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Friends, coworkers remember Dorothy Gonzales

Jesse Gonzales always will remember his friend, former MSU Trustee Dorothy Gonzales, as larger than life. “She wasn’t very large in a physical sense, but she was very big in terms of what she wanted to do,” Jesse Gonzales said.

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ASMSU elects new leadership

Closing up a year of rebuilding and transitioning, ASMSU’s General Assembly elected its new leadership for the 2012-13 academic year Thursday night at its last meeting of the semester.

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MSU celebrates anniversary of Morrill Act

It’s not every day MSU pedestrians are greeted by Abraham Lincoln and Justin Morrill on the sidewalk, but on Thursday afternoon, passersby near the rock on Farm Lane were able to experience history in a new way.

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ASMSU: Meet the candidates

ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, will hold elections for officer positions tonight at 7 p.m., wrapping up what current officers have called a transition year.

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RHA approves summer budget

The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, approved its summer 2012 budget at its Wednesday night meeting, allocating about $213,000 for expenses during the summer, including travel and fees for a national conference and promotional items.

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Students get chance to experience disabilities

When hospitality business senior Sally Charness stopped at the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday afternoon, she didn’t know she was about to be blinded. Students from the Council of Students with Disabilities, or CSD, asked her to wear a blindfold while reading braille printed on pop cans to simulate blindness. She soon could decipher an “S” on a can of Sprite, but she said it was hard to tell for sure what she was reading.

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SIRS evaluations used to improve courses, teaching

Once history professor Edward Jocque receives his stack of Student Instructional Rating System, or SIRS, forms after entering his final grades, he takes the time to carefully look through the responses. After sifting through the evaluations with responses on extreme ends of the spectrum, Jocque said he uses the forms to help improve his class, adding that he once changed the structure of his final exam based on SIRS suggestions.

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Students learn about healthy decision-making during Duck Days

More than 500 students had the chance to try on drunk goggles, play games and earn a free T-shirt when they stopped by the sidewalk near Olin Health Center on Wednesday to participate in Olin and the Residence Halls Association’s Duck Days event. Students, community members, Olin Health Center professionals and the MSU Police Department contributed to the event.

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As finals draw closer, students seek out best study spots

As the clock winds down on the spring semester and students throughout campus are cramming material learned during the semester to prepare for final exams, the question of where to study remains on students’ minds. Throughout their years at MSU, students have developed areas where they feel comfortable sitting down and getting things done.