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Community participates in MSU donation drive
Students, professors and staff members are joining together to provide back-to-school supplies to those in need.
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BMX rider comes to MSU as part of tour
Casually flipping and spinning his bike Monday on MSU’s campus, professional BMX rider Terry Adams was living his dream. Adams is on a monthlong college tour promoting flatland BMX riding and the energy drink, Red Bull.
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Modified class schedule today
Fall semester classes begin Wednesday, but students are to attend their Monday class schedule. Thursday and Friday classes will be held at their regularly scheduled times. This arrangement gives every class equal meeting times throughout the semester. A student with a statistics class held on Wednesday and Friday and a chemistry lab held only on Mondays, for instance should not attend statistics, but should go to chemistry.
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Theatre Dept. holds free show
The MSU Department of Theatre Open House will be held 7-9 p.m. Wednesday in the Auditorium Arena Theatre, located in the basement.
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Trees in E.L. dry from drought
The city of East Lansing is reminding residents to water trees on their property to maintain the city’s urban forest.
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Students informed of tailgating times
MSU is reminding football fans of tailgating times and rules for the upcoming season. If a game begins at noon or 1 p.m., parking lots are scheduled to open at 7 a.m. while lots will open at 9 a.m. for games with 3:30 p.m. kickoffs.
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Mosaic Festival opening saturday
The Lansing Mosaic Festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at Adado Riverfront Park in Lansing.
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Democratic committee must wait to convene
The uncertainty and tumult in Michigan’s 8th congressional district for a Democratic candidate continues, as the Michigan Secretary of State still has not received an official notarized statement from the previous nominee, as of Monday. MSU alumnus Kande Ngalamulume, the former Democratic nominee for the U.S. House seat, twice entered and retreated from the race, giving a rare opportunity for a committee to appoint a new candidate to the ballot.
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MSU 'green' buildings improve worker health
Students and employees might want to think twice before going into a building that is not LEED-certified, according to a study by researchers from MSU. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certifications are a set of requirements to improve indoor environmental quality in buildings. Buildings that are LEED-certified have been proven to improve health in employees.
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E.L. offering free bike rides for city officials
East Lansing residents might notice city officials pedaling through town after a new transportation program put into place for city employees. The East Lansing Green Task Force recently began to place bikes around the city at several facilities for employees to use when going between meetings and buildings.
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Lansing Flow Fest to show local rap
Lansing Flow Fest, a Christian rap festival, will take place 5:30-10 p.m. Friday at Lansing’s Adado Riverfront Park. The fourth annual event features all ages rap and hip-hop performances by nationally and locally known Christian musicians.
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Sandbox Party to discuss child issues
The Sandbox Party will hold the Sandbox Party Convention from 1-4 p.m. Aug. 26 at Breslin Center. A nonpartisan group, the Sandbox Party advocates for a wide range of early childhood issues, including pushing for an increased state investment in child care and preschools, despite Michigan’s poor economic climate and lack of government funding.
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Highway motor tour to roll through E.L.
The Old US 27 Motor Tour will showcase classic cars from 3:30-6:30 p.m. Aug. 25 at Eastwood Towne Center, 3003 Preyde Blvd., in Lansing. The tour, along the old US-27 highway, starts Aug. 24 in Auburn, Ind., and ends Aug. 29 in Cheboygan, Mich., with nine stops between the two cities.
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Lansing Bless fest to play Christian music
The Lansing Bless Festival will take place 12:30-10 p.m. Saturday at Lansing’s Adado Riverfront Park. The event features various Christian musicians at two stages for live performances.
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Bell-ringing recital to be held Sunday
Some of MSU’s carilloneurs — the musicians who ring the bells at Beaumont Tower — will play a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday at Beaumont Tower. The recital will be in memory of Milton E. Muelder, a former MSU political science professor and dean of the Graduate School, who died at age 101 in May.
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MSU set to launch msuENet Thursday
MSU Entrepreneurship Network, or msuENet, will launch Thursday at East Lansing Technology Innovation Center, 325 E. Grand River Ave., and will provide an opportunity for those interested in entrepreneurship to connect with others curious about the same topic.
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MSU graduate student awarded $150K fellowship for research
Throughout the past three years at MSU, bacterial life has been Ben Roller’s 40-hour-a-week obsession. A third year microbiology and molecular genetics graduate student at MSU, Roller has been researching various aspects of the bacterial life cycle since he was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota. Thanks to a more than $150,000 fellowship, Roller will have another three years to study bacteria in the laboratory.
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Lansing parade celebrates local diversity
With more than 50 different entries flaunting floats down North Capitol Avenue, in Lansing, hundreds of spectators from the community watched the different exhibitions Saturday during the 11th annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Festival. The parade took place in downtown Lansing with a celebration following at Ferris Park in Lansing.
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Archery tournament promotes safety, fun
The two-day X-Factor Archery Tournament and Open Shoot, hosted at the MSU Demmer Shooting Sports, Education and Training Center, kicked off Saturday, with contestants trying to strike several moving targets and win various prizes. Arrows flew Saturday and Sunday as children and adults lined up to try shooting at moving, 3-D animal targets. The highest score won a Mathews Mission Bow — a $500 value — and second place took home a Parker Crossbow — a $300 value.
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MSU works to help students reduce spam
Although MSU e-mail has become one of the most popular forms of electronic communication for many students and professors on campus, it always has been a service susceptible to junk. Each day, MSU’s Academic Technology Services, or ATS, mail system blocks about 400,000 junk mail — or spam — messages from reaching users’ mailboxes.