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MICHIGAN

Voting changes recommended

Lansing — Changing absentee voting and improving polling areas were key parts of recommendations made Wednesday by Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land before the Senate Campaign and Election Oversight committee.

WOMEN'S SOCCER

Super sophs continue freshman year success

The first chapter of Lauren Hill and Lauren Sinacola’s MSU careers couldn’t have been scripted any better. As freshmen, Hill and Sinacola finished one-two in goals and points for the Spartans and were both selected to the Big Ten All-Freshman team.

COMMENTARY

Third party needed for reputable evaluation

MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University, a group that makes up the largest research university cluster in the nation, are worth more than $12.8 billion and represent 68,800 jobs. At least that’s according to a new study released Monday by the East Lansing-based Anderson Economic Group.

COMMENTARY

Western culture worth the fight

Our culture is being eroded and the American way of life is under siege by radical leftists who desire to destroy Western civilization. What communism would have done to our economy had it prospered as some “Americans” desired, multiculturalism will do to our culture if it succeeds — and that is destroy it.

MSU

Students embrace Jewish holiday

If Abbey Askotzky was at home during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, she’d be taking the day off school and going to temple with her family. Her mom would have been in the kitchen the day before, preparing food and shaping braided challah bread with raisins into a circle, to symbolize the sweet new year.

NEWS

Hollis eager to bring more championships during tenure

In recommending MSU’s next athletics director, Trustee Melanie Foster didn’t have to pull too many strings. From the get-go, the board, MSU athletics department and potential candidates all knew what Foster knew: “Mark Hollis met all the criteria.”

NEWS

Here to help

In 1965, one MSU master’s student initiated a movement that changed the relationship between students and university officials. His efforts, which spanned the course of two years, led to the creation of the Academic Freedom Report and the Office of the Ombudsman in 1967.

NEWS

MSU hosts conference on developing wind energy

A solution to finding sustainable energy sources and lasting Michigan jobs could come out of thin air — with wind. The MSU Land Policy Institute wrapped up the two-day Manufacturing and Developing Wind Energy Systems in Michigan conference on campus Tuesday.

FEATURES

Yoga nation

While no exact date can be found for its creation, the practice of yoga is said to go back thousands of years. This fall, find body, mind and spiritual rejuvenation through the ancient physical practice of yoga.