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Broads add $2M to museum donation

Billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, donated another $2 million to help the art museum bearing their name reach its funding goal of $40 million, the university announced Wednesday.

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MSU Safe Place works to raise stalker awareness

After hearing a tapping noise on her ground floor apartment window about two years ago, Kate found a sticky note with an online screen name secured to the glass. Kate, an MSU graduate student, assumed it was a prank until she found the same note attached to her car a few days later.

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MSU, WJR continue radio agreement

A deal completed Tuesday by MSU and Detroit radio station WJR (760-AM) would continue to give the station exclusive radio broadcast rights to MSU athletics until 2020, a university official said.

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State GOP leader Bishop proposes public employee pay cuts

Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop, R-Rochester, announced a budget plan that could save the state between $2.24 and $2.6 billion during a Tuesday press conference. In the plan, all public employees — which includes MSU staff members — would receive a 5 percent pay reduction and would be frozen at that rate for three years. The public servant pay cut would comprise the largest portion of savings at an estimated $1.2 billion.