MSU has a sprawling camera system, but officials needed three hours to comb through footage to find an image of the suspected shooter. The university is moving to live camera surveillance.
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Michigan State professor details terror of mass shooting in Room 114
Marco Díaz-Muñoz, a language and humanities professor, described the terrifying moments when a masked figure entered the classroom and wordlessly began shooting, killing two students and injuring others.
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MSU shooting victims: Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez identified by family
Guadalupe Huapilla-Perez, a hospitality business major at Michigan State University, is ‘incredibly hard-working, focused, and ambitious,’ her family said. In a post on GoFundMe, they said it could take her months to recover.
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Vigils to be held across the state after shooting spree at MSU
Communities across the state are showing their support for MSU victims and the University community as a whole by organizing candlelight vigils following the tragedy Monday night.
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Michigan State students from Oxford hope to ‘survive long enough to graduate’
Some MSU students have now survived multiple mass shootings. All have been changed by constant fear of active shooters
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Opinion | MSU professor mourns all that was lost in Monday’s shootings
What these shootings do when they target young people is also target possibility. The 50,000 different stories on campus last night converged into one shared, terrifying detour. And for them, what was going to be is no longer.
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MSU Student: My story shows what MSU still doesn’t get about sexual assault
Michigan State University senior Miranda Dunlap wrote a column this week in the student paper about her own painful experience reporting sexual assault to the school. In a Q and A, she tells Bridge how the school can improve the process.
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What Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to fund in $79B budget
From free school lunches and community college to water line improvements and subsidized field trips to Michigan’s state parks, the Democrat outlines her wish list. It could look very different once it’s approved.
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Turns out, young voters didn’t sway ‘22 election in Michigan, records show
It made for a good narrative, but there was no youth surge in November, records show. In fact, turnout among voters under 30 fell from 2018, when legalizing pot was on the ballot, particularly among men.
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Opinion | It’s time to applaud and support Michigan school counselors
Michigan is the only state that requires most counselors to get updated training in college and career counseling to maintain their credential. It’s one of many reasons to support their quiet but important work and ensure funding to pay for more of them.