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NEWS

Friends with benefits

You’re in trouble. It’s been weeks — maybe months — since you got any action or had a hint of a relationship. You think hooking up with a close friend will be a no-strings-attached piece of cake, right? Wrong.

NEWS

Table talk

A simple mistake has led to a missing memorial and useful tool for students with disabilities. The custom-designed adjustable memorial table — valued at $2,000 — was created to help students in wheelchairs at the College of Human Medicine. It was a memorial for Yvonne Tarala, a student in the college who died in 1992.

MICHIGAN

Crosswalk safety

Whether she’s tardy for class or trying to get somewhere fast, zoology junior Marilyn Smith has been known to throw caution to the wind when traversing campus crosswalks.

MSU

Awards honor exceptional bosses

Karen Plaut was presented with an Outstanding Supervisor Award in honor of National Boss Day on Tuesday. The awards, given by MSU’s Family Resource Center, started seven years ago at the university to honor bosses who are well-liked by their employees.

NEWS

Union of faiths

Naomi Mendelsohn wears a pentacle around her neck. Its encircled upright five-pointed star represents earth, air, fire, water and spirit — the elements of her Pagan beliefs. Because she wears a symbol of a religion that is commonly misunderstood, Mendelsohn said she and Pagan friends have received ridicule and challenges to their beliefs in the past from people who didn’t understand them.

NEWS

Police Briefs 10/16/07

A Kalamazoo woman in town for a horse show had her shoulder bag containing about $700 in personal property stolen from the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

Rally for mental health

She jumped straight out of the comic strip and onto the streets. Standing in the corner of Wells Hall surrounded by signs proclaiming “anxiety,” “depression,” “culture shock,” and “stress” was Lucy Van Pelt, of “Peanuts” fame, ready to offer her brand of psychiatric advice.