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VIDEO: Violin and Piano duo rock MSU's Botanical Garden

Michigan State's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden hosted its third concert of the summer on Friday, Aug 7, when Oleg and Natalia Bezuglova performed a their duet at lunchtime.  The Bezuglova's are both graduate students here at MSU and their performance is exactly what organizers of the event had in mind when setting up the Music in the Garden program.  "This is exactly what we were shooting for on this sort of event," Botanical Technician Pete Murray said.

MSU

Week in Review: August 7, 2015

Here are the top stories for the week of Aug. 7.  The 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference used MSU as a venue this week, with 15,000 boy scouts foraging onto campus just a week after the scouts voted to allow openly gay leaders.  Beginning on Monday and lasting until Saturday, the major events included a ribbon cutting where the Goodman Edson Observatory, a museum to the last 100 years of the Order of the Arrow, was opened.

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Former, current Spartans score bronze medals in Pan Am Games

Representing MSU at the recent 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto were senior basketball guard Denzel Valentine and recent graduate and sprinter Jellisa Westney. Valentine and the USA basketball team managed to capture a bronze medal at the games and the senior guard was able to produce despite limited opportunity. Valentine averaged just 11.4 minutes a game, good for the second lowest on the team on a team of 12.  Despite the low minute totals, Valentine came in at No.