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MICHIGAN

Beef returns, gives students more options

Burgers were back on students’ plates this weekend as a campus-wide ban on ground beef came to a close, MSU officials said. The beef was banned at all campus cafeterias on Oct. 6 at the request of ground beef supplier J&B Meats, which was testing for E. coli.

MICHIGAN

Students help clean weekend mess

Local students and permanent residents joined together early Sunday to help clean up East Lansing. The Spartan Football Cleanup, sponsored by the Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, united residents to help clear the aftermath of Homecoming weekend.

MSU

Students build Homecoming floats

Using this year’s theme of “Where Heroes are Made,” student organizations created floats for the Homecoming Parade on Friday. Throughout the week, student groups met in the concourse of Spartan Stadium to assemble their floats on top of flatbeds or to create banners. Here are a few examples of what some student groups are doing in honor of Homecoming.

MSU

Association to award 14 distinguished alumni

Recipients of 2007 MSU Alumni Association awards range from former NASA employees to former MSU Trustees members and multi-million dollar philanthropists. Fourteen individuals and organizations are expected to receive awards Thursday at the Kellogg Center commemorating them for their work with the university.

NEWS

Police Brief 10/11/07

Two female students were each assaulted twice Sunday between 12:45-1:15 a.m. after an argument over a picture on Facebook.com, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

NEWS

How do professors' opinions affect the classroom?

For Maggie Endres, a class is more unique when she gets to hear her professor’s position on an issue … But Endres said there has been a couple of circumstances where she felt pressured to agree with a professor to get a good grade.

MICHIGAN

Sculpture celebrates E.L.'s 100th

The agitating noises of construction traveled from the West Village redevelopment to Valley Court Park at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, but during this 2007 East Lansing Centennial Celebration, the sounds were symbolic.

MSU

Pro-choice minister to discuss abortion

Religion and abortion — two topics typically thought of as polar opposites — will come together for a lecture today given by a minister with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a national pro-choice organization.

MSU

Stabenow visits ISS class

Students in an ISS class were treated to a first-hand discussion with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on financial aid and rising health care and tuition costs and her position on the war in Iraq.