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Students embrace Jewish holiday

If Abbey Askotzky was at home during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, she’d be taking the day off school and going to temple with her family. Her mom would have been in the kitchen the day before, preparing food and shaping braided challah bread with raisins into a circle, to symbolize the sweet new year.

NEWS

Hollis eager to bring more championships during tenure

In recommending MSU’s next athletics director, Trustee Melanie Foster didn’t have to pull too many strings. From the get-go, the board, MSU athletics department and potential candidates all knew what Foster knew: “Mark Hollis met all the criteria.”

NEWS

Here to help

In 1965, one MSU master’s student initiated a movement that changed the relationship between students and university officials. His efforts, which spanned the course of two years, led to the creation of the Academic Freedom Report and the Office of the Ombudsman in 1967.

MICHIGAN

Sept. 11 remembered in different ways

Political science sophomore Matt Patton attended a Sept. 11, 2001, memorial event at the Union Tuesday in order to reflect on the anniversary. However, he was surprised at the turnout of the event. Less than 15 people attended.

FOOTBALL

Student overflow causes chaos in stadium sections

When it comes to seating in sections 14 and 15 in the south end zone, it’s a no-holds-barred scamper to find a slab of aluminum to stand on if one of the 13,600 students with tickets decides to arrive too close to game time, or leaves his or her seat during the first half.

NEWS

Energy efforts

In a time when concern over the environment seems to be growing daily and the solutions to those concerns becoming increasingly complex, MSU appears to be making headway. MSU was recently awarded a Campus Sustainability Leadership Award for universities with more than 7,500 students.

MICHIGAN

E.L. stages community safety carnival

Claire Schertzing thought it was unusual to see a helicopter landing in the middle of a baseball diamond. The Glencairn School sixth-grader stood in line with other children to observe the cabin of a Michigan State Police helicopter Monday at the National Night Out Safety Carnival at Patriarche Park, on the corner of Alton Road and Saginaw Street.