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MSU has own version of Stanford's tuition break

It doesn’t sound accurate, but it’s true — it could be cheaper for some freshmen to attend Stanford University next fall than MSU. In February, Stanford announced a plan to eliminate the total cost of tuition, $36,030, for undergraduates coming from families who earn less than $100,000.

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Union: letters violate contract

It’s the one envelope a graduate student teaching assistant never wants to receive — one with a letter informing them a job within their college won’t exist next year.

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Signatures promise graduation

To push themselves and each other to obtain diploma, about 300 students have gripped markers and signed an MSU student group’s banner intended to increase graduation rates among black students.

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Maple syrup project makes sweet return

Sweet wafting steam billows out of the “little Frankenstein-looking thing” in a field off Hagadorn Road. That “Frankenstein thing,” as Jason Darling describes it, is a maple sugaring evaporator.

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Disabled icers get shot at club team

Nicole Letourneau grew up watching her four younger brothers play hockey. “They’ve been doing it since they were as young as 2,” Letourneau said. “That’s the way I wanted to start. When I stepped out on the ice at that age, I cried to play.”

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Police work to contain thousands at Cedar Fest

A few thousand people descended upon Cedar Village tonight for Cedar Fest, where police have patrolled a rowdy crowd that has shouted various Spartan chants, occasionally tossed beer cans and bottles into the air and sparked several small fires.

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MSU banner to fly at '08 Olympics

As thousands of people walk into the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, they will be greeted with 100-foot banners with the signatures of people from around the world — one sporting the John Hancock of MSU students.

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Graduate Employees Union approves strike platform

Following a late meeting of the membership, the Graduate Employees Union approved a strike platform Wednesday to establish a list of the bedrock issues to be included in a new contract with the university. With more than 210 members in attendance, the union voted to include a 5 percent wage increase, increased medical coverage and parking rights in the platform.