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Awards reception to recognize students
Several scholarships will be awarded to students at the 21st annual Awards and Appreciation Reception today from 2 p.m.
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Student guitarists play at Union
Guitarists of the world unite. Members of the MSU Guitar Club descended on the Union on Thursday as part of the University Activities Board's Noontimes performance. During the event, zoology senior and club member Ivan Orlic played some songs from his native Peru, as well as songs such as REM's "Losing My Religion." Orlic, who started playing classical guitar while growing up in Lima, Peru, said the instrument helped him make friends when he came to the United States to study at MSU. "I meet anyone who is playing a guitar," Orlic said.
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Professor honored for teaching skills
Professor honored for teaching skills Richard Zinman, a university distinguished professor in James Madison College and the Department of Political Science, is this year's recipient of the seventh annual Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students.
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Open house for MSU Cyclotron Saturday
The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory will host its first open house on Saturday. The event is from 1 p.m.
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Campus groups work to expand MSU's recycling
With signs to reduce, reuse and recycle, members of campus environmental groups said they will try to remind students of some things they might have forgotten from elementary school. Both the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment, or RISE, and Eco will join forces at the rock on Farm Lane today to celebrate Earth Day. "Every day is Earth Day, but it is important to have an Earth Day to remind people who might be too busy to think about it," said zoology senior Sowkya Rangarajan, who is a member of RISE and Eco. Members will collect petition signatures today for a comprehensive recycling program at MSU and inform students of ways they can be more Earth-friendly. Members also stood on campus Wednesday and Thursday and said they received a good response from many people who checked out their information. The campus needs a facility to sort and bail recycled material, rather than having to pay to send it off campus, Rangarajan said.
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Provost forum notes Foster's prior experience
Brian Foster is a first-generation college student who believes education needs to be accessible, especially at a land-grant institution.
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World Year of Physics celebrates Einstein's scientific discoveries
A century ago, little was known about the world of physics. In 1905, Albert Einstein changed the way people viewed the science of matter and energy when he published five papers challenging previous scientific thought.
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MSU recreates nickel isotope
MSU physicists recently completed an experiment that would enable scientists to learn more about the origins of chemical elements. Findings from the experiment, which recreated an isotope of nickel, were presented earlier this week at a meeting of the American Physical Society in Tampa, Fla. "A lot of people have tried to do this experiment, and we're the only ones who have finally succeeded," said Hendrik Schatz, an associate professor of physics.
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Alumni discuss foreign policy
Current and former U.S. ambassadors brought an inside look at international politics to MSU students this week as a part of the sesquicentennial celebration. As part of MSU's 150th birthday celebration, four diplomatic experts were on hand for a discussion on Tuesday in the International Center and participated in a variety of classroom discussions across campus this week.
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Police stop students' shirt display
Two MSU students who are selling T-shirts with a statement about the East Lansing Police Department's actions in the April 2-3 disturbances had a police encounter of their own on Tuesday. Evan Dashe, an accounting junior, and Anthony Saladino, a general management freshman, were wearing the shirts and holding up a sign advertising them on Tuesday afternoon by Beaumont Tower but were not selling them, they said. The T-shirts have the slogan, "Tear gas is not designed to extinguish fires" printed on the front and a derogatory message for the East Lansing Police Department on back.
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Council meeting focuses on curriculum changes, new residential college
On Tuesday, various committees updated Academic Council members on the progress of their initiatives. The New Residential College/School Curriculum Team presented a 39-page report that included the mission of the program and curriculum requirements, including possible courses. The residential college, or school, would be housed in renovated Snyder and Phillips halls and have a focus on the humanities.
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Universities share provost candidates
Academic officials can live in a small world. Brian Foster, a candidate for provost at MSU, also is a candidate for the same post at the University of Missouri-Columbia. And Janie Fouke, dean of the MSU College of Engineering, is another of the three candidates for the Missouri job. Foster, the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico, visits MSU today and will spend April 24-26 at Missouri. He said the campus visits will play a key role in his decision if both jobs are offered to him. "I guess I would go where I would find the best fit and make the best impact," Foster said, adding he also is being considered at other schools.
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Speech to focus on MSU experience
After cramming for one last final, stealing one last apple from the cafeteria and listening to the Beaumont Tower's Carillon one more time, Shannon Houghton will share her MSU experiences with the senior class of 2005 at the undergraduate commencement ceremony. The Senior Class Council selected Houghton in mid-April to be this year's spring speaker.
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College Republicans make plans, vote on executive board
As the semester winds down, MSU College Republicans are busy wrapping up a year in which they helped re-elect President Bush and got students to vote.
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GEU continues protest, talks
After seeing no movement by the university toward a compromise in contract negotiations, members of the Graduate Employees Union took to the streets on Monday wearing sandwich boards with slogans such as "MSU Bargaining Skills: F-" The union, or GEU, protects the labor rights of teaching assistants.
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Columnist shares life at lecture
Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman said it's difficult to be a newspaper columnist, constantly churning out opinions on every issue of the day. She's even heard some say holding the job is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
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Students to discuss union rights, contract
Members of the Graduate Employees Union will line Grand River Avenue today to raise awareness about their bargaining sessions.
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Student assembly chair, vice chair re-elected
ASMSU officials met Thursday to elect candidates for positions for the upcoming school year. Physics senior Andrew Schepers was re-elected to fulfill the chairperson position, defeating political theory and constitutional democracy senior Andrew Bell by a vote of 15-13.
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Award-winning writer to speak at Kellogg
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and columnist for The Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman will be speaking at the fourth annual Neal Shine Lecture today at 4 p.m.
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Safe Place charity race attracts more than 1,000
Dogs, strollers and sprinters wound their way through campus during MSU Safe Place's 11th annual Race for the Place on Sunday. The 5K run brought out more than 1,000 adults and children and raised between $40,000 and $50,000, said Holly Rosen, director of Safe Place.