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Students show solidarity with Libyan protestors
A protest at the rock on Farm Lane on Monday sought to increase awareness of the current bloodshed in Libya.
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MSU and Saginaw health alliance to end in June
A more than 40-year-old partnership between MSU and a Saginaw, Mich., health alliance will end this summer, university officials said Monday.
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MSU Museum missing stuffed anteater
MSU Museum and MSU Police officials hope to sniff out a suspect in the case of a missing anteater.
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Department merger aims to benefit students, faculty
After a unanimous vote by the MSU Board of Trustees at its February meeting, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of French, Classics and Italian have been merged together to reform the Department of Romance and Classical Languages.
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Conference aims at increasing diversity in STEM fields
The fourth annual Strengthening the Pipeline: The Need for Diversity in STEM Fields forum scheduled for tonight hopes to strengthen the number of minority students in graduate schools and professional outlets.
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Duo teaches gardening to revive Flint
An unlikely duo of martial arts and agriculture brought together in Flint, Mich., became the inspiration for an MSU-produced documentary that will be featured later today during an on-campus screening.
FEATURES
Aluminum-inspired dance show to debut at Wharton
It all began with one aluminum tube. Ilan Azriel was in a hardware store searching for materials to jump-start a production idea when a small aluminum tube fell from one of the shelves. Azriel picked up the tube and, after observing its movement, decided to create “The Aluminum Show” on this concept, said David Azulay, the show’s executive producer and CEO.Now, less than a decade after dreaming up the idea, Azriel’s show is onstage on a four-month U.S. tour, which includes a stop at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center.
FEATURES
Freshman fifteen Q’s: 02/22/11
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
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UAB to give sneak preview of ‘Paul’
The University Activities Board, or UAB, will sponsor an advance screening of the film, “Paul,” at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Room 319 of the Union.
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Old Town to host show as fundraiser
Perspective2 will sponsor the “Old Town Stomp,” from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday at Perspective2, 319 E. Grand River Ave., in Lansing.
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Strings players to perform Beethoven
The College of Music will celebrate classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven in Everything Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Music Building Auditorium.
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Ballroom dance organizations overlap while maintaining differences
There are nearly as many similarities as differences when it comes to comparing the two student ballroom dance organizations on campus — but the differences are important if you ask Nick Mizesko. Mizesko, a journalism junior and president of the newly established Spartan Ballroom Dance Team, said his organization reaches for different goals than the original ballroom dance organization on campus, the MSU Ballroom Dance Team.
COMMENTARY
Cutting Earned Income Tax Credit will harm Michigan
Gov. Rick Snyder’s state budget proposal contained some ideas worth considering and several that should sound alarm bells for those concerned about Michigan’s future: a $222 million cut to colleges and universities; a $100 million cut to revenue sharing, which funds essential services provided by communities; and a $470 per-pupil cut to K-12 educati
COMMENTARY
The emergence of a granular nation
I recently had the opportunity to attend the teach-in panel on the uprisings throughout North Africa and the Middle East hosted by the Arab Cultural Society. The panel featured several professors from various colleges at MSU.
COMMENTARY
Item-pricing not the boogeyman it’s made out to be
A proposed change to Michigan’s item-pricing laws boils down to choosing between jobs and consumers or businesses and money. Michigan’s Legislature should think hard about who it’s working for when considering a bill to loosen an item-pricing law that currently requires most groceries to be labeled with individual price tags.
Anthony Odoardi
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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
MSU clinches share of Big Ten, still has work left to do
For MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant, being crowned Big Ten champions was something she and the No. 10 Spartans aspired to do when the season began.
Jeremy Warnemuende
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Spartans, Golden Golphers with similar seasons, need wins
Spartans set for rematch against Minnesota.
NEWS
E.L. gets seven inches of snow, storm coming to end
After about seven to eight inches of snow it the Lansing area yesterday, the worst of the storm is done for now. Nathan Jeruzal, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service said about an inch of light snow can be expected this afternoon and the next few days will remain chilly with temperatures hovering around the 20s. “Right now the heaviest snow is pretty much done for the Lansing area,” Jeruzal said. Although yesterday there were a high number of automobile accidents — 15 alone in the span of several hours and 19 total — today has been relatively quiet on the roads, said East Lansing police Capt.
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Back on top
After five consecutive years of watching Ohio State reign atop the Big Ten conference and raise banner after banner, the No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team — with a 69-56 victory at Illinois — have dethroned the former champions and will carry the trophy a few hours north to East Lansing.
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MSU student arraigned for stabbing
One MSU student remains in the hospital while another awaits trial after an altercation broke out early Friday morning involving a knife. Ryan Ravary, a 20-year-old MSU student, was arrested Friday morning for allegedly stabbing two other MSU students in the back and side repeatedly during the altercation, which occurred in the 100 block of Spartan Street, according to a press release from the East Lansing Police Department. Ravary was arraigned later that day and faces two counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm, a 10-year felony, and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony. The injuries to both students were nonlethal, but they were taken to Sparrow Hospital.