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Firstborn children more likely to contract allergies

Leslie Escobar
November 28, 2001

Recent research conducted by an MSU professor discovered that firstborn children are more likely to suffer from asthma and other allergies.Wilfried Karmaus, an associate professor of epidemiology, found that firstborns have higher levels of cord blood immunoglobulin, a protein determined to be a risk factor for asthma and other allergies, such as hay fever.Karmaus said changes in the mother’s womb after the birth of a first child are reasons for the difference.“The immune system is changed to a different state,” he said.

COMMENTARY

Fieger time

He may be best known for his bombastic style and famous clients, but attorney Geoffrey Fieger proved he has a caring side, too.Tuesday, the MSU-Detroit College of Law announced Fieger, a 1979 DCL graduate, is donating $4 million to give the school the nation’s first trial practice institute for law students.Participants in the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute will have the opportunity to gain experiences through high-tech trial courtrooms, clinics and simulations.The institute is a two-year program designed in collaboration with practicing trial lawyers and judges, giving law students special real-world experience and other lessons to help them be more successful in the courtroom.Fieger’s donation will also help support an annual lecture series that showcases nationally known trial lawyers.

FEATURES

Band produces more complex, mature album

Dan Austin
November 28, 2001

With the aid of new band member John Parish, the band known simply as eels has successfully reinvented itself and put out a disc surpassing anything the band has done before. “Souljacker” is a rock album that returns to the band’s roots and a sound witnessed on its first two albums. But don’t classify “Souljacker” as just another eels album. This one is more complex, heavier, mature, personal and insightful than anything the band has done before.

NEWS

Fieger gives DCL $4 million

Megan Frye
November 28, 2001

A $4 million donation to the MSU-Detroit College of Law announced Tuesday will help create the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute, what some consider will be the most comprehensive full-time such institute in the nation. The donation, the single largest in DCL’s history, comes from Michigan practicing trial lawyer and 1979 DCL graduate, Geoffrey Fieger. “I know this is the biggest donation DCL has received, but that wasn’t the paramount interest,” Fieger said.

MICHIGAN

Women honored for Polar Trek

Eric Morath  and  Ryan Wallace
November 28, 2001

Six women from Michigan battled the arctic cold to make a 150-mile trek across the North Pole in April.On Tuesday, those same women were honored with a luncheon and a plaque in a place a little warmer - the state Capitol.

MICHIGAN

Organization plans to improve U bike, pedestrian traffic

Sara Luneburg
November 28, 2001

The future of bicycle and pedestrian traffic on campus and throughout the city will be changing in the coming years. A project combining the efforts of MSU’s Department of Campus Park and Planning and the city of East Lansing will evaluate how to extend the Lansing River Trail through the MSU campus and connect it to Meridian Township and East Lansing’s bike and hike trail system. The group of MSU staff, faculty and students, East Lansing and Meridian Township officials, area residents, the Michigan Department of Transportation, Rail to Trails and Ingham County Parks representatives began working on the project in earnest in July and came up with two different possible master plans.

NEWS

Contract troubles continue at Sparrow

Jamie Gumbrecht
November 28, 2001

About 1,800 health care employees at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital were still without a contract as negotiations continued Tuesday. Members of the Michigan Nurses Association announced last week they would support a strike if a resolution didn’t come soon. The employees have worked without a contract since Oct.

NEWS

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Events • St. John Student Parish: Advent Music and Reflection, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6, 327 M.A.C.