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E.L. City Council to discuss financing City Center II project Tuesday

Beau Hayhoe
February 6, 2012

The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss financing for a portion of the long-running City Center II project during its Tuesday meeting. Public discussion on refinancing four parcels of property on Evergreen Avenue related to the $97 million redevelopment project is on the council’s business agenda for Tuesday’s meeting, scheduled to take place at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.

MICHIGAN

Spartans dabble in meme culture

Lauren Gibbons
February 6, 2012

A popular Internet phenomenon turned Spartan green this weekend when a California-based online class note provider connected memes with college campuses. Memes are images with captions typed overtop of them, often relating to humorous situations or occurrences. The most popular images often turn viral and prompt people all around the country and world to create new captions for the same picture.

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College of Law hosts Diversity Week

Kellie Rowe
February 6, 2012

The MSU College of Law is holding its 18th annual Diversity Week, which runs until Friday, with a variety of events catered to spreading awareness throughout not only the law community, but campus-wide audiences, said Mary Ferguson, director of Diversity Services for the college.

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MSU students, professors bring Big Ten rivalry to gaming world

Lauren Gibbons
February 5, 2012

Students, alumni and anyone on the Internet can help Sparty take on unfriendly rival snowmen in a new video game produced by MSU students. With the help of telecommunication, information studies and media associate professor Brian Winn, a group of graduate and undergraduate students working at the Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab recently produced Grumpy Snowmen ­— a game featuring Sparty hurling footballs, basketballs and other sporting equipment at snowmen dressed in rival Big Ten colors throughout campus.

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Students sell bracelets to help charities

Kelsie Thompson
February 5, 2012

Students might soon be noticing a pop of color on the wrists of classmates who are part of one organization’s mission to raise awareness for various issues currently facing society. The bracelets, made by the California-based company Pura Vida, are beginning to gain popularity on college campuses throughout the nation with the help of students, said psychology sophomore and MSU Pura Vida campus representative Gia Georgiades.

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MSU

Unbuttoned: Button business closes shop

Jaclyn McNeal
February 2, 2012

Lansing resident Dave Cripe and his father, Al, began making buttons for car shows as a hobby. Little did they know a business would develop into what is now known as Betty’s Buttons & T-Shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing, named after Cripe’s mother, Betty.