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Career choices
Food and industry management senior Elizabeth Manning had specific goals for her visit to the 40th Annual Minority Career Fair.
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Lecture series reconstructs American Indian history
The 2004 American Indian Lecture Series will kick off today with a talk by Donald L. Fixico. A former Newberry Fellow and Ford Fellow, Fixico will present "Reconstructing American Indian History" from 2 p.m.
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ASMSU seeks available resources to broadcast assembly meetings
Move over, C-SPAN. ASMSU could be heading to the airwaves. Vikas Menon, association director for MSU's undergraduate student government, said he has been looking into broadcasting assembly meetings on campus cable.
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ANGEL system still working out bugs
ANGEL learning management system has gained popularity, but still is not considered heavenly by many MSU professors and students. More than 1,000 course sections are signed up for the online class-assistant program, which stands for "a new global environment for learning." That's an increase of more than 250 classes from last semester, said Byron Brown, coordinator of instructional technology support for Libraries, Computing and Technology.
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Education in India focus of discussion
MSU's Asian Studies Center will bring the chairman of the University Grants Commission in India to campus this week. Professor Arun Nigavekar will hold a lecture, "Higher Education in India: Emerging New Scenarios" at 5 p.m.
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New Iraqi currency circulates
MSU President M. Peter McPherson came back from Iraq in late September, but his task in helping to rebuild the war-torn economy wasn't completed until last week. On Jan.
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Candidate's son visits campus
Wes Clark Jr. paid a visit to campus Wednesday morning to spread the message for the presidential campaign of his father, Gen.
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Minority Career Fair scheduled for today
Job-hunting students, clean up your résumés. The 35th Annual Minority Career Fair will take place from 6 to 9 p.m.
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New cable network boasts music, news
MSU students used to seeing CTN: College Television Network on campus cable are in for a change. The new network, mtvU, went on the air Tuesday.
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'U' uses new, old strategies to keep energy costs down
A $4-million lighting renovation in several campus buildings will save energy and money in the long run, but university officials say most students won't even notice the change. However, some might notice another way MSU has been cutting back on energy - keeping the temperature in campus buildings at about 68 to 70 degrees. "Quite frankly, a lot of people are uncomfortable at 68," University Engineer Bob Nestle said. Nestle said MSU has been keeping building temperatures at about 68 degrees for more than 30 years. "Energy conservation has been a high priority at Michigan State University since the early '70s," he said.
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Vigil persists despite chill
Circled around the rock on Farm Lane, about 20 people lit candles and held a moment of silence in memory of the 44 million people they say have lost their lives to abortion.
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Movie offices open on time
Though the Residence Halls Association Movie Offices have experienced difficulty in the past, this semester, they opened on time. The five offices, located in Brody, Phillips, Holden, Akers and Gilchrist halls, opened Tuesday for the semester.
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'U' examines safe, recyclable packaging materials
Paul Singh keeps up to date on the popular peanuts and popcorn craved by the masses - for their mailing packages. Singh, a professor in the MSU School of Packaging, conducts research and testing of the best loose-fill materials stuffed in boxes to protect gifts and fragile items. "When companies want their products tested, they send them to Michigan State," said Singh, also director for the Consortium of Distribution Packaging Research. After the environmental movement in the late '80s, Singh performed a large-scale comparison research project among loose-fill packaging items ranging from starch- and paper-based packaging peanuts to expanded polystyrene, a Styrofoam-like material.
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Recruits increase for Peace Corps
The MSU-University of Michigan rivalry has made its way from the football field to the Peace Corps.
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Forum to highlight ethics
Scandals in business, such as those involving Enron and WorldCom that took place in 2002 are nothing new, but emphasis in ethics education might help to make them less common in the future, officials say. Recently, the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration began work on creating a new ethics institute, which also is sponsored by the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers.
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Human Spirit: Student belts praise, writes with heart
Lateena Dinkins spends hours practicing her vocal performances. She stays in studios until 3 a.m. sometimes, writing music. She works on scales, she trains her voice and her career has been years of hard work in the making. But a gospel song comes from her heart. "I don't practice a gospel song at all," said Dinkins, a graduate student in music performance.
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Future of liberal arts programs in jeopardy
Month-long focus group conversations concerning the future of the liberal arts and sciences programs at MSU have culminated into a 15-page summary proposal for Provost Lou Anna Simon's review. The report included recommendations to merge departments within colleges, use more electronic communications and evaluate broad cost-cutting ideas and course overlaps. Marcellette Williams, an MSU alumna and retired MSU English and comparative literature professor, submitted the summary Thursday and said participants were passionate during focus group conversations. "It was extraordinary faculty and toward the end, the provost will find extraordinary support," Williams said.
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Psychologist's lecture to discuss health care
The relationship between doctors and patients will be the topic of conversation at an afternoon lecture today.
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ASMSU to visit U-M conference
Representatives from ASMSU will be heading to a conference at the school down the road at the end of January for the first time in two years. On Jan.
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Nickel & dime
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, step aside. There are two new all-time great Spartans on campus - hospitality business professors Ronald Cichy and Michael Kasavana. The two are inaugural members of a sort of vending machine industry hall of fame.