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Cleft lip and palate could find help in MSU research
As a mother of three sons born with cleft palates, Joanne Green knows the challenges children with the disease face.
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Culinary Services works to decrease food waste
Before you think about grabbing a second bowl of cereal at the cafeteria, MSU dining officials want you to make sure you’re hungry enough to finish it. MSU Culinary Services officials are conducting a food waste study campaign this semester to show how much food is wasted after each meal and what could be done to reduce such waste. “What you take is what you should eat,” said Carla Iansiti, MSU Culinary Services sustainability officer.
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Conveying courage
Theatre graduate student Leslie Hull knew she would be playing the title character Anna Fierling for her thesis role almost a year before “Mother Courage” went into production. She traveled to Berlin to do research in preparation for the role, and while there, she watched a performance at Brecht’s Theater, named after playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the play.
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Students perform staged reading of The Domestic Crusaders
A handful of music stands and seven chairs were all that filled the set of “The Domestic Crusaders” on Wednesday night at the Kellogg Center’s auditorium. A seven-person cast of students performed a staged reading of the play written by Wajahat Ali depicting the troubles felt by a Muslim Pakastani-American family in the U.S. post-Sept. 11. There were few movements and no breaks between scenes during the reading.
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Crew club gets new space in former meat locker
To an outsider, the MSU Crew Club’s practice facility is no different than any other team’s. It has a collection of exercise machines, upbeat music playing on the overhead speakers and a bit of a musty smell. But to the about 40 members of the team, the practice space is more because after years of searching, they’ve finally found a place they can call their own — in an old meat locker.
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Police post to be site for scene shop
The elaborate sets seen by audiences during MSU’s many theater productions no longer will be built at the Fairchild Theatre by the start of the next academic year after upcoming renovations.
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Renovations considered for Landon Hall’s cafeteria
Some details are emerging in future plans for renovations at Landon Hall cafeteria, which could see improvements in three to five years if proposed plans are fully developed, Associate Director of Residential Dining Bruce Haskell said.
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Students have new way to network with BAT
MSU is one of the first schools to offer students the opportunity to take a recently developed aptitude test for students interested in careers in finance.
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RHA to vote on new president
With presidential elections two weeks away, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, spent part of its Wednesday night meeting opening up the nomination period.
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New club golf team to begin this spring
An informational meeting for the newly-created MSU Club Golf team will take place 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Spartan Stadium Tower in Room W239.
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Neuroscience Fair to be held Saturday
The MSU Neuroscience Program is holding its second annual Neuroscience Fair at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
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Museum exhibit shows women in industry
When Emettra Nelson enters the classroom, the construction management freshman notices a lot more men in the classroom than women.
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MSU winning blood drive competition
The American Red Cross is pitting green and white against maize and blue to see who can collect the most red during its annual MSU/U-M Blood Challenge. The three-week competition began Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 24.
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What do you think of the cafeterias and their cleanliness?
In case you missed it … A student government group has passed a bill to address what some members feel is a cleanliness problem with campus cafeterias.
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Use of Spartan Cash increases around campus
When accounting sophomore Kate Good does laundry in her Shaw Hall residence, it doesn’t involve searching for spare change under the couch or fumbling around for coins in her pocket. Instead, Good pays to do her laundry with a swipe of her ID card, loaded with Spartan Cash. “It’s really helpful and convenient,” said Good, who uses her Spartan Cash at MSU vending and laundry machines, as well as the food court at the International Center.
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Business fraternities draw more than 200 to networking mixer
Three MSU business fraternities — Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Chi Theta — held their inaugural business networking mixer from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Union.
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Warm weather discourages winter sport participants
With a warmer winter than in past years, hospitality business junior Alex Mlynarek has had to travel outside of the Lansing area in search of snowy slopes.
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Steering committee cuts programs, revises policy
The MSU Steering Committee pushed ahead plans to finalize the discontinuing of two academic programs yesterday.
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ASMSU debates internship credit
The cost of a college internship — and how MSU measures internship credits — is under examination by an ASMSU committee after some representatives noted a disconnect in the amount students were paying in tuition for credit and the instructional time they received. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
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Definition of autism receives re-evaluation
MSU researchers are taking note of revisions to the criteria for those diagnosed with autism disorders as an American Psychiatric Association panel updates the definition for the first time in 17 years.