela during spring break. “I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I was in (the people’s) shoes,” she said.