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COMMENTARY

2013 conference ahead of schedule, anticipates success

MSU has a long, unique history of collaboration among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups. Through the Campus Planning Coalition, leaders of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, ASMSU and the Registered Student Organization, or RSO, LBGTA groups come together to discuss group events on campus and also to plan large-scale, campus-wide events such as Pride Week.

COMMENTARY

US involvement in Libya saves lives

The American involvement in the international intervention in Libya is drawing a lot of negative attention. A Gallup Poll conducted last monday found only 47 percent of Americans approve of the military role the U.S. is playing in the campaign; 37 percent flat out disapprove.

FEATURES

Performance to bring awareness to suicides prompted by bullying

Hannah Pilarski said she never will look at bullying in the same way. Pilarski will perform music she wrote in “The Bullycide Project,” which debuts at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The performance focuses on the lives of 10 individuals who committed suicide due to bullying and was derived from “Bullycide in America,” a book written by mothers of students who took their lives.

NEWS

Saying goodbye

MSU alumnus Curtis Fideler still has a lapel pin emblazoned with the initials “MSC” — or Michigan State College, the former name of MSU — that his grandfather, a 1943 alumnus, gave to him after his own graduation in 1987. “It’s always a reminder to me that at one point (the school) was MSC,” Fideler said.

BASKETBALL

Izzo: Sherman to leave MSU men’s basketball program

For the third time in seven months, a member of the MSU men’s basketball team is leaving the program. MSU announced Monday sophomore center Garrick Sherman would be transferring. “I met with every player after the season about making a commitment to the program and each other,” head coach Tom Izzo said in a release.

FOOTBALL

Sims returns to football for spring practice

Sophomore tight end Dion Sims has been reinstated to the MSU football team for spring practice, head coach Mark Dantonio said Monday. Sims was suspended from the team after being charged with receiving and concealing stolen property in September 2010 and was sentenced to a year of probation on Dec.

NEWS

Police Brief 03/29/11

A 28-year-old man from Redford, Mich., allegedly was assaulted between 9:55-10 a.m. March 24 near the intersection of Farm Lane and Auditorium Road, MSU police Sgt.

MSU

Federal cuts affect MSU radio, students

With a proposed cut of up to $430 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting adding to the constant array of changes facing radio broadcasting, the futures of the medium and the students pursuing it as a career are in limbo.

MICHIGAN

CEO to contest Mich. ban of obscenely named beer

Human biology junior Steve Hanrahan is a craft beer drinker and a fan of the brand Flying Dog. But Hanrahan won’t get to taste the company’s newest beer at any East Lansing bar — it’s been banned in Michigan because of a potentially offensive label and product name.

NEWS

Spring is beer

The scent of orange slices drifted through Crunchy’s, 254 W. Grand River Ave., Monday as customers celebrated the seasonal release of Bell’s Oberon Ale.