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The MSU Mock Trial Team might be young, but don't cross the members in the courtroom. The four-year-old team took eighth place in March at the American Mock Trial Association National Tournament in Richmond, Ky. "Our program is getting better by leaps and bounds every year," said Pete Martini, a public administration and public policy senior and mock trial member.

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Finding the faith

As the music of the piano and other instruments drifts in the background, the choir leads the St. John Student Parish congregation in song. With their hymnal books open, the parish stands in Father Mark Inglot's presence.

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ASMSU members reflect on year of work

Over the past year, ASMSU debated 83 bills, held 32 general meetings and spent almost 80 hours in deliberation. As 21 new members take office tonight, officials from MSU's undergraduate student government reflected on a session where few bills were passed, even fewer had a direct impact on students, and an Academic Assembly initiative to add candy to the business office was half-jokingly referred to as "the best thing we've done all year." Election confusion Officials attributed most of the session's troubles to an election debacle last spring in which more than 60 representatives were disqualified, leaving the assemblies with fewer than a dozen representatives on each, many of whom did not have previous ASMSU experience.

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'U' researchers analyze transplants

Drs. Steven Arnoczky and Cheryl Swenson examined tissue and cells used in a study Monday that has important implications for the treatment of transplants. Arnoczky and Swenson, along with other researchers in MSU's Laboratory for Comparative Orthopaedic Research, have conducted a study that shows freeze-drying tissues and bones for transplants might not inactivate viruses as efficiently as previously thought.

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Drama unfolds during mystery game

Friday night, it was curtains for Don "Big Jim" Ravioli. Less than an hour into a gala celebrating the grand opening of a friend's speakeasy, the mob boss was brutally gunned down in front of gangsters, gamblers and scantily clad harlots. The lights flickered out seconds before the shooting and, despite a broken champagne bottle near Big Jim's bullet-ridden body, no other evidence remained.

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ASMSU urges 'U' to be safe

As windows and doors are cracked open for the first time to let the spring air in, members of MSU's undergraduate student government are looking at making April "Lock Your Door!

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'U' machine group beat by Purdue team

Members of the MSU Rube Goldberg Machine Team spent more than four months tinkering with wires and mousetraps to get their contraption ready for the national competition held Saturday at Purdue University.

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Kresge to add new work with $10,000

The Kresge Art Museum will add a new painting to its Figurative Expressionism Collection Initiative with the help of a grant from The Judith Rothschild Foundation. The work, "Two Figures, Two Heads" by Louis Finkelstein, was purchased with the $10,000 grant, and although it is not housed in the museum, the work will be made available for the next Figurative Expressionism exhibit. The Figurative Expressionist works are those with the figure kept in the work while moving toward abstract expression. Finkelstein, who created the work in 1998, studied painting at The Cooper Union, The Art Students League of New York and the Brooklyn Museum School.

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Greeks walk laps for American Cancer Society

"One small step for Greek Life...One giant leap in the right direction." Banners emblazoned with the 2004 Greek Week slogan hung below the cover of a tent while members of fraternity and sorority teams walked laps during the second annual Relay for Life. The relay, along with other kick-off events, was held Friday at Munn Field.

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Small businesses fight to survive

After nearly two decades on the block, John Novak said he has witnessed many a small business' rise and fall on Grand River Avenue. Novak reopened Wazoo Records, 619 E.

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Program teaches attack prevention

Audra Hunsberger jabbed a plastic knife at her assailant Sunday night at IM Sports-West, but self-defense instructor Sally Belloli batted the weapon away, avoiding a potential poke to the rib cage. The pair took part in "Combating an Armed Attack," a self-defense program that taught participants how to protect themselves from assailants wielding knives, clubs or guns.