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Department supervisors recognized

Antonio Planas

October 17, 2003

Before most of campus was awake, employees from MSU's Office of University Development stood in quiet darkness, anxiously waiting to surprise two of their bosses during the 3rd annual Supervisor Recognition Awards.The MSU Fight Song blared from boom box speakers, on Thursday as Charles Webb, vice president of University Development, and Marti Heil, associate vice president of University Development, walked in the door of the second floor conference room at the Eyde Building, 4660 S.

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New black, Latino student affairs leaders arrive

Two new Office for Racial Ethnic Student Affairs coordinators began this month, and they say they hope to improve minority leadership in the community at MSU.

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State Democrats split about voting via Internet

Antonio Planas

October 16, 2003

Democrats inside and outside the MSU community are split on a new form of voting via the Internet. The plan, introduced by the Michigan Democratic party, becomes effective during the Feb.

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Group to sponsor Indian dance session

Indian rhythm will flow Friday in the IM Sports-West basement at 8 p.m. at "Tarang." ASHA for Education, a volunteer organization which raises funds for educational projects in India, is sponsoring the event, the first fund-raiser for the organization. Participants will learn a dance called Garba/Raas and MSU's Bhangra dance team will perform.

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Clemency rally to be at noon at Capitol

The Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project and the Lansing Chapter of the American Civil Rights Union will hold a rally on the steps of the Capitol today at noon. They'll present 20 petitions asking Gov.

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Program sends 'U' to under-served areas

Don Jordan

October 16, 2003

MSU will join various university and community health institutions to form the Michigan Center for Health Education Training in the Communities, using a $5 million federal grant. The program, funded by the U.S.

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Lecture to discuss autoworker today

Auto worker and labor organizer James Boggs will be discussed in a symposium presented by the African American and African Studies departments today. Writer Grace Lee Boggs will speak on "James Boggs: The Man, Organic Intellectual and Activist." A roundtable discussion called "Race and Labor in 21st Century America: Lessons from James Boggs" will follow. Grace Lee Boggs was trained as a philosopher and was once partners with James Boggs in what the departments are calling "the struggle for a new America." The symposium, called "James Boggs' 'The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook' - 40 Years Later," runs from 1 to 5:15 p.m.

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Conference to look at African concerns

Concerns about Africa will be addressed today at the 20th Annual World Food Day Teleconference. "Collaboration or Calamity: Africa in Peril" features Urban Jonsson, UNICEF regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.

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Task force to address defense funding

Meghan Gilbert

October 16, 2003

Members of Michigan's judicial system are working to change public defense practices.The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research sponsored a forum Wednesday titled "Reducing the Corrections Budget through Effective Public Defense" for senators, MSU-DCL College of Law faculty and state officials.The forum offered the information from a task force assigned to make recommendations to reformat Michigan's defense system.According to the task force, Michigan offers no state funding for trial defense services and assigned counsel receive some of the lowest wages in the country.

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Work continues on campus accessibility

It's the seemingly little things. A toilet paper holder at the proper height. Door signs with Braille. Or it's the big things.

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Swing Society hosts dance lessons

Amy Davis

October 16, 2003

More than 60 people concentrated as the smooth sounds of jazz rhythmically pulsed throughout the MSU Union Ballroom on Tuesday night.

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Planetarium to hold astronomy lecture

The MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy will present a lecture titled "Black Holes, Quasars and the Birth of Galaxies," at 7:30 p.m.

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Simulation Day depicts life with a disability

Amy Davis

October 15, 2003

Matthew Clark said it was difficult to use the bathrooms in Wells Hall while he was in a wheelchair.Clark, a landscape architecture senior, participated in a simulation, one of the many events planned for Accessibility Awareness Week.

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Proposal to integrate departments heads to Trustees

Evan Rondeau

October 15, 2003

A proposal to integrate three departments within the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources was approved by the Executive Committee of Academic Council on Tuesday.

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ASMSU drafts amendments to change 6-week-old noise law

Amy Davis

October 15, 2003

In the week following an ASMSU-sponsored forum for student input on the East Lansing party-noise ordinance, officials from MSU's undergraduate student government have been drafting amendments to the policy using concerns addressed by students at the meeting.Lynsey Little, ASMSU director of community affairs and chairwoman of the University Student Commission, said both student organizations will create a proposal to amend the six-week-old ordinance.

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Visa requirements may hinder 'U'

There are more international students at MSU this year, but it's becoming more difficult to come to the United States and stay at the university, students and administrators say.This year, MSU has 154 new International students, bringing total enrollment to 3,277.

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Trustees approve 2 renovation projects

Antonio Planas

October 14, 2003

The MSU Board of Trustees passed two renovation projects at its meeting Friday.The board unanimously voted to establish contracts to renovate the Clinical Center and the Life Sciences Building, as well as replacing the electrical station that generates power throughout the Brody Complex. University Engineer Bob Nestle said the contracts will be signed within a week and construction should begin shortly after.Gunthorpe Plumbing and Heating Inc. of East Lansing was appointed to replace the coils in air units at the Clinical Center and to replace heat and ventilation systems at the Life Sciences Building.The contract is worth $462,000.Nestle said there are additional costs for design and inspection fees, along with a contingency charge to cover any unforeseen costs, bringing the total costs of the project to about $720,000.Kares Construction Co. of Charlotte was awarded a contract of $373,000 for the replacement of the electrical transformers that serve the Brody Complex.

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Students apologize to 'U'

Two students involved in selling anti-University of Michigan T-shirts said they apologized to the campus groups they offended but will not stop selling the shirts.The flier distributed across campus last week bore the phrase "Wolverines Pack Fudge" above an explicit drawing as an advertisement for the shirts sold online.Biomedical science junior Carmen Peter and economics junior Charlie Peck said they created the shirts just to make money and weren't expecting the negative backlash they received from Residence Hall Association and the Alliance of Lesbian, Bi, Gay and Transgender Students."I'm sorry people took this the wrong way," Peter said.

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Pease and justice film shown tonight

The third video in the Students for Peace and Justice Film Series will be shown Wednesday night in Wells Hall."Mumia: A case for reasonable doubt?" will begin at 8 p.m.

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NAISO embraces indigenous heritage

Instead of sharing stories about the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, MSU English Professor Gordon Henry talked about Rose Cree of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. Henry talked about how Cree and other indigenous peoples have a different tradition than Christopher Columbus - one of hospitality, respect and unity rather than conquest and imperialism. "Our legacy is not one of conquest or oppressing other people," he said, standing in front of the rock on Farm Lane painted with "Columbus Day: Celebrating 511 years of terrorism.