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Web mentor program upgraded

Evan Rondeau
September 17, 2003

Improvements to an online mentoring program for women in engineering and sciences will make finding a mentor easier for MSU students.MentorNet, a national one-on-one mentoring program that started in 1998, has been upgraded this year to allow students to select their mentors from a pool of professionals.Tom Wolff, associate dean for undergraduate studies in the MSU College of Engineering, said the upgrades improve the program, which he said has gradually improved since it was introduced at MSU in 2001.

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Stossel talks to 'U' on freedom

Amy Davis
September 17, 2003

Facing a crowd of more than 200 students Tuesday night in Kedzie Hall, ABC "20/20" news anchorman John Stossel spoke about the importance of free market."Capitalism is vile on college campuses, and it is good for people to hear that point of view," he said before the lecture.Stossel also addressed the disadvantages of government regulation in his speech "Freedom and its Enemies.""When the government protects us from the bad stuff, it also protects us from the good stuff too," Stossel said in his speech.

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Student-parent group raises awareness

Benita Mehta
September 17, 2003

A typical student might stumble out of bed right before class starts, but advertising senior Katie Stanaway has to get up hours before her classes begin in order to prepare for another hectic day.Stanaway is the single parent of two children, a 2-year-old son and a 9-month-old daughter.

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Advising center wins national award

Evan Rondeau
September 17, 2003

The MSU College of Human Ecology's Advising Center will be one of 12 advising programs recognized nationally this year for excellence in advising.The college will receive the Outstanding Institutional Advising Program Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association.

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Program will discuss foster experiences

Surviving and Thriving in Foster Care, the kick-off event for the third annual Child Welfare Learning Collaborative, takes place tomorrow in the Gardner Middle School auditorium.The event runs from 4-6 p.m.

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Museum founder recalls near-lynching

Benita Mehta
September 16, 2003

James Cameron was scheduled to be lynched in Marion, Ind., on Aug. 7, 1930.The 89-year-old man sat in his wheelchair in front of a full auditorium in the Kellogg Center on Monday speaking in a slow and calm, yet strong, voice about his near-lynching experience.

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DCL begins intellectual property classes

It's at a rock concert. It's on soft-drink labels and all over newspapers.It's intellectual property - the issues surrounding copyrights, trademarks, patents and Internet law - and MSU-DCL College of Law Professor Peter Yu said it's increased in importance as society's focus shifts to biotechnology, cloning and online file sharing."You drink a Coca-Cola and the brand name is right there," Yu said.

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Week to educate on farm safety, health

Amy Davis
September 15, 2003

National Farm Safety and Health Week will be held Sept. 21-27 to educate farmers on safety regulations that could help workers avoid the dangers of the second most hazardous industry in the United States. MSU Extension received a four-year grant from the U.S.

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Sparrow to hold Hepatitis C meeting

An informational meeting on Hepatitis C will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Sept. 25 at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital. The meeting, sponsored by the Ingham County Health Department, will discuss Hepatitis C, how it's transmitted, treatment options and prevention measures. Reservations are not required for the free meeting in the Clark Conference Room on the Sparrow's St.

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Biology women form group

Benita Mehta
September 15, 2003

After noticing a shortage in the number of tenured women professors, two women from the Department of Plant Biology decided to take action by forming a discussion group.Anna Monfils, an MSU alumna and instructor in the department, and Kathleen Kay, a plant biology graduate student - along with about 25 female plant biology students - met Friday with tenured women faculty members in a question-and-answer session.Monfils and Kay said they hope to start a discussion group that meets regularly to help women in plant biology with their career goals and Friday's discussion was the first."I was having concerns about women in science having role models," Monfils said.

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ASMSU accepts applications after loan officer leaves

Amy Davis
September 15, 2003

After two years of handling multiple aspects of ASMSU's loan program from the business office, loan clerk Gary Reason left his position Friday afternoon to pursue an inventory specialist position at Value City Furniture."It is very sad," the 39-year old Reason said after his co-workers presented him with a cake to honor his last day at ASMSU.

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Greenhouse proposal revised; student focus holds steady

Brian Beute
September 12, 2003

Members of the Student Greenhouse Project revised their proposal for a dome-shaped greenhouse and met with administrators in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources last week and the College of Natural Science Thursday to push the approval of a public greenhouse in the center of north campus. "It's a process of getting various stakeholders and administrators for broad support to get final approval," said Phillip Lamoureux, member of the Student Greenhouse Committee and main developer of the proposal.