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Use of Spartan Cash increases around campus

Katie Harrington
February 7, 2012

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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ASMSU debates internship credit

Rachel Jackson
February 6, 2012

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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College of Law hosts Diversity Week

Kellie Rowe
February 6, 2012

The MSU College of Law is holding its 18th annual Diversity Week, which runs until Friday, with a variety of events catered to spreading awareness throughout not only the law community, but campus-wide audiences, said Mary Ferguson, director of Diversity Services for the college.

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MSU students, professors bring Big Ten rivalry to gaming world

Lauren Gibbons
February 5, 2012

Students, alumni and anyone on the Internet can help Sparty take on unfriendly rival snowmen in a new video game produced by MSU students. With the help of telecommunication, information studies and media associate professor Brian Winn, a group of graduate and undergraduate students working at the Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab recently produced Grumpy Snowmen ­— a game featuring Sparty hurling footballs, basketballs and other sporting equipment at snowmen dressed in rival Big Ten colors throughout campus.

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Students sell bracelets to help charities

Kelsie Thompson
February 5, 2012

Students might soon be noticing a pop of color on the wrists of classmates who are part of one organization’s mission to raise awareness for various issues currently facing society. The bracelets, made by the California-based company Pura Vida, are beginning to gain popularity on college campuses throughout the nation with the help of students, said psychology sophomore and MSU Pura Vida campus representative Gia Georgiades.

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Unbuttoned: Button business closes shop

Jaclyn McNeal
February 2, 2012

Lansing resident Dave Cripe and his father, Al, began making buttons for car shows as a hobby. Little did they know a business would develop into what is now known as Betty’s Buttons & T-Shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing, named after Cripe’s mother, Betty.