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NEWS

Police Brief 11/14/07

An unknown suspect entered the Kresge Art Center and drew on hall walls, a dorm frame and a couch with a black permanent marker earlier this week, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

Target practice

With Big Ten and National Championship hopes every year, there’s an athletic achievement that MSU coaches don’t typically name as a goal — an Olympic gold medal.

MSU

Faculty midterm review proposed

At Tuesday’s Faculty Council meeting faculty and administrators looked at another recommendation to strengthen the current way administrators — including the president and provost — are reviewed within the university.

FEATURES

Freshmen fifteen Q's

College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and their perspective on their new frontier.

FEATURES

Prayer power

As morning gives way to afternoon, the cold wind blowing outside, a congregation comes to its feet at their pews and chairs. The church, with its crisp white walls and maroon carpet, stays warm with the heat of two fireplaces. Eight windows line the room with lit candles on their sills.

FEATURES

Night moves

After a long night out with friends or buried beneath a pile of books, hunger inevitably strikes. Look no further than the streets of East Lansing to satisfy all those late night cravings.

COMMENTARY

Group's lack of transparency inappropriate

Even when MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom officials don’t talk, they make news. This time, they’re remaining mum about how they fund their notoriously controversial speakers, who have included British National Party Chairman Nick Griffin and Minuteman Civil Defense Corp. president and co-founder Chris Simcox.

COMMENTARY

Birth control good idea for middle schoolers

When I was the ripe age of 11, what I looked forward to was playing kickball during recess and drinking chocolate milk at lunch. It definitely wasn’t getting my next round of birth control pills, which are now available to middle school students in Maine.

NEWS

A different defense

While many methods of self-defense stress meditation and mental release, Krav Maga calls for the application of defense skills in real-world situations. For the first time in Michigan, the Israeli form of self-defense that stresses conflict avoidance and psychological readiness is being offered in a classroom environment at MSU.