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ICE HOCKEY

Anastos hires assistants

MSU hockey head coach Tom Anastos completed his coaching staff Monday by announcing the hiring of two new assistant coaches, while retaining assistant coach Tom Newton and video coordinator Adam Nightingale.

NEWS

‘Queer Christians’

Identifying herself as a member of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender, or LBGT, community might have been challenging at times for Krista Rowe, but speaking about her belief in God never presented itself as a burden.

NEWS

Women’s golf wins Big Ten championship

After placing second in the Big Ten Championships each of the past three seasons, the MSU women’s golf team knew placing first would require outstanding execution down the stretch to capture its second championship in five seasons. Junior Lindsey Solberg birdied three of the final four holes, and freshmen Allyssa Ferrell and Christine Meier came up big down the stretch to lead the Spartans back from a late five-stroke deficit Sunday.

NEWS

MSU program to help rural students attend college

A new program launching this year at MSU will allow graduating seniors to be placed in Michigan high schools as college advisers. The Michigan College Advising Corps — a branch of the National College Advising Corps — launched last year as a pilot program at the University of Michigan.

NEWS

Police Brief 04/25/11

A 23-year-old former student reported his cell phone allegedly was stolen between 1:30-3:30 p.m. April 19 at the Duffy Daugherty Football Building, MSU police Sgt.

MSU

Archaeology students explore old campus life

At an MSU archaeology field school last summer, Chris Stawski helped lead a team of archaeology students to uncover evidence that MSU students of 100 years ago are very similar to ones today — finding a trash pit on campus dating from the late 1800s that contained everything from a pocketknife to discarded inkwells to clay smoking pipes.

COMMENTARY

The darker side of animal testing

When I first came to MSU as a high school senior, almost five years ago, I thought animals largely were absent from the academic experience and MSU community in general. I thought we had advanced past laboratory horror stories. I thought animal experimentation (also known as vivisection) as I knew it had ended long ago.

COMMENTARY

Broad Museum spray painting simply vandalism

Panels of the skeleton of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum were vandalized by red spray paint on April 15. The irony is palpable. An unfinished art museum — what some might consider a work of art in and of itself — has a few panels redecorated by artwork of the street variety.