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Accafellas take the stage on the Morning Express

Taking their voices from the stage to the big screen, the Accafellas, an all-male a capella group at MSU, performed on Morning Express with Robin Meade on Sept. 23. Though the group was founded in 1996, this is the first time they’ve sung for a popular TV program.

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MSUnicyclers hope to get the wheel spinning

MSUnicyclers: a new MSU club that’s taking over campus one wheel at a time. That’s the legacy environmental studies and sustainability junior Evan Fischer said he hopes to create with the club he helped cofound in the spring of 2016.  Although he and current Lansing Community College emergency medical technician student Miranda Lieblein, had the idea in fall last year, it took them a while to get the ball rolling he said. Both students participated in the MSU Outdoors Club at the time, after those meetings they would go in the basement of IM West and practice their unicycling skills.

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MSU ROTC cadets get their first ruck march experience

Despite the pitch-black sky, discouraging 5:45 a.m. flashing on nearby clocks and the 35-pound backpacks tugging on their shoulders, each cadet proudly and without hesitation went to attention as soon as the flag was raised. MSU’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, meets three times a week to practice road marches, a three-mile march around campus. Sept. 21 was the first time many of the newest recruits would perform a road march. Mastering this skill is crucial to one’s success in the program and in the military as well.

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MSU alumnus competes in Paralympic Games in Rio

Stargardt’s disease: “The most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. The progressive vision loss associated with Stargardt disease is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells in the central portion of the retina called the macula,” according to blindness.org. In short, Stargardt’s disease decreases the sight of the carrier and makes their central vision progressively more blurry and distorted. 

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MSU football honors Mike Sadler with tribute during Wisconsin game

“Mike was one those guys that first of all, had a great demeanor about him, he was extremely competitive, he was a guy that liked to have fun, very intelligent individual.” - Mark Dantonio Sadler passed away this summer in a car accident, along with Nebraska punter Sam Foltz. The punter, along with seven other Spartans were inducted into the MSU Athletics Hall of Fame on Thursday.