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Sustainability key goal for Brody Square

After serving about 4,000 students in a day, Brody Square only has one 40-gallon bag of trash to its name. About 11 percent of the waste made at Brody Square is sent to a landfill, said Robbia Pipper, marketplace dining services manager in Brody Neighborhood Culinary Services.

Robbie Couch ·
FEATURES

College of Music to debut ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ opera adaptation

It might be difficult to transform a wood-paneled stage into a grueling dust storm, but music performance freshman David Moul said he did his homework to help make it possible. Moul will play Grampa Joad in the College of Music’s opera, “The Grapes of Wrath,” which will debut at 8 p.m. Friday in the MSU Concert Auditorium and run throughout the weekend.

COMMENTARY

First Amendment still protects lies

Should lying be protected by the First Amendment? Claiming a military honor one actually did not receive is perhaps one of the lowest lies a person can tell, but does that make it criminal?

NEWS

A helping hand

Lisa Leppla was looking for something. After her freshman year, the special education junior felt as if she wasn’t contributing to the MSU community and began searching for volunteer work.

NEWS

ASMSU works to unfreeze its accounts

With ASMSU’s spring elections approaching, the organization is continuing to work with Denise Maybank and with the university to clear up all confusion regarding its frozen accounts. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. Accounts have been frozen since March 14, when Maybank, vice president for Student Affairs and Services, issued a memo to ASMSU citing it for violating its constitution.

NEWS

ASMSU to push for medical amnesty

ASMSU officials are rebooting their efforts to push a medical amnesty bill through the Michigan Legislature. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. The bill would offer protection for students under the legal drinking age from a minor in possession, or MIP, who voluntarily present themselves for treatment after overconsumption of alcohol, said Steve Marino, Student Assembly’s vice chairman for external affairs. “If I take in an incredible amount of alcohol and I’m really fearful for my life and I somehow make it to the hospital of my own accord and I’m the one initiating contact with them, that’s the only case that (the drinker) is exempt from an MIP,” Marino said. This bill, which will be introduced by Rep.

NEWS

MSU partnership promotes foreign business

More Michigan products might soon be popping up on store shelves across Asia, Europe and South America with the help of a new partnership at MSU to promote exports from the mitten. MSU’s International Business Center has partnered with the U.S.

NEWS

Police Brief 03/30/11

A 46-year-old female reported a woman, driving a 2000 Honda Civic, hit her car at 12:30 p.m. March 25 while it was parked in Lot 100, located east of the Clinical Center, MSU police Sgt.

Beau Hayhoe ·
MSU

Students compete using rubbish

On Tuesday, about 20 mentors and residents of Hubbard Hall competed to create functional objects using recycled household items that otherwise would be thrown away.