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As Russian’s invasion of Ukraine enters its tenth month, the war is less visible on Americans’ radar. But for people with direct ties to Ukraine — and the groups working to help them — it is always close.
Millions of Americans — including many Michigan State University students and alumni — continue to wait to see if they’ll get relief from their student loans.
While the Biden administration continues a legal fight to save its student debt forgiveness plan, public policy attention is beginning to focus on the causes of rising college tuition.
The average student loan debt for recent college graduates is nearly $30,000, according to U.S News data. That amount has been rising as tuition-driven schools raise fees to keep up with their own costs.
While price increases appear to be slowing, inflation remains high. Prices of common consumer goods and services are up 7.1% since last November, according to inflation data released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Rising costs for housing, food and energy are leading contributors.
For many Michigan State University international students and their families, Dan Winter plays the role reliable friend, wise mentor and kind grandpa. Winter, executive director of Friendship House MSU, coordinates programs and services to help those families learn English and make connections in the East Lansing community.
Abe Frank — nose and forehead scrunched with one eyebrow slightly raised — looked at his computer screen. He was searching through satellite imagery, looking for locations he wouldn’t talk about. Frank, a lab leader for James Madison College’s Human Rights Lab, is working with other students in the program to assist the International Criminal Court on a project.
Interest in Vietnamese is growing thanks in part to interest from students with Vietnamese heritage and a growing number of students from Vietnam attending U.S. colleges. The language is one of eight language courses offered through MSU’s Community Language School.
Despite the U.S. team’s recent loss in this World Cup tournament, American soccer fans looking toward the future of this increasingly popular sport.
Michigan State University had its last home game for the season at Spartan Stadium on Nov. 19.
Student Olivia Stout came out for the game. “Earlier in the year I would just be looking out my window and see everyone head to the stadium, which made me want to do the same,” said Stout. “It was the last home game, so I had to come. It really brought the campus together and everyone was very lively.”
WASTEWATER PRIVACY: Ever since John Snow, the father of epidemiology, linked an 1854 cholera outbreak in London to contaminated water, wastewater surveillance has been a tool for scientists to track disease. But some are raising medical privacy concerns in the modern age as wastewater is used to track COVID-19. In the Great Lakes Basin, universities are teaming up to join a national network, including the University of Toledo, Northwestern University, Notre Dame, Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin. By Mackenzie DeRaad. COMMENTARY FOR LANSING AND ALL POINTS.