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SPORTS

Lugnuts steal home opener

The youthful Lansing Lugnuts were excited to play their first home game of the season Monday night at Oldsmobile Park. But they were nervous, too. “I have to say I had some butterflies out there,” 18-year-old third baseman Kevin Ahrens said. “But just about after my first at-bat, I settled down a little bit and got in the groove of playing again.”

MSU

MSU has own version of Stanford's tuition break

It doesn’t sound accurate, but it’s true — it could be cheaper for some freshmen to attend Stanford University next fall than MSU. In February, Stanford announced a plan to eliminate the total cost of tuition, $36,030, for undergraduates coming from families who earn less than $100,000.

NEWS

Police Brief 04/08/08

An 18-year-old male from Detroit was arrested for stealing a laptop and cosmetic bag from a Rather Hall dorm room at about 5:50 a.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

Union: letters violate contract

It’s the one envelope a graduate student teaching assistant never wants to receive — one with a letter informing them a job within their college won’t exist next year.

MSU

Signatures promise graduation

To push themselves and each other to obtain diploma, about 300 students have gripped markers and signed an MSU student group’s banner intended to increase graduation rates among black students.

MSU

Maple syrup project makes sweet return

Sweet wafting steam billows out of the “little Frankenstein-looking thing” in a field off Hagadorn Road. That “Frankenstein thing,” as Jason Darling describes it, is a maple sugaring evaporator.

NEWS

Cedar Fest a mess

As East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert stood at a press conference Sunday morning in the aftermath of Saturday’s Cedar Fest revival, weary from a sleepless night, he made a prediction. “As far as I’m concerned, Cedar Fest is over and we’re not going to allow it to happen again,” he said. “It’s not a tradition that East Lansing or Michigan State University wants to continue.”

MICHIGAN

CATA rate hikes to take effect today

Taking the bus in East Lansing will require more cash beginning today. The Capital Area Transportation Authority Board of Directors voted Feb. 20 to raise fares by 25 percent for adults and 10 percent for student semester passes to stay on pace with budget costs.