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COMMENTARY

Pipeline goes beyond partisanship

Our government recently had an opportunity to take a small step toward energy independence. Building the Keystone Pipeline would have allowed oil from Alberta, Canada to be transported down to the Gulf of Mexico.

NEWS

New budget discussion calls for cuts in funding

East Lansing officials unveiled their plans last weekend to address the city’s nearly $1 million projected budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year by consolidating the city’s 911 dispatch center and cutting funding to repair sidewalks.

MSU

MSU students, professors bring Big Ten rivalry to gaming world

Students, alumni and anyone on the Internet can help Sparty take on unfriendly rival snowmen in a new video game produced by MSU students. With the help of telecommunication, information studies and media associate professor Brian Winn, a group of graduate and undergraduate students working at the Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab recently produced Grumpy Snowmen ­— a game featuring Sparty hurling footballs, basketballs and other sporting equipment at snowmen dressed in rival Big Ten colors throughout campus.

MSU

Students sell bracelets to help charities

Students might soon be noticing a pop of color on the wrists of classmates who are part of one organization’s mission to raise awareness for various issues currently facing society. The bracelets, made by the California-based company Pura Vida, are beginning to gain popularity on college campuses throughout the nation with the help of students, said psychology sophomore and MSU Pura Vida campus representative Gia Georgiades.

SPORTS

Spartans fall despite individual success

It was in their grasp, but the Spartans just couldn’t pull off the upset. The MSU wrestling team dropped its final Big Ten dual of the season 24-13 to No. Ohio State, but the match was much closer than the score indicates.

FEATURES

MSU hosts annual comics forum

Diana Busby jump-started her career creating comic books with the knowledge and experience she gained in a course she took during the summer. The studio art and media arts and technology senior said although she developed an interest in comics at a young age, she would not have been able to turn her passion into something more without the help of Ryan Claytor, a professor in the Department of Art & Art History.