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New program to help nursing students

Once a disadvantaged nursing student, Regina Traylor knows the struggles of gaining support in higher education. Now an academic specialist in the MSU College of Nursing, Traylor is helping students in similar situations overcome the odds with the Nursing Workforce Diversity Program.

MICHIGAN

Former MSU professor fights to end high illiteracy

A retired MSU professor is looking to put an end to high illiteracy numbers. Lois Bader, who also is the executive director of the Capital Area Literacy Coalition, is recruiting MSU students to become tutors for Read to Succeed, a program that focuses on the literacy of children and teens in the area.

COMMENTARY

MSU Alumnus: fraternity event was not a good idea

Lambda Chi Alpha posted a party on Facebook called the “Freshman ‘Fifth’teen.” As members of the greek community have suffered grievous injury and death due to binge drinking, they do lip service to the idea of responsible drinking with no change.

COMMENTARY

A guide to taming 'blur' on campus

The first days of classes are a blur for everyone. One of the major reasons for this is the disastrous combination of speeds ranging from “Fast and Furious” to “Driving Miss Daisy” on campus and Grand River Avenue.

COMMENTARY

Report important, but not the be-all, end-all

In a recent college ranking study published by U.S. News & World Report, MSU was ranked last out of all the colleges currently in the Big Ten Conference. When it’s phrased that way, it sounds pretty awful, and kind of demeaning. But in most cases, the MSU experience is not one that can be captured by a number.

FEATURES

Spartans begin social networking site to aide in organization

MSU alumnus Roman Stotland, communication and economics senior Ajay Arumugam and MSU alumnus Justin Rappaport met as student employees at MSU’s College of Education. But since July 2009, they have been business founders of SocialTab Inc., a company that will offer products and services related to social media and public relations.

NEWS

Fall Welcome engages students

Policemen on horseback, parties that spilled into the streets and the rush to find her way around campus are just a few of the images Viktoria Taube recalls from her freshman year Welcome Week two years ago. For biochemical engineering freshman Matt Peyser, things were a bit different.

NEWS

Divisions good news for MSU, team rivalries

One of the final pieces to the expansion puzzle was put into place Wednesday when the Big Ten Conference officially announced how the conference will be divided beginning in 2011. And if there is one conference school that should have no complaints with the new look of the Big Ten, it is MSU.