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COGS to support student domestic partner benefits

Carrie Hoover
February 19, 2003

A committee supporting benefits for student domestic partners will have one more voice in their corner.MSU's Council Of Graduate Students unanimously passed a resolution Monday to support the committee comprised of ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association and family community services senior Kendra Kearney.ASMSU is MSU's undergraduate student government.COGS President Jim Ciszewski said the organization's next action is to take the discussion to the administration."The next step is to start a dialogue between the student government and the administrators and the trustees and see if we can reach an agreement," he said.

BASKETBALL

Pointless

Chris Mackinder
February 19, 2003

Champaign, Ill. - The Spartans were out of their league Tuesday night, suffering a 70-40 Big Ten shellacking at the hands of Illinois at Assembly Hall. The Spartans' 40-point effort was the lowest ever under head coach Tom Izzo, and the worst loss since the coach's rookie year, when the team lost by 36 to Iowa in 1996.

NEWS

Michigan farm girl turned driver, Breslin rev up for monster trucks

Megan Frye
February 19, 2003

Jocelyn Perrin is a tomboy. There's no way around it. She grew up playing with hot rod models and driving tractors on her family's West Michigan farm.Now, just a few years after getting into the game, Perrin - aka Lil' Miss Dangerous - is one of the world's best female monster truck drivers and one of four female drivers in the United States.

COMMENTARY

Best things are free

The best things in life are free, and sometimes so are the little annoying things. Buying notebooks every semester after paying an arm and a leg for books can be a serious burden, but students across campus might be able to take notes for free soon.

NEWS

Health official doubts Michigan's preparedness for bioterrorism

Joey Guillen
February 19, 2003

Lansing - If bioterrorism strikes Michigan, many of the state's county health departments won't be prepared, a county health official testified Tuesday. Responders "are just not uniformly prepared" and lack the "resources needed to either plan for or handle these threats," said Robert Pestronk, the Genesee County Health Department director.

SPORTS

Richard files papers

Kristofer Karol
February 19, 2003

Freshman tailback David Richard told The State News on Tuesday he has finalized his financial aid papers for Missouri. His papers were sent to the Tigers on Monday and he will start school there this summer.

MSU

ASMSU tax increase proposed on ballot

An extra 75 cents might be added to student's tuition bills if ASMSU can convince the students to open up their pocketbooks.A bill to increase the MSU undergraduate student government's per semester tax from $10 to $10.75 was passed by the Student Assembly on Thursday, and will be placed on the March 19 student ballot.All student taxes are refundable.This is the second tax ASMSU is sponsoring in next month's election.

MSU

Meeting will address racism, discrimination

Students and MSU officials will gather at 8 p.m. today in the Brody Auditorium to address recent racially motivated events on campus. The forum will address a sexually charged flier posted in Shaw Hall and two women in Emmons Hall who were called derogatory names. Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs, Nikki O'Brien, coordinator for African American Student Affairs, and history Professor Pero Dagbovie are among the officials expected to attend. "We want to address the situations which took place within the last month, specifically the one in Emmons," said Terrance Wilbert, an Emmons Hall racial ethnic student aide.

MSU

Study reports women, men use drugs for unlike reasons

Kendra Snyder
February 19, 2003

Although the number of men and women smoking, drinking and using other drugs is about equal, each gender has different reasons for abusing substances, according to a study released earlier this month.The study is based on a nationwide survey of females age 8 to 22 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.Researchers found while boys experiment with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs because of the thrill or social status, girls participate due to stress or depression."Girls are more likely than boys to be depressed, have eating disorders and to be physically or sexually abused," said Emma Berndt, spokeswoman for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.

NEWS

Granholm order to cut $158M

Joey Guillen
February 19, 2003

After weeks of speculation, Gov. Jennifer Granholm will issue an executive order today to rectify the state's $158 million budget imbalance. The batch of cutbacks will cost MSU about $5 million in state funding by way of a 1.5 percent reduction for all state universities, Granholm said earlier this month.

COMMENTARY

Speak out

MSU trustees should be ashamed of themselves for sitting on their hands while their Maize and Blue neighbors are being hauled into a court case that could alter university admissions policies across the country. Whether they find themselves in agreement with the University of Michigan's law school affirmative action policies is beside the point.

COMMENTARY

Not all masculine men rape women

This letter is in response to "Everyone doesn't have to conform to society's expectations," (SN 2/17). I find it sad (and offensive) that the writer somehow groups being a masculine man with rape and dominance.

MICHIGAN

Families get help with taxes

Benita Mehta
February 19, 2003

Lansing - A new tax assistance program announced on Tuesday will help low-income Lansing area residents file tax returns. Low-Income Tax Assistance Program volunteers, mostly MSU finance students, will spend time with area residents to make sure their taxes are filed correctly and they receive the proper refund.

ICE HOCKEY

Migliaccio maturing between the pipes

James Jahnke
February 19, 2003

As the MSU hockey team traipses toward the postseason, sophomore goaltender Matt Migliaccio is showing signs of resiliency that were missing at times earlier this year. Twice during this weekend's series with archrival Michigan, Migliaccio found himself in trying situations.

COMMENTARY

Political apathy is rampant on campus

I would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to every student and faculty member at MSU who did not show up at the peace rally Saturday to show support for either side of the crisis.