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MSU

FBI co-hosts safety, security conference

Administrators, FBI agents and community officials gathered Wednesday to discuss various issues of security, safety and protection of information in a university setting at the MSU-FBI Academic Alliance Conference in the Union.

MICHIGAN

City holds energy efficiency class

The city of East Lansing partnered with the Greater Lansing Housing Coalition and Hometown Housing Partnership to hold East Lansing’s first Homeowner Education and Resource Organization, or HERO, class. The class was held at Michigan Energy Options, 405 Grove St., to give local residents the opportunity to learn about their home’s energy systems and use, said Amy Schlusler-Owens, a community development specialist with the city of East Lansing. “It’s essential to educate homeowners not only on energy efficiency, but also on the way that they can minimize their overhead costs for home ownership,” she said. One of eight registered families and residents attended.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartan icers ready for No. 9 Alaska

The No. 16 MSU hockey team is going from the Black Bears to the polar bears — the No. 9 Alaska Nanooks to be exact. After finishing last weekend with a win and a tie against No. 12 Maine, MSU will take on CCHA foe Alaska on Friday and Saturday at Munn Ice Arena.

COMMENTARY

Art turns shame into strength

In the past, tattoos were applied for various reasons; the embodiment of magical protection, a relief from pain, a declaration of vengeance, victory, religious belief or humiliation.

COMMENTARY

Goldsmith's column offered little besides sensationalism

I fear Mitch Goldsmith’s article, “Column ignored price of hunting” (SN 10/19), was sensationalist, at best. While he noted that staff writer Laura Fosmire “relies on the myth and romanticized conceptions of hunting” for the lack of her family background, I come from a long line of individuals who hunt as well as others who do not.

NEWS

A constitutional question

Under the state’s current constitution, a ballot proposal is automatically generated every 16 years, asking voters if they would like to rewrite the document. If passed by voters, the proposal would set in motion a constitutional convention to write the fifth constitution in Michigan’s history.

FEATURES

Aziz Ansari entertains, delivers laughs at MSU

The average-looking 27-year-old, who dresses like a GQ model and jokes around like a high school freshman, walked on stage as if he’d been doing stand-up comedy since birth. Maybe it was because Ansari’s act was the first stand-up comedian I’ve seen, but I, creepily sitting by myself in a sea of people, chuckled quite a bit more than I had expected I would.