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MICHIGAN

Online enrollment for LCC courses begins

Online registration for courses at Lansing Community College begins today. Students who want to sign up for spring classes can log on at www.lcc.edu/banner. The site will be active 24 hours a day, seven days a week. About 75 percent of LCC students use the Web registration site because it often expedites the sign-up process. The site allows students to quickly add and drop courses and view open and closed courses. Also beginning today, students may register for classes with the touch-tone telephone registration at (517)483-9310, available seven days a week from 6 a.m.

NEWS

Crash kills Northern Tier student

Kendra Snyder
October 22, 2002

A 19-year-old MSU student died Sunday after being struck by a car while walking in the middle of Chandler Road before sunrise Saturday. The female student and another 19-year-old woman were walking on the road in Bath Township when a southbound car hit the pair at 5:05 a.m. East Lansing and Bath Township police responded to the call and the women were taken to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, where the MSU student died the next day.

MICHIGAN

Posthumus announces plan for college loans

Steve Eder
October 22, 2002

In his pursuit to become the state’s next governor, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus on Monday unveiled a loan plan aimed at reducing the financial burden of paying for college. The program rewards students who obtain loans through the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority by offering zero interest after 48 months of on-time payments.

MICHIGAN

LCC includes same-sex in benefits plan

Elissa Englund
October 22, 2002

Lansing - Same-sex partners of Lansing Community College employees are now eligible for health-care benefits after a heated trustee meeting Monday. The health-care benefits were only available to married couples before five of the seven members of the LCC Board of Trustees voted in favor of changing the policy to include same-sex partners. Eligibility requirements now fall into the hands of the college’s three health-care providers, who have all submitted tentative definitions of “domestic partnerships” that include duration of the relationship and combination of assets. The meeting began with a public comment period where individuals voiced their opposing views on the policy. “I’m opposed to the institution extending benefits to partners of homosexuals,” Alaiedon Township resident Trevor Wagenmaker told the group, adding that his reasons were both moral and financial.

MSU

Night raises cultural awareness

Tara May
October 22, 2002

With puppets and henna tattoos, ethnic foods and maps of the East, a group of volunteers made efforts to educate Holmes Hall students Sunday. The Asian-African cultural night was part of an effort by the group Raising Awareness by Internationalizing Students’ Education, or RAISE, to visit the residence halls and promote awareness. RAISE is a program within the Office of Internationalizing Students, which is a part of the Department of Student Life.

COMMENTARY

Williams should take blame that is his

I was horrified when I read the quote from football head coach Bobby Williams saying MSU’s football woes are the entire team’s fault (“Gridders losing ways continue,” Statenews.com 10/19). This only solidifies the many reasons why MSU should not wait until the end of the season to lose Williams.

COMMENTARY

Fire Williams, get promised results

So much promise with so little results. That is the story of the MSU football program. How does a team that went 10-2 three seasons ago compile records of mediocrity the past two and, now, the possibility of not even making a bowl game.

MSU

RHA begins recycling program in dorms

Antonio Planas
October 22, 2002

Students living in residence halls will no longer have an excuse to walk by empty blue bins marked plastic, paper and glass. The Residence Halls Association begins its recycling program today, available in all the residence halls on campus.

MICHIGAN

Fire officials remind U to check fire alarms

Patrick Walters
October 22, 2002

As East Lansing falls back to standard time Saturday night, city fire officials remind residents to change smoke detector batteries while setting back clocks. Fire Marshal Bob Pratt said that since most fatal fires occur at night, keeping a fully functional smoke detector is of tremendous importance. “Upwards of 80 percent of fatal fires occur between midnight and 8 (a.m.),” he said.

COMMENTARY

Another chance

Fraternities, such as Delta Chi, are inexcusably trying the patience of their community by repeatedly violating noise ordinances as well as a long-standing general code. The East Lansing Housing Commission on Thursday suspended the fraternity’s rental license for 180 days beginning Jan.

MSU

Health information to be sent out in e-mail

The University Physician’s Office at MSU is sending health information e-mails to MSU employees, retirees and health care providers. The Healthy Email Project provides information on common health concerns that has been reviewed by physicians.

NEWS

Team members fight Title IX

Krista Latham
October 22, 2002

When MSU cut the men’s gymnastics team at the end of the 2000-01 season citing Title IX compliance, Jonathan Plante could have sat back and shut up. But Plante’s just not that kind of guy. The former MSU gymnast researched Title IX.

NEWS

Granholm balances family, job duties

Megan Frye
October 22, 2002

It took more than three weeks for Dan Mulhern to to get a date with Jennifer Granholm. Fifteen weeks later, they were engaged. “We had this ruse devised that she was going to the Plaza Hotel to meet an important Japanese client,” Mulhern says of their New York City engagement.

FEATURES

Tool rocks Breslin Center crowd

It was quite apparent that the fans at Breslin Center on Sunday were there for one thing: Tool. They were apathetic when Messughah hit the stage for a nearly two-thirds empty floor.

SPORTS

Williams lack of experience is showing

Eric Mckinney
October 22, 2002

I don’t know about everyone else on campus, but for me watching the Spartans has become more painful than any final I’ve ever taken. I mean, seriously, I’d rather sit through an entire semester of nothing but calculus, biology and economics classes.

COMMENTARY

Hazardous area

The boundary between East Lansing and Bath Township quickly has become a new center for student housing.