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More information released on Brody sexual assaults

MSU police released more information Friday afternoon on sexual assaults in the Brody Complex including a third assault that happened Friday morning. According to a statement from the department, a 20-year-old student reported a sexual assault early Friday morning in Butterfield Hall.

COMMENTARY

SN need not print free Wal-Mart ads

I am writing in regards to the article, "Student groups march for migrant workers" (SN 9/7). There was a panel speaking about migrant farm workers' struggle for labor rights in the U.S.

MICHIGAN

First Lady's visit promotes women in business

Saginaw - First Lady Laura Bush spoke Thursday to a small group of workers and President Bush supporters at the Mahar Tool Supply Company in Saginaw. Addressing the group of about 175 people, Bush spoke about small businesses, women entrepreneurs and the economy. "You're living a great American success story... small businesses are the engines of our economy," Bush said to the crowd. The Mahar company is a family-owned industrial distribution business that has been owned by Barbara Mahar Lincoln since her husband, James, passed away in 1978.

SOCCER

'U' hopes to extend streak

As the MSU men's soccer team enters Sunday's game versus Dayton with a 3-0 record, the Spartans will be without Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week's Jordan Gruber. "I kind of pulled my groin, but now they're thinking it might be a hernia," the senior midfielder said.

MSU

LAMP system allows 'U' to rent movies

Residence Halls Association movie offices opened Wednesday with the launch of a new online movie rental system called Lending And Management Program, or LAMP. The program requires students to register online at rha.msu.edu/LAMP to rent movies.

MSU

WEB ONLY: COGS lays down goals, elects officers during first meeting

At its first meeting Wednesday, Council of Graduate Students members discussed how they could influence existing university committees and form their own for graduate students. After electing two students to committees in Academic Governance, COGS members discussed nominations for their finance committee and for the Academic Council's provost-search committee. COGS will recommend four of its members for the committee, of which two representatives will be selected in late September, COGS president Carl Newman said. "We'd like to get a list of people for the committee as soon as possible," Newman said.

MICHIGAN

Costs rise at E.L. Planned Parenthood

The cost of contraceptives and office appointments at the Planned Parenthood north of campus has risen during the last year. Federal and state Title X funding, which grants money to family planning institutions, was not applied to the 515 E.

NEWS

With outside help, faculty looks to make voice louder

After several months of saying they felt left out of major academic decisions, many MSU faculty members decided to ask for some outside help. Some professors decided to invite Patrick Shaw, the associate secretary of the American Association of University Professors, or the AAUP, to speak to faculty about MSU's academic future. More than 60 faculty and staff members gathered in Berkey Hall to hear Shaw answer questions and give advice about how faculty members can make their voice louder in MSU's governance system. "He has been meeting with the faculty and studying the situation and he's basically going to tell us where to go from here," English Professor and AAUP member Sheila Teahan said.

COMMENTARY

Students being remembered in effort to bolster E.L. residency

Over the last few years, the City of East Lansing has implemented a number of policies to improve our rental housing stock, improve the appearance of our neighborhoods, encourage families to return to our neighborhoods near downtown and avoid sequestering MSU students into run-down homes in older neighborhoods. We pursue these policies in an effort to keep our neighborhoods appealing to a variety of residents and to avoid the density and blight that surrounds many Big Ten universities.

COMMENTARY

Bookstores not at fault for markups

To put it nicely, David Thompson's article, "Local Bookstores need to halt practice of putting screws to 'U'" (SN 8/30), needlessly complains about the way our bookstores conduct business.