T HU R SDAY, FEBRUARY 1 3, 2025
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FEBRUARY 13 COMMEMORATIVE EDITION
Holding classes on Feb. 13 still a year-to-year decision for MSU’s campus
The Broad Art Museum works to curate a safe space for students
COLUMN: An international student’s experience of the MSU mass shooting
Whether classes are held on future anniversaries of the Feb. 13, 2023, campus mass shooting will continue to be made on a yearly basis.
The exhibit, which was co-curated by MSU alumn Maya Manuel, was made to bring awareness to gun violence and to depict healing through “artivism.”
Feb. 13, 2023, was an ordinary winter night in East Lansing — until it wasn’t. Beyond the shock, beyond the grief, there was an isolation that set in.
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On Feb. 13, 2024, candles surrounding the Spartan Statue read the initials of the victims of the 2023 campus shooting – Alexandria Verner, Brian Fraser and Arielle Anderson. Photo by Alexis Schmidt.