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Forum to explore Katrina's wake

Bob Darrow
September 28, 2005

One month after Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast, MSU academic leaders are holding a public forum to discuss the social implications of the disaster. Today's seminar, titled "The Cost of Marginalization: Place, Race, Class and Media in the Katrina Catastrophe," is the first in a series of three talks scheduled for the next three weeks. Each of the forums, which are open to the public, will feature a faculty panel to initiate discussion. Panelists will be given time to explain their expertise, and then will be asked several questions by the forum's moderator, said Janet Lillie, an assistant dean in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and a coordinator of the event. "What we really wanted to do was serve the audience's needs," she said.

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WEB ONLY: Reception to honor joining of university with WRC

Several MSU officials and students will gather tonight to celebrate the affiliation of MSU with the national Worker Rights Consortium, or WRC - an organization that monitors and helps eliminate the production of university apparel in sweatshops. The reception, which will take place at 7 p.m.

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Lansing AIDS group to hold benefit walk

Ken Osborne
September 28, 2005

AIDS Walk Michigan and the Lansing Area AIDS Network will be holding a walk at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Valley Court Park in East Lansing. The event is being held in association with seven other walks throughout Michigan.

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Granholm to replace MEAP testing

Laura Collins
September 27, 2005

Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced last week that all high school students will take a standardized college-entrance exam in place of the MEAP test. Starting the spring of 2007, the ACT and WorkKeys, a work skills assessment, will be implemented for all high school students. "The new testing puts all Michigan students on the path to college," Granholm's spokeswoman, Liz Boyd said.

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WRA project featured on national Web site

A project created by MSU students about the Cherokee Nation now appears on the American Indian tribe's national Web site. As part of the class WRA 417: "Multimedia Writing," about 12 students researched and created a project focusing on the Allotment Era - a period between 1887 and 1934 when all of the land owned by U.S.

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Invitations mark end of greek recruiting

Annie Dalby wiped away tears as she hugged her sister, Lyndsay Dalby, after Lyndsay handed her a bid card, or invitation, to join Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority Monday afternoon. The Dalby sisters, who are now also sorority sisters, are among the women who participated this past week in the greek system's Recruitment Week - the process of becoming an active sorority member - that culminated in invitations to join different houses Monday. "We're sisters and now we're in the same house, so it means a lot," Annie Dalby said.

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New cleaning business cashes in on busy, partying students

Sunday morning hits and the proverbial scene is set: Cups are everywhere, trash litters the floor and cupboards are sticky. An East Lansing house party has come and gone, leaving devastation in its wake. It's a student's demise, said electrical engineering junior Jim McGinn, whose apartment still has beer cans from Thursday. But to Charlie Moore the scene equals money. Or potential business at least. Twenty-nine-year-old Moore founded Get That Dirt Inc. to fill a business niche he discovered after talking with East Lansing friends and calling area cleaning services. "I heard (from) a few my friends who said they wished there was a cleaning service here - they were too busy, too tired to clean their own room," said Moore, a graduate student at Western Michigan University and an Okemos resident.

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Library offers free Apple iPod contest

Ken Osborne
September 27, 2005

The Main Library is holding a contest to help students learn about its services. The winner will receive a free Apple iPod. Students must go to the library and fill out an entry form by 5 p.m.

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ASMSU services grow in use

Melissa Domsic
September 27, 2005

More students have been using ASMSU-sponsored services - such as legal counsel, copying and fax machines and interest-free loans - since last year, but student government leaders say they are still working to get the word out. "The more people we can service the better," said Andrew Schepers, chairperson of ASMSU's Student Assembly.

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Public forum to focus on East Village plan

Kristi Jourdan
September 27, 2005

The East Lansing Planning Commission will host a public forum to discuss the East Village Master Plan on Wednesday. The plan could redevelop the area, which houses the Cedar Village apartments and six fraternities among other buildings, into retail space, apartments or condominiums. The affected area is bounded on the north and south by Grand River Avenue and the Red Cedar River and on the west and east by Bogue Street and Hagadorn Road. Peter Dewan, vice chair of the planning commission, said the forum will allow for "inclusiveness" with the public.

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Commission to hold meeting about melee

Margaret Harding
September 27, 2005

The independent commission will meet from 8 a.m. to noon today in the Executive Conference Room of the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. Commissioners will discuss possible recommendations for their draft report, due out before the Oct.

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Reception planned for foreign students

Bob Darrow
September 27, 2005

As part of East Lansing's International Students and Scholars Week, the Kiwanis Club of East Lansing and Circle K International of MSU will be holding a reception to welcome foreign students. The reception is planned for Wednesday evening from 4-6 p.m.

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Court to rule on abortion

Jon Styf
September 27, 2005

The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on the procedure commonly referred to as a partial-birth abortion on Monday. The case is part of a two-year, cross-country legal fight over the federal law and might be the beginning of a showdown that could eventually be swung by the president's new court nominee, John Roberts. On Sept.

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E.L. woman crashes car in Spartan Village

Margaret Harding
September 27, 2005

An East Lansing woman crashed her car into a building in Spartan Village on Saturday, causing an estimated $25,000 worth of damage, according to an MSU police report. The 28-year-old woman was driving a silver 2005 Mazda 6 eastbound on Middlevale Road when she said she hit a curb and struck the building, MSU police Sgt.

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Business student fair to be held today

Bob Darrow
September 27, 2005

Business students looking to get involved in on-campus groups will have an opportunity to explore a number of options today at the Eli Broad College of Business Student Organization Fair. The fair will be held tonight from 7-9 p.m.

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UAB event gives siblings, students time for bonding

Laura Collins
September 26, 2005

Kristin Frey stood to the side, watching her younger sister display her moves in a big-screen version of the game Dance Dance Revolution. Frey, a predental sophomore, said she doesn't think she could play the video game, but enjoyed watching her sister dance to the music. "I have never tried it," she said.