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NEWS

East Lansing death prompts push for amendment

Shawn D’Annunzio never will celebrate another birthday with her son. She never will be a grandmother. And although she knows a potential suspect in the death of Brandon D’Annunzio, her 24-year-old son who died in East Lansing 11 years ago, Shawn D’Annunzio will never have justice.

NEWS

Police Brief 10/19/11

A 19-year-old female student reported her car was vandalized between noon Oct. 10 and 4:30 p.m. Oct. 12, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor.

MICHIGAN

Surplus Store reaches out to community

The Surplus Store and Recycling Center is holding Community Reuse Days until Friday. The public is welcome to bring in any items they wish to get rid of, including non-upholstered furniture, sporting equipment and apparel, electronics and a variety of other items.

Julia Nagy ·
VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball expects big crowd for U-M game

The football team isn’t the only team with a big rivalry game this week. The MSU volleyball team is hoping to continue MSU’s weeklong success against its in-state rivals when it takes on the No. 21 Michigan Wolverines at Jenison Field House on Wednesday night.

MSU

Poll finds dissatisfaction with msu.edu

Slightly less than half of MSU students, faculty and staff reported they were more than satisfied with the university’s official website, according to the 2011 MSU Internet Use and Opinion Survey results released last week.

MSU

LBGT goes overseas with new program

For the first time this summer, MSU will be offering study abroad dealing with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, the first study abroad to focus on these issues in the university’s history.

COMMENTARY

Professor’s work not pornography

The State News recently published a story about a retiring photography professor, Professor Danny Guthrie and his latest project photographing himself with his current and former students as well as his colleagues. Guthrie specifically comments on these photos, “(The photographs are) about my loss of youth and impending doom,” he said. “Once you give up when you get older, you don’t live in a sexual arena anymore.” This quote, however, did not protect him from attacks from faculty as well as students — specifically Mitch Goldsmith, who wrote a scathing column painting Guthrie as a sick older professor exploiting his students — somehow intimidating or forcing his female students to pose with him.