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New application to enhance job search

Applying for jobs and internships now is more accessible for MSU students thanks to a new mobile application, or app, launched by the MSU Career Services Network, said internship developer Paul Jaques, one of the co-creators of the app.

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LBGT potluck provides group unity

Brian Middleton decided to join Spectrum, the LBGT caucus for the East Neighborhood, as a way to meet other people in the LBGT community. In his hometown, there weren’t the type of resources and groups for LBGT people he’s seen so far at MSU.

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Group rallies at Simon's office

Representatives from the Coalition Against Sexual Violence will meet with university administrators in the next few weeks after about 40 members rallied in President Lou Anna K. Simon’s office Friday.

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MSU groups share tailgate

About 40 MSU students munched on hummus and pita bread before Saturday’s football game at Sparty’s Middle Eastern Tailgate, an event sponsored by the Jewish Student Union and Arab Cultural Society in an effort to highlight Middle Eastern culture at MSU. “We wanted to collaborate and incorporate all of the Middle Eastern culture that we know and love,” Jewish Student Union President Sam Appel said.

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New website offers new college 'rules'

According to Brett Nantau, there are some things in college you learn only through experience. His website, rulesofcollege.com, founded by Nantau and his friends, chronicles these unofficial rules and guidelines to surviving the undergraduate experience. Nantau, a packaging junior, said the website is a place where users can submit guidelines for college not learned in class or at orientation.

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Cultural event helps break down barriers

As the drums echoed throughout the ballroom of the Union, biochemistry sophomore Aakif Mdjalil took the stage along with a group Malaysian international students to perform a dance that once used to be performed in front of kings. Mdjalil and his friends were performing a traditional Malaysian dance called Dikir Barat at the Global Festival on Sunday at the Union.

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MSU to host book drive to benefit Liberia

E. Victor Helb Jr. left his home in Liberia in 1991. Nineteen years later, he’s working to improve basic literacy in his native country and he’s hoping to use books donated by MSU students to benefit his mission.

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ASMSU discusses picket, branding campaign

ASMSU’s Student Assembly unanimously passed a bill Thursday night to condemn the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church’s presence in Michigan, including the group’s protest at East Lansing High School on Thursday afternoon.

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Panel discusses rights with Westboro

A member of the Westboro Baptist Church and a mother whose son died in the Iraq War were among five people who sat on a panel about the First Amendment held at the Law College Building on Thursday.

MICHIGAN

CATA offers rides to Silver Bells

The Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, will offer a free shuttle for students on Friday to the annual Silver Bells in the City in downtown Lansing. The shuttle will leave from the Ann Street Plaza on the corner of Ann and Charles streets, beginning at 5 p.m.