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MICHIGAN

East Lansing employees to forgo pay increase

Jesse O'Brien
July 17, 2012

At its July 10 meeting, East Lansing City Council voted to approve a resolution that approved a 2 percent increase for contributions from the Command Officers Association of Michigan, or COAM, in an effort to ease the financial burden on the city’s budget. City Manager George Lahanas said COAM voluntarily offered to forgo a 2 percent pay increase when the city was beginning its budget talks in March, and he met with city employees to discuss the possibility that employees sign a one-year extension on their contracts without a pay increase.

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Students, residents learn music at Beaumont

Zach Smith
July 16, 2012

Beaumont Tower is one of the most iconic buildings at MSU, but what many people don’t know is that with a little time and a lot of practice, anyone can play the carillon. Ray McLellan, university carillonneur, said he started playing the Beaumont Tower carillon in 1997, and he enjoys teaching people how to play.

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Alumnus compiles crime stories

Kellie Rowe
July 16, 2012

Not many people know the story of Donald Miller, the only known serial killer from MSU. At least, that’s what MSU alumnus and author R. Barri Flowers thought when he included the story in his new crime anthology, “Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre.” The anthology is a collection of works from the true crime writers in the business and one of more than 60 titles Flowers has under his name.

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MSU students struggle to find roommates, housing for fall semester

Darcie Moran
July 16, 2012

Amanda Wenzel thought she had her housing situation for the 2012-13 school year figured out last fall. Wenzel, a special education sophomore, planned to live on campus with a friend started to fall apart in February when her future roommate backed out of their housing contract, and she’s tried to piece together her living situation ever since.

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Cooling off

Natalie Kolb
July 16, 2012

Seven-year-old Gabe Regan of Lansing drinks a bottle of water after running a 5k with his father at Lansing’s Hawk Island County Park on Sunday morning. The 5k was put on to raise money for the Lansing Area AIDS Network.

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CATA decreases hours, reduces routes for summertime service

Lilly Keyes
July 15, 2012

“Oh, we’ve still got a while before it comes,” Jacquelyn White said with a sigh while she waited for her bus Sunday afternoon. White, an LCC student, relies on CATA bus routes 1, 24 and 15 to get her to school and work every day — a task that became much more difficult when the bus company switched to its summer schedule.

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MSU, Lansing on track for high speed internet

Isabella Shaya
July 12, 2012

Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.

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Possible 20th-century boiler room discovered

Rebecca Ryan
July 11, 2012

Tuesday morning, Campus Archeologist and graduate student Katy Meyers shoveled the West Circle construction site, searching for clues about a discovered wall belonging to a structure lost in time. A week earlier, MSU Physical Plant Geographic Information Systems analyst Nick Voss found a wall below the ground next to Morrill Hall, and archeologists were called to check the scene.

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Iranian MSU student denied visa

Kellie Rowe
July 11, 2012

When Faramarz Vafaee heard his friend was leaving to go back to Iran to visit his ailing mother, he never thought his friend wouldn’t be able to make it back to MSU. After spending more than two years at MSU working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering, Saleh Rezaei Ravesh was denied re-entrance into the U.S. But his friends at MSU are fighting back.

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Bailey Hall's hoop house will give Brody green eats

Rebecca Ryan
July 11, 2012

Brody Square has found a way to put some of its food waste to good use. With renovations taking place in Brody Complex Neighborhood, food waste from Brody Square has been turned into compost used in a new hoop house, a rounded greenhouse where plants are grown in the ground, that’s being built on the south side of Bailey Hall.

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Em-barking on a new adventure

Julia Nagy
July 11, 2012

Dressed in a dog-patterned zip-up shirt, groomer Denise Culham removed her scissors from her waistband, and wisps of poodle hair fell to the floor. It was time for Cookie’s haircut.

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Council delays St. Anne Lofts decision, approves food truck resolution

Jesse O'Brien
July 11, 2012

A vote to approve a modified site plan for the St. Anne Lofts project was put off until July 24 by East Lansing City Council during its bi-weekly meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, Tuesday night. Council also unanimously approved a policy resolution which would allow food trucks to move into the downtown area with a concessionaires license.

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MSU packaging school study shows packages affect purchases

Zach Smith
July 10, 2012

A recent study from the MSU School of Packaging shows that consumers are more likely to purchase packages that have a long shelf life, are easy to open and are made from bio-based products. Georgios Koutsimanis, a doctoral student and graduate assistant, said the report asked people around the country what type of packages they would be inclined to purchase. “We couldn’t find anything like it,” Koutsimanis said.

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University discontinuing email services for alumni in August

Darcie Moran
July 9, 2012

Hope has officially been lost for alumni who wish to keep their @msu.edu email account. MSU has stopped looking into alternatives to completely deleting email accounts for alumni who have not registered for classes in over two years, university spokesman Kent Cassella said in an email Monday.