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Design exhibit illuminates Kresge

Shaelie Harper has been modeling her friend’s dresses for years. But when she flipped the switch of her friend’s current creation, and the garment began to glow, she realized this dress was different.

COMMENTARY

Song for big ten championship

Congratulations to the Spartans! Along with our beloved “Michigan State Fight Song,” here’s a little ditty I’ll be singing on Friday as I drive south on I-69 through Hoosier Land.

COMMENTARY

Students need more on-campus parking

With the temperature dropping and snowflakes beginning to fall, many students are going to turn to their cars as an alternative form of transportation ­— yet parking is a hindrance. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, recently passed a resolution in an attempt to expand available parking for students on campus.

NEWS

Brower retires after decades with MSU

Dave Brower still remembers “the pit.” When Brower — now the former assistant vice president, chief financial officer and controller — first began overseeing the university’s enrollment operations as the assistant controller in 1979, MSU’s class sign-up took place in the gymnasium at IM Sports-West, a place then known as “the pit.”

NEWS

Friends remember Charboneau’s optimism

When social work and anthropology senior Matt Niemi would come home after a long day of going to work and class, he always had one thing to look forward to — his friend Nick Charboneau sitting on the couch, ready to lift his spirits.

NEWS

Moore speaks at MSU about new book, past experiences

Sporting an MSU baseball cap and a pair of black sweatpants, controversial left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore spoke at the Auditorium to about 700 people Tuesday night, applauding the Occupy Wall Street movement and calling for more equality among America’s socioeconomic classes.

MICHIGAN

Pancakes, fraternity help troops

The brothers of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and participating MSU students were stuffing their mouths with several stacks of pancakes Tuesday, with the hopes of raising funds to send care packages to troops overseas.

MICHIGAN

Car crash survivors celebrate life

It’s been more than a year since MSU students Humphrey Petersen-Jones and Linling Cai were hospitalized after they each survived a car accident that claimed the lives of their friends, and, despite the trauma, they’re moving on.