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Traditional Indian festival to benefit literacy charity
An organization on campus is dancing and holding a festival to raise money for underprivileged children in India at 7 p.m.
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Officials, students discuss possible long-term development on campus
Some students learned what campus could look like in the future after officials discussed the construction master plan Thursday at the International Center. At the meeting, Campus Planner Stephen Troost and Planning and Budgets Assistant Director Bill Latta laid out their plans for the university's physical outlook in the future. Troost said the master plan will guide long-term development. "Every construction project is coordinated with the master plan," Troost said.
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Same-sex parents fight for joint-custody rights
It has been close to three months since Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Marie Wolfe has seen the children she loves. Jonah and Harper are 19 months old now, and as they continue to grow, they will have to face the world without the help of their estranged parental figure. "I'm missing out on a lot of things in their lives," Wolfe said.
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BET host addresses leadership with MSU
Social activist and minister Jeff Johnson told a crowd of about 150 students they need to take leadership roles in their communities Wednesday evening in Wilson Hall Auditorium. Through his speech, "Who Will Lead the Next Social Movement," which was hosted by MSU's Black Student Alliance, or BSA, Johnson asked students to become leaders of their generation. "Nowhere in the history of the world has a generation not led itself," Johnson said.
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Deer crashing into car not rare during hunting season
As Mary Govoni waited inside her red Pontiac sedan at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Wilson Road Thursday morning, she thought she was being attacked when her passenger side windows were suddenly shattered. Seconds later, the Okemos resident looked outside the car to see a man pointing at a fleeing six-point deer — the culprit of the clamor, said her husband Lenny Govoni. "She didn't know what hit her; it all happened in 30 seconds," said Govoni, who is an MSU Grounds Maintenance landscape services coordinator.
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Professor receives money for research
Andrew Christlieb, an assistant professor of mathematics, has been awarded $300,000 during a three-year period by The Young Investigator Research Program. The program, which is supported by the U.S.
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Modified LSAT to include new comparative reading section
The Law School Admission Council created a new portion of the Law School Admission Test and removed another — the largest changes to the exam in 15 years. "(The changes) are not particularly earth-shattering changes," said Russell Schaffer, spokesman for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions. Beginning in June 2007, the reading comprehension section of the LSAT will include a new comparative reading portion, according to the admission council's Web site. The reading comprehensive section currently consists of four sets of passages, followed by four sets of questions. In the updated exam, one of the passages will be replaced with the new comparative reading section. "It will be based upon two passages where you compare what you just read," Schaffer said.
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Animal shelter to host tailgate event
A tailgate open-house party will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Ingham County Animal Shelter, 600 Curtis St., in Mason. The open house will feature half-price adoptions on any spayed or neutered pet.
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Festival to celebrate global relationship
The 2006 Global Festival will be held to help define the relationship between the international community and the Lansing area from noon to 5 p.m.
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Forum to discuss racial experiences at MSU
Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs aides from Brody Complex, representatives from Purpose Magazine and several other students will be holding an open forum for all students at 7 p.m.
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Webberville native dies during tour in Iraq
Army Staff Sgt. Gregory McCoy, a 26-year-old Webberville native, died Thursday in Iraq after an improvised explosive device hit his vehicle, according to a Detroit Free Press article. McCoy was a member of the Ft.
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Supplements may help ease flu
With cold and flu season in full swing, an MSU physician said bed rest and plenty of fluids aren't the only things that will protect people from viruses. Edward Rosick, a physician of family and community medicine, said natural supplements such as vitamin C or echinacea could help strengthen immune systems and even shorten the length of an illness. "The benefits for some of these supplements is there are not any prescriptions out there that shortens the duration of a cold," Rosick said.
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RHA representatives push to add gender identity to MSU policy
A petition created by the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, in favor of adding gender identity and expression to the university's anti-discrimination policy is circulating throughout campus.
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MSU study abroad ranks high in national report
For the second year in a row, MSU was recognized as the top public study abroad university in the nation, according to Open Doors 2006, an annual international education report. According to the Institute of International Education, or IIE, in 2004-05, 2,385 MSU students studied abroad — second to New York University in terms of student participation among all colleges and universities. MSU offers 232 study abroad programs in 62 countries and all seven continents. Kathleen Fairfax, director of MSU's Office of Study Abroad, said MSU was happy to receive recognition because the university is very committed to its study abroad program. "The study abroad program is a signature program for MSU," Fairfax said.
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Civil rights innovator speaks at conference
About 50 years ago, Carlotta Walls LaNier helped to break down color barriers in schools by being one of the first black students to attend an integrated school.
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Innovations: Mite zapper
Name: Zachary Huang, associate professor Department: Entomology Type of research: Entomology Date of research: Huang has worked with bees since 1982, after he received a scholarship to conduct research in Canada.
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Former minority leader appointed first female Speaker of House in U.S. history
The results from Tuesday's Congressional elections not only shifted Congress' power to the Democrats but signaled the appointment of Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S.
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Lawsuit filed against MCRI
By Any Means Necessary, a political activist group in favor of affirmative action, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against legislation eliminating gender and race-based preferential treatment in university and other public institutions. The state's constitution will now be amended to include the new legislation, which bans affirmative action in certain cases. The proposal will go into effect Dec.
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Innovations: Bird beaks
Name: Pamela Rasmussen, assistant curator of Mammalogy and Ornithology Department: Zoology Type of research: Ornithology, the study of birds Date of research: Rasmussen has been working with birds since she was a doctoral student but has had an interest in them since she was a child. Basics of research: The size of a bird's beak or how long its tail is may be the difference in two species of birds that were thought to be of the same species, Rasmussen said. "It is often very difficult," she said.
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MSU looks to purchase Grand Rapids property
University officials are taking a step forward in their plans to expand MSU's College of Human Medicine into Grand Rapids. The MSU Board of Trustees will decide on the purchase of about one and a half acres of property in Grand Rapids at its monthly meeting Friday.