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Michigan State and ICHD to hold pediatric COVID-19 vaccine clinics
Clinics will be held at the Breslin Center on July 1 and July 29 from 10 a.m to 6 p.m.
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What to expect at Friday's Board of Trustees meeting
The Board of Trustees plans to meet this Friday, June 24, at 8 a.m. in room 401 of the Hannah Administration Building. Here's what's on the agenda.
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BWL warns of potential 'rolling black-outs' due to energy shortages this summer
While BWL will issue a statement, customers will not receive a direct or advance notice of the outage if they are in an area affected by a black-out. These outages will last approximately 20 minutes.
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6 LGBTQ-owned businesses to try out this Pride Month
During the month of June, there are tons of fun ways to celebrate Pride, through parades, alt proms, donating to your favorite LGBTQ+ organizations, or reading LGBTQ+ literature. Another option is to shop local, and support your city’s LGBTQ+ community and Lansing has a diverse array of LGBTQ-owned small businesses to choose from.
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MSU releases 2020-21, 2021-22 DEI report
Michigan State released its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, report for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years on Tuesday. The report features the university’s efforts to increase diversity, ensure equity, promote inclusion and enhance outreach and engagement, followed by the 2020-21 diversity at MSU data report.
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Free Press sues university over denial of records displaying donor agreements funding Mel Tucker's salary
The Detroit Free Press sued MSU over a denial for records about donor agreements for Mel Tucker's 10-year, $95 million contract.
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Sixth defendant sentenced for making fraudulent claims to the Healing Fund
Six of the seven defendants charged in connection with fraudulent claims to the Healing Assistance Fund have been sentenced.
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'You can have a voice:' A look at MSU's new student organization, Ladies of Elevation
To keep up with the latest news and to stay up to date with events follow Ladies of Elevation on Instagram at @msuloe.
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Afrofuturism takes center stage at 2nd Annual Juneteenth Celebration
Speakers related through their shared experiences of being Black in America, but ranged from board members to students—the current change-makers and others who are very much coming into their own to reshape perspective in their own way.
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MSU expected to implement transitional housing for the Fall 2022 semester
While sophomores will not be affected by transitional housing situations, incoming freshmen may be subjected to living with three people in a dorm traditionally accommodating two people, or five people in the case of Akers Hall which regularly holds four people, until additional housing opens up.
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MI Supreme Court denies Larry Nassar appeal
This order comes almost six years after survivor Rachael Denhollander filed her original police report, beginning prosecution for what turned out to be Nassar's decades of sexual abuse of many women.
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MSU alumnus performs monologue to commemorate Black fatherhood
Father's Day falls on Juneteenth this year and MSU alumnus AJ Troup wrote and performed a monologue to reflect on his relationship with Black fatherhood.
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MSU creates tool to measure election fairness district-wide
MSU Professor of Economics and Political Science Jon X. Eguia collaborated with MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research to create a software that would help the public measure partisan fairness in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Ingham County Prosecutor's Office sheds light on the rarity of death by hazing
“This is the first suspected case of death by hazing that I can recall and I've been working at the Prosecutor's Office since 1997,” Scott Hughes, Ingham County Prosecutor Office's Community Outreach Coordinator, said in an email.
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Severe thunderstorms, winds up to 70 mph predicted on Monday night
The National Weather Service, or NWS, said that those in the southern lower Michigan should be prepared for “a swath of damaging winds” that could lead to power outages or fallen trees.
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Students, lawmakers gather at Capitol as part of worldwide March For Our Lives rally
People of all ages crowded onto the Capitol lawn to listen to students, teachers and lawmakers speak out against the current epidemic of gun violence. This comes after multiple mass shootings — especially in school settings — including shootings in Oxford, Michigan, Uvalde, Texas, and Buffalo, New York, among others.
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3 Pi Alpha Phi members charged in connection with MSU student Phat Nguyen's death
Witnesses recounted seeing the victims passed out on two twin mattresses in the basement of the Pi Alpha Phi fraternity with vomit and urine on themselves. Phat Nguyen's autopsy report confirmed that alcohol intoxication was the cause of death.
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3 Lansing area Starbucks vote to unionize, 1 votes against
The National Labor Relations Board counted ballots for the Starbucks union election on June 9. Three locations around Lansing won the vote, securing the election of their unions.
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FBI arrests Michigan GOP candidate for governor for charges related to Jan 6. riot
FBI arrested Republican candidate for Michigan governor, Ryan Kelley, at his home on Thursday morning. He was charged with a misdemeanor for disorderly conduct related to his attendance at the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Abortion-rights advocates interrupt House session with protest, one taken into custody
MCRL’s protest followed the national response to leaked Supreme Court documents that showed the possibility of Roe v. Wade being overturned in the near future.