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Potholed roads pose safety risks, study says

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By KAITLYN KELLEY

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Improving road conditions in Michigan is among the issues Gov. Gretchen Whitmer discussed during her campaign and has outlined in her budget plan. At the recent State of the State address she said unsafe roads “endangers our lives and robs us of our time and our hard-earned money.”

“Our roads are so bad they cost the average driver more than $540 a year, and none of that fixes a single pothole,” Whitmer said. “While politicians in Lansing vote down road funding solutions for political gain, the dire state of our highways is endangering our people and getting in the way of our economic prosperity. ”

According to the most recent World Health Organization, or WHO, report on road safety, road infrastructure is “strongly linked” to fatal and serious injuries in road collisions, and road improvements are “critical” to improving overall road safety.

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MSU students push for better access to menstrual products on campus

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Access to menstrual products and the stigma surrounding menstrual cycles are prevalent issues around the world, including on MSU’s campus. Student groups are aiming to improve this by changing the way menstrual cycles are talked about and by pushing for products to become more easily accessible in buildings across campus.  

PERIOD MSU, Spartan Women’s Health Alliance and other groups on campus have already taken steps to provide products to locations on campus and to help students navigate where they can find them in an instance of an emergency. PERIOD is a “menstrual movement” that has over 150 chapters across the nation with the goal of providing menstrual products to those in need. This fall, Nama Naseem created a chapter of PERIOD at MSU.

Elections & Politics

Groups aim to register MSU students to vote, provide resources by midterm election

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With the deadline to register to vote in the midterm elections approaching on Oct. 9, several groups have been providing resources to help students register and planning ways to educate young voters. The Michigan Secretary of State’s Office is traveling to colleges across Michigan to set up a “mobile branch office” to register students to vote, said Voter Outreach Coordinator Kristi Dougan. “We have a tour that’s planned for all 15 universities in Michigan, a couple of community colleges,” Dougan said. “So, 3,000 miles we travel with this.”

Dougan said the mobile branch is used so college students can register to vote in person, making them eligible to ask for an absentee ballot.

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Elementary education major on 2018 election: “I honestly have not heard about it”

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Ally Geschwind is a 19-year-old student from Chesterfield, Michigan. She is currently a sophomore at Macomb Community College and studies elementary education. Geschwind spends a lot of time at school, likes to hang out with her friends and is a cheerleading coach. She is eligible, but not registered to vote. Why she isn’t registered to vote

Geschwind said she never registered to vote because she doesn’t feel very connected to politics and was never fully educated on the process of registering to vote, how to fill out a ballot or what topics could be voted on.