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MSU to create scholarship initiative

MSU will announce the Spartan Scholarship Challenge this weekend in hopes of raising millions for students in need of scholarships sparked by an anonymous gift of $10 million to the university in April.

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Caution urged on networking sites

Students who spend countless hours on Facebook staying in touch with friends and keeping up with the latest applications might need to be more cautious in what they click, according to a statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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Community Music School hosts jam sessions

Sounds of folk melodies radiated through the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities lobby in Snyder Hall on Tuesday night as passers-by applauded a circle of musicians, each contributing to the tunes with their own instrument.

MICHIGAN

Student's funeral to be held Friday

A funeral for MSU student Jeremy Sobczak-Obetts will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Jude Catholic Church, 1120 4 Mile Road, in Grand Rapids. Sobczak-Obetts, a food service management senior, died early Saturday morning in a Grand Rapids car accident.

MSU

Native American rights art stolen

A week before an on-campus exhibit aimed at forcing viewers to consider Native American rights was expected to conclude, several pieces of art were stolen, leaving the artist disappointed by what he called a lack of respect.

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MSU joins RosBREED project to create better tasting fruits

For Amy Iezzoni, quality fruit doesn’t start at the grocery store; it starts in a laboratory. Iezzoni, a horticulture professor, will be part of the four-year, $14.4 million grant research project called RosBREED. The project will allow researchers to match favorable traits in strawberries, cherries, peaches and apples to improve the fruits’ quality and create new breeds.