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FOOTBALL

Football team practices at Ford Field

Detroit – The anticipation could be felt on the inside of Ford Field Thursday as the head coaches from both MSU and Florida Atlantic held a joint press conference and the MSU football team practiced afterward in advance of the nonconference game, which is scheduled for Sept. 11.

COMMENTARY

Some Americans could use cultural center

This is the imperceptive radicalism fueling our nation right now. Gingrich and Sarah Palin with her ever-so subtle and yet so inane pleads of Islam adherents compassion toward American jingoism only are a few of the people to be named in the campaign to mystify the distinction between terrorism and community cultural centers.

FOOTBALL

Football camp update: Young players hitting wall

The excitement of beginning preseason camp has subsided, and the MSU football team now is looking forward to the beginning of the regular season. Now halfway through camp, head coach Mark Dantonio said this is the time players usually hit the wall and need some extra motivation to get through the rest preseason.

NEWS

A grand scale

A residence hall and the epicenter of the Brody Complex are nearing milestones in their respective renovations. Both projects, which total tens of millions of dollars combined, represent the grand scale of facelifts to campus buildings being carried out by MSU.

NEWS

Bus route change causes controversy

Riding the bus might be a little more crowded for MSU’s East Neighborhood and River Trail Neighborhood residents this fall after a route change in the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus system.

MICHIGAN

Democratic committee must wait to convene

The uncertainty and tumult in Michigan’s 8th congressional district for a Democratic candidate continues, as the Michigan Secretary of State still has not received an official notarized statement from the previous nominee, as of Monday. MSU alumnus Kande Ngalamulume, the former Democratic nominee for the U.S. House seat, twice entered and retreated from the race, giving a rare opportunity for a committee to appoint a new candidate to the ballot.

MSU

MSU 'green' buildings improve worker health

Students and employees might want to think twice before going into a building that is not LEED-certified, according to a study by researchers from MSU. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certifications are a set of requirements to improve indoor environmental quality in buildings. Buildings that are LEED-certified have been proven to improve health in employees.

MICHIGAN

E.L. offering free bike rides for city officials

East Lansing residents might notice city officials pedaling through town after a new transportation program put into place for city employees. The East Lansing Green Task Force recently began to place bikes around the city at several facilities for employees to use when going between meetings and buildings.

MICHIGAN

Lansing Flow Fest to show local rap

Lansing Flow Fest, a Christian rap festival, will take place 5:30-10 p.m. Friday at Lansing’s Adado Riverfront Park. The fourth annual event features all ages rap and hip-hop performances by nationally and locally known Christian musicians.

MSU

Sandbox Party to discuss child issues

The Sandbox Party will hold the Sandbox Party Convention from 1-4 p.m. Aug. 26 at Breslin Center. A nonpartisan group, the Sandbox Party advocates for a wide range of early childhood issues, including pushing for an increased state investment in child care and preschools, despite Michigan’s poor economic climate and lack of government funding.

MICHIGAN

Highway motor tour to roll through E.L.

The Old US 27 Motor Tour will showcase classic cars from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at Eastwood Towne Center, 3003 Preyde Blvd., in Lansing. The tour, along the old US-27 highway, starts Aug. 24 in Auburn, Ind., and ends Aug. 29 in Cheboygan, Mich., with nine stops between the two cities.

MSU

Bell-ringing recital to be held Sunday

Some of MSU’s carilloneurs — the musicians who ring the bells at Beaumont Tower — will play a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at Beaumont Tower. The recital will be in memory of Milton E. Muelder, a former MSU political science professor and dean of the Graduate School, who died at age 101 in May.

MSU

MSU set to launch msuENet Thursday

MSU Entrepreneurship Network, or msuENet, will launch Thursday at East Lansing Technology Innovation Center, 325 E. Grand River Ave., and will provide an opportunity for those interested in entrepreneurship to connect with others curious about the same topic.

MSU

MSU graduate student awarded $150K fellowship for research

Throughout the past three years at MSU, bacterial life has been Ben Roller’s 40-hour-a-week obsession. A third year microbiology and molecular genetics graduate student at MSU, Roller has been researching various aspects of the bacterial life cycle since he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota. Thanks to a more than $150,000 fellowship, Roller will have another three years to study bacteria in the laboratory.

COMMENTARY

'Someday' is not a part of the week

At the end of spring semester, I told myself I was going to take a step back and learn to relax for a little while. During the summer I had planned to do yoga, read lots of books, enroll myself in an anger management course, look at graduate schools and just breathe.

COMMENTARY

MSU should show a little more faith in students

These past summer sessions at MSU have been somewhat eventful compared to the slow pace of those in years past. With changes happening across campus, ranging from road construction and residence hall renovations to the elimination of undergraduate programs at MSU Dubai and the assault on student savings to pay for increased tuition and possible parking tickets, MSU is not the same campus it was in early May.