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On-campus parties prepare Students for election day
A busy table full of information and candy attracted students to Spartans Vote 2008 seven in locations around campus Thursday.
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MSU improves sexual health ranking
Trojan brand condoms ranked MSU 36th out of 139 colleges in their annual Sexual Health Report Card — up from last year’s 75th spot. The grades rate sexual health resources and services. MSU received a 3.13 grade on a four-point scale, which is ninth in the Big Ten. The State News spoke with Erica Phillipich, sexual health promotion coordinator at Olin Health Center, about MSU’s program.
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MSU Pagan group to hold forum tonight
Friday is Halloween, but for followers of Paganism, the day marks the Pagan new year — Samhain. To spread awareness of the holiday, Green Spiral, MSU’s Pagan student organization, will hold an open discussion forum at its general meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in the Tower Room of the Union.
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MSU grad links advertising, sports in business
Jon Thomas recalls taking advertising classes at MSU and his love of sports on campus. Twenty-six years after he left East Lansing, he’s combined those interests to create his own national licensing business.
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Online database compares colleges' criteria
MSU’s recruitment information will go head-to-head with more than 200 other universities this academic year. The Web site CollegePortraits.org gives prospective students an opportunity to compare data from about 225 four-year public universities involved in the Voluntary System of Accountability.
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Greeks go green, recycle
Almost 3,000 plastic bottles. More than 200 pounds of newspaper. Almost 100 magazines and more than 550 cans and bottles. These numbers reflect the amount of recyclable materials left scattered about lawns, on front porches and crushed into the sidewalks around East Lansing and MSU last week.
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Student Organic Farm event celebrates opening of Yakeley hoop house
The aroma of butternut squash soup and smoked turkey, freshly prepared with organic meat and produce from the new Yakeley hoop house, filled the air of the tent at the first Farm to Fork Fair.
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ASMSU denies extra funds for Programming Board
ASMSU will not give $35,055.08 more in funds to its Programming Board, despite complaints from the board that it was expecting to receive the funds and was already planning on using them.
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Philanthropist Koo dies at 87
Delia Koo, for whom the MSU International Academic Center is named, died last week at the age of 87. She first made her appearance at MSU by donating $3 million to the university to assist international students in 2000.
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General fund covers tuition increase
After receiving lower than expected appropriations from the state this year, the MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition for spring semester. Tuition will increase 1.2 percent in the spring, but students won’t notice a difference on their bills until the summer semester. MSU will cover the tuition increase in the spring with money from its general fund.
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Annual cleanup purges Red Cedar of trash
Spirits were high and water levels were even higher Saturday as volunteers attended the Red Cedar River Cleanup. About 50 volunteers, working on sections of the river ranging from the Kellogg Center parking ramp to Hagadorn Road, pulled several bikes, as well as a futon, shopping cart and desktop computer, from the river.
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YouVote initiative to answer voting questions in residence halls
MSU’s YouVote initiative will answer students’ questions about voting in the November election in residence halls this week. Students may ask questions about voting absentee and in person, and will be able to check their voter registration status.
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Proposed policy could trace students' academic dishonesty
A proposed reform of MSU’s academic integrity policy could give faculty an edge in slashing the number of academic dishonesty cases. A rule drafted by the University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP, proposed electronically tracking a student’s history of academic dishonesty.
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MSU Board approves tuition hike
The MSU Board of Trustees approved today a tuition and fee increase of 1.2 percent for the Spring 2009 semester. The increase comes after state appropriations for the 2008-2009 school year were 2 percent less — or $5.8 million less — than what the board expected when it developed the current budget. The 1.2 percent tuition and fee increase will cover $2.9 million of that difference. The remaining $2.9 million will be funded from the 2007-2008 general fund balance.
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Granholm sees green future for Mich.
Cars will plug into outlets, a smart electric grid will turn off appliances at night, wind turbines and solar panels will sit on rooftops and all the energy will be captured by a battery. It’s just another day in the neighborhood.
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MSU collaborates with other schools to create new online library system
Students searching the Internet for digital books could soon narrow their search to one site — HathiTrust.org. The University of California’s library system joined the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, or CIC, to create HathiTrust, a shared digital repository.
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MSU Institute of Water Research receives $1 million grant
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality awarded a $1 million grant to the MSU Institute of Water Research, according to the Footprints newsletter found on MSU’s Office of Campus Sustainability Web site.
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Black Power Rally aims to educate about history, culture
The phrase “black power” was coined during the civil rights movement to stress unity within the black community. More than 50 years later, MSU students are still pushing that message. The Black Student Alliance will host its 36th annual Black Power Rally at 6 p.m. today at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
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Film showing to focus on Africa's Invisible Children
There will be a documentary showing about the Invisible Children of Uganda at 7 p.m. today in B106 Wells Hall. The film, “Go,” will be presented by four representatives who traveled to Uganda and experienced the conflict firsthand in the northern part of the country.
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MSU professor named editor-in-chief of international journal
Christoph Benning, an MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, has been named the next editor-in-chief of The Plant Journal.