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Residential college up for approval on Friday

Bob Darrow
October 19, 2005

All that remains before a new residential college becomes a reality is approval from the MSU Board of Trustees. The board will vote Friday to authorize the creation of the new college, which has been in the works since 2004 and will focus on the arts and humanities from its location in the renovated Snyder and Phillips halls. The board already voted in January and May on measures that supported the development of a residential program. "From a conceptual point of view, the board is certainly ready to endorse this," Trustee Melanie Foster said. Board interest in creating such a college arose out of discussion of a possible liberal arts reorganization, Trustee Colleen McNamara said. In spring 2004, then-Provost Lou Anna K.

COMMENTARY

Smoldering

Companies have a responsibility to make information about their products available to the public. However, consumers also need to take personal responsibility for their actions. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused to allow the Bush administration to go after a $280 billion penalty for tobacco companies that supposedly mislead consumers about the harms of smoking.

NEWS

Commission looks to improve, tone down noise ordinance

Kris Turner
October 19, 2005

Altering East Lansing's noise ordinance to be less restrictive and allowing drinking games only at certain times of the day were some of the ideas discussed by the University Student Commission on Tuesday evening. The group was asked to review a proposed amendment to the noise ordinance by the East Lansing City Council.

COMMENTARY

Viagra anyone?

Spam. We all get it and we all hate it. Unfortunately, there is very little we can do about it. It is time for the government to come up with a solution. The recent seizure of financial records, computers and disks from the home of a West Bloomfield, Mich., resident demonstrates just how large a problem this has become. One person operating from home had a collection of more than 150 million e-mail addresses. The same person was sued in 2001 by Verizon Communications Inc., who claimed that he shut down the company's network with spam. This clearly would increase the cost of doing business by taking up time and manpower to fix the situation. Many people do a significant amount of their communication using e-mail and having an inbox full of junk doesn't facilitate efficient work ethic. If it is possible for the government to organize and implement a program such as the National Do Not Call Registry, why is it not possible to do the same for e-mail? Spam filters and laws attempt to protect our inboxes, yet they are still overcrowded on a daily basis. Aside from the annoyance of receiving large amounts of e-mails that have little or no use, many of the solicitations have offensive content. Penis enlargement devices.

NEWS

Where they stand

Kristi Jourdan
October 19, 2005

Part Two: E.L. City Council contenders share more views on hot topics. Check out tomorrow's edition of the paper for the E.L.

MSU

Groups to hold cultural, historical festivities

In an effort to provide more cultural opportunities during MSU's homecoming festivities, the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, and the African American Celebratory are holding several events this week. The festivities, called the African American Homecoming, will include events such as discussions, a jazz night and a semiformal dance. The theme for the week is "98/89", which represents the 98 years since Myrtle Craig became the first black female graduate of Michigan Agricultural College — MSU's former name — in 1907. It also represents the May 1989 study-in, when several black students took over the Administration Building for 10 days to present administrators with a list of 36 demands pertaining to racial incidents on campus, history senior and BSA member at large Geneva Thomas said. Many black students frequently return home on weekends or attend other university homecoming events at other schools, such as Howard University in Washington, D.C., Thomas said. "People go home every weekend, and homecoming is not an exception," she said.

COMMENTARY

ASMSU retreat part of serving students

In response to "Paid getaway" (10/14), is it really that unfeasible for a student group to spend its budget on itself and still be benefiting those students it serves at the same time? Publicly traded companies invest in themselves for employee enrichment and developmental trips all the time with little argument from any shareholders.

MSU

StateWalk sees low demand

Melissa Domsic
October 18, 2005

Four days a week, three or more students spend five hours in a small room in the Main Library, waiting to accompany students who want to be walked home. But in the last few years, not many students have come. Alpha Phi Omega, a coed service fraternity, created StateWalk more than 15 years ago to offer a safe alternative to walking home alone late at night. The fraternity regained control of StateWalk in 2002, after the program had spent more than a decade under the Residence Halls Association.

NEWS

Assessing Katrina

Laura Collins
October 18, 2005

The reality of Hurricane Katrina hit Tom Wolff last week when he was in New Orleans. "Being in the city of New Orleans is overwhelming to the senses right now," said Wolff, MSU's associate dean for engineering undergraduate studies.

MSU

Homecoming celebration returns to tradition with campus bonfire

Bob Darrow
October 18, 2005

MSU's sesquicentennial, a 16-month-long celebration of the university's 150th anniversary, has left its mark on this year's homecoming festivities. The sesquicentennial committee has revived another campus tradition for homecoming week — a bonfire for students and community members — and the Oct.

COMMENTARY

Erasing lines

A recent study suggesting women are more likely to engage in a sexual encounter with a member of their own sex points to a larger question of how sexuality is defined in our society. Can you define someone in one sexual category? Nearly twice the percentage of women, compared to men, said they had at least one sexual encounter with a member of their own sex.

COMMENTARY

Stemming cures

Imagine, in the not-too-distant future, a prospective mother walking into an in-vitro fertilization clinic, checking a box before the procedure that would allow the practitioners to remove a single cell from a fertilized egg. The single cell will be used to further medical research. The embryo wouldn't be harmed. It's not science fiction.