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Building address system changes continue
Getting lost on campus might soon be a thing of the past after the completion of the Campus Addressing Project next month.
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Corporate partnerships help start careers
Continuing an increasing trend of interaction between academic programs at MSU and outside companies, the game design and development specialization — which recently was ranked as one of the best programs in the country by the Princeton Review for the second consecutive time — has added a new corporate partner.
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Debate team’s young talent prepares for tournament
With a slew of successful sophomores and freshmen, the MSU Debate Team has a shot at a national title later this month, after earning a top-16 ranking in the country and garnering wins at other national competitions. MSU Director of Debate Casey Harrigan said the team’s successes this year have earned members a spot in the upcoming National Debate Tournament, or NDT, to begin March 29 at Emory University in Atlanta.
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Professor researches black market for organs, shares information
Monir Moniruzzaman spent a year overseas searching for people who had sold their kidneys on the black market and what he found left him shocked. In his research on the organ market in Bangladesh, which was recently published by the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the assistant professor of anthropology and faculty member of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences said organ brokers and the media take advantage of the people in desperate need of money and manipulate them into selling their organs to local or overseas residents.
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Muslim Students' Association hosts Islam awareness week
For international relations sophomore Kanza Khan, Thursday won’t be the first time she has worn a head scarf. But it will be the first time she wears it for an entire day. “I’m kind of nervous to see reactions in classes,” she said. “Obviously, people are going to ask questions. I hope to give them the proper answers.”
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Media Sandox Visiting Lecture Series to feature film screening
Documentary film editor Toby Shimin will be on campus to show a screening of the film “Buck” and host a discussion with students starting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building as part of the Media Sandbox Visiting Lecture Series.
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Record highs raise spirits at MSU
Trading in coats and scarves for shorts and T-shirts, many students in East Lansing were celebrating Tuesday after a spell of potentially record-breaking warm weather hit Michigan, experts said.
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MSU graduate programs score top rankings
The College of Education’s graduate programs in elementary and secondary education rank No. 1 of the best graduate programs by the U.S. News & World Report for yet another year.
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Steering Committee discusses upcoming festivities
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon discussed preparations for handling campus celebrations throughout the duration of the men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament run at Tuesday’s Steering Committee meeting.
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Country singer Easton Corbin to come to MSU next week
Up-and-coming country singer Easton Corbin is making a stop in East Lansing next week for a performance presented by the Residence Halls Association.
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Accounting major ranks high
When accounting senior Mike DeBona came to MSU, he had the intention of majoring in a business-related field. After initially choosing marketing, he eventually changed his major to accounting because of the strength of the program. “The economy’s tough and I wanted job security,” DeBona said. “The fact that (the program) was recognized so highly and challenging … I thought it would provide me with a versatile degree.”
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Students, alumni attend Southwest Music and Media Conference
As the worlds of entertainment and technology unite in Austin, Texas, thousands of people — including some from MSU — are attending the annual Southwest Music and Media Conference. The conference, commonly referred to as South by Southwest, or SXSW, hosts several sessions to showcase the latest in interactive media, said Tim Bograkos, the young alumni coordinator for the MSU Alumni Association and a conference attendee. During Twitter’s infancy, years ago, the service was first shown off at the conference.
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Housing discussions go beyond gender to more specific needs
Discussions of gender-neutral housing on campus by student government groups have turned a corner with the suggestion of more flexibility for students with specific needs.
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Deferment might discourage students from attending MSU
Tyler Pratt almost didn’t attend MSU. As a high school senior last year, Pratt thought for sure he was going to be able to attend MSU in fall 2011, but that was before he was deferred by the Office of Admissions.
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Students on target in competition
Lined up elbow to elbow, MSU Archery Team members shot a flurry of arrows at red and blue targets yards away during the U.S. National Indoor Championships, an archery tournament held Saturday and Sunday. College students from the Midwest area ranging from University of Wisconsin La Crosse to Miami University in Ohio participated in the event, which was held at MSU Demmer Shooting Sports, Education and Training Center, 4830 E. Jolly Road, in Lansing.
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MSU remembers 2011 earthquake in Japan
Nozomu Hida remembers the fear he felt for his family and friends a year ago when he heard about the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear explosion in Japan. Luckily, the accounting senior’s family reported back to him that they were safe. But even today, he can feel the weight of the devastation that still is affecting his native country, he said. Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake in Japan, which was followed days later by a tsunami that caused severe flooding and a nuclear power plant explosion.
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Playboy Magazine to audition students to pose in October issue
Playboy Magazine representatives will be in East Lansing on March 20 and 21 in search of female MSU students to pose in their October issue “Girls of the Big Ten” pictorial. Playboy Magazine is only disclosing location information to students who plan to audition.
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Google's new privacy policy might affect students
Google’s new privacy policy, which was implemented March 1 , has no effect on MSU’s online activity according to officials, but could be worth a look for concerned students. Under the policy, Google can track and share data about users across its various applications and platforms, such as Gmail and Google searches, to provide better search results and more accurate advertisements.
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Students look to professors for letters of recommendation
Economics professor Steven Haider is teaching more than 1,200 students this semester. With two sections of 600-student, lecture-style economics classes, he said it is impossible for him to get to know most of his students well enough to write them letters of recommendation. Yet each spring, students in his classes approach him for letters of recommendation for graduate school or summer jobs and internships, hoping he can vouch for their character.
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Wells Hall nears completion
It’s out with the old and in with the new as construction at Wells Hall is expected to be mostly complete toward the end of May. Contractors currently are working on the interior of the Wells Hall addition by commissioning the heating and ventilation systems, university engineer Bob Nestle said.