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NEWS

Costly climb

Tuition for the 2008-09 academic year will increase about 7 percent, a decrease from last year’s tuition jump of 9.6 percent, according to a member of the MSU Board of Trustees.

NEWS

Police Brief 06/11/08

A purse was stolen out of a 1998 Chevrolet Venture in the parking lot of the University Club on Saturday between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

Restaurants, MSU react to FDA's tomato warning

Some MSU campus locations and East Lansing restaurants are pulling tomatoes from the menu after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began warning consumers Saturday to avoid eating certain types of raw tomatoes because of salmonella detection.

MICHIGAN

Summer gym numbers lower

Spurts of warm weather amidst recent severe storms have allowed for students and East Lansing residents to be outdoors, enjoying and exercising in the sunshine. But the news of clear, warm days aren’t as welcome to the area’s fitness centers and exercise classes, however, as attendance and enrollment lower with the season.

COMMENTARY

Storing medical records online seems dangerous

It can be a hassle trying to transfer your medical records from one doctor to another but Microsoft Corp. and Kaiser Permanente, a health care organization based in California that provides insurance and other services, have partnered to create what they hope will be the future filing cabinet of medical records.

COMMENTARY

Minimum wage not enough to live on

Everything is just so expensive. The national average for a gallon of regular gas is $4. The cost of food is expected to rise by 5 percent this year — the largest increase since 1990. The housing market is struggling as people are having their homes foreclosed on faster than someone can bid on them. Unemployment rates are up and it won’t be long before our energy bills rise in cost.

MSU

Unbroken circle

Gretel Rutledge remembers her life with her husband by a list of plays. A professor emerita of theater, she worked beside her husband Frank Rutledge, a professor emeritus of theater, to make MSU’s Summer Circle Theatre a campus tradition.