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Simon: health care policy important

Stephen Brooks
April 3, 2012

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed the importance of not increasing the cost of higher education while also protecting the health of students during her remarks at Tuesday’s Steering Committee meeting. During the meeting, Simon said the policy implemented this academic year that requires new students to carry health care insurance or be enrolled in a university health care plan affects a relatively small number of students at MSU, with 86 percent of students entering the university with their own health care.

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Week to celebrate graduate students

Isabella Shaya
April 3, 2012

To help graduate students find their place and feel appreciated at MSU, local organizations are teaming up to celebrate the university’s first Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week. The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, Graduate Student Life and Wellness and various sponsors in the Lansing area are hoping to show graduate and professional students that they matter to the MSU community through the events.

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Roial players to perform one-act plays

Rebecca Ryan
April 3, 2012

The Roial Players will be performing “Red: An Evening of One Acts” from Thursday to Saturday in the RCAH Theatre in the basement of Snyder and Phillips halls. The show will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

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Bogue Street traffic circle to be replaced with intersection in 2013

Andrew Krietz
April 3, 2012

The traffic circle at Bogue Street and Farm Lane has served its purpose for several years and tentatively has been green-lighted to be replaced with a traditional intersection next summer because of safety concerns, officials said. The estimated cost of the project is $4 million and construction is aimed to occur during summer 2013, university engineer Bob Nestle said in an email.

MICHIGAN

Elected officials take stand against sexual orientation discrimination

Derek Blalock
April 3, 2012

East Lansing officials were among a handful of people who joined at the Lansing City Council Chambers on Tuesday morning announcing their support of legislation guaranteeing nondiscrimination of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community. The Local Electeds Against Discrimination statement, or LEAD, calls for protection for LGBT against discrimination.

NEWS

Police Brief 04/03/12

Lauren Gibbons
April 2, 2012

Alexandra Pew, an 18-year-old high school senior from Ann Arbor who fell from the sixth floor of North Case Hall last week, has been released from Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.

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Group promotes religious literacy this week

Kellie Rowe
April 2, 2012

Religious studies senior Sara Lone believes religious literacy is important for every person. “Religion is a part of everything (and) every field,” she said. “If you’re in marketing and you go to Saudi Arabia, you need to know you can’t put half-naked women on a billboard.”

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Study finds demand for college graduates higher than supply

Rebecca Ryan
April 2, 2012

Accounting senior Matthew Kravutske took his potential employability into consideration when picking a school, and like many students at MSU, employability still is one of his concerns. But a new study from the Lumina Foundation shows the demand for degreeholders might be higher than the number colleges are actually producing.

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Police Brief 04/02/12

Lauren Gibbons
April 1, 2012

A 21-year-old female student reported some contents of her backpack were stolen March 27 between 1 and 1:30 p.m. from Anthony Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Talyor said.

Derek Blalock ·
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IRONDOG run raises funds for needy dogs

Derek Blalock
April 1, 2012

Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs and scrappy dogs joined to help fellow canines get medical treatment Saturday morning in the second annual IRONDOG 5K Run/Walk. More than 500 participants, some of which ran alongside their furry friends, accompanied hundreds of dogs to help raise money for the IRONDOG fund.

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TEDx comes to East Lansing, talks global understanding

Rachel Jackson
April 1, 2012

A few years ago, when Constantinos Coursaris visited Japan with a group of study abroad students, they got lost in a subway station looking for a train. Insisting on helping out, a local man showed them in the right direction, missing his own train in the process, said Coursaris, an assistant professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.

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ASMSU, RHA to hold elections

Rachel Jackson
April 1, 2012

MSU’s undergraduate student governments, ASMSU and the Residence Halls Association, are holding elections this week for initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year. ASMSU’s elections take place from 8 a.m. today until 8 a.m. April 9 and serve to elect each college’s representatives to the group’s General Assembly for the next academic year.

Ian Kullgren ·
MICHIGAN

Disco inferno heats up students

Ian Kullgren
April 1, 2012

Saturday night fever came a day early last weekend. Students took to the roller skating rink in Demonstration Hall on Friday evening, all infected with the same peculiar disease: funkadellic fever.

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Campus race helps send aide to troops overseas

Rebecca Ryan
April 1, 2012

Adreanna Scribner, an out-of-state international relations sophomore, traveled about 800 miles from home to come to MSU. Being that far away from home was a challenge for Scribner, which got her thinking about how some troops overseas must feel being more than 5,000 miles away from their homes in the U.S.