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State News designer wins national award

Justin Kroll
September 13, 2006

Carrie Hoover, a journalism senior and State News graphic designer, recently received the "The Intern" award at the Society for News Design annual workshop in Orlando, Fla. Hoover said she was very excited and humbled to win the award against what she called "such strong competition." Hoover had to answer design questions to win the award. "I was very surprised I won the award because any one of us could of won it if the right question had been asked, she said.

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Guidance counselors visit Kellogg Center

Joey Nowak
September 13, 2006

The Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center, 55 S. Harrison Road, will host Michigan's 15 public universities and guidance counselors from high schools around the state. The fourth annual Promoting the Publics conference is designed to teach high school guidance counselors about topics, including the Michigan Merit Exam, a college entrance exam and financial aid. The Sept.

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Environmental magazine now available online

Joey Nowak
September 12, 2006

EJ Magazine, a product of MSU's Knight Center for Environmental Journalism, will now be available to readers on its Web site, www.ejmagazine.com. The magazine launched the Web site on Friday after circulating in print since 2002.

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MSU Honors Sept. 11

Lindsey Poisson
September 12, 2006

Displayed in rows near the bank of the Red Cedar River, 2,977 miniature American flags stood in the drizzling rain early Monday morning — each flag for someone who died during the Sept.

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Professors create urban plans for Mich.

Brendan Bouffard
September 8, 2006

A new book written by MSU professor Kenneth Corey and associate professor Mark Wilson helps outline a course for Michigan communities to change their planning strategies to create jobs and wealth. Corey and Wilson, professors of geography and urban and regional planning, wrote the book in an effort to educate individuals and to create awareness for a knowledge-based economy.

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Hubbard assault case in district court again

The two men charged in connection with an alleged Feb. 23 assault at South Hubbard Hall will appear in district court Friday for a continuation of their preliminary examinations, according to court records. This will be the third time the men — MSU student Albert Robinson and nonstudent Joel Hamlar — will appear for this type of hearing, as the other two examinations were adjourned. Robinson and Hamlar were two of three assailants arrested in connection with an alleged assault in which three South Hubbard Hall occupants were threatened.

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Revolution in cultural studies

Lindsay Machak
September 8, 2006

When Dionicio Valdés was at the University of Minnesota in 1984, he dreamed about the day universities in the United States would have a Chicano and Latino doctoral program. Valdés tried to create a program at Minnesota for more than 20 years while he worked as an assistant professor in Chicano studies.

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MCRI opponents protest downtown

Brendan Bouffard
September 8, 2006

With agitated drivers honking behind them, students protesting the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative rallied on Grand River Avenue Thursday evening. Engineering junior Andrew Hoyles helped organize the rally against Proposal 2.

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Mich. teachers strike for salary increases

Fredricka Paul
September 7, 2006

MSU education officials say there's no in-school preparation for teacher strikes, even as Detroit Public School teachers and Eastern Michigan University professors walk the picket line. Students majoring in education learn about union issues when they intern at a school, said Barbara Markle, assistant dean of K-12 outreach in MSU's College of Education.

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Bailey Scholars to sponsor conversation

Brendan Bouffard
September 6, 2006

The Bailey Scholars Program will be sponsoring the MSU Colloquy on Seeking Meaning, Purpose, Authenticity and Integrity Within the Larger MSU Community: Connecting the Inner and Outer Journeys. The first phase of the event will be Sept.

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Program doubles education

Justin Kroll
September 6, 2006

Children can learn a lot from one teacher, but for Russ Stolberg's eighth-grade science class at Olivet Middle School in Olivet, students will be treated to two. MSU's Kellogg Biological Station, or KBS, will be holding a program over the course of the next academic year that allow doctoral students an opportunity to work in K-12 level science classrooms across the state, including Stolberg's. "If one teacher does not explain something that well, this gives us the opportunity to turn to someone else and have them explain it better, said Trisha Funk, one of the eighth-graders in Stolberg's class.

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Campus debates culture, religion's roles in evolution

Justin Kroll
September 6, 2006

A campuswide debate about whether a person's views on evolution were determined by culture or religion was sparked after an MSU professor concluded Americans are less likely to accept the idea of evolution than people in other countries. Jon Miller, an MSU Hannah Professor of Integrative Studies, published a study in the Aug.

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Innovations: Living language

Fredricka Paul
September 6, 2006

Name: Deogratias Ngonyani, associate professor Department: Department of Linguistics and Germanic, Slavic, Asian and African Languages Type of research: Language documentation Date of research: Ngonyani said he plans on leaving for Tanzania sometime this month and will be there for nine months. He has done this type of research with two other African languages, but they were more vibrant in the number of speakers and locations in which they were spoken. Basics of the project: Ngonyani is focused on collecting information about Kikisi, an African language facing extinction, and what functions it performs. The language is only spoken among members of the community and is not written, he said. "Kikisi is spoken by less than 10,000 people, and the number of speakers are decreasing over time," Ngonyani said. Ngonyani will be collecting information about the language by writing down oral traditions, songs and folk tales.

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MSU Webmail offers spam-blocking feature

Fredricka Paul
September 5, 2006

Advertisers selling body-part enhancers and other prescription medications are clogging up some MSU Webmail inboxes, but university officials say there are ways to reduce the number of junk e-mails. MSU Webmail has a spam filter called SpamAssassin that helps cut back on the amount of spam actually making it into students' inboxes, said David Gift, vice provost for libraries computing & technology. In order to enable spam filters, users have to log into their account and click on the "preferences" link, Gift said. Webmail users have four options in blocking spam.