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FEATURES

Spartan strums toward harp dreams at MSU

Rachel Miller, a music performance junior, has played the harp since she was 8 years old. Recently she earned the position as a harpist in the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, while still continuing her education at MSU.

COMMENTARY

Advice not all about end result

I found some of my favorite kind of advice in The New York Times today. A bunch of graduate students from across the country banded together to give underclassmen tips on what they should do during their undergraduate years.

COMMENTARY

Out-of-state students should be short-term goal

With more than 46,000 student spots to fill in the Spartan pie each academic year, MSU has taken to harvesting fruit outside of state lines. In last year’s freshman class, 20.9 percent of MSU students were not from Michigan — the highest percentage this decade.

NEWS

The state of education

About 60 MSU College of Education students gathered at Breslin Center to hear U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement of a campaign to revitalize the teaching profession nationally. MSU was featured as one of four schools in the nationwide discussion on the state of the country’s future educators, which was featured in MSNBC’s “Education Nation” special series.

NEWS

President addresses concerns of students

With midterm elections rapidly approaching, President Barack Obama reached out to more than 100 college journalists Monday via conference call to emphasize the importance of student involvement in the upcoming election season, transparency in higher education spending, the job market and improving college graduation rates.

NEWS

Police Brief 09/28/10

A car sustained $400 worth of damage after a Thursday afternoon hit-and-run incident in Ramp 1 near Shaw Lane, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

Budget cuts impact MSU Extension offices

As Genesee County commissioners work to balance the county’s budget prior to the Friday deadline, officials at the MSU Extension office in Genesee County, Mich., are bracing for the potential of steep cuts.

SPORTS

Contenders beginning to emerge in NFL's Week 3

Week three of the NFL season was everything it was advertised to be. The winless teams laid everything on the line in an attempt to save their seasons, while the undefeated teams tried to prove their worth.