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MIDDAY UPDATE: New map shows 'U' accessible locations

Sonia Khaleel
September 13, 2004

An online map indicating all the accessible areas on campus was completed last week and is due to be available on the MSU Web site this month. The map project was brought to Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance and Monitoring Paulette Granberry Russell's attention by Melinda Haus and other Council for Students with Disabilities members last year. "Hopefully it will be very helpful," council President Val Erwin said of the map and its service to students.

COMMENTARY

E.L. doing its part to drive students away

Two tales of one city. The beginning of this semester marked as a typical Welcome Week. Hordes of students stumbled through the streets of East Lansing looking for that raging party or that anonymous hook-up or bottomless keg.

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MSU College of Law to host patent day

The MSU College of Law will host the 2004 Patent Law Day conference today. The conference is the beginning of a series of meetings and events organized throughout the year by the law college's Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. The program was founded in 2003 and has since become a leading national program working on intellectual property rights and communications law issues. Conference speakers scheduled to appear include Judge Avern Cohn of the U.S.

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Groups aim to unite students, defeat amendment

Sonia Khaleel
September 13, 2004

About a dozen students from MSU and the University of Michigan met in the Union Sunday for a student summit aimed at defeating the Michigan Marriage Amendment. Visitors from the Coalition for a Fair Michigan, the Triangle Foundation, Michigan Equality, the Ypsilanti Campaign for Equality and the Stonewall Democrats spoke to students about advocating against voting for the amendment. "This is the first statewide campaign that's ever happened in the state of Michigan that has to do with LBGT issues," said Ethan Roeder, field director for Coalition for a Fair Michigan.

SPORTS

Team claims second in tournament, Kent. 1st

Roneisha Mullen
September 13, 2004

The MSU men's golf team finished second at the 2004 Inverness Intercollegiate in Toledo, Ohio. The Spartans held a four-stroke lead entering Saturday's final round and shot a final round score of 304 for a three-round score of 885 (294-287-304). Kentucky took top honors with a three-round score of 877 (296-289-292). The team returns to action at the Central Regional Challenge, September 17-19 in South Bend, Ind.

VOLLEYBALL

Spartans place 2nd in tourney

It was a never-say-die attitude that pulled the MSU volleyball team (5-1) to take second in this weekend's Green Mill Restaurant Classic in Wichita, Kan., after losing only one match, head coach Chuck Erbe said. Although the team fell to No.

NEWS

Police reveal details of sexual assaults

MSU police released new information Friday on two Brody Complex sexual assaults, including one that occurred Friday morning in Butterfield Hall. A 20-year-old student living in Butterfield told police a stranger entered her room and assaulted her between 1:30 a.m.

MICHIGAN

Capital City Airport sets record for fliers

There seemed to be little fear of flying at Capital City Airport last month. The Lansing airport reached a record high in its total number of passengers during the month of August, with 67,580 outgoing and incoming passengers. The August total is the highest individual month of travel in the 75 years the airport has operated.

NEWS

A New Spin

Rebecca Mcnulty
September 13, 2004

After spending almost two hours zipping around the basketball court in a sports wheelchair, LaShonda King said she gained a new respect for people who use wheelchairs.