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MSU releases 2011 enrollment stats

Preliminary admissions numbers presented to the MSU Board of Trustees last Friday indicate MSU’s overall enrollment is about 47,800 students this academic year, up about 2 percent from last year’s numbers.

MICHIGAN

Obama introduces new plan to increase jobs

President Barack Obama introduced a detailed new jobs plan Thursday evening in front of a joint session of Congress, criticizing the state of American politics and assuring the country the government could be a solution in digging the nation out of its economic despair.

MSU

Busy as a bee

Things are as sweet as honey for Zachary Huang, associate professor of entomology. Huang has been working with bees since 1982, but before that, he had never seen a single honeybee.

MICHIGAN

Officers at home remember 9/11

Sept. 11, 2001 — East Lansing Fire Marshall Bob Pratt was attending a fire inspectors conference at the Kellogg Center with firefighters from throughout the state. During a break, someone informed the congregation that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center’s North Tower.

Ian Kullgren ·
MICHIGAN

Medical marijuana protest held at Capitol

At the end of Michigan Avenue, a street where slews of dispensary storefronts stand closed and dark, more than 1,000 people toting colorful signs gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday afternoon to protest a recent Michigan Court of Appeals ruling that made commercial sales of medical marijuana illegal.

MSU

Students react to changes to GRE

Students preparing to take the Graduate Record Examination, or GRE — an exam required for admission to most graduate schools — are among the first to experience the most drastic changes made to the exam in its history.