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ASMSU voices concerns in Big Ten Students Conference, sets sights on D.C.

ASMSU’s bill to create a Big Ten committee to provide feedback for President Obama’s proposed federal college rating system passed at the conference. Student government members from Iowa, Minnesota, Maryland, MSU and Ohio State will make up the committee and will work to provide a framework for rating colleges based on student needs in the conference.

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MLK march and conference highlights progress left to be made

As many as 350 people marched and congregated at Beaumont Tower. The march featured special guest Henry James Thomas, who was one of the original Freedom Riders in 1961. “I’m so happy that you don’t have to fight those battles now, but the ones I’ve told you about, you have to fight them,” Thomas  said. “We’ve come a long way, but as the good doctor said, ‘not quite enough.’” 

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ASMSU plans for meeting of Big Ten student governments

ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, is sending a team of delegates to the Association of Big Ten Students Conference, or ABTS, this weekend hosted by Northwestern University in Chicago . The ABTS Conference is a meeting of Big Ten student governments and allows delegates from each school to discuss and debate current student issues.

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Student employees will see paperless paychecks in near future

“It costs us about $5 per check, to generate these, to mail them out,” Haas said. “You figure if you’ve got 2,200 people and you’re doing this a dozen times, it adds up to more than $100,000. That could basically fund another faculty position.That’s why we’re looking to do this.”