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Portion of Farm Lane to close
Farm Lane will close Wednesday from Mount Hope to Trowbridge roads for construction as an estimated $35 million project gets underway.
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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 looks to amplify faculty voice
Sheila Teahan is hoping the proposed changes to the university’s large governance bodies will alleviate some dysfunction and make them more effective.
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Report reveals no violation of anti-discrimination policy
Neither the MSU College Republicans nor the MSU Young Americans for Freedom violated the university’s anti-discrimination policy, according to a 126-page report released in the past week by MSU’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.
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Groups advocate workers' rights
The MSU logos that emblazon track jackets, T-shirts and other clothing around East Lansing might come at a cost greater than the $20 or $30 charged in stores.
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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.
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Spartan fans get 1,250 tickets for Houston
MSU will be allotted 1,250 tickets for Houston’s NCAA Tournament regional games, said John Lewandowski, associate athletics director for media relations.
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Culture Night benefits Thai students
The aroma of pad Thai, spring rolls and fried rice filled East Lansing High School on Saturday during the third annual Thai Food and Culture Night.
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Scarlett resigns from ASMSU Student Assembly position
Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, announced his resignation Thursday during the Student Assembly meeting.
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MSU to test HDTV in campus housing
Clear, crisp high-definition television could be coming to campus next year. The MSU Telecommunication Systems Department is conducting a campuswide test until the end of the month that provides high-definition channels to students on campus.
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Medical students moving on
At the stroke of noon, Miguel Sanchez took his cell phone and what he considered to be one of the most important unopened envelopes he would ever hold into the hallway.
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CATA announces service changes
The Capital Area Transportation Authority will split Route 32 into two separate routes beginning March 24 due to construction on Farm Lane.
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Report: Child care among issues for women at MSU
As a professor of mechanical engineering, Tamara Bush often finds herself surrounded by a sea of men and only a handful of women.
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Range to stay warm in winter
Michigan golfers are used to hibernating from November to late March, but the university’s golf course soon will be offering a way for locals to keep swinging during the winter.
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Scarlett payment bill could be reviewed
A bill that would pay an ASMSU official charged with sexual assault to continue planning the group’s $250,000 concert could be reviewed by at least one committees Thursday before a vote of approval.
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MSU Muslim group sticks to its values
While the MSU Muslim Students’ Association is open to compromise, an organized trip to a casino wouldn’t be in the cards, Maweza Razzaq said.
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MSU reaches out through music
Lansing resident Aaron Wade, 14, normally plays jazz on his saxophone. But when an MSU student musical group opened its show Tuesday in Lansing with a piece by classical composer Pierre Max Dubois, he was fine with it.
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ASMSU travels to D.C. to lobby for education
Payal Ravani has struggled with financial aid, and the ASMSU Academic Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs said many students share her concerns.
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Former grad to talk narratives
David Blight, an MSU graduate and professor of American history at Yale University, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Kellogg Center’s Big Ten Room C in a lecture titled Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation.