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Bicyclist riding to raise funds, awareness
When Don Boehly, 50, traveled into East Lansing by bicycle on Friday, he wasn't just headed to the store or to a class on campus.
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'Blow-a-Kiss' to hurricane victims
After hearing about a fundraising campaign for Hurricane Katrina victims that's spread to 14 schools across the country, Hazel Atienza decided to get MSU involved in the effort. The chemistry freshman started the MSU chapter of the Blow-a-Kiss campaign with the help of some friends, the Facebook Web site and advertisements posted around campus. Grace Kim, a student at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., started the campaign after she saw news coverage on television. "I found it horrifying, I started crying because it was so awful and I was completely traumatized that the government wasn't doing much," Kim said. She decided selling T-shirts would be a good way to raise money and named the project the Blow-a-Kiss campaign because it's optimistic and hopeful. "It's just a very happy little thing that can bring light to a horrible situation," she said. At MSU, Atienza is selling Blow-a-Kiss T-shirts for $12, with proceeds going to the American Red Cross. "In addition to giving money, you also get a shirt out of it," she said.
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Area officials prepared for emergency
The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks created the need for communities to be prepared for any large scale disasters, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said. "Since 2001, several of us have participated in more tabletop exercises than we can count," he said. These exercises consist of area law enforcement officials gathering in conference rooms and working their way through fictional situations, Wibert said. From statewide efforts to neighborhood meetings, local law enforcement agencies and medical personnel from across the nation are training to handle large-scale emergencies.
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ACLU to show series featuring Patriot Act
A new television series, "The American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Files," will be shown in eight Michigan cities.
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Leadership meeting series to hone skills
The Executive Leadership Series will hold the first of five sessions at 6:30 p.m. Sunday in the Union's Green Room. The series, sponsored by the Department of Student Life, is intended to further develop leadership skills in students.
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150th anniversary event to highlight MSU initiatives
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will unveil a series of plans for university growth during a public address today, with the goal of making the university the leading land-grant research institution in the United States by 2012. The announcement of a new strategic initiative Simon has titled "Boldness by Design" will come as part of a two-day academic convocation celebrating the university's sesquicentennial - or 150th anniversary - that kicks off this afternoon in the Kellogg Center. Simon's speech, scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
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New health building to open at LCC campus
Officials from Lansing Community College will open the Health and Human Services and Administration Building at 7 a.m.
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Business aids pets lost in hurricane
Along with the rescue efforts to help the human victims of Hurricane Katrina, a local pet store is helping the pets of hurricane survivors. Preuss Animal House, 2119 Haslett Road in Haslett, started a fundraiser on Tuesday to raise money for the Humane Society of the United States and its relief efforts in both Louisiana and Mississippi. Those who want to donate can purchase a picture of either a boy or girl with a dog for $1 each, said Rick Preuss, owner of Preuss Animal House.
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Volunteers to clean up Michigan Highways
More than 30,000 volunteers will be out this weekend collecting litter on Michigan highways. The volunteers, are a part of the Michigan Department of Transportation's Adopt-A-Highway program. Officials from the department expect 30,000 bags of trash to be collected this fall.
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Local volunteers aid efforts from home, in Gulf
American Red Cross volunteer Pam McHenry said she was not prepared for the experience of seeing the destruction caused by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Commemorative pillows to benefit band
The Spartan Marching Band is putting a new twist on recycling this fall. Every 10 years, the band orders new uniforms, leaving the old ones out of commission.
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Cooley to hold legal classes for residents
People interested in learning about legal issues including divorce, criminal and disability law will have the chance to listen local lawyers and professors beginning Sept.
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Church to help victims of Hurricane Katrina
As hundreds of people make their way to Lansing after losing their homes when Hurricane Katrina ravaged the south, St.
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ASMSU bill to aid hurricane victims
As a group that focuses on serving students - not only at MSU, but outside of the university - ASMSU's Academic Assembly unanimously passed a bill to honor and aid Hurricane Katrina victims as well as advocate taking in evacuated students at its Tuesday meeting.
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MSU gets grants to study causes of ADHD
Most people are exposed to small amounts of harmful chemicals every day, but MSU researchers will soon delve into the role people's genes play in developing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD. The researchers will use two grants, a total of more than $3 million, to conduct a study of children's behavior, environment and genetic makeup to determine possible correlations, said Joel Nigg, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and lead researcher in the study. "The genetics part is important, but it's not in a vacuum," Nigg said.
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Press secretaries to give lecture at MSU
Five current and former press secretaries of Michigan governors will speak at 5:30 p.m. today in the Big Ten A room of the Kellogg Center. "Meet the Press Secretaries" is the 2005 Edward Zabrusky Public Relations Lecture.
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ASMSU to discuss new groups, parking rates
Members of ASMSU's Student Assembly will vote on bills about everything from accepting student groups into the association to lowering parking-meter rates on campus during their meeting today. Academic Assembly members voted to give the MSU International Student Association and Arab Culture Society seats on their assembly, but the groups won't become members unless Student Assembly members vote them in as well. Student Assembly also will vote on a bill to support the lowering of parking-meter rates on campus, said Derek Wallbank, Communication Arts and Sciences representative for the assembly. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m.
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McPherson accepts new post
There are a few recurring themes in former MSU President M. Peter McPherson's work - agriculture, land-grant universities, and national and international politics. McPherson, who stepped down from the top job at MSU in 2004 after 11 years, will renew his involvement with land-grant institutions when he takes over as president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, or NASULGC, in 2006. He has spent the past year working with the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, an organization he co-founded to encourage agriculture and rural development in African nations. McPherson said he has begun meeting with the group's executives, but his main focus will be the Partnership for the remainder of the year. "I've got a lot to do here over the next few months," he said from the Partnership's Washington, D.C.
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Advertising group holds first meeting
The American Advertising Federation, or AAF, is inviting interested students to its first meeting at 7 p.m.
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Canine assists in police investigations
The work just keeps coming for the furry, four-legged members of the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety. A German Shepherd known as Chico assisted Meridian Township Police in the capture of an individual after a car chase on Sunday. For his work, Chico and his handler, MSU police officer Chris Rozman, were presented with the "Distinguished Order of Canine Capturus," an award that is displayed on a bulletin board in the MSU police office. The morning of the incident, an officer pulled in to check out an alarm at Walnut Hills Country Club, and a car zoomed out of the driveway, said Lt.