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ASMSU to lobby against Safe Campus Act

The Associated Students of Michigan State University will join forces with associations from other Big Ten Schools to lobby against the Safe Campus Act. The act was originally introduced in July 2015 as an attempt to protect victims of sexual assault on college campuses, but has come under fire in recent months for certain provisions.

NEWS

Live Blog: No. 12 MSU vs. Rutgers

Welcome to the live coverage blog for the men's college basketball game between the No. 12 Michigan State Spartans (18-4) and the Rutgers (6-15). Follow along and participate below as we cover the game live from Breslin Center.

MSU

Sorority Alpha Xi Delta to get chapter house

A few weeks into the fall semester, hundreds of women choose to go through the Panhellenic Council’s formal sorority recruitment and find their metaphorical home. Next fall, one sorority will finally get its actual home at 855 Grove St.

MICHIGAN

E.L. residents have mixed feelings about Bailey Community Center renovations

The Capital Area Housing Project cleared its final hurdle early this month when it was awarded low-income housing tax credit by the state, clearing the way for renovations to the Bailey Community Center to become a primarily a senior living center. Now as the CAHP plans to begin building soon, some Bailey neighborhood residents still resent the loss of a one time pillar of the community. SO

MSU

Tips to conserve more water on campus

MSU prides itself on being a green campus, and students can be a large part of this initiative. According to the Residential and Hospitality Services Sustainability Office, the amount of water consumed by residence halls in one year could fill three-and-a-half Spartan Stadiums.

MSU

MSU professor brings new type of artificial intelligence to world of video games

An MSU professor has developed a revolutionary new type of artificial intelligence (AI), and he's bringing it to the world of video games for its first real-world application.  Dr. Arend Hintze, assistant professor for integrative biology and computer science and engineering at MSU, has developed a new form of AI that can adapt and learn over time through a process similar to Darwinian evolution.  "All these systems (Watson, Siri) which are these super-great hallmarks of artificial intelligence are really expert systems that have no general purpose intelligence, like a cockroach, for example," Hintze said.

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MSU Counter Cuisine Club changing the way students eat

Computer science senior Ethan Boyd sat in class learning about the potential dangers of food processing. Figures, such as a projected nine percent of all greenhouse gas emissions come from animal agricultural in the United States according to John Hopkins Center, and many others opened his eyes growing concerns. He was not alone.