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Professor named to lead agricultural society

Agnes Soriano
August 10, 2004

With farming converting into a type of corporate business from its past image of family driven manual labor, agriculture graduates with an economics and engineering background are farther ahead career-wise, MSU College of Agriculture officials say. Otto Loewer, a 1980 MSU alumnus, recently became the president-elect for the American Society for Agricultural Engineers, due in part to his dual background in those subjects.

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'U' institutes program on American Indian law

Elizabeth Piet
August 10, 2004

A new American Indian Law Program will begin this fall at MSU, teaching students about indigenous law, policy and practice. When the two classes start they will be the beginning of the only formal American Indian law program in Michigan and the most comprehensive in the Midwest. "It's an entire area of law that people just aren't aware of," said Donald Laverdure, a professor and director of the program.

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McPherson awarded for work in Iraq

Elizabeth Piet
August 9, 2004

MSU President M. Peter McPherson has received an award from the U.S. Department of Treasury for his efforts last summer to help rebuild Iraq's struggling economy. McPherson took a 130-day unpaid leave of absence from the university to serve as the financial coordinator in Iraq for the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.

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'U' wasting time on net

Carl Lindquist
August 9, 2004

Just try to balance a full load of human biology course work with the time requirements of a starting position on the MSU baseball team. As imaginable, goof-off time was scarce for Charlie Braun, shortstop and second baseman for the 2003-04 Spartans. "I didn't have the luxury of free time," he said.

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Study: Americans' poor diets lead to osteoporosis

Agnes Soriano
August 3, 2004

College students sitting down to eat in the cafeteria or going out to dinner at a restaurant on Grand River Avenue have several beverage choices, from soft drinks to milk. What many fail to realize is how that simple decision could make all the difference in avoiding developing osteoporosis, local and campus health officials say.

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'U' numbers up for women MBA students

Elizabeth Piet
August 2, 2004

Though she grew up in Thailand and earned her undergraduate degree there, MSU graduate student Nuch Benjarpornbanyat, decided to move to the United States and earn her master's degree from the Eli Broad College of Business. "It has become one of the wonderful experiences in my life," she said.

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'U' students win step show contest

Agnes Soriano
July 29, 2004

As part of a combined team of several Michigan chapters of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, MSU students landed first place at the 2004 Grand Conclave March Down biannual step-show competition Saturday in St.

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'U', federal agency to promote food temps

Mike Townshend
July 27, 2004

MSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture have partnered in a joint public health education campaign, directed at stemming food-borne illnesses in the United States. The campaign, which focuses on the use of thermometers when cooking meat, will be launched Wednesday on a trial basis in Ingham, Kent and Washtenaw counties.

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Welcome Week to host Mraz concert

Agnes Soriano
July 27, 2004

Nestled in-between the speeches introducing freshmen to their respective majors and a massive pep rally reinforcing the importance of being a Spartan is a major headlining musical act hitting campus during Welcome Week. ASMSU recently added a concert to the onslaught of Welcome Week 2004 activities, featuring Jason Mraz at 9 p.m.

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Private college tuition to rise

Evan Rondeau
July 27, 2004

Students at private colleges and universities throughout the state will see an average tuition increase of 6.1 percent for the fall. But some say the increase remains consistent with nationwide averages and simply represents a continuation of a trend in increases from the past 10 years. The state's 47 private colleges and universities in Michigan announced tuition will be raising an average of 6.1 percent to $15,859 this fall.

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Leadership Program provides insight

Agnes Soriano
July 22, 2004

Although textbooks explain how stars are comprised of burning hydrogen and helium, one American-Indian legend describes how a coyote etched a pattern into the night sky with flower petals. Shirley Brauker, Moon Bear Pottery store owner in Coldwater and an Odawa tribe member, told the legend to a classroom of American-Indian high school students Tuesday afternoon at Berkey Hall.

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Zimbabwe colleges focus of 'U' lecture

Maddie Trier
July 22, 2004

Gordon Jeranyama, the Bursar of Chinhoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe, will give a brown bag speech at noon July 29 in room 201 of the International Center. Jeranyama will speak about the new universities in Zimbabwe and the financial and other challenges they experience.

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Abstinence-based programs create sex ed controversy

Maddie Trier
July 19, 2004

For Casey Taubitz, the only reference to contraception during her high school health education class was a brusque "just use a condom." Taubitz, who graduated in 2004 from Fenton High School, said the curriculum at her school was abstinence-based - similar to programs President Bush would like to see more school districts utilize. In his 2004 State of the Union address, Bush added federal funding for abstinence-only sex education programs, expressing a desire to double the current amount.

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'U' student's essay appears in Newsweek

Traci Carpenter just wanted to make sure this year's presidential candidates took time from their campaigning to explain how they're different from each other, so the journalism senior took her own time to write an essay. That essay recently won the Newsweek/mtvU essay contest for her thoughts on the aforementioned issue and how candidates do not explain what they are going to do to help the young voters demographic.

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'Ambitious' sophomore receives $5,000 award

Rebecca Mcnulty
July 12, 2004

Physiology sophomore Alvin Davis Jr. got the chance to speak to one of his role models and a former president earlier this month, as well as to take home $5,000. Davis was one of 80 students awarded an Ora Lee Sanders Memorial PUSH-Excel Scholarship from the Rainbow/Push Coalition at a ceremony in Chicago, and one of 40 to get a $5,000 scholarship.

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AIDS study to benefit Africa

Carl Lindquist
July 12, 2004

In Sub-Saharan Africa, almost 27 million people are infected with either AIDS or HIV. About 10 million of those are between 15-24 and an additional 3 million sufferers are children under 15. A new study, presented last week in Thailand and authored by a nine-member group of MSU faculty and graduate students, clarifies how the disease is affecting poor rural farmers in Africa, where between 50 to 80 percent of people live outside cities. Contrary to popular belief, the study indicates the majority of people dying in four of the five countries surveyed were not parents but primarily their adult-age children.