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MICHIGAN

Tutors help students to succeed

When Chelsea Dombrow began tutoring a fifth-grade student last year, the student was only reading at a third-grade level. By the end of the year, the student not only was reading beyond her grade level, but she had come to love books.

MICHIGAN

Romney speaks about illegal immigration

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney brought the campaign issue of illegal immigration back to his home state last week, saying his rival Rick Perry’s support of illegal immigrants attending public universities would cause tuition to skyrocket at Michigan’s public universities.

MSU

Grant helps migrant workers

Noe Hernandez spent most of his life believing a degree was too expensive for him to achieve. It wasn’t until he learned about MSU’s High School Equivalency Program, or HEP, that Hernandez realized he had an opportunity to pursue a degree.

COMMENTARY

Encourage peers to vote, get involved

Voting organizations wish young adults would say, “OMG, like, Obama just tweeted at me to go out and vote, and, like, I can’t wait to now.” Unfortunately, that reaction only happens in their dreams. Interest in voting doesn’t stem from any politician telling youth to go out and vote — it stems from friendships and family.

COMMENTARY

US justice system not broken

Justice is an ideal, a subjective opinion that varies from one person to the next, a concept of moral rightness based on ethics. Asking for justice is the equivalent of asking for happiness. One person may say justice for a murderer is death — an eye for an eye — where another person might say that a murderer deserves life in prison to sit with their guilt.

NEWS

Lay of the law

When Sean Schmidt stumbled out of a Snyder Hall community bathroom and stood face-to-face with three MSU police officers, only one thought entered his mind: “My life is over.”

NEWS

Police Brief 09/28/11

A suspect in the 1999 arson attempt on MSU’s Agriculture Hall plead guilty to federal charges yesterday in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, according the Grand Rapids Press.

COMMENTARY

Protest discriminatory state bills

Usually, the ignorance exposed by the “down home values” crowd is pretty predictable, and I’m able to shrug it off as I go about my day. That is, until I learned about the newest Republican onslaught against equality and fairness, this time in the form of House bills 4770 and 4771.