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Brewing A New Course
While some students are enjoying alcoholic beverages at the bar, others are learning how to make them in the classroom.
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Professor under fire for in-class rant
University officials are continuing to investigate English professor William Penn for an anti-Republican rant he made during one of his classes last Thursday.
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Students celebrate Rosh Hashanah
Every year on Jan. 1, everyone everywhere is trying to find ways to better themselves. Whether it’s getting back into the gym, being better with finances or doing better in school or work, people search for ways to make the new year much better than the last. But for the Jewish community, it’s already a new year. Rosh Hashanah, also known as the Jewish New Year, started Wednesday evening and was brought in with worship service that will continue for the next 10 days, known as Yom Kippur.
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COGS hosts first meeting of year, discuss updates on Chittenden Hall renovations
The Council for Graduate Students announced at its meeting on Wednesday that they are partnering with Michigan State University Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, and MSU Vice President of Research and Graduate Studies, or VPRGS, Stephen Hsu to award more graduate and professional students with the COGS conference grant program.
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MSU Trustee Lyons responds to professor's videotaped anti-Republican rant
?William Penn, a professor in the Department of English at MSU, is under fire for a recent anti-Republican rant seemingly recorded by a student and posted on Campusreform.org.
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Harvest season: East Lansing offers organic options
Although the new Whole Foods grocery store is not scheduled to arrive in East Lansing until 2015, students interested in organic food still have opportunities to grow, eat and buy a variety of fruits and vegetables close to home. Some on-campus students already are enjoying locally grown produce in their dining halls, such as students at Brody Complex, who can eat dishes flavored with herbs grown at the Bailey GREENhouse and Urban Farm.
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Vice President for Strategic Infrastructure Planning and Facilities finalists named
Every building, field, road, tree and tunnel on MSU’s campus is under the control of the Vice President for Strategic Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, or the VP for SIPF — a position that will change hands by the end of September.? “This position touches everybody on campus,” said Bill Latta, assistant vice president for operations and chair of the search committee for VP for SIFP.? Dennis Bailey, Kemel Dawkins and Doug Wise were named as the final three candidates for the position on Tuesday.
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College Libertarians spread awareness about Syria as U.S. considers intervention
The Michigan State College Libertarians, or MSCL, and the Young Democratic Socialist Organization collaborated on Tuesday in a gathering to spread awareness on-campus about the potential military intervention in Syria.
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Renovations on south side of river trail postponed until summer 2014
Major renovations to the south side of MSU’s trail on the Red Cedar River, which were slated to begin this week, have been postponed until summer 2014.
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Library Bootcamp helps grad students get comfortable
The Main Library is one of the largest buildings on MSU’s campus, but on Friday afternoon, librarians Ben Oberdick and Rachel Minkin tried to make it feel a little smaller. The inaugural Library Bootcamp aimed to showcase resources for graduate students and highlight interesting parts of MSU’s library system. Oberdick and Minkin spent an hour giving a tutorial-style lecture focusing on search engines, the library call system and other unique aspects of the library.
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Olin officials recommend pre-college immunizations
There are no immunization requirements to attend MSU, but with students returning to campus this past week, the University Physician’s Office still recommends certain vaccinations for the sake of students’ health. Many students have received immunizations before attending college, but they should know what vaccinations are available at the Olin Health Center, said Kathi Braunlich, communications manager for MSU Student Health Services. “Most immunizations are available by appointment at the Allergy and Immunizations Clinic at Olin,” Braunlich said.
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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.