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Exhibits teach about veterinary care

It was udder madness as hundreds of kids and parents anxiously awaited their turn to milk a cow, pet farm animals and stick their hands inside a cow’s stomach Saturday during the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual Vet-a-Visit.

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MSU sheep farm awaits spring

Spring’s first blue skies have a way of making students wish they were outside enjoying the sunshine instead of sitting in an artificially lit lecture hall, but it could be worse.

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GEU discusses potential strike platform

Stirring nervously in a cavernous, anonymous lecture hall and tapping a pencil against a desk, an MSU student waits to take a final exam — but it never comes. Because without teaching assistants to proctor for larger classes, some exams can’t be administered.

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Copyright confusion

It fills coursepacks, is printed on handouts and makes up many documents posted online — copyrighted material within the university is something most students and professors come across every day in their academic lives.

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U-M grad employees plan to stage walkout

Following a tense, five-month-long contract negotiation, the clock is ticking toward a walkout for graduate employees — but not at MSU. The University of Michigan’s union for graduate student employees, the Graduate Employees’ Organization, approved a plan to stage a two-day walkout today and Wednesday for all graduate student instructors and workers after the union and university were unable to agree to a contract.

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MSU drafts policy for learning assistants

Departments across campus soon might have a reference point for the training and duties required of undergraduate learning assistants as a drafted policy winds its way through MSU’s Academic Governance system.

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MSU e-mail could get major overhaul

Lack of storage, basic text features and a clunky interface — these are some of the complaints leveled against MSU’s e-mail system. But all of those issues could disappear if plans being explored by university officials to overhaul or eliminate the system come to fruition.