Deaf students might be able to attend lectures needing nothing but their notebooks and pencils, with the help of new voice-activated software.The Liberated Learning Project, a computerized transcribing system created in Canada, is being tested in Nova Scotia, Australia and at Stanford University in California.
Debate team members win awards By MEGAN FRYE MSU’s top debate team vied against 138 teams nationwide to take the win at a debate tournament hosted by Northwestern University last week. The Owen L.
Walking into Puffin’s Pastry Shop, stacks of cookie sheets and cake pans are evidence of the work at hand.Chefs are preparing pizza crusts and dinner foods after a long day of cookie-baking.MSU bakeries are busy taking and filling orders for several hundred dozens of Valentine’s Day special offers.The smell of sugar and flour filled the pastry shop, the campus bakery tucked behind the scenes in the Brody Hall cafeteria, Tuesday. More than 12,000 cookies already were prepared for delivery on campus.This week, Joan Goheen, retail supervisor for the bakery, has been busy making sure thousands of orders about and beyond campus are delivered on time.
ASMSU is researching ways to revive its involvement in a newspaper recycling program that faded away shortly after it began in 1996.The undergraduate student government is re-evaluating recycling programs on campus, and assessing whether those programs could be enhanced by offering people more options.A decision to launch a new pilot program will be made by March 12.“What I’m looking for is the ways, means and costs,” said Steve Lovelace, Academic Assembly internal vice chairperson.
The Lyman Briggs Students of Color is sponsoring its first Multicultural Expo from 7-10 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Parlor Room C. The event was designed to provide minority students an opportunity to network with professionals in such fields as psychology, nursing, applying to dental school and graduate programs and to provide workshops to prepare students for the job market.
Tall tales keep growing at the MSU Museum.Stories that only were known through oral tradition are transformed into a visual medium in the new exhibit, “Storytelling Through the Mail: Tall Tale Postcards.”The cards and exhibit items show fictional situations, such as a dead man tied to the hood of a car as a deer drives through town, a rabbit bearing antlers and a fish that grew ivory white fur to shield itself from frigid lake waters.
When Eric Pietsch had an ingrown toenail last year, he was happy with the treatment he received at Olin Health Center.And if he receives one of the 5,000 surveys distributed this week by the health center and the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, he would say so.“They gave me medications and they were really helpful,” the urban and regional planning junior said.
Despite not having the support of the undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten, ASMSU Women’s Council’s sexual assault education program is in the process of forming a registered student organization. Acquaintance Education Rape Advocates is being proposed to the undergraduate student government’s funding board, and will be implemented in about a month if it is approved. The purpose of the organization is to build a foundation for a two-hour workshop that would educate first-year students on rape awareness and sexual assault. The structure of the workshop would be helped by getting organization benefits, which include funding. “We are trying to build something substantial,” said Jeanette Lantzy, Academic Assembly external vice chairperson.
Instead of handing out minor in possession of alcohol tickets, MSU police Officer Anne Stahl will be trying to prevent people from getting them. Stahl, an MSU community police officer, will be joining the Department of Police and Public Safety’s Detective Bureau on March 1 as an alcohol education officer. “When I’m on the road it is iffy if I get to do things with my specialty,” she said.
Ten faculty members will receive a Distinguished Faculty Award today. The award winners are recognized based on several criteria, ranging from research, teaching ability and public service, to advising and continuing education. Ten winners are chosen each year by an All-University Award Committee appointed by MSU President M.
Ann Arbor - The undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten voted to dissolve their organization and replace it with a biannual meeting Sunday at the University of Michigan. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, was the only school that voted to keep the Associated Students of the Big Ten.
With more than 14,000 people living in MSU’s residence halls, representatives from the university’s Residence Halls Association say it has outgrown its need for statewide representation.The nation’s largest association of residence halls announced last week it will no longer be affiliated with the Michigan Organization of Residence Halls Associations.
Jill Erickson graduated from MSU with a dietetics degree in 1998, but her education is far from complete.She spent her Friday afternoon among a group of students from the Department of Epidemiology for its second Research Day, an expo held to showcase the different research projects students are completing.For Erickson, it’s a glimpse at what will be expected of her once she comes back to school as an epidemiology graduate student.“For me, it’s a good introduction to the department,” she said.
State representatives and health officials are creating a task force to research Michigan’s elementary and middle school’s nutritional practices and guidelines.The task force is one step in state Rep.
When students in Mid-Michigan learned that students in Africa needed shoes, they brought in 110 pennies and pairs of shoes to help. Holt Public Schools third-graders noticed a picture of a boy from Africa without shoes on while they were reading an article about other cultures through an MSU supported program. “They were saying, ‘We just have to send shoes to these kids,’” said Sally McClintock, a founder and facilitator of the Linking All Types of Teachers for International Cross-cultural Education program. A group of international MSU graduate students are working with local educators to prepare students for a global future through the program, LATTICE.
The Residence Halls Association members voted 17-1 with six abstentions to send two letters to people involved with a Toughman Contest last month.Representatives will send one letter to MSU’s Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students and another letter to AdoreAble Promotions Inc.Members of the LBGT community became concerned after the promotions company put on a “homosexual match” during the competition last month, which pitted two men in a mock bout.RHA’s special events program sponsored the trip to the contest at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Jan.
About $55,000 and the efforts of 15 people will culminate this weekend into an unforgettable display of Native American culture. The North American Indian Student Organization is sponsoring its 19th annual Pow-Wow of Love.
John Siemianowski is thankful he has only received one ticket this semester. The biology senior drives into campus at least twice a week, and always searches for parking.Siemianowski said he parks at meters and then doesn’t worry if they expire, but when the parking ticket prices were raised in July, it made him more cautious about where he parked.In July 2001, the MSU Board of Trustees raised ticket fines, hoping to deter illegal parking on campus.Fines at parking meters were raised from $10 to $15, employee parking spot fines were raised from $20 to $25 and spots reserved for people with disabilities were raised from $50 to $100.But Siemianowski said the $5 increase isn’t enough to stop everyone from parking illegally.“I bet if they had raised them even more people wouldn’t park wherever they wanted,” he said.
Researchers at MSU were awarded $1 million this week for genetic research on bacteria that could help in the cleanup of facilities that were contaminated during the production of nuclear weapons. U.S.
As the first speaker in the second Minority Faculty Lecture Series, the Rev. Joseph Roberts said he plans to discuss the challenges faced by black people and ways to solve them. “We are tied together and accountable for each other,” he said.