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Tennis players organize shoe collection for needy
Athletes have access to a resources most homeless people do not — shoes.
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MSU, U-M rival in gaming competition
It didn’t take long for graduate student Jon Derhammer to answer what he would do for a Klondike bar. “I would play Mad Bounce for 24 hours this weekend,” Derhammer jokingly said. Derhammer is referring to one of the two app games he and three others created to go with the week-long Klondike Challenge, which pits MSU and University of Michigan students and alumni against each other, with an ice cream social on the line. “Klondike Challenge is a local app tournament,” Derhammer said.
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ASMSU voter turnout 9.2 percent despite troubled week
The burden of low carnival attendance and the Ne-Yo concert cancellation turned out to play a small role in ASMSU’s election turnout — about the same percentage of students voted this year as last year. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, had 2,636 voters out of 28,628 eligible students, which equals a 9.2 percent voter turnout in this year’s elections, ASMSU Director of Public Relations Haley Dunnigan said. This year’s turnout was fewer then last year’s 2,988 voters, but Dunnigan pointed out there were multiple organizations that had their tax renewal on the ballot last year that drew additional attention to the elections. “Considering during last year’s election there were tax questions for the Residence Halls Association, MSU Radio Board and James Madison (College), those kind of issues tend to bring in a lot more attention,” Dunnigan said.
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COGS continue to receive student tax after vote
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, will continue to receive the student tax after graduate and professional students voted in favor to renew the tax for another three years, COGS President Stefan Fletcher confirmed. COGS received about a 6 percent voter turnout amongst the graduate and professional student body with 490 electing to continuing the tax of $9.25 per student per semester during the fall and spring semester and $4.75 during the summer semester, Fletcher said.
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Making inspiration accessible
Computer science sophomore Jordyn Castor has been fighting for everything she has since she was born.
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VP of Student Affairs appointment process debated among students, Faculty Senate
At Tuesday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting, members recommended to waive the search process for the vice president for student affairs and advise MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to promote Denise Maybank from interim vice president to permanent vice president of student affairs.
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OISS honors three community members with globie award
Making MSU a more welcoming place for international students is something Peter Briggs, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, or OISS, strives for every day. With assistance from the MSU community, Briggs recognized those who share that goal by thanking them with Globie Awards.
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3,000 trout released into Red Cedar River
It was an unusual gathering over the river — students, administrators, faculty and fishermen from the community assembled around a brightly painted truck on a bridge spanning the Red Cedar River.
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MSU bests Big Ten in recycling
MSU had its most successful performance in the 2013 Recyclemania competition, going against universities across the country to improve recycling on campus. MSU continued its improving trend, placing either first or second in the Big Ten in all of the events they participated in, MSU Waste Reduction Coordinator Dave Smith said. Recyclemania is a nationwide event that competes with more than 500 colleges in multiple recycling competitions.
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Dedication to the goal
Rehabilitation counseling graduate student Piotr Pasik is a dedicated soccer player.
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Science festival takes over campus
Campus was swarming with children last weekend as they learned about science, from water bugs swimming in small tanks to germinating seeds they could bring home to plant.
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Leo Kempel named acting dean of College of Engineering
Leo Kempel is one of the main reasons graduate student Benjamin Crowgey is pursuing electrical engineering.
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Agriculture Hall gets new name
More than 150 years after U.S. Congressman Justin S. Morrill pioneered the establishment of MSU as a land-grant institution within the Morrill Act, and with the looming demolition of MSU’s 103-year-old Morrill Hall, the MSU Board of Trustees voted to keep the Morrill’s history apparent on campus.
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Spartans across US, world volunteer during service day
Although alumna Libby DuBay has lived in Los Angeles since graduating in 1985, she remains an active member of the Spartan family.
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Room and board, FRIB, dean voted by trustees
At Friday morning’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees approved policy adaptations and construction projects, including a 3.9 percent room and board rate increase and the construction of a Bio Engineering Facility on campus.
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Successful Black Women of MSU host 2nd Peace Summit
“Peace, social justice, and unity should not stop after one year,” said Lauren Moore, president of Successful Black Women of MSU, or SBWMSU. “This is an opportunity for all people to build knowledge and make connections.”
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Software created by alumni personalizes large lectures
Using GoSoapBox software, students can indicate when they are confused by the lecture material, instructors can administer quizzes and polls, and the class can provide anonymous feedback to teacher questions.
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Senior Class Council’s 5K to support emergency needs fund
With warmer weather on the way, many organizations have been rolling out the finish line ribbons to host 5K charity events, including the Senior Class Council.
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Students and community brace cold to support MSU Safe Place
Despite a mixture of snow, hail and rain, runners and volunteers came out in force to support MSU Safe Place on Sunday afternoon at the 19th-annual Race for the Place 5K.
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Murder Mystery event gives students chance to improvise
On stage, two men crashed their way through an improvised scene. They were basing the performance on cues written by the audience. Every thirty seconds, the men would pause, read off one of the cues, and the performance would veer in a wildly new direction. The setting: a clock tower. The plot: a fear of worms. And then the revelations: “You’re adopted!” “You’re also adopted!” The scene concluded with the actors embracing and the audience enthusiastically applauding.