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COMMENTARY

The darkness of 'Black Friday'

The Christmas movie “Jingle All the Way” aptly captures the “spirit” of holiday shopping. However, the movie is looking less like a comedic exaggeration of shopping chaos and more like a pretty accurate representation of Black Friday.

COMMENTARY

Time to lift the veil from cost of higher education

The cost of higher education might not be such a jaw dropper when colleges begin posting a required net-price cost calculator. The federal government has given universities abut a year to post an online cost calculator to help students and their families understand the financial burden of each semester, or in some cases, the students entire academic career.

FOOTBALL

At long last

Four years after John L. Smith was run out of town and Mark Dantonio was brought into East Lansing as the new head coach, the No. 7 Spartans (11-1 overall, 7-1 Big Ten) have a share in the Big Ten championship for the first time since 1990.

FOOTBALL

Community reacts to MSU win, Big Ten title

As MSU football players dumped containers of green and white confetti on head coach Mark Dantonio at Beaver Stadium in State College, Pa., students in East Lansing and at home for Thanksgiving celebrated MSU’s first Big Ten championship since 1990.

NEWS

Police Brief 11/29/10

An MSU vehicle was found with its passenger-side mirror smashed between Saturday night and Sunday morning in Lot 63 East near Breslin Center, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MICHIGAN

Downtown E.L. takes hit on Black Friday

Although Black Friday sales brought hoards of shoppers to some malls and department stores across the nation, businesses in downtown East Lansing did not fare as well. MSU students, a large demographic of business in the area, were gone for the Thanksgiving holiday for most of the weekend, said Joe Bell, co-owner of The Peanut Barrel, 521 E.