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Interim VP for development named
Marti Heil was appointed interim vice president for university development at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday.
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Graduate assistants inching closer to walkout
The Graduate Employees Union took one step closer to their proposed one-day walkout Sunday by approving a ballot sent to all members that could authorize the job action. If approved – and if a contract has not been reached before then – the walkout would take place at 6 a.m. Tuesday, with members present at nine picket lines placed strategically around campus.
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Student Assembly unable to approve budget
ASMSU’s Student Assembly was unable to approve its 2008-2009 budget despite spending more than seven hours meeting Thursday. Although the assembly named its Student Assembly chairperson, vice chairperson for external affairs and vice chairperson for internal affairs, members tabled the budget until its meeting Thursday.
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Board votes to raise room and board rates more than 5 percent
The MSU Board of Trustees has voted to raise room and board rates for all students a rate of 5.25 percent. It will now cost $7,026 annually for a double room and unlimited meal plan in on-campus residence halls – $350 more than last year.
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Board of Trustees preview
The MSU Board of Trustees will conclude the spring semester with a meeting today that’s more about celebration than hard decision-making, board members said.
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Farm Lane project results may justify traffic delays
Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous. She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
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MSU employees learn active-shooter safety
Housing and Food Services has begun a training program to educate employees on how to respond if there is an active shooter in their work place, one that could soon spread to the rest of campus.
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Pride Week strong despite anti-gay slurs
Members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community wouldn’t let the anti-gay slurs marked on 10 buildings last week in Lansing’s Old Town affect the 36th annual Pride Week festivities.
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ASMSU looks to prevent tassel hassles
While ASMSU members want university officials to differentiate tassel colors shared by two colleges, it’s too late to change what color will hang from graduation caps this year.
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ASMSU officers to be elected today
Members of ASMSU Student Assembly’s 45th session will elect the group’s officers during its meeting at 6:30 p.m. today.
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New Diagnostic Center director named
MSU named Carole Bolin director of MSU’s Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, or DCPAH, effective Tuesday.
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Simulations help in medical field
About two minutes before giving birth, things got complicated for the “woman” lying on a table in the LaSalle Bank Club Room at Spartan Stadium.
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MSU to host education conference
MSU will host a conference Friday for educators and students to address incorporating international learning at all levels of education.
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Lacrosse supports MSU Stars
For their final home game, seniors on the MSU club lacrosse team have more decisions to make than which plays to run.
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Last day to register for MSU Take Your Child to Work Day
Today is the last day to register for MSU’s Take Your Child to Work Day, set for April 24.
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MSU alumnus honored for service during Desert Storm
Col. Roy Bierwirth has made a life out of being a hero, from his days as Sparty through his career in the U.S. Army.
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Clinic teaches suturing tips
After dissecting cow eyes, two fetal pigs, a shark and a sheep heart, cutting and stitching a pig’s foot didn’t phase human biology junior Kirsten LaFrance.
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Graduate union could vote for 1-day walkout
A picket line along Grand River Avenue. Empty classrooms across campus. Exams going unproctored, homework ungraded and recitations abandoned. That will be the scene on campus for students should the Graduate Employees Union vote to stage a one-day walkout.
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GEU uses fliers to promote contract
Chicago native Lin Bergeron walked through the entrance of the Union on Monday with a group of other potential students and their parents to tour the university, and was confronted by a group of graduate students holding fliers.
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Mich. tourism sector on decline
The luster of the Great Lakes and Michigan’s natural beauty might not be enough to keep Michigan’s tourism sector from declining this year. Two MSU researchers, along with representatives from Michigan’s tourism sector, predicted the number of travelers will decrease by 2 percent in 2008, while travel spending will remain flat and prices for traveling will increase about 4 percent.