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WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

Spartans dominate Xavier 66-53

Everything MSU was missing during its sluggish effort Sunday against Indiana was there — and more — Wednesday night against No. 8 Xavier. The Spartans brought the energy, excitement and enthusiasm that head coach Suzy Merchant thought was missing Sunday in a dominating 66-53 win against the Musketeers Wednesday night at Breslin Center.

MSU

DeVos to be given honorary degree

MSU will present Grand Rapids businessman and philanthropist Richard DeVos Sr., co-founder of Amway, with an honorary doctorate of humanities at the Saturday graduation commencement ceremony.

MICHIGAN

Clinic offers H1N1 vaccines Saturday

The H1N1 vaccine will be available from 9 a.m. to noon beginning Saturday at Hill Career Academy, 5815 Wise Road, in Lansing. From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Dec. 16, a community clinic will be held at Holt High School, 5885 W. Holt Road, in Holt.

MSU

Print group elects Kresge director

Susan Bandes, director of the Kresge Art Museum, was elected Nov. 6 to the Print Council of America, an organization of more than 200 print specialists in the U.S. and Canada ranging from curators to university professors.

MSU

MSU professors study different uses of social networking sites

Signing into Facebook during class normally is looked down upon by MSU faculty, but some MSU professors are taking a different approach through research on social networking sites. Nicole Ellison, an assistant professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media is part of a team using about $500,000 from a National Science Foundation grant to study how people use social networking sites such as Facebook. “The story of students using Facebook in class and not paying attention … (is) one small part of it,” Ellison said.