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Spartan Marching Band plays on
Communication freshman Adam Newton (left) practices with members of his rank at Demonstration field on Thursday.
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On-campus housing gets overcrowded for students
Special education freshman Sierra Woods doesn’t have space for all her clothing in her dorm room that she shares with two other girls. But from her point of view, it could be worse. She could be living with a resident assistant.
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Asian-Americans happier with president than general public
According to information collected from the Pew Research Center, 43 percent of Asian-Americans claim to be happy with the direction of the county — doubling the percentage of the general public at 21 percent.
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High temps hurt Mich. agriculture
It’s official: This summer was hot and dry, and Michigan’s agriculture industry suffered from it. The Department of Agriculture officially designated the entire state of Michigan as a natural disaster area Wednesday, after a summer drought and heat wave.
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Email accounts to be deleted
Email accounts and storage files for alumni who have not registered for classes in more than two years hit their expiration date today as a part of the university plan to delete about 117,000 alumni email accounts.
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Olivia Pryor trial moves to circuit court
More than five months after MSU freshman Olivia Pryor died in her dorm room, two men are awaiting a pretrial in Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court for charges connected to the alcohol-related death.
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Matt Romney speaks about his father at RNC
Tampa, Fla. — Although Republican presidential nominee former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney could soon become President Romney, Matt Romney always will call him by a different name: Dad.
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Obama answers questions from voters on Reddit.com
College students weren’t the only people browsing dancing cat GIFs on Reddit Wednesday afternoon; President Barack Obama also paid a visit to the self-proclaimed “front page of the Internet” for a short question-and-answer session.
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Event welcomes various gender identities
According to Lauren Spencer, finding the “safe space” where you can embrace your gender identity or sexual orientation is one of the most exciting things a student can come across for the first time when attending the LBGT Resource Center’s, or LGBTRC, fall welcome for new students.
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Students return wiser from study abroad
Sam Kilberg and 1,700 other MSU students are back from traveling the world. The political theory and constitutional democracy and international relations senior participated in the largest study abroad program in the nation, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager in the Office of Study Abroad.
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Student residents overtake East Lansing housing market
Because of a high number of nonconforming student rental properties in East Lansing designated for single families, the city staff is working on plans during the next four months to possibly alter the zoning in these areas to find a balance between student-rental housing and owner-occupied housing.
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Face Time: Stefan Fletcher
Although the beginning of the school year can mean chaos and many adjustments, Stefan Fletcher has enough experience under his belt to lead the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, into a new school year with a fair amount of ease.
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Nature of recent assault yet to be verified
Tension regarding an assault on journalism sophomore Zachary Tennen continues to build as the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, released a statement that the assault likely was not an anti-Semitic hate crime, despite claims from the Tennen family asserting otherwise.
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E.L. city council begins new member search
The East Lansing City Council must select a replacement for departing council member Don Power by Sept. 21 following a unanimous vote at a council meeting Tuesday night.
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International student enrollment at MSU on rise
When Justin Lee, a first-generation Korean-American, came to MSU as a freshman this year, he was glad to no longer be one of a few minorities at his school. Now attending MSU, he enjoys spending time in the same environment as people from all across the world.
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2012 election campaigns garner large amount of negative feedback
The 2012 presidential election season is the most negative campaign in recent years, with almost three-quarters of news content about President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney being negative, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
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RNC sees notable increase in number of diverse delegates
From the minute she arrived Sunday morning at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Ingham County delegate at large Linda Lee Tarver has confidently displayed a button pinned to her shirt bearing one clear message: “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.”
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ASMSU kicks off academic year with splash
The ASMSU 49th Session Kickoff meeting left Chairman Evan Martinak drenched with excitement for the new school year — and just plain drenched. The first meeting of the year for ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, included some of the typical business, as well as food, a beanbag toss and a dunk tank.
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Students celebrate at Sparticipation
The name says it all: Sparticipation, where students begin to participate in various MSU organizations and groups.
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New students learn of CATA bus service
School is in session, and MSU students quickly are getting acclimated and reacclimated to on-campus resources, including the Capital Area Transportation Authority, or the CATA bus system.