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Provost shares plans for academic quality fund

Laura Collins
November 9, 2005

MSU Provost Kim Wilcox released a first draft on the results of the academic quality fund on Tuesday, which would allocate $9.7 million to initiatives that aim to benefit students and enhance the academic experience at MSU. Wilcox presented a series of graphs at Tuesday's Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting that show a preliminary idea of how the fund will be divided. For the last few months, Wilcox has led a group from the Office of the Provost in reviewing 118 proposals that were submitted by different deans across the university, totaling more than $74 million.

MSU

Extended meal plan topic of public forum

Kristen Daum
November 9, 2005

Students and members of the university community will have the opportunity to comment on the proposed meal plan change at today's Residence Halls Association, or RHA, meeting. The group is meeting at 7:20 p.m.

MSU

Rioting unlikely to affect study abroad

Bob Darrow
November 9, 2005

Riots have surged in France for nearly two weeks, but tensions in the country will probably not have a significant impact on MSU study abroad programs planned for the spring and summer, officials said. There are currently no MSU students studying abroad in France or Belgium, where riots have spilled across the border. "We checked that right away," said Kathleen Fairfax, director of the Office of Study Abroad.

NEWS

MIDDAY UPDATE: United Nations declares Jan. 27 international Holocaust memorial day

There are two kinds of Holocaust survivors to Yehudit Rotem— those who've spoken out about their experience and those who've remained silent. At 16 months old, Rotem was too young to know when she and her family entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Lohheide, Germany, and talk of the experience was limited in her home during childhood. "My parents, like many others, belong to the section that didn't speak about it," Rotem said.

MSU

Law college event discusses clemency

Carol Jacobsen from the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project will speak at 6:30 p.m. today in the Castle Boardroom of the MSU College of Law. Jacobsen will discuss the effort to gain clemency for incarcerated battered women, a cause the organization continues to pursue. The event is open to the public and hosted by the MSU College of Law Women's Law Caucus.

MSU

Veterans Day hits home for MSU ROTC

Kristen Daum
November 9, 2005

About 15 guests joined the MSU ROTC Spartan Battalion for a Veterans Day ceremony at the Alumni Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, to honor veterans of past and present wars. "For me, it's about remembering everybody who went before me," said Lt.

NEWS

Loomis, Beard win

From staff reports The State News Incumbent Vic Loomis and challenger Kevin Beard took the two seats in East Lansing's City Council election Tuesday, and an MSU student took third over the other incumbent, Bill Sharp. With all precincts reporting, Loomis won 29.01 percent of the votes, Beard won 28.16 percent, challenger and MSU student John Fournier won 22.14 percent and incumbent Bill Sharp received 20.33 percent of the vote. Loomis, who will begin his second term on the council, said this term will be his last. "We're going to do another hard four years just like we did last time," Loomis said.

COMMENTARY

No middle ground in SN; Bice one extreme

In high school, I was a minority in that I was not sure what exactly my political beliefs were. But in the short two months I have been here, The State News Opinion Page has convinced me that I am a hard-line moderate (if such a thing exists). It publishes what must be the most absurd beliefs on both "sides." On the right, there are those who dare to suggest that membership in a specific subset of a specific religion should be not only considered, but a deciding factor when determining who will interpret the most important law of a country settled for the purpose of religious freedom. Then on the left is John Bice, who surely is kept on retainer solely for when the editors feel The State News isn't edgy enough. Ignoring the social merits of belief in an afterlife, his attack on religious faith as unsubstantiated is entirely hypocritical, as he conveniently forgets that believing in science alone requires just as much faith in the unprovable as religion does. When Bice can show how matter created itself or why earth in general, and life in particular, violate the second law of thermodynamics, then I will congratulate him on his Nobel Prize.

COMMENTARY

Money keeping zoo animals is wasted

Despite not having enough "space or facilities" to properly care for them, the Potter Park Zoo continues to breed tiger cubs, according to "Tiger cubs frolick for public at zoo" (SN 10/26). Zoos breed tigers because babies bring in dollars, but the cubs' mother has already been shipped out.

VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball heads to Ann Arbor tonight

Ethan Conley
November 9, 2005

Having won only two of its last 10 matches in conference play, the floundering MSU volleyball team will head to Ann Arbor on Wednesday in an attempt to resurrect its season. The Spartans (11-13 overall, 4-10 Big Ten), sitting in a three-way tie for eighth in the Big Ten, will face off against Michigan at 7 p.m.

FEATURES

Stairway to humor

Ryan Mccormick
November 9, 2005

He's becoming a larger part of the movies than overpriced popcorn. And he's turning into a bigger component of television than the remote control. But blockbuster triumphs have not changed the personality of Steve Carell. "I'm pretty much the same kind of boring guy," Carell said.

NEWS

Benavides withholds concession

Kris Turner
November 9, 2005

Virg Bernero claimed his victory as Lansing mayor at about 10:45 p.m. Tuesday with 15 percent of the precincts reporting, but incumbent Tony Benavides said he wouldn't concede. "I'm told the numbers look good and victory is ours," he said.

COMMENTARY

Dairy industry not truthful of cruelty

The dairy industry is in trouble again for another ludicrous advertisement. Its latest "Got Milk?" television ad depicts a baseball player getting pulled from a game "after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance." In the next scene, a coach pulls a carton of milk from the slugger's locker.

NEWS

LOOMIS AND BEARD WIN SPOTS ON E.L. CITY COUNCIL

With all precincts reporting, Vic Loomis and Kevin Beard took the two open spots on the East Lansing City Council. There was a 14 percent voter turnout with 3,805 total ballots casted. The votes are as follows: Vic Loomis - 1,941 votes; 29.01 percent of the votes Kevin Beard - 1,884 votes; 28.16 percent of the votes John Fournier - 1,481 votes; 22.14 percent of the votes Bill Sharp - 1,360 votes; 20.33 percent of the votes