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Army ROTC honors veterans at chapel
Cadets of the MSU Army ROTC program gathered Tuesday at the Alumni Memorial Chapel to honor the veterans of the U.S.
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Fashion show arriving to campus Thursday
The 49th Annual Ebony Fashion Fair presents "Stylishly Hot" a fashion show featuring designs by various artists, including Vivienne Westwood, Carolina Herrera, and Oscar de la Renta.
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Films to be shown in East Lansing
The film "Shooting Dogs" will show at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Erickson Hall Kiva. The movie is based on actual events during the Rwandan genocide.
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Word on the street
"Yes, I voted at 7:29 this morning. I voted for Granholm. I was impressed with how hard she fought for universal health care.
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MSU center awarded for high CUTCO sales
The Lear Corporation Career Services Center and MSU Career Services and Placement Center won a combined $3,500 in College Bowl checks for their success in the Vector Marketing College Bowl competition.
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Historian, speaker to discuss AIDS Monday
Charles Becker, a historian and researcher, will speak Monday on the topic of "AIDS and AIDS Research in Africa." The presentation is 12:15-1:30 p.m.
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$550 raised for charity competition
Patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., will receive about a $550 donation from MSU's Senior Class Council, which raised the money at its ninth annual Charity Bowl. Teams composed of students from campus organizations and their friends competed for the charity of their choice in a coed touch-football game.
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Phi Beta Sigma Sleep Out
People walking down Grand River Avenue on Friday night were bombarded by students outside the Union with signs and requests for spare change — all for the homeless. Members of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. stayed outside for 12 hours, starting at 8 p.m., and raised $300 in cash, food and clothing for the City Rescue Mission of Lansing, a local homeless shelter. The event, which is called Sleep Out with the Homeless, is an annual program held by the national fraternity and members of the MSU chapter, said Cortez Robinson-Starks, president of the MSU chapter. Participants want to experience what it is like to be homeless, while collecting money, food and clothes to donate to the shelter, Robinson-Starks said.
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Student organizations rally against Proposal 2
With one day to go before elections, student government officials are pushing to educate students about the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative. The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which is known as the MCRI or Proposal 2, will eliminate preferential treatment based on race, class, gender and ethnicity in Michigan if passed Tuesday. ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, will hold a rally at 4 p.m.
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Professionals, students push for interior design licenses in Mich.
Interior design professionals and students across Michigan would be required to carry licenses to their job sites, if proposed legislation altering the state's constitution is sanctioned. Interior designers do not have legal licenses distinguishing their professions as a separate entity.
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Students remember boycott, celebrate
Their message: Unity and organization can effectively change the world. Former participants of the Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan, or MEXA, organization's weeklong hunger strike reassembled Saturday afternoon for a conference to discuss their activism during their time at MSU.
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Trustees: Smith fired for record
As university officials ask MSU's head football coach to leave one week before elections, political analysts and election candidates say they believe the decision to relieve John L.
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Students celebrate Hindu holiday on campus
The Hindu holiday called Diwali is a time for families to gather and recognize good triumphing over evil with a celebration filled with lights. In India, where the holiday is mostly celebrated, communities decorate homes and buildings with lamps and candles.
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Innovations: Fewer strokes
Name: Arshad Majid, associate professor of neurology and the director of the division of cerebrovascular diseases. Department: Neurology Date of research: Work was started about a year ago. Type of research: Common dietary supplement used to reduce the severity of a stroke. Basics of research: Majid and other researchers are experimenting with a dietary supplement called Carnosine, which is a diet peptide that combines two amino acids. The testing is done on mice in hopes of finding what happens when cells die and how cells can be protected in the brain in case of a stroke. "Basically we used a mouse model where we can selectively include a critical artery in the brain that supplies blood to the mouse brain," Majid said.
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Students take day to honor dead
Although it falls the day after Halloween, Day of the Dead isn't about candy, ghosts or pumpkins.
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Faculty, staff rank university's working conditions among best in the nation
MSU staff and faculty are happy to be working for the university, according to one magazine's online research. Last year, the university ranked 41st on The Scientist's "Best Places to Work 2006: Academia" survey.
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Students voice opinions on voting for, against MCRI
When Brittney McCullers turns 18 in January, it will be too late for her to vote in the November election. The accounting freshman will be affected by the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or MCRI, if passed Nov.
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Nontraditional students honor faculty for assistance
The people who make it possible for nontraditional students to attend class, study for exams and work for rent money or groceries are being rewarded. As National Nontraditional Student Recognition Week begins next week, the MSU Family Resource Center is honoring faculty and staff members who have helped married students, commuters, military service members or those who have other unusual circumstances maintain their busy schedules.
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Events to honor Day of the Dead, hunger strike
MSU students can participate in a Day of the Dead project from 4-6 p.m. Wednesday in room 200 in South Kedzie Hall.
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Master plan to frame campus layout for coming years
MSU is going to update the campus' master plan, which will detail building and construction plans for the next five years. Campus planner Stephen Troost said the department of Campus Planning and Administration has brainstormed ideas for the plan since the beginning of the year.