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BASKETBALL

Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students

As Danny Kulas wandered past Bailey Hall dorm rooms selling green-and-white T-shirts stating “This is madness,” the marketing freshman could only dream about making the trip to Denver for MSU’s first-round basketball game against Temple.

MSU

Range to stay warm in winter

Michigan golfers are used to hibernating from November to late March, but the university’s golf course soon will be offering a way for locals to keep swinging during the winter.

NEWS

Line of duty

When Ryan Buckley told his mom he had joined the U.S. Navy last year, he said three words crossed her mind: Afghanistan. Iraq. War. Buckley, a second-year osteopathic medicine student and ensign in the Navy, is part of the branch’s medical corps participating in the Health Professions Scholarship Program, or HPSP.

NEWS

War veterans at MSU adjust to campus life

Arriving on campus as an 18-year-old freshman can feel unnerving at times, especially if you don’t know anyone. But arriving on campus as a freshman in your 20s — as well as coming in as a war veteran — can be isolating, some MSU veterans said.

MSU

MSU reaches out through music

Lansing resident Aaron Wade, 14, normally plays jazz on his saxophone. But when an MSU student musical group opened its show Tuesday in Lansing with a piece by classical composer Pierre Max Dubois, he was fine with it.

MSU

Former grad to talk narratives

David Blight, an MSU graduate and professor of American history at Yale University, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Kellogg Center’s Big Ten Room C in a lecture titled Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation.

MSU

GEU holds grade-in demonstration

Brian Watkins sat on the floor of Administration Building’s lobby Tuesday balancing a laptop on his legs, a textbook on his stomach and a stack of quizzes to be graded by his side. But Watkins was doing more than grading — he was demonstrating. And he wasn’t alone.

MICHIGAN

Democrats cite potential primary concerns

About 10 Democratic members of the Michigan House of Representatives voiced concerns Tuesday about proposed plans for a second state primary, including the lack of support from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the time crunch on organizing a vote.

MSU

Women recognize achievement

Some women spend so much time acknowledging other females’ accomplishments that they forget to recognize one of the most important women in their lives — themselves, Sarah Siewert said.