Tuesday, April 14, 2026

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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.

FEATURES

Spring means teaching transitions for education majors

As the spring semester comes to a close, first-year education graduate students are finishing their year of student teaching while undergraduates prepare to lead their own classrooms — a task, said Gary Scott, an education senior, that is critical to taking the next step in education.

Production by Krystle Wagner, Compiled by Robbie Couch ·
NEWS

Spartan summers

It’s that time of year again. Caps and gowns are arriving on doorsteps, torturous final exams loom around the corner and dorm-room clutter becomes organized, soon to be boxed away.

MSU

MSU Cookie Club holds baking competition

Derek Tisler knows about cookies. On Thursday, Tisler put his cookie knowledge to the test and entered his batch of cookies in the MSU Cookie Club’s cookie baking competition in the basement of Mason Hall.