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From Strikes And Snow To U2, New Book Highlights MSU's First Decades

WKAR Public Media
Published December 14, 2017 at 6:44 AM EST
Reginald Hardwick
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WKAR Public Media
Picture of book Tales from the Archives, Volume 1: Campus and Traditions.

A new book published by the Michigan State University Archives is nearly 200 pages of stories and pictures of students, staff and experiences at the East Lansing School. 

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Alpha Phi Alpha members on a staircase at Michigan State University, 1949

The book is called Tales from the Archives, Volume 1: Campus and Traditions.

MSU archives director Cynthia Ghering talked with WKAR's Reginald Hardwick about the new book.

Click here for more information where to buy the book.

Click here to purchase the book.

Credit MSU Archives
Inside the Dairy Store, 1957.
Credit MSU Archives
Poster from class rivalry poster in 1913
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