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MSU students protest Iranian president

Iranian students gathered Wednesday afternoon at the rock on Farm Lane to take part in a protest that won’t just raise awareness at MSU, but will support demonstrators thousands of miles away in Iran.

MICHIGAN

Board of Water and Light gets award

The Lansing Board of Water and Light received the Regional Growth Award from the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce. The award was given to the board because of its leadership in various energy projects, such as constructing and operating Michigan’s largest solar array and being the first utility in the state to adopt a renewable portfolio standard, which is a regulation requiring the increased production of energy from renewable energy sources. It is one of seven companies and organizations receiving the Regional Growth Award from the Chamber of Commerce.

FEATURES

Monotony, length results in disappointing concert experience

The Auditorium was in fine form, with inclined seating and elegantly dressed ushers creating an upscale atmosphere. The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, skillfully snagged Anberlin, The All-American Rejects and Taking Back Sunday to kick off their nationwide tour at MSU, and although the audience knew it would be a long night full of music, they couldn’t have expected the one four-hour song they were about to hear.

FEATURES

Wolfmother fails to live up to previous CD

Four years after their critically acclaimed and truly refreshing debut, Australian rock band Wolfmother has released its second album, titled “Cosmic Egg,” to get fans rocking once more. Although it’s definitely some talented rock ‘n’ roll, it lacks the eccentric Wolfmother style I had learned to love so much.

FEATURES

RCAH screens free shakespeare film

Residential College in the Arts and Humanities is screening “O,” a modern film adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello,” 7:00 p.m. Sunday in the RCAH Theater in Snyder Hall as part of the RCAH Film Series.

COMMENTARY

Students should not fear police

Police worry students have no respect for justice, so they hit students over the head with it. Students think police don’t sympathize with them as fellow humans beings, and that they have no respect for individuality or moral integrity, and so they learn to duck.

COMMENTARY

Case highlights dangers of social networking

Our generation finds itself in the middle of a storm of Internet dating sites, Facebook and various other friend-finders. The Web hasn’t been a safe place for kids to surf for some time now, but young adults shouldn’t be ignorant to its possibilities or dangers.