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Officials target stadium with recycling
MSU officials hope that the phrase “Go Green” will take on a whole new meaning for the 2013 MSU football season.
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New study shows professors ignore textbook costs
Hundreds of dollars were replaced by hundreds of pages of reading material with the swipe of a card when MSU students bought textbooks for the fall semester this week. Textbook prices rise about 3-5 percent each year, and this year is no different, said Tom Muth, manager of Collegeville Textbook Company, 321 E. Grand River Ave. Although they are more aware of prices than they used to be, according to a study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, or GAO, nationally, most professors are more concerned about the appropriateness of course materials than the price of them.
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Freshmen engineering class largest in decade
The College of Engineering welcomed its largest freshmen class in more than a decade. The class is estimated at 1,284 students, an increase of more than 100 from last year. The number of incoming freshman has more than doubled since 2006, when the class was 640. Thomas Wolff, the college’s associate dean of undergraduate studies, said this year’s class is the largest in more than a decade.
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MSU study shows trend of STEM fields raising world university rankings
Most students probably don’t pay attention to world rankings of universities, but they can be important to international students. Important enough that one MSU faculty member spent years researching these rankings. Yixuan “Shirley” Shi, an accounting graduate student from China, said she looked at world rankings as part of the decision process to come to MSU. She searched for a school ranked in the top 100 worldwide for her major.
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Rolling back to the Red Cedar
The fall semester is underway, and with the start of a new semester comes a host of challenges for students and professors with new class schedules and a packed campus.
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Sparticipation includes snakes, Speedos
There are only a few events during the academic year at MSU where someone can be approached by men in Speedos and pet a live snake all at the same time. Sparticipation, the annual freshmen showcase of clubs on campus, is one of them. Student Activities Assistant Amanda Scharnweber said about 360 clubs participated in Sparticipation, and while she said she hoped for a 100 percent turnout, she estimated 80 percent freshmen attended.
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Construction for main roads, sidewalks on campus wraps up
The end of summer is approaching and those orange construction cones are almost completely out of sight for the MSU community.
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MSU community gives back with Day of Service activities
Resident assistants, intercultural aides, community coordinators and residence education staff members gathered at the rock on Farm Lane Monday morning to kick off the second annual MSU Day of Service: Taking it to the Streets.
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Looking back on E.L., MSU's most important stories of summer 2013
Among ASMSU nearly losing its funding, an academic building fire and a sexual assault suspect on the loose, summer in East Lansing was nothing short of eventful.
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MSU electrical engineering team finishes second in national event
After spending countless hours during the spring semester, a team of MSU electrical engineers were honored with second place at the 2012-2013 Texas Instruments Analog Design Contest in Dallas, Texas. Each year, Texas Instruments, or TI, has a three-day contest, hosting 10 final teams who have created a project using a minimum of three TI components in their final design.
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ASMSU looks forward to new semester
In the aftermath of a long-winded battle with the university, which came to an end this summer, ASMSU is looking forward to a fresh start. For the sake of its autonomy, MSU’s undergraduate student government avoided the prospect of moving all its funding into on-campus accounts after issues with a series of audits were taken up with university officials.
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Sparty's to offer bus passes, more this fall
Striving to better meet the needs of students and staff, Culinary Services will be rolling out additional food options at select Sparty’s Convenience Stores, as well as the ability to purchase Capital Area Transportation Authority bus passes at all locations across campus. Bill Kost, the associate director of retail food services, said the Division of Residential and Hospitality Services, or RHS, felt the retail atmosphere of Sparty’s would be the perfect place to sell passes.
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Celebrations Committee discusses couch fire solutions
A liaison committee between MSU and East Lansing discussed the impact of couch fires on the city and university, and plans for the weekend of Aug.
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Whole new ball game
Among hundreds of athletes playing in the 2013 World Dwarf Games, Jeffrey Astrein stood out as the only MSU student playing on the field. “Not everyone gets to play in these stadiums,” Astrein said. “The fact that I played there, I was honored to play (in) this.”
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Video Story: Wine and dine
Bottles upon bottles of Michigan wines were cracked open on Tuesday at the 36th annual Michigan Wine Competition to be ranked by judges from around the country. The competition, held in Kellogg Center, 219 S. Harrison Road, featured 450 wines from 56 different wineries. The winners of the competition will be announced tonight.
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Local middle school students part of exchange program through MSU
Middle school students from Lansing and South Korea are swapping cities to understand and respect other cultures. “This program provides a learning experience that books and lectures don’t provide,” Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH faculty member Joanna Bosse said. “Learning in a diverse community is an inherently valuable thing. It causes us to examine our values and not take anything for granted.”
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Culinary Services researches food to give authentic international eating experience
Broadening one’s horizon is a typical idiom used to express someone increasing his or her knowledge or experience. Culinary Services strives to do just that.
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MSU researchers create device to help understand cerebral malaria
In America, cerebral malaria isn’t typically on most patients’ vaccination checklist. But in African countries such as Malawi, where MSU has brought relief efforts for the past 25 years, the disease, usually found in children, kills thousands each year.
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Student political groups prepare for upcoming school year
The endless streams of fliers, event invitations and political discussions dominated campus during the 2012 elections, as student groups rallied around their chosen candidates, furiously corralling those around them to their cause.
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FRIB receives 2nd stage of approval from Dept. of Energy
After remaining on the agenda for nearly five years, plans for MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, have begun to move forward. The facility initially was put under review by the U.S.