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MICHIGAN

Whole Foods Market prepares to open with vendor event

Wintery and at times blustery conditions were not enough to keep East Lansing residents from showing up in a crowd of hundreds to Whole Foods Maket’s Party for the Planet event on Saturday at the parking lot of the newly constructed Whole Foods Market. Whole Foods Market, slated to open on April 13, held the gathering of 20 local Michigan vendors and charities to showcase to the community its products and commitment to serving the residents it will hope to call regular customers. Following days of nearly summery weather the event happened to fall on winter's last kick before spring.

MSU

COGS passes resolutions to support Flint, Liberate MSU

Resolutions to support those impacted by the Flint water crisis, the family of recently deceased MSU dual doctoral student Max Monroy-Miller and campus activist group Liberate MSU were passed during two meetings in March by MSU’s Council of Graduate Students, or COGS.

MSU

Young Democratic Socialist group hopes to discuss and educate on new ideas

Sariah Metcalfe grew up watching her mother help run a program in the local juvie called PeaceJam, teaching students about peace and peace building, something Metcalfe herself described as a “do-good-for-the-world organization.” She, alongside a few other students, are recreating the Young Democratic Socialists, or YDS, at MSU and hope it to be an active way to do good for the MSU community.