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COMMENTARY

Critiquing America keeps it great

Recently, a column was posted in The State News criticizing the treatment of America in Hollywood (“America not what media makes it,” SN 2/29). The author suggested that the American media should present family values, strong morals and the ideals America was founded on.

COMMENTARY

Failed bond proposal chance to get it right

Tuesday night’s election brought out members of the East Lansing community to vote on the controversial $53 million public school bond proposal, resulting in a slight victory for those against the proposal — 52.64 percent to 47.36 percent.

Lauren Gibbons ·
NEWS

Romney takes Michigan

Michigan ended up being a sigh of relief for Mitt Romney and his supporters. After a tense race with polls showing a dead heat all the way up to election day, the GOP presidential candidate narrowly beat former Pennsylvania Sen.

NEWS

Students celebrate leap year birthdays

To this day, Clinton Township, Mich., resident Monica Hajek claims her doctor rigged the delivery of her daughter, communication junior Taylor Hajek, 20 years ago in order to have a baby born on leap year.

MSU

Students use various E.L. delivery services

When marketing freshman Mia Jefferson came to MSU in fall 2011, she heard rumors from students that the laundry room in her building would damage her clothes, and she did not look forward to spending hours doing laundry.

Samantha Radecki ·
SPORTS

Seniors lead MSU in individual ways

On the surface, senior wrestlers Curran Jacobs and Anthony Jones Jr. couldn’t be more different. As expressive as they come, Jacobs speaks with confidence and never shies away from the spotlight. When he came to MSU five years ago, he didn’t have a flashy wrestling résumé, but that didn’t stop him from working his way up to the No. 18 ranked wrestler in the nation at 174 pounds.

BASKETBALL

Column: MSU’s Big Ten Tournament seed is ideal

When Suzy Merchant was asked last week if it was important to secure a bye in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, she paused. The question would have been laughable a month earlier when the MSU women’s basketball team (19-10 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) had lost four straight games for the first time in four years and was fighting itself more than its opponents.

MSU

Nubian skeletons reveal secrets of ancient times

“From the banks of the Nile to the banks of the Red Cedar.” That’s how Todd Fenton, an associate professor of anthropology at MSU, describes his current project, in which he and students working in his Giltner Hall lab are observing medieval Nubian skeletons, which four MSU graduate students helped excavate from Africa, on loan from the British Museum.

MSU

Phi Sigma Pi hosts panel discussion to address bullying concerns, solutions

In 2002, East Lansing resident Kevin Epling dealt with a tragedy few can dream of: his son’s choice to take his own life. Epling discussed bullying, which led to his son Matt’s mental distress and eventual suicide, in a panel discussion Monday evening in the Engineering Building. The event was hosted by the national coed honors fraternity Phi Sigma Pi.

MSU

Students take care of business during spring break

After spending a week relaxing and lying on a Florida beach during her spring break two years ago, Erica Swoish felt like she got nothing out of her vacation. So last year, when the communication junior heard about a program that would help her explore a number of businesses in her future career field, she jumped at the chance.

FEATURES

E.L. offers exciting spring break alternatives

Endless sunshine, resort towns and sandy beaches — that’s what many students will see during their spring break. But for those who aren’t traveling anywhere for the weeklong vacation, their view might be somewhat less exciting, filled with familiar campus buildings, the businesses that line Grand River Avenue and East Lansing locals.