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Minority Career Fair scheduled for today
Job-hunting students, clean up your résumés. The 35th Annual Minority Career Fair will take place from 6 to 9 p.m.
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New cable network boasts music, news
MSU students used to seeing CTN: College Television Network on campus cable are in for a change. The new network, mtvU, went on the air Tuesday.
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'U' uses new, old strategies to keep energy costs down
A $4-million lighting renovation in several campus buildings will save energy and money in the long run, but university officials say most students won't even notice the change. However, some might notice another way MSU has been cutting back on energy - keeping the temperature in campus buildings at about 68 to 70 degrees. "Quite frankly, a lot of people are uncomfortable at 68," University Engineer Bob Nestle said. Nestle said MSU has been keeping building temperatures at about 68 degrees for more than 30 years. "Energy conservation has been a high priority at Michigan State University since the early '70s," he said.
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Vigil persists despite chill
Circled around the rock on Farm Lane, about 20 people lit candles and held a moment of silence in memory of the 44 million people they say have lost their lives to abortion.
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Movie offices open on time
Though the Residence Halls Association Movie Offices have experienced difficulty in the past, this semester, they opened on time. The five offices, located in Brody, Phillips, Holden, Akers and Gilchrist halls, opened Tuesday for the semester.
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'U' examines safe, recyclable packaging materials
Paul Singh keeps up to date on the popular peanuts and popcorn craved by the masses - for their mailing packages. Singh, a professor in the MSU School of Packaging, conducts research and testing of the best loose-fill materials stuffed in boxes to protect gifts and fragile items. "When companies want their products tested, they send them to Michigan State," said Singh, also director for the Consortium of Distribution Packaging Research. After the environmental movement in the late '80s, Singh performed a large-scale comparison research project among loose-fill packaging items ranging from starch- and paper-based packaging peanuts to expanded polystyrene, a Styrofoam-like material.
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Recruits increase for Peace Corps
The MSU-University of Michigan rivalry has made its way from the football field to the Peace Corps.
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Forum to highlight ethics
Scandals in business, such as those involving Enron and WorldCom that took place in 2002 are nothing new, but emphasis in ethics education might help to make them less common in the future, officials say. Recently, the University of Virginia's Darden Graduate School of Business Administration began work on creating a new ethics institute, which also is sponsored by the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers.
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Human Spirit: Student belts praise, writes with heart
Lateena Dinkins spends hours practicing her vocal performances. She stays in studios until 3 a.m. sometimes, writing music. She works on scales, she trains her voice and her career has been years of hard work in the making. But a gospel song comes from her heart. "I don't practice a gospel song at all," said Dinkins, a graduate student in music performance.
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Future of liberal arts programs in jeopardy
Month-long focus group conversations concerning the future of the liberal arts and sciences programs at MSU have culminated into a 15-page summary proposal for Provost Lou Anna Simon's review. The report included recommendations to merge departments within colleges, use more electronic communications and evaluate broad cost-cutting ideas and course overlaps. Marcellette Williams, an MSU alumna and retired MSU English and comparative literature professor, submitted the summary Thursday and said participants were passionate during focus group conversations. "It was extraordinary faculty and toward the end, the provost will find extraordinary support," Williams said.
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Psychologist's lecture to discuss health care
The relationship between doctors and patients will be the topic of conversation at an afternoon lecture today.
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ASMSU to visit U-M conference
Representatives from ASMSU will be heading to a conference at the school down the road at the end of January for the first time in two years. On Jan.
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Nickel & dime
Earvin "Magic" Johnson, step aside. There are two new all-time great Spartans on campus - hospitality business professors Ronald Cichy and Michael Kasavana. The two are inaugural members of a sort of vending machine industry hall of fame.
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Nuclear Reaction
If anyone should understand the depths of Iraq's nuclear capabilities - past and present - Imad Khadduri believes it is himself. For 30 years, Khadduri, 59, collected and processed the information that fueled Saddam Hussein's controversial nuclear program.
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Series of events honors fallen leader
Early Monday morning, Callie Clausnitzer sat amid hundreds of students, waiting to spend her Martin Luther King Jr.
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'U' trustees voice 4 major goals for 2004
The MSU Board of Trustees announced its New Year's resolutions Friday to address the Capital Campaign, the impending budget challenges, the push to secure the Rare Isotope Accelerator and the expansion of MSU's College of Human Medicine. Trustee and board chairman David Porteous named the four initiatives at the meeting, beginning with the university's Capital Campaign. "It's just a top, top priority of this institution," Porteous said. Trustee Randall Pittman said the campaign, which is an effort to raise $1.2 billion by 2007, doesn't only help MSU. "This Capital Campaign really helps with the quality of Michigan State University and the quality of education for tomorrow," he said.
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Case competition in need of hero support
Time is running out for MSU students who want the opportunity to support for their favorite multicultural hero - and possibly win a $1,500 prize.
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Officials: Focus on moon travels could harm NASA
President Bush announced Wednesday his goals for another manned moon landing and other space exploration, but university officials say that although this is important for science, they worry other NASA programs will suffer. Bush's proposal laid out a timetable for a robotic mission to the moon by 2008, the first manned flight of a new spacecraft by 2014 and a manned lunar mission between 2015 and 2020. Mark Voit, an associate professor of physics and astronomy and former employee at NASA's Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, said the moon's surface would be an ideal environment for research. "There are certain types of radio telescopes we would like to build here on Earth, but wireless communication creates a lot of what we call 'noise,' and we can't observe the universe the ways we'd like to," he said.
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ASMSU Academic Assembly presentation orients new members to rules of order
An ASMSU Academic Assembly presentation Tuesday called "Get Down With the Motion!" didn't feature members of the MSU Dance Team. The presentation was the first in a possible series intended to acquaint new members of MSU's undergraduate student government with Robert's Rules of Order.
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College Bowl, talent show top UAB events
The University Activities Board is welcoming back students by offering various events on campus. All events are free of admission to students: The College Bowl Tournament application fee of $20 is due today.