Lansing Recycled Art and Fashion Show
15 April 2010
Launched on March 25, the Lansing Recycled Art Exhibit and Fashion Show reemerged for its second year to prove that one man’s trash really can be another man’s treasure. Or his shirt. Organized by the Arts Council of Greater Lansing, the Go Green Initiative and Linking Lansing & U, the exhibit and fashion show are [...]
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Cafeteria Safety
31 March 2010
While MSU educates nearly 45,000 students per year, the university’s cafeterias feed approximately 150 times as many mouths. MSU feeds approximately six million people each year, nearly 25,000 people per day, said Associate Director of Residential Dining Bruce Haskell. Many students first view the massive cafeterias as an endless array of options, putting the home [...]
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Do Laptops Belong in Class?
31 March 2010
Clacking keys, scrolling party pictures and alluring wireless Internet on the laptop of the person in front of you quickly draws attention away from the professor and his oh-so-interesting explanation of igneous rock. In a class of hundreds of students, Facebook stalking will go completely unnoticed. And when the people around you start flicking through [...]
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MSU on FIRE list
31 March 2010
MSU has a lot of positive distinctions. It’s ranked 30th among public universities on the America’s Best Colleges list issued by U.S. News & World Report in 2009. It won the 2008 Presidential Award for General Community Service. It’s a leader in study abroad programs and campus sustainability. And it’s ranked fourth in American universities [...]
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Where To Be
31 March 2010
A Chorus Line April 6-11, Cobb Great Hall. Enjoy the occasional kickline? Want to see some tapping and twirling from a Tony-Award-winning musical? Get tickets for A Chorus Line at the Wharton Center to see 17 performers battle it out for the chance to do what they’ve always wanted – dance. Tunnel of Oppression April [...]
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SoS Media: Print is Failing
31 March 2010
The traditional model of advertisement-funded printed newspapers is failing in the journalism realm and here on campus. The first level of failure is financial. According to The State News Report on Financial Statements available at their office, The State News’s revenue for 2009 was down $667,686 from the previous year. This is mainly due to [...]
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Writer Tackles Cocktail Competition
31 March 2010
I stood behind the bar with my hands raised looking at the crowd of hundreds in my SoCo-soaked boots. At that moment I looked around and wondered what the fuck I was doing at Tripper’s flipping around liquor bottles on a Sunday night when most MSU students were at the library studying for midterms. I [...]
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SoS Media: The Impact (89 FM, that is)
30 March 2010
As part of The Big Green and Spartanedge’s series on “The State of State’s Media,” TBG Editor in Chief Emily Lawler sat down with Impact 89 FM Station Manger Jeremy Whiting. Read on or take a listen for Whiting’s words on how Impact is evolving, student tax dollars at use and what he thought of [...]
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Real Life: I’m a Nude Model
29 March 2010
For most freshman, myself included, a student’s first job at MSU may go along the lines of something like serving food in a dining hall, making coffee at Sparty’s, or even handing out toilet paper and garbage bags at the front desk of any given dorm. RCAH freshman Brynne, however, took the alternative route for [...]
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SoS Media: Competition
24 March 2010
Michigan State University is a diverse campus with more than 47,000 people who have different backgrounds, interests and demands when it comes to their news. Are those demands really being met? Spartanedge and The Big Green are online publications that contribute to the diversity and vibrancy of campus, and we are greatly concerned by a [...]
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