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Web exclusive: Independent films brought to MSU from Telluride Film Festival

JanSport founder Skip Yowell came to Erickson Hall Kiva on Tuesday night and brought with him the living embodiment of his personal philosophy. The Telluride Mountainfilm Tour brought six original films to the MSU community “to inspire young people,” Yowell said. The tour is a mix of independent films from the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado.

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MSU students compete in economic challenge

Six MSU students played the role of economists when they participated in the Federal Reserve Challenge on Nov. 9 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where the team placed in the final four — the best any MSU team has placed.

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Sign of the Times

Friendship Baptist Church still isn’t complete. Its members are waiting on a final piece — a pipe organ. Since 2002, the church’s members have been working to bring the sound they miss from their old sanctuary to their new place of worship at 2912 Pleasant Grove Road, in Lansing.

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Forensics course recreates human faces

A pair of green eyes stared blankly at Jane Wankmiller as the anthropology doctoral student aimed her camera at the black man’s face. Flashes of light from her camera momentarily illuminated the lifeless eyes, but they did not blink. She examined the face one last time before she tugged one of the ears, watching as it peeled away from the skull she spent the past eight weeks transforming into a facial reconstruction of a deceased person.