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Lawmakers aim to gain pay raise veto power

Steve Eder
October 25, 2001

State lawmakers shouldn’t get used to exorbitant pay increases.A resolution passed out of a House-Senate conference committee Wednesday would require the Legislature to vote on future pay increases and would give the lawmakers power to accept smaller pay increases than those recommended by the State Officers Compensation Commission.Lawmakers drafted the resolution in response to a $20,000 pay increase earlier in the year.

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Library cookbooks going digital

Megan Frye
October 25, 2001

A recent grant awarded to the MSU Libraries will make it possible to view part of life from the early 19th century online. The $249,783 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will be used to fund “Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbooks Project” - a plan to make 75 pre-1923 cookbooks digitally available online. MSU Libraries has more than 6,000 such cookbooks in its Cookery Collection in the Special Collections department. “We are pleased in a number of ways,” said Michael Seadle, the digital service and copyright librarian.

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Hall of Fame welcomes 8 new inductees

Alison Barker
October 25, 2001

Eight accomplished women will be added today to a gallery of about 150 others at the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame.The women are being honored for their lifetime achievements.The Michigan Women’s Studies Association, Inc. will hold their 18th Annual Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame Awards Dinner at the ballroom in the Sheraton Hotel, 925 S.

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Black activist to visit campus

Camille Spencer
October 24, 2001

Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will be speaking at 7 p.m. today in the Erickson Kiva. The Black Panther Party was formed in the 1960s to support black civil rights. Associate Professor Curtis Stokes of James Madison College said Seale was an important figure in the 1960s. “He has been an admired figure among many sectors of the black and progressive community since that time,” he said.

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E.L. aims to improve intersections safety

Jamie Gumbrecht
October 24, 2001

From her apartment window near the intersection of Collingwood Drive and Grand River Avenue, Rachel Wool has a bird’s-eye view of north campus - and all the vehicle accidents occurring on the way in.“I’m looking out my window and I see accidents almost every day,” the social relations senior said.

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Urban Options display provides advice to lower energy costs

Shaun Byron
October 24, 2001

It is the house that the Energy Office built.A new display in Urban Options, 405 Grove St., is showing homeowners how to cut their energy bills drastically.Built by a professional exhibit company, the display is stained in a natural wood stain and is seven feet tall and nine feet wide, taking up an entire wall.

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Society discusses 9-11

Alison Barker
October 24, 2001

A panel of local communication professionals spoke to the public Tuesday about how they responded to the worst terrorist attack on United States soil at the Kellogg Center.Public Relations Society of America held its largest monthly luncheon when experts were invited to speak about how they used crisis communication plans after Sept.

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Lecture series features former U.N. ambassador

Kristy Austin
October 24, 2001

MSU will celebrate the United Nations’ 56-year anniversary tonight by presenting the first of four World View speakers - Richard Holbrooke. Holbrooke is regarded as one of the most accomplished American diplomats and negotiators of our time and as a former U.N.

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Study abroad deadline extended

Eric Morath
October 24, 2001

Students mulling over whether to apply for a study abroad program will have more time to consider their plans now that MSU has extended its deadline to Nov.

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ASMSU to create book exchange for students

Ryan Wallace
October 24, 2001

Many students complain about the price of book at bookstores - and MSU’s undergraduate government is trying to help. ASMSU’s Academic Assembly passed two bills Tuesday that could alleviate the cost of textbooks by setting up a book exchange program through its Web site. The site will be a free exchange of books to all students - similar to a message board where students can set their own prices. Jared English, representative for James Madison College, introduced the bills and said the bills call for the Webmaster to keep the site updated and for the director of public relations to publicize the new Web Site. The bill took awhile to finalize because ASMSU had to make sure they weren’t breaking any laws, he said. “The university wanted to make sure we talk to our lawyers about the legalese before we went ahead with it,” English said. The international relations sophomore said it will be up to the students to make this site work and he’s hoping to have the book exchange fully operational before finals. “I hope students take the time to do it, it requires them to take the initiative,” he said. Many MSU students said they’re interested in what ASMSU’s Web site has to offer. Mike Barker, an English sophomore, said he spent almost $500 on books this semester.

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Group sheds light on learning disorders

Camille Spencer
October 24, 2001

Elaine Womboldt knows firsthand the struggle of dealing with a learning disability.She has two children who have experienced such disorders, prompting her to create Lansing’s Learning Disabilities Families & Friends, Inc. in 1989, a resource center to help combat the problems that go along with learning disabilities.These problems can include dyslexia, a lack of spelling and reading comprehension and difficulty with mathematics.“I saw that there was a need for the family to work with kids and as a family unit for success,” Womboldt said.

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Rooming residences fire up for inspection

Sara Luneburg
October 23, 2001

Justin Ritz lives in a large, three-story home just outside of Cedar Village with eight other people. Ritz, a mechanical engineering junior, transferred to MSU from Western Michigan University this fall and chose to move into the nine-bedroom home with his sister and seven other strangers.

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Orthodox leader to speak on self-governing church

Alison Barker
October 23, 2001

A leader of the earliest church in history will give a presentation about Orthodox unity tomorrow. Archbishop Nathaniel of the Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America will speak about the need for an Autocephalous American Orthodox Church - a separate, self-governing church. MSU’s Orthodox Christian Fellowship and the Orthodox Christian Women of Mid Michigan are bringing the archbishop to campus to speak about the Canon Law required by the Orthodoxy in America, which would create the self-governing church. The law is supposed to create one jurisdiction in America, but it is not enforced, said Janet Peters, president of the Orthodox Christian Women of Mid Michigan.