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MSU police report assault, thefts on campus
MSU police are reporting an assault on Jan. 21 at about 8:20 p.m.
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MSU college helps start public health initiative in Flint
Among the frenzy to assign blame for the ongoing Flint water crisis, it’s easy to forget that residents of the city are the hardest hit. Among those residents, the most vulnerable are young children and infants that have consumed lead contaminated water from the Flint River.
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Volunteer bike project run out of hall basement teaches bike repair
Checking bike tires. Changing bike tires. Adjusting brakes. These are just a few of the things taught in the basement of Demonstration Hall. Demonstration Hall has been the home to the MSU Bike Project 2003.
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Liberate MSU stages protest during game against Maryland
Students from the National Student Activist Party affiliated Liberate MSU movement protested at the MSU vs. Maryland Men's Basketball game. The protest centered on Liberate MSU’s list of demands previously presented to the MSU administration. However the protest was also more general in focus.
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School of Packaging, Rebounders Club to host annual food drive before basketball game
Before the men's basketball game on Saturday against Maryland, the Rebounder's Club and the MSU School of Packaging will be hosting a food drive and collecting donations.
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Campus group floods social media with #SpartansAllIn
The hashtag #SpartansAllIn has started to appear in social media feeds and will continue to do so as certain MSU students vocalize their faith for all to hear. Members of MSU Campus Crusade for Christ, or CRU, looks for new ways every academic year to proclaim the group's message to fellow students.
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IAH course curriculums to change, enhance diversity awareness
Director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities Kirk Kidwell said there are conversations about updating and revising curriculum to enhance awareness of diversity. “We have been having conversations about identifying courses more focuses on diversity and inclusion,”Kidwell said.
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Popular lip balm used by students involved in class action lawsuit
Many MSU students own EOS lip balms and use them on a daily basis, but a recent lawsuit may be changing this.
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Social skills learned in class vital to career success
Every MSU student knows that academic success is vital to professional success, but as the working world continually evolves it may be the social skills you develop inside and often outside the classroom that land you a job. Career fields blending traditional technical skills with social skills will see the most growth according to Harvard Graduate School of Education professor Dr. David Deming, who visited MSU to speak on his recent study “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market.” Deming’s assertion is backed up by federal Bureau of Labor projections.
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Students live on the MSU sheep farm to care for lambs
About 15 feet away from agribusiness junior Emily Hale’s bedroom is a barn full of sheep. The bleating sheep wake her up every three to four hours.
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Community members able to showcase vocal talent in MSU's annual Choral Union
For both students and local residents, MSU’s Choral Union is a time to come together and display their singing talents. MSU’s annual Choral Union is a community-based musical effort run by MSU director of choral programs and associate dean for graduate studies and research David Rayl. “Everyone here is from a wide variety of musical backgrounds,” Rayl said.
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Thrifting on the rise, especially in college
Macklemore said it best — One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. According to the National Association of Resale Professionals, thrift stores across America have seen a rise in public interest in recent years.
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YouTube star and MSU alumnus to speak at the Wharton Center
YouTube star and MSU alumnus Tyler Oakley is coming to campus on Feb. 17.
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Six MSU student startups named semi-finalists in digital media tournament
Six teams from MSU have qualified for Student Startup Madness, a digital media start up tournament for college students.
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MSU alumnus, former dean and civil rights leader visits campus to speak about new book
Though Robert L. Green, an MSU alumnus, former professor and former dean of the disbanded College of Urban Development at MSU, recently visited campus to talk about his new book, he said he originally came here "on accident." “I had finished my masters degree in psychology at San Francisco State College,” Green said.
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MSU police respond to narcotics, thefts
MSU Police is reporting a case of narcotics possession at Abbot Hall on Jan. 16. MSUPD responded to a complaint of marijuana odor in Abbot Hall and met with residential staff.
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MSU police respond to assault, thefts and marijuana possession
MSU police responded to an assault early Jan 13. Around 1 a.m. MSU police was dispatched to Williams Hall, where a boyfriend and a girlfriend had gotten into an argument, MSU police Capt. Doug Monette said. The subject scratched the victim in several places including the arm, neck and face and was arrested. It was unclear in the report which individual was the victim.
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CDC shows increased rate of STDs reported from college-aged population
The number of reported cases of sexually transmitted diseases and/or infections (STDs/STIs) in the United States are on the rise, and some are rising at an alarming rate, according to a report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report also shows that the portion of the population that is most at-risk to contracting STDs is still those between the ages of 15 and 24, i.e. high school and college students. The report, released in November of last year, shows among the nationally notifiable STDs, the two that affect young people the most are gonorrhea and chlamydia. The reported cases of the two diseases each increased by 5.1 percent and 2.8 percent, respectively, since 2013.
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Students struggle to eat healthy during first weeks of spring semester
Endless heaps of food in the various dining halls can put students with ambitious New Year's resolutions behind schedule. With 2016 in its opening stretch, eating healthy is something many students have set as their goal. “I want to eat healthier in 2016," premedical freshman Emma Osterholzer said. "I'm trying to stay away from the desserts in the caf.”