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COMMENTARY

Stadium upgrades ignore climate

At a time when climate scientists are sounding alarm bells around the world, as glaciers melt, severe weather events disrupt cities and farms and earth’s living things face extinction because of global climate change, the MSU Administration and Board of Trustees have shirked their responsibilities. Last week the MSU Board of Trustees failed to discuss transitioning the largest coal-fired power plant on any American college campus, removing such discussion from their agenda.

COMMENTARY

Students shouldn’t pay for internships

Internships during college can provide quality, real-world experience for students before they enter their field after graduation, but making students pay for their internship credits is discouraging and costly. A committee within ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, is looking into certain colleges’ requirement of students to pay for credit hours at a higher cost than the university spends to provide resources to students during their internships.

NEWS

ASMSU questions cafeteria cleanliness

When ASMSU College of Business Representative Kyle Clifton came to an ASMSU General Assembly meeting last month, he brought a soiled spoon. The spoon was caked with dried red sauce, something Clifton had not noticed when he picked it up entering the Shaw Hall cafeteria one day.

NEWS

D’Annunzio’s law combats violent crime

A bill aimed to extend the Michigan statute of limitations for violent crimes in response to a more than decade-old murder case in East Lansing passed the Michigan Senate on Tuesday and now will move to the House for consideration.

MICHIGAN

E.L. City Council discusses City Center II financing, online crime mapping

The East Lansing City Council gave approval to the city’s finance director to analyze and examine financing options for a portion of the controversial City Center II development project during its Tuesday night work session, extending the debate regarding the project’s future. East Lansing Finance Director Mary Haskell now has the authority to determine the method the city will use to refinance four parcels of property related to the project and can authorize the final financing of the parcels without approval from city council, Haskell said.

MSU

MSU winning blood drive competition

The American Red Cross is pitting green and white against maize and blue to see who can collect the most red during its annual MSU/U-M Blood Challenge. The three-week competition began Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 24.

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.