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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.

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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.

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.