Ann Arbor - The undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten voted to dissolve their organization and replace it with a biannual meeting Sunday at the University of Michigan. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, was the only school that voted to keep the Associated Students of the Big Ten.
In a unique contract among patient advocate groups, employers and insurance companies, a coalition agreed Wednesday to cover routine patient costs associated with cancer clinical trials. Clinical trials are experiments and studies involving people that test new cancer drugs and study the effectiveness of existing treatments.
Ann Arbor - Ronald Cruz has been sleeping in Ann Arbor churches since Friday. The University of California, Berkeley education graduate student flew into Michigan to attend the Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement at the University of Michigan this weekend. “The movement is very young,” Cruz said.
While construction on the City Center project is wrapping up on M.A.C. Avenue, Albert Avenue will be closed near the Marriott Hotel at University Place, 300 M.A.C Ave for the week.Two cranes are being placed in the area between M.A.C.
With more than 14,000 people living in MSU’s residence halls, representatives from the university’s Residence Halls Association say it has outgrown its need for statewide representation.The nation’s largest association of residence halls announced last week it will no longer be affiliated with the Michigan Organization of Residence Halls Associations.
Jill Erickson graduated from MSU with a dietetics degree in 1998, but her education is far from complete.She spent her Friday afternoon among a group of students from the Department of Epidemiology for its second Research Day, an expo held to showcase the different research projects students are completing.For Erickson, it’s a glimpse at what will be expected of her once she comes back to school as an epidemiology graduate student.“For me, it’s a good introduction to the department,” she said.
State representatives and health officials are creating a task force to research Michigan’s elementary and middle school’s nutritional practices and guidelines.The task force is one step in state Rep.
When students in Mid-Michigan learned that students in Africa needed shoes, they brought in 110 pennies and pairs of shoes to help. Holt Public Schools third-graders noticed a picture of a boy from Africa without shoes on while they were reading an article about other cultures through an MSU supported program. “They were saying, ‘We just have to send shoes to these kids,’” said Sally McClintock, a founder and facilitator of the Linking All Types of Teachers for International Cross-cultural Education program. A group of international MSU graduate students are working with local educators to prepare students for a global future through the program, LATTICE.
Two Lansing youths died in a car accident Saturday night when the Oldsmobile Cutlass they were riding in collided with a Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus. Jared Heintzelman,17, and Anthony Bermudez,12, were killed on the corner of Shiawasee and Larch streets at 10:04 p.m., Lansing police officer Lt.
The Residence Halls Association members voted 17-1 with six abstentions to send two letters to people involved with a Toughman Contest last month.Representatives will send one letter to MSU’s Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students and another letter to AdoreAble Promotions Inc.Members of the LBGT community became concerned after the promotions company put on a “homosexual match” during the competition last month, which pitted two men in a mock bout.RHA’s special events program sponsored the trip to the contest at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Jan.
Students from 10 Michigan campuses gathered in Lansing together during the weekend to discuss anti-Semitism, Israel’s history and upcoming elections.
Term limits are driving Gov. John Engler out of office - along with many other Republicans.In late January, Engler accepted the resignations of State Police Director Col.
About $55,000 and the efforts of 15 people will culminate this weekend into an unforgettable display of Native American culture. The North American Indian Student Organization is sponsoring its 19th annual Pow-Wow of Love.
Officials from around the United States will be gathering next week with the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators in Washington to discuss the future of government-issued ID cards.The issuing of driver’s licenses and state IDs has been under the microscope since the Sept.
An affirmative action group will be hosting a conference at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor today, Saturday and Sunday. The U-M chapter of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary will be holding its Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement to discuss tactics. “The central goals are fixing the affirmative action issue, the fight for real integration and social equality,” BAMN member Agnes Aleobua said.
On Robert Zeeb’s farm in Bath Township, there are the usual fields and barns, but throughout the years the property has become more than a place for crops to grow.
John Siemianowski is thankful he has only received one ticket this semester. The biology senior drives into campus at least twice a week, and always searches for parking.Siemianowski said he parks at meters and then doesn’t worry if they expire, but when the parking ticket prices were raised in July, it made him more cautious about where he parked.In July 2001, the MSU Board of Trustees raised ticket fines, hoping to deter illegal parking on campus.Fines at parking meters were raised from $10 to $15, employee parking spot fines were raised from $20 to $25 and spots reserved for people with disabilities were raised from $50 to $100.But Siemianowski said the $5 increase isn’t enough to stop everyone from parking illegally.“I bet if they had raised them even more people wouldn’t park wherever they wanted,” he said.
Researchers at MSU were awarded $1 million this week for genetic research on bacteria that could help in the cleanup of facilities that were contaminated during the production of nuclear weapons. U.S.
After operating for more than 30 days, General Motors Corp. is spreading the word to Lansing residents about the implications of a modification to its Craft Centre.The modification to the plant, 2801 W.