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COMMENTARY

Story left reader mildly confused

This is in response to the article on Feb. 16, "Student found dead in E.L." A couple lines in this article confused me a little bit. One, the student's name is not being released because the family has not been notified.

MICHIGAN

School board to vote on closing 6 locations

Nine people will decide the fate of seven Lansing schools and their hundreds of students and staff tonight at the Lansing Board of Education meeting. Due to declining enrollment and $32 million in budget deficits from the past three years, the district is considering closing five elementary schools and one middle school.

MSU

WEB ONLY: Student group launches academic integrity campaign

Members of the Public Relations Student Society of America will be promoting academic integrity and giving away candy today on campus. The group launched an awareness campaign earlier this week to educate MSU students of the dangers of academic dishonesty and its long-term effects.

MSU

Restaurants plan to leave campus in spring

Students craving a Frosty, a Gordita Supreme or some Crazy Bread will have to look somewhere other than the MSU campus next year. The Wendy's and Taco Bell in the International Center and the Wendy's and Little Caesars Pizza in the Union will close at the end of Spring semester after they decided not to rebid on their current contracts, said Jim Sheppard, manager of the Union. Taco Bell and both Wendy's locations have been at those MSU spots since 1995, and Little Caesars is the longest-running restaurant on campus, having been open since 1987, Sheppard said. Both Wendy's stores are operated by Stanton & Associates Inc., which owns 63 Wendy's locations in Mid-Michigan. Randy Israel, a partner at Stanton, said there were multiple reasons why the company decided not to stay. Both stores must operate during summer and winter breaks when students aren't on campus, which makes for slow business, Israel said. He added that the stores experience peak business during lunch hours, but receive almost no customers before or after, due to a lack of foot traffic. "If you're a student after 5 p.m.

NEWS

Willamena treads on familiar ground

Call it what you will: the soundtrack that wasn't, the rock band that doesn't. However you put it, Kalamazoo's Willamena could be the most talented, uninspired band in Michigan. Willamena got started in 1996 when it brought "honest rock 'n' roll" back to its local music scene.

NEWS

NHL owners make final offer with $42.5M salary cap boost

The NHL made a take-it-or-leave-it pitch to the players' association on Tuesday night, just hours before hockey was set to be canceled altogether. The league bumped its salary-cap proposal from $40 million to $42.5 million and gave the union until 11 a.m.

FEATURES

Peering into the future

Years ago, children everywhere ripped a single sheet of notebook paper from their Trapper Keepers and folded, tore and colored their way to a cootie catcher.

NEWS

Student found dead in E.L.

A 20-year-old male MSU student was found dead Tuesday evening in an East Lansing residence on the 300 block of Spartan Avenue, officials said. The student's name is not being released because the family has not been notified, East Lansing police Sgt.

FEATURES

Double or nothing

Double standards exist in almost all areas of life. For example, how come there aren't as many changing tables in men's bathrooms as there are women's bathrooms?

COMMENTARY

Park place

The lack of parking on campus has students pulling their hair out. Not only is this frustration cause for illegal parking and tickets, but the cost of meter parking can become quite expensive.