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MICHIGAN

MSU Police explain mistake behind false shooting notification

Tuesday evening, an unidentifiable amount of students who subscribe to the MSU Police Department’s text alerts received a text message warning students of a shooting on campus and to take shelter. The alerts turned out to be an accident by the shift supervisor on duty while he was trying to send out a severe weather warning.

NEWS

Researching the Red Planet

For most, the concept of other planets does not reach beyond an elementary school classroom or daydreams of strangers in spacesuits, floating around in a sea of darkness. But for two teams of MSU researchers, putting astronauts on Mars has become the latest problem to solve.

MSU

CATA reduces campus summer bus schedule

If a student is living in East Lansing throughout the summer and don’t have their own mode of transportation, chances are they have to deal with the lowered frequency of the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, buses to get around.

MICHIGAN

More than protecting our flag

For those in the color and honor guard at the Veterans of Foreign Wars, or VFW, Post 701, participating in parades and raising flags is just a small part of what they do.

MSU

Meat Judging Team re-emerges, tests MSU students

Jill Gulick has loved pigs since she started raising them for fairs as a child. This passion for pork led the animal science junior straight to the pursuit of a career in swine genetics in addition to a role on MSU’s Meat Judging Team.