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Olin tells U what causes colds
While doing everything you can to avoid catching sick germs, escape to the cold and snow outside. Yes, that’s right.
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Writers to be honored
The names of four successful journalists have come a long way from the published page. Their names will be added to a list of 98 others who have been inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame since its inception in 1985.Former Detroit Free Press journalists Barbara Stanton and the late Bob Talbert will be inducted April 21, along with Ben Burns, formerly of The Detroit News and the late Charles Cain III of The Associated Press.Stephen Lacy, chairman of the Hall of Fame committee and director of MSU’s School of Journalism, said the committee had little difficulty selecting this year’s inductees.“Most nominees aren’t inducted the first time they’re nominated, but in this case, all four of these were in their first year,” he said.
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U plays games for charity
The second annual Bash on Cancer fund-raiser will be held from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday at the Brody Complex Multipurpose room. The fund-raiser will include activities such as sumo wrestling, bouncy boxing, human joust and dancing.
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DCL symposium to focus on World Trade Organization
Agriculture experts from around the world will converge at the Kellogg Center today and Friday to join MSU professors for the Journal of International Law’s 2001 Symposium. The symposium, “Uruguay and Beyond: The WTO, Agriculture and the Law,” is the first endeavor of its kind by the MSU-Detroit College of Law-based publication.
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Alliance receives grant to battle disease
MSU is part of an alliance that is getting a $20 million, five-year grant to fight the disease lymphatic filariasis from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.The tropical disease, also known as elephantiasis, is carried by infected mosquitos and afflicts millions of people worldwide.Veterinary pathology Professor Charles Mackenzie is directing MSU’s involvement in the grant.“My role is very much to help countries get their programs running,” Mackenzie said.
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Librarian brings technology skills
Charles Ten Brink calls it his “dream job.”Ten Brink, currently the associate law librarian of the University of Chicago’s D’Angelo Law Library, has been named professor of law and director of library and technology services at MSU-Detroit College of Law.“I’m thrilled,” Ten Brink told The State News from his Chicago office.
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Dinner offers soul, culture
Students can receive a little taste of black culture tonight.A soul food dinner, sponsored by the Office of Minority Student Affairs, will start today at 4 p.m.
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Engler, Granholm agree to increase online services
Michigan’s Republican governor and Democratic attorney general brought a unified message to the Kellogg Center on Tuesday: Government should keep its hands off the high-tech industry. Gov.
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Report criticizes charter school policy
A report released Tuesday suggests Michigan charter schools may be excluding secondary and physically disabled students.
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Program offers time with professors
David Hicks satisfied more than his appetite during a conversation in the cafeteria last semester. Hicks, a political science and pre-law freshman, and some of his classmates invited their professor for a free lunch while participating in the Hungry for Knowledge program. The program, sponsored by University Housing and Residence Life, provides an opportunity for students who live in residence halls and their instructors to meet for a free meal in any undergraduate campus cafeterias. Hicks said he saw the program as an alternative to attending office hours and an opportunity to form a relationship with his professor. “I think the object was just to get to know the guy, so we talked about our personal lives for the first hour,” he said.
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Survey says more career guidance is necessary
Lisa Roddis had no idea what career she would go into when she enrolled at MSU in the fall of 1999.Now, the no-preference sophomore has an idea of what she wants to do - thanks to a seminar MSU offered.
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U alumni at top of fields pass on professional experiences to students
They are at the top of their respective fields and on Friday, MSU alumni Jack Epps Jr., Juli Betwee and John Scott will share their experiences with College of Arts and Letters students. The College of Arts and Letters will host its second annual Alumni Leaders Program from 10 a.m.
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Rally expresses cultural issues
“Common Struggles” were the theme of Monday night’s Xicano/Latino Power Rally held in the Culturas de las Razas Unidas room in the Wilson basement.The event was part of MSU’s Xicano History Month celebration, which began Thursday.
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Heartsavers recognized in Lansing
Some area groups and organizations will gather today in Lansing for American Heartsaver Day. The event, sponsored by the American Heart Association, will honor individuals and organizations that have contributed to saving lives by CPR or using an automated external defibrillator.The devices are similar to the machines used in hospitals, which deliver an electric shock to a person’s heart.An award ceremony will be held at noon today in the Mackinac Room of the Michigan House of Representatives Office Building, 124 N.
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Travel-study takes alumni to England
Sara Stid said she first fell in love with England when her son was studying there in the 1980s.So when the opportunity to return came along, she took it.Stid, an office assistant with the MSU Alumni Association, participated in Odyssey to Oxford last year.
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Cancer fund-raiser kicks off
About 30 people gathered around the rock on Farm Lane Thursday night with candles blazing. Their purpose: To honor cancer survivors and the memories of friends and loved ones lost to cancer.
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Program probes suns surface
MSU Professor Robert Stein’s research has taken him to a place where no men have gone before.Through a computer-based program, Stein, a professor of physics and astronomy, is able to simulate what happens on the surface of the sun.“I have always been interested in the dynamics of the surface of the sun,” Stein said.
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Poetry contest organized in honor of International Womens Day
An upcoming competition will give MSU women a chance to speak to thousands of their peers as part of a day of female recognition. MSU’s Women’s Council will be sponsoring a poetry contest as part of their plans to celebrate the 81st International Women’s Day. MSU will celebrate the day on campus eight days later than most of the world.
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Forum discusses Culture Wars
The war has subsided. David Brooks, a renowned political journalist, told students and faculty that the culture wars have calmed in the United States at a lecture on Wednesday in the Kellogg Center Auditorium. Brooks, the first speaker in the LeFrak Forum and the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy, addressed audience members about cultural and political change in his speech, “Are the Culture Wars Over?” “The message is that we used to have a very polarized culture and that we used to have real hostility in our politics,” Brooks said.
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Human rights talk draws large crowd
Jim Keady’s philosophy is if you can’t beat them, join them - or at least check out what the opposition is doing.That’s exactly what the former St.