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MSU's nominees for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

Jay BurnsAge: 29 Major: Fine arts graduate student Nominated for his role in "Three in the Back, Two in the Head" by Jason Sherman Favorite play: "Proof" by David Auburn Favorite theatrical line: "I'll have her but I will not keep her long" - "Richard III" by William Shakespeare Future plans: "After graduation I'm going to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming a writer/producer, though I'm definitely not done with acting and directing.

ICE HOCKEY

Indiana native commits to hockey squad

Brandon Warner, a 6-foot, 170-pound defenseman from Huntertown, Ind., verbally committed to the MSU hockey team Wednesday.Warner has four goals, nine assists and 54 penalty minutes in 32 games this season for the Pittsburgh Forge of the North American Hockey League.

COMMENTARY

Learning loans

It's better than a credit card and better than a friend's wallet - they're ASMSU's $100 interest-free loans available to MSU students. But students are abusing the privilege of their loans by not paying them back on time to ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government. Many Spartans don't know ASMSU's $100 loan is available to any person with a student ID.

COMMENTARY

Book costs can't dictate class quality

How sad it is that you missed the point in your article on textbook prices ("Textbook prices withstand slumping economic times," SN 1/8). While the news story is of great value, in reporting on my class, PLS 170, as requiring "16 textbooks and articles totaling more than $225 for new copies," you neglected the important fact that no one has to pay that sum.

MSU

Program seeks applications

Applications for the 2003-04 Racial Ethnic Student Aide positions are due Jan. 15 in the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs. Requirements for the position are a minimum cumulative grade-point average of 2.5, at least one semester of living in a MSU residence hall and a strong desire to help people. The program provides a supporting environment for racial ethnic students at MSU, and a one-of-a-kind learning experience, said Nikki O'Brien, coordinator of African American student affairs.

MSU

Assistant joins department staff

Flash back a few years. A senior at Albion College is winding down his student teaching program with the hopes of becoming a teacher after graduation.

MSU

GEU, 'U' officials to begin negotiations in March

A date has been set for a third-party mediator to hear arguments between the Graduate Employees Union and university officials regarding a dispute on the wording of an eight-month-old contract.The two parties will begin talks March 5, union President Scott Henkel said.The graduate employee contract, ratified in May, says teaching assistants with at least four semesters of experience will be promoted to the highest level of pay.

NEWS

Vaccination unlikely for 'U' workers

Kendra Snyder
January 9, 2003

As the nation braces for bioterrorism threats, plans for preventing a smallpox outbreak at MSU remain hazy to university health officials.Between 5,000 and 7,000 state health care workers and public health officials are expected to receive the smallpox vaccine within the next two months - but university officials say that number is unlikely to include university health care staff.The MSU Health Team has attempted to coordinate with county officials on emergency plans, but the county has placed smallpox precautions solely in the hands of hospitals, said Margaret Knapp, the team's chief operating officer."I don't know if any of our providers are going through the smallpox vaccination," she said.

BASKETBALL

Izzo expects players to improve on free throws

Patrick Walters
January 9, 2003

Heading in to their 53rd season of Big Ten men's basketball, No. 25 MSU is looking for a little charity - from the stripe, that is.After shooting 77.7 percent from the foul line in the first seven games of the season, MSU (8-4) has only shot 67.5 percent in the last five, which is below head coach Tom Izzo's standards.Izzo said missed free throws have "really cost us the last two games, as much as anything."Despite MSU's shooting woes, the Spartans are currently tied for fourth (72.8 percent) among Big Ten teams.

NEWS

E.L. council passes telecom fee act

Brian Charlton
January 8, 2003

The East Lansing City Council opted unanimously to adopt a right-of-way act on Tuesday to bring extra funds into the budget - which continues to lose funding from the state. The move aligns the city's code to the statewide Metropolitan Extension Telecommunications Rights-of-Way Oversight Act, which by 2004 could bring revenues of $160,000 to $200,000 annually into the city's major and local street funds, East Lansing attorney Dennis McGinty said. The act will conform the city's code with the new state law - charging telecommunication companies $0.05 per foot of equipment, McGinty said.

NEWS

Stiffer fines to be imposed by ASMSU on expired $100 loans

If Steve Lovelace paid back his $100 ASMSU loan last semester, he wouldn't have shelled out extra dollars in late fees. Lovelace, a Spanish senior, is among 300 MSU students who received the interest-free loan from the organization last fall - and among the 87 who didn't settle the debt on time. Late fees for the loans increased this semester because some 30 percent of students that took out loans last year did not pay them back, officials from MSU's undergraduate student government say. Lovelace, a College of Arts and Letters representative for Academic Assembly, took out the loan in October and explained he "needed money, but not for any specific purpose," but he "just didn't feel like coming up" to the organization's office located in Student Services. Since 1976, loans have been granted at the beginning of each semester to students who then have six weeks to repay. Before winter break, ASMSU's student assembly voted to raise the late fees which makes it the first time the organization has changed the system.

ICE HOCKEY

Comical Clark makes position change for more playing time

James Jahnke
January 8, 2003

By nature, Steve Clark is usually quick with a quip. And the talkative senior hockey player apparently amused head coach Rick Comley with a comment during a game this weekend at Lake Superior State. "We all laughed because he said he played more that particular night than he did his first three years here," Comley said with a chuckle. Of course, that's a huge hyperbole on Clark's part.

COMMENTARY

Proactive apathy

The University of Michigan is leading college campuses in rallies against the war with Iraq. Why aren't we? In light of Army Reserve units dispatching to the Middle East, this weekend an estimated 600 people will gather in Ann Arbor to protest at a two-day conference.

NEWS

Goverment requires certain foreign men to register with INS

Some MSU students are angry about a federal government measure requiring men who are not American citizens from certain Middle Eastern, African and Asian countries to register.The Immigration and Naturalization Service is requiring all men age 16 and older from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen to register by Friday or possibly face deportation.Individuals from the 13 countries are believed to be targeted for immediate registration so the government may track known terrorists or wanted criminals in the United States.Hussein Ibish, Communications Director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington said that the U.S.