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Steering Committee begins dialogue on undocumented student concerns

“Dr. Maurer, does your medical school consider applications from undocumented students," was the question posed to Assistant Dean of Admissions for the College of Human Medicine at a routine college admissions talk in 2013 at the University of California-Riverside.  The question took him by surprise and he was present at the Steering Committee meeting Tuesday afternoon to begin a dialogue about this issue at an institutional level.

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Plea deal offered in alleged karaoke bar attack

Meng Long Li received an offer to reduce his charge to a one-year misdemeanor of aggravated assault. The charge makes Li's case so the maximum punishment is jail for a maximum one-year sentence, as opposed to the 10-year felony he is currently facing.

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Reintroduced bill could help students refinance loans

“(The Act) allows folks to save some money on student loans, that put some money on their pockets, which is good for them, for the family,” U.S Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said. “(It is) also good for the economy because if they are not paying higher interest of student debt they are probably spending it on other things important to their families, which is good for the Michigan economy.”

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Unnecessary burden?

A lack of funding from the state is pushing universities to raise tuition costs, only adding to the massive debts some students face. A bill introduced by state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. might alleviate the burden. 

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Students raise money for African HIV-positive orphans

Hope Project, a recent MSU student group founded in November 2014, organized the event to raise money to build a secondary school for HIV-positive orphans being taken care of by HOPE Village Children’s Home, run by its parent group, Hope Endeavors. The organization’s name is sometimes stylized as H.O.P.E., which is an acronym for “Helping Orphans, Prospering Everyone.”