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ICE HOCKEY

MSU Hockey kicks off season with Media Day

The MSU hockey team held their annual media day at Munn Ice Arena, where head coach Tom Anastos addressed the media along with his players in attendance. Anastos and his team comes off a disappointing 2015-2016 campaign, where they posted a 10-23-4 record, fifth in the Big Ten.

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Main Library opens new gaming rooms

Anyone who walks into the Main Library might notice changes to rooms previously meant for reading and studying — gaming rooms opened last month. In March, MSU Libraries was given an estimated 17,000 electronic games. Each game must be catalogued and processed — something that has proven difficult.

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Hubbard Dining Hall to close, transition to special events dining hall

After Oct. 6, Hubbard Dining Hall will be switching over to special events only dining. After “The Edge” at Akers Hall was opened, Hubbard Hall didn’t see as many students as it used to. “Once we opened Akers—brand new, bigger operation, air conditioned—of the over a thousand residents in Hubbard, we feed less than 200 each meal in Hubbard; they all go to Akers,” Matt McKune, associate director for residential dining, said. The dining hall in Hubbard was one of three in East Neighborhood.

FOOTBALL

Dantonio shakes up offensive line, looking to win the battle up front against BYU

MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio addressed some of the issues he talked about following the loss to Indiana last Saturday, starting with the offensive line. Dantonio shuffled around some pieces to make the unit hopefully more concise to protect senior quarterback Tyler O’Connor and open up holes for a running game that has struggled since its 260-yard explosion against Notre Dame.

FEATURES

Professor continues old hobby in Snyder Hall

With digital technology dominating the college curriculum, students hardly get the opportunity to learn manual skills, such as binding and printing. MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, offers a book arts course where professor Anita Skeen, along with five or six others, teach students how to write, print and bind on a printing press.

COMMENTARY

COLUMN: MSU football is stuck in a youthful limbo

Some dreams die young. MSU football's died in infancy. After shocking the world last season behind heart attack victories en route to the College Football Playoff, MSU unveiled the naive mantra of “Back2Back.” It had that childish pretense of wanting to grow up a superhero before learning the realities that magic, Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy do not exist outside the mind and flying, requires wings.