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Michigan-area performers put on Christian concert at Union

Chrystal Liebold
January 27, 2003

The Union Ballroom was bursting at the seams with energy Sunday from the singers of Expressions of Praise, a gospel concert sponsored by the Women of Color Task Force.The event, featuring Lansing's own brother-sister gospel hip-hop group Tre'-Kin,Detroit's Heavenly Hands, an American Sign Language choir and Lansing's New Mount Calvary Choir, was a night of "special praises in song."Students and church members attended the event and had nothing but good things to say about the concert.

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Campus split on possible Brody addition

Sarah Frank
January 27, 2003

Emmons Hall roommates Lisa Lubinsky and Keara Cromie have mixed feelings about the possible construction of a new residence hall in the Brody Complex. MSU officials said Friday a 300-student building could be added between Emmons and Butterfield halls within five years.

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Answers sought about meningitis

Kendra Snyder  and  Aaron Foley
January 27, 2003

While sitting in her Haslett home, Pat Bezdek saw her daughter's residence hall on a television news report Friday night. Her daughter had called the night before saying one of her floormates was taken to the hospital with an illness similar to meningitis. Thirty minutes after seeing the news report, she was with residents in a Hubbard Hall classroom looking for answers. A female journalism sophomore living on the building's ninth floor contracted meningococcemia, a disease similar to bacterial meningitis.

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Broken sprinkler causes fire, flood

Shaw Hall was evacuated at about 3 a.m. Saturday after a fire alarm sounded and sprinklers activated on the ground floor."A sprinkler got broke off on ground east," said Assistant Building Manager Ken Hoffman.

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Clinic provides travel help

Kendra Snyder
January 24, 2003

Along with securing a passport, packing bags and filling out paper work, MSU health officials encourage students to take health precautions when studying abroad.

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RHA movie budget not overspent

Carrie Hoover
January 24, 2003

MSU's Residence Halls Association said Thursday the 2001-02 movie budget was never overspent. "The RHA administration told the general assembly that they were going over budget," said Brian Winters, the association's public relations director.

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'U' switches online program

Amy Bartner
January 24, 2003

Students and professors who use the course management system Blackboard will notice a change after MSU announced Tuesday it will switch to a new program. ANGEL, or A New Global Environment for Learning, is similar in appearance and will provide many of the same services as the 4.0 version of Blackboard MSU uses. "Version 4.0 reached the point where we couldn't make it hold as many users as MSU needed," said David Gift, vice provost for libraries, computing and technology.

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Fieger makes inagural lecture series speech to DCL students

Attorney Geoffery Fieger reflected on a long career at the MSU-Detroit College of Law Building on Thursday. Fieger, who gave a $4 million donation to DCL in 2001, was the inaugural speaker in a lecture series that bears his name. "He is wonderfully inspiring," DCL Dean Terence Blackburn said.

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Lecture to discuss bioethics

MSU's Department of Political Science will host their 14th annual lecture series, "Biotechnology and Modern Democracy" beginning at 8 tonight in the Kellogg Center Auditorium.

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Trustee's bowl rings go unsold

Angelo DiMeo is wondering what to do next with Trustee Joel Ferguson's old MSU bowl rings.The Lansing-based jeweler put Ferguson's 1990 John Hancock and 1993 Liberty bowl rings up for auction on eBay, but did not draw any bids.DiMeo was asking $1,400 for each ring in the Internet auctions, which ended Wednesday night."Most people are afraid of the media attention," DiMeo said, adding 200 potential buyers courted him about side deals - with $1,200 as the highest offer per ring.Ferguson declined to comment the night of the auctions' close, but said last week he didn't know how DiMeo got ahold of the rings.He said he may have given them away and didn't think they were stolen.About eight people visit DiMeo's two jewelry stores each day to look at the rings, DiMeo said.

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'U' research funding might be slashed

Kurt Ludke
January 23, 2003

An MSU pesticide research program could lose $210,000 if Gov. Jennifer Granholm follows budget cut recommendations from a Midland-based think tank.According to a report by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group, Michigan can save $34 million by eliminating programs in the state's Department of Agriculture.But Chris DiFonzo, MSU's pesticide education program coordinator, said a cut wouldn't have a big affect on the university.The Department of Agriculture gets federal funding to run the pesticide certification program, and MSU is contracted to make educational material for people who use the chemicals.

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Students to vote on $5 energy fee

Fossil fuel energy on University Farms might be history if students decide to front the money to make the transition to environmentally-friendly energy.Students will vote in March on whether to add a $5 student tax to fund environmental initiatives.ASMSU passed a bill allowing students to vote on the tax after the environmental organization ECO proposed the bill to MSU's undergraduate student government in November.The farms purchase fossil fuel energy from Consumers Energy, but would start shifting to solar and wind turbine energy if the tax passes, said Terry Link, a representative for the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus."There's only so much fossil fuel we can burn," he said.

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Basement cafe caters to patrons

Aaron Foley
January 23, 2003

People in business attire sit at tables in the Union basement, quietly chatting with one another over their food.Servers in white aprons distribute helpings of roasted turkey and potatoes onto plates.It's just another day in the Heritage Café.From 11 a.m.

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DCL professor's site opposed by state rep.

State Rep. Susan Tabor, R-Delta Township, is speaking up against an MSU-Detroit College of Law professor's animal law Web site, claiming it provides support to anti-hunting views."In a time of tight budgets when Michigan schoolchildren are being asked to do with less and MSU students are seeing steep tuition hikes, the last thing we need is a new, highly controversial program of dubious practical value," Tabor said in a statement. The site, www.animallaw.info, includes information about 120 statutes and 100 cases involving animal rights.

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'U' outperforms colleges in endowment return

MSU gained money from endowment investments during the 2001-02 fiscal year, while many universities around the United States spent the year trying to recover losses.Glen Klein, director of investments and financial management for MSU, said the university saw a 2.3-percent return in 2001-02, compared with the national average college endowment loss of 6 percent, as surveyed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.Endowments are funds donated to the university but not spent all at once.

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Board to discuss breakup of language department

Amy Bartner
January 22, 2003

A proposal to split the Department of Romance and Classical Languages into two smaller units moved on to the next stage of debate.The Executive Committee of Academic Council decided Tuesday to send the plan to the MSU Board of Trustees.

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One-woman show embodies diversity

The lobby of Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre was full of anxious people waiting for the doors to open for the one-woman performance of "Faces of America."The show, which only ran on Tuesday, starred Fran de Leon portraying six different people.