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Spreading Kindness

Kindness and courage. These two words personified Charlie Waller. Although Charlie, the son of MSU history professor John Waller, passed away Dec. 5, 2013, from cancer at the age of five, no one could have predicted the impact Charlie would have on the East Lansing and MSU communities.

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Recent shooting draws attention to lack of parking lot security

In the most recent parking garage incident, two men were shot, resulting in one fatality. As of Tuesday, police have not announced the capture of any suspects, whom they described as two black males, the first being 5 feet 9 inches tall, weighing between 165 and 180 pounds and last seen wearing “a hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans.” The second was described as a 5-foot-11-inch black male, weighing about 200 pounds.

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Activists prepare for Valentine's Day domestic violence march

Participants will meet at the rock on Farm Lane at noon Saturday to participate in the protest, and are encouraged to wear pink or red. Protesters are expected to leave the rock using Farm Lane, and turn left on Grand River Avenue. The march is expected to end at the Brody neighborhood complex in front of The Kellogg Center, premed sophomore and co-president of SFC Cayley Winters said.

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ASMSU looks to get rolling on safe ride initiative

MSU is only one of 14 Big Ten schools without a Safe Ride Program to provide students with free late night transportation to and from campus and ASMSU’s Vice President for Finance and Operations Greg Jackson is working to change that.

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Thefts prove recurring on campus

Theft from Cafeteria Brody's cafeteria saw yet another theft Feb. 4, MSU police said. A 22-year-old female employee student placed her belongings in a cubby and placed her jacket on her pink purse and went to work.

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Student group looks toward tobacco ban

After a student-written petition to have smoking banned from MSU’s campus gained serious attention via social media and word of mouth, the MSU Anti-Cancer Society planned to bring the results to the Board of Trustees. However, just before the meeting Provost June Pierce Youatt published a memo announcing a task force designed to make MSU a tobacco-free campus.

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Acafellas, Capital Green, move on to a capella semifinals

This past Saturday, the Wharton Center for Performing Arts held the quarterfinals for the 19th International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA). And for two MSU a cappella groups, the final results were aca-awesome. Winning the top two spots in the quarterfinals and heading to Dayton, Ohio for the ICCA Great Lakes Semifinals were MSU’s all male vocal group, the Accafellas, and coed vocal group, Capital Green.  Since 1996 the ICCA has held competitions throughout the nation, giving hardworking a cappella groups the opportunity to showcase their talent.