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MIDDAY UPDATE: Au pairs look for niche in U.S.

After a few days of being in the United States, Khomotso Modise wasn’t sure that she wanted to stay.Modise is now ending her 13-month stay in the states through Au Pair in America, a program that matches 18 to 26-year-old foreigners with American families who want live-in child care.“I came right in the middle of the Sept.

MICHIGAN

Class creates mural for kids

Lansing - When guests of bedroom eight at Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan look out their window, they will no longer see a bleak concrete wall.

MSU

Study says Internet use high among students

A recent study says the Internet is used more by college students than other groups. The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a survey Sunday stating 86 percent of college students across the country use the Internet.

COMMENTARY

Capital time

MSU leaders are kicking off the public phase of the university’s largest fund-raising effort Friday in grand fashion as they hope to raise around $1 billion by 2007.

MSU

Registration starts for Homecoming Parade

Spartan pride will be lining the streets of East Lansing in the form of the 2002 Homecoming Parade. The MSU Alumni Association, in collaboration with the MSU Homecoming Committee, will launch Homecoming Weekend on Oct.

COMMENTARY

Your Voice

Music school leader deserves thank you As two students of the MSU School of Music, we believe one man deserves to be recognized.

NEWS

Help wanted

Jenny Ralston craned her head from her hospital bed to peer around the bathroom door as a man in a white coat checked her charts. “So I’m going home, honey?” she said, adjusting her powder-white sun bonnet.

MSU

Student group to hold first meeting to plan cultural events

The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students is holding its first meeting of the year at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Erickson Hall Kiva. General membership meetings will continue every other Thursday. The group is hoping to expand the current community of more than 300 members, said Arun Prasad, the group’s publicity chairman. “It’s an Indian organization, but we want more American students and students of other cultures to come out,” he said. The group also wants to keep the public informed about Indian culture, he said. “Our goal as an organization is to enlighten students,” Prasad said.

MICHIGAN

Road work continues near newly built mall

Eastwood Towne Center customers are advised to be patient as road construction on Lake Lansing Road continues. John Midgley, Ingham County Road Commission managing director, said in a statement Monday that motorists should expect increased traffic caused by the opening of the center on Lake Lansing Road near U.S.

NEWS

Sigma Chi fraternity returns to house, seeks new members

After closing their doors more than a year ago, one of MSU’s fraternities has returned, and members plan to establish a new attitude and character in the house. The re-opening came just in time for Sigma Chi’s fall recruitment, which took place last week. “We had guys in for ‘Monday Night Football,’” chapter president Chad Cox said.

MSU

Faculty display music talent

At 7:30 p.m. today in the Music Building Auditorium, soprano Melanie Helton and pianist Alan Gosman will host a music show featuring unconventional music.