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Proceedings begin for suspects in 7-Eleven shooting

After listening to witness testimony Wednesday and watching evidence be introduced, Eric Charles Gordy and Hatarie Deamont McCorkle left courtroom 1 at the 54-B District Court with no more knowledge of their fate than they had when they walked in six hours earlier. Gordy and McCorkle, ages 35 and 29, have been charged in connection with a Feb.

MSU

WEB ONLY: Coffeelovers get a taste of "Spartan Spirit"

Melissa Domsic
April 30, 2004

The residents of small farming villages in countries such as Nicaragua are benefiting from the work of Sparty's Cafes and MSU's Real Food Group, which works to improve the global food system. Earlier this month Sparty's Cafes and Coffeehouses started serving "Spartan Spirit," a Fair Trade certified coffee blend that is bought from the farmers at a higher wage to raise standards of living.

MSU

TAs march in attempt to save jobs

More than 150 graduate employees, undergraduates, and faculty members marched across the campus Thursday beating buckets like drums and carrying picket signs to gain attention from university officials about teaching assistant cuts. The march was organized by the Graduate Employees Union in response to at least 50 TAs who had received notice that they might not have positions in the fall because of the university's financial woes.

MICHIGAN

WEB ONLY: Local group goes door to door to unite residents and students

For Nicole Tompkins, knocking on neighbors' doors comes with the job. As a neighborhood resource coordinator, Tompkins works to bring permanent East Lansing residents and students closer in the Oakwood and Bailey neighborhoods, located north of Grand River Avenue. Along with nine other coordinators, the interdisciplinary studies in social science and community relations senior is organizing the first East Lansing Field Day & Barbecue to take place from 3 to 5 p.m.

MSU

Students honor 2 professors

Byron Brown has been in the Honors College for decades. A current economics professor, he's been an undergraduate adviser in economics for the Honors College and has sat on committees that have decided nominees for different academic awards. For all he's given, he's received some, too. Brown is a recipient of the 2004 Honors College Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honors Students, an annual award given based on nominations from current and former students.

COMMENTARY

As deadline approaches, senior shares his story about 'U'

As a wide-eyed freshman, armed with a pen and a notepad, I frantically walked along Harrison Avenue searching for the site of my first story as a State News reporter. Fighting the dark, cold air and wet January sky, I paced back and forth along that long, foreign road.

NEWS

Community discusses school move

Elizabeth Piet
April 30, 2004

In separate forums on Thursday, the MSU Board of Trustees and university officials met in the Kellogg Center auditorium to listen to the community's feelings about a possible relocation of the College of Human Medicine to Grand Rapids. Sessions took place in the morning, afternoon and evening, with at least two of the eight trustees present at each. In the afternoon session, social work Professor Margaret Nielsen told the board she has a chronic illness and has worked with medical students through the Longitudinal Patient-Centered Experience.

NEWS

E.L. art gallery works to aid city's economy

Don Jordan
April 30, 2004

Within a vacant East Lansing bank set to be demolished in the near future, a group of local and national artists is putting the finishing touches on the city's new alternative art gallery. Near a hulking bank vault, miniature woodland dioramas made from hollowed-out cabinets and animal figurines sit in a row within a former bank office.