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ASMSU to fill board openings

After the loss of five members and a vice chair position on ASMSU’s programming board, ASMSU is looking for replacements while transferring duties to the group’s finance committee to ensure student events and groups can get funded. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.

MICHIGAN

Second resale clothing store plans to close later this week

This week has marked the last few days of business for two downtown East Lansing secondhand clothing stores. Scavenger Hunt, 503 E. Grand River Ave., closed down business Jan. 31, and ReThreads, 543 E. Grand River Ave., plans to close down Feb. 4., leaving two vacant spaces among a stretch of stores and restaurants.

BASKETBALL

Poole steps up vocally, on court

She stood with her teammates at the center court of Breslin Center after a game 56 other times, but this time, Porsché Poole couldn’t contain her emotions. As her eyes turned red and tears streamed down her face, the MSU women’s basketball team (13-9 overall, 5-4 Big Ten) suffered its fourth straight loss on Thursday to Illinois (7-15, 1-8).

FEATURES

New club works to unite with education

Drawing from her hometown roots, communication freshman Maegan Budd is bringing United Way’s ideals to campus. Budd is the president of the new organization MSU Student United Way — an organization whose members are ready to volunteer.

COMMENTARY

Recent protests lack clear plan

With all the articles swirling around protests in the State News these days, I couldn’t help but notice the similarities among my fellow opinion writers but that got me thinking about the similarities between the protests of MSU Greenpeace, Occupy Wall Street, the online protests, and the Tea Party movement.

NEWS

Presidential housing

The Alice B. Cowles House, formerly known as Faculty Row House Number 7, sits on the south side of West Circle Drive and has since 1857. The exterior is surrounded by shrubbery and vines, no cars sit in the lengthy driveway and the door remains closed. It is speculated to be the oldest building on MSU’s campus, but many students do not know who lives there or what occurs daily.

NEWS

Lansing casino faces obstacles

Two Michigan Indian tribes accused Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero of making racist attacks toward them Monday, as the debate to build a casino in downtown Lansing grows more heated and the likelihood of the project ever coming to fruition appears slim, some experts said.

Samantha Radecki ·
MICHIGAN

Paranormal group discusses hauntings, exorcisms with E.L. residents

Since supposed spirits appeared in her photographs and she was overcome with psychic premonitions during her childhood, MSU alumna Samantha Harris has been hooked on the paranormal. Harris is the founder and director of the Michigan Paranormal Research Association, MPRA, which held a lecture at the East Lansing Public Library on Monday night to share their best evidence, experiences and theories to prove paranormal activities and spirits exist.

MICHIGAN

Vitamins might help students reduce effects of hangovers

Students tired of suffering through the morning after a night of drinking might find relief in Drinkwel — a recent vitamin supplement created to counteract some negative effects of drinking — but doctors and professionals still say healthy habits are the easiest way to feel best in drinking’s aftermath.

Alex McClung ·
FEATURES

How to dress up menswear

Updating your closet can be an expensive and stressful task. Instead of buying a new piece of clothing, new looks can be made within that old closest of yours — or your boyfriend’s.

MSU

American Indian population grows in US

According to the 2010 U.S. Census, more than 5.2 million people identified themselves as part of the American Indian and Alaska Native category, whether alone or in combination with other races — a 27 percent growth from the 2000 Census.

MICHIGAN

Report shows growth in E.L., Lansing jobs

The Lansing and East Lansing metropolitan area has been ranked top in the country among 100 metropolitan areas for job creation in manufacturing, goods producing and transportation and utilities, according to data from The Urban Institute released last week.

FEATURES

'The Addams Family' to make Wharton debut

The kooky characters and supernatural scenarios of a creepy American classic have come together once again to tell the tale of an unusual family. The musical comedy “The Addams Family,” which focuses on the life of the family many remember from Charles Addams’ cartoons and the classic TV show, opens Tuesday night and will run until Sunday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.