MSU’s tuition guarantee was originally a good idea, but considering the continuing lack of state funding, an increase in tuition rates has become necessary.The guarantee, in place since 1994, has kept tuition and on-campus housing cost increases at or below the projected rate of inflation.
East Lansing resident Lisa Bennett has been listening to the Philadelphia-based one-man band Atom and His Package for more than two years and has even traveled to Arkansas to see him perform. But Bennett didn’t have to travel very far for her third Atom and His Package concert Monday night. Multi-talented Adam Goren made his third visit to East Lansing on Monday, supporting his new album by playing at a local house party. “I’m really glad he’s out there being a guiding light for fun-loving nerds out there,” Bennett said. Goren performs with his guitar and his “package,” a music sequencer, from which most of his backup music is produced.
MSU women’s crew coach Bebe Bryans predicted correctly Sunday when she said the first varsity eight boat would have a good chance of making the crew national championships.Bryans said the team was contacted about its NCAA at-large berth right before practice Tuesday and everyone was “obviously really excited.”The varsity women’s crew team has been in competition for four years and has made nationals in all four of its seasons.
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Amid $325,000 in budget cuts and added revenues from the East Lansing City Council, a $20,000 donation to a nearby skate park stood alone.The East Lansing City Council affirmed its 2001-02 budget Tuesday night after more than a month of discussion.At a meeting last month, more than 40 skate park supporters urged council members to budget money toward the new skate park.
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A community organization is taking steps to preserve East Lansing’s independent stores.The Downtown Community Action League began April 23, after Bagel-Fragel Deli, 527 E.
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Thomas Maleck said he hasn’t had time to think about being honored for his contributions to traffic safety by the Michigan State Safety Commission.
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MSU assistant hockey coach Dave McAuliffe’s childhood dream of rushing out of the Spartan Stadium tunnel is closer to becoming a reality, as MSU is in the process of planning an outdoor hockey game on the football field next season.The game would probably be played toward the end of the season in either February or March against archrival Michigan, replacing the teams’ annual meeting at Munn Ice Arena.The fate of the proposal should be finalized within the next two weeks.“Growing up in this area, I went to football and basketball games my whole life hoping someday we’d get a U-M/MSU game there,” said McAuliffe, who played for the Spartans from 1986-90 and has been an assistant coach for nine years.
MSU’s Department of Mathematics demonstrated it wasn’t all about numbers and equations last month when it passed out a large number of awards to deserving recipients.Mathematics graduate student and teaching assistant Aurelia Minut is one of them.
Anil Jain is being recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for his own work with recognition.A professor of computer science and engineering, Jain has spent more than 10 years studying methods of personal identification through recognizing and matching patterns in fingerprints and eyes.He was chosen from a pool of 2,700 applicants competing to share more than $6 million from the New York-based foundation.
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Eight people filed petitions for East Lansing City Council elections by the 4 p.m. deadline Tuesday, but Mayor Pro Tem Beth Schwarze was not one of them.Schwarze has been on the council since 1997 and was elected mayor pro tem in 1999.
The tuition guarantee is anything but a sure thing for incoming students.In fact, nothing about the higher education budget for 2001-02 is guaranteed.The Senate’s Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee recommended Tuesday to increase funding for each of Michigan’s three major research universities - MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University - by 6.3 percent.The Full Appropriations Committee will consider the recommendation next week.Although a 6.3 percent funding increase may help MSU continue to keep the cost of tuition down, Trustee Dave Porteous said the funding gap between the research schools is still something he and other trustees would like to see addressed.“I think everyone is very aware of the tight state budget,” he said.
The Lansing-area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will find out today what information the university will disclose to it regarding the police infiltration of an MSU student activist group. MSU’s Freedom of Information Office has used its final day of a 10-day extension in response to the ACLU’s request for university files. “I’m never surprised by anything the university does,” said Henry Silverman, president of the Lansing-area ACLU and a history professor. Silverman said he doesn’t expect that the request, when it is fulfilled, will contain the information the organization asked for.
By JEANINE AVERSA The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate Tuesday by a half-point, the fifth reduction this year, in an effort to keep the struggling economy afloat. The Fed said the rate cut was needed to combat various drags on the economy, including a decline in business investment in new equipment. “This potential restraint
Beginning June 8, 261 children from Spartan Village Elementary School will have nearly three months to amuse themselves however they choose - summer vacation.But Bill Gale, principal of the on-campus elementary school, has a new tool to help parents keep their kids busy.Spartan Youth Programs, a new Web site created by University Outreach, provides a list of nearly every summer camp, activity or program created for children from kindergarten through 12th grade.“This is an amazing choice,” Gale said.