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Weekend Guide
Thursday • The Lansing Lugnuts play Kane County at 6:05 p.m. at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
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Call it the great divide
The home computer market has long been a two-sided coin, with consumers being divided into two groups - the proud PC camp, and the fiercely loyal Apple camp.
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Thrill of packed sports arenas worth experience
If you’re one of the google of students who plan to be in a confined space with many sweaty, loud students - pay attention.
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Facility aids safety
Okemos - The 3.5-foot-thick slab of reinforced concrete will ensure that materials being tested by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won’t budge - even when they’re hit with simulated earthquakes, fires, explosions and pressures in the new Civil Infrastructure Laboratory.
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Leaders: Closed houses, low grades not reflective of system
From the outside, MSU’s greek community might look to be in trouble. Since fall 2001, two sororities closed their doors, a fraternity was shut down by its national organization after a hazing incident, and the percentage of greeks with a grade-point average below 2.0 increased. But greek officials say looks can be deceiving. “I won’t say it’s thriving,” Interfraternity Council President Paul Hage said.
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Shaw Hall steeped in stories, history
When Larry Goulette lived in Shaw Hall in 1973, the world was a different place. The Vietnam War was close to ending, the Watergate scandal was on the rise and the art of streaking was much more popular than it is today.“I remember we went through that cafeteria without the benefit of clothing,” said Goulette, an MSU alumnus who now lives in Allen Park.
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Violence ends areas only hip-hop night
Hip-hop lover Jamil Buie stood on Toronto’s club-lined Younge Street one Sunday afternoon in early August, soaking in the music and the culture that he loves. “There’s people here from all over the planet,” the 1999 MSU graduate described over the telephone.
COMMENTARY
Time for changing of the guard, enjoy the college life while you can
So, you’re in college. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to learn, expand your mind and go out into the world afterward a better person.
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U lab leads nation, vies for powerful accelerator
Sitting at a bank of monitors, an operator stares at his control panels. The monitors display dot graphs and a sterile white row of panels bristle with dials, switches and keys that the technician toggles and presses to get a stream of charged nuclear particles running again.
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See Spot walk
Students who are away from home for the first time often miss their families, friends and pets.The traditional cures for homesickness, of course, are a phone call or a trip home.But Fido can’t talk on the phone.So students who miss their beloved pets can turn to the MSU Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital.The hospital has a program that lets people check out a dog to walk for half an hour during the hospital’s normal business hours, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m, Monday-Friday.Gretchen McDaniel, who has worked as a vet technician for about 18 years, said the free program began gradually, with a few students coming in and asking if there were any dogs they could walk.McDaniel said the clinic can’t allow people’s ill pets to be sent out, but there are about six to 10 dogs used as blood donors that live there.“That’s kind of how it started,” she said.
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How to turn bare walls into home
Allison Coleman may be a senior, but she remembers decorating her dorm room like it was yesterday.“We had everything from Christmas lights to a ‘Little Mermaid’ poster,” the 20-year-old psychology major said.It’s that time again when the dorms open up their lonely, dusty rooms and the local stores get ready to help freshmen make the small space livable, and even attractive.“I lived in Landon my freshman year and I won’t lie, the space was tight, but you have to make the best of it,” Coleman said.
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Impounded bicycles left unclaimed end up on sale
Many times students see them left on campus, long forgotten, tires flat, rust collecting on the bars and seats missing. MSU Parking Services has impounded more than 1,300 bicycles since this summer. And while students are notified by letter if their bike has been impounded, many times bicycles are not retrieved. Many of them are taken to the MSU Surplus Store after no one bothers to retrieve their transportation.
ICE HOCKEY
Coach: Icers to focus on stronger offensive play
Now that hockey head coach Rick Comley has moved from Marquette to East Lansing, he’s looking at ways to loosen up the rickety offense that plagued the Spartans’ 2-0 loss to Colorado College in the first round of last year’s NCAA Tournament.
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Go green. Go white. Go bronze.
After 57 years of being pelted by sleet, rain and Wolverine vandalism, somehow Sparty still manages to stand tall and hold his chin up proudly. At 10-feet-6-inches, the ceramic statue is perhaps MSU’s most-recognized icon, towering over his perch near the Red Cedar River since then-President John A.
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Campus maps may be dorky, but youll find they come in handy
“You are here.”The little red “X” on the map details your exact position on campus, yet everything surrounding that “X” looks foreign to you.
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14-year-old genius becomes Spartan
Starting college can be scary. It can be tough for any 18-year-old to suddenly leave home and be on their own.
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Campus coffee shop offers sweet option to caf
People looking for an early-morning caffeine boost or a sweet treat don’t have to head off campus.Barista Cafe, which opened in February 2001, is in a quaint little spot in the lobby of South Case Hall.
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Row your boat
Residents looking for a nearby outdoor adventure have a couple more weeks to consider canoeing on the Red Cedar River. During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, MSU Concessions offers a canoeing service for the MSU community. “We offer this service because we feel that some things are just good for the community,” said Bill Kost, operations manager at MSU Concessions.
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More than simple beans
College students throughout the decades have long searched for ways to express themselves through music and spoken words.
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Battle of the boxes
If you’ve always sucked at sports but dreamed of playing for the Tigers, hitting the game-winning home run in extra innings or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal as the point guard for the Pistons, then you might be a video game player. Or maybe you just don’t have any friends, and the combobulation of pixels beaming with light make for a good replacement when the hours drag by. If you don’t play video games, get a friggin’ console already.