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NEWS

Meet your new teaching assistant

Yellowcard. Carrie Underwood. Ludacris. Class lectures? During the spring semester, video iPods and podcasting provided three MSU courses with class materials to help students with their studies. MSU Interactive Video Services loaned iPods to nine students for an experiment that tested the effectiveness of using the new devices for learning and how students and faculty felt about the technology. The iPods, however, were not used in class.

NEWS

What evidence is in your Facebook profile?

Every day, students go on Facebook.com to stalk people from class, poke the hotties they have crushes on and upload weekend party photos. Twelve million different people use the site each month, and users spend an average of 18 minutes on the site each day, Facebook spokesman Chris Hughes said in an e-mail. But what many students don't know is that classmates aren't the only people who can access their profiles and photos.

MICHIGAN

WEB EXTRA: Mich. residents to march for American dream

Citizens from across the state of Michigan will meet at the Capitol building at 2 p.m. on Saturday to march for the American dream. "The rally is to impress upon our elected officials to stop the outsourcing of American jobs, the need for universal health care, a secure life for our senior citizens and a better future for our children and grandchildren," said organizer Art Reyes, of Flint.