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Pell Grant debt may drain funds

Eric Morath
November 19, 2001

More than 6,000 MSU students who participate in the Pell Grant program may receive less money than they’re expecting next year.Educators across the country are encouraging Washington lawmakers to correct an oversight that could cause no increase in next year’s federal student aid, despite rising tuition costs.The Pell Grant program is slated to receive $1.7 billion and $1.5 billion increases from the U.S.

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Research project inquires about Red Cedar River water quality

Shaun Byron
November 16, 2001

Family Feud host, Louie Anderson, won’t be announcing what surveyed MSU students said.But the information students are being asked to provide will help develop what perception many of them have about the Red Cedar Watershed.The survey is being conducted by the MSU-WATER research project and is being overseen by Michael Kaplowitz, an assistant professor of environment wildlife policy, and Scott Witter, acting chairperson of the Department of Resource Development.Kaplowitz said it is a scientific sample of students, which will show how they perceive the campus watershed.The survey is part of the social assessment component of the project, which will ultimately develop a management plan for the watershed.“They are in three groups - one group received a post card, one group is receiving the e-mail as their first request and the third is receiving the e-mail and then a post card reminding them,” he said.To improve responses, replies submitted by Dec.

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Cycling for charity

Leslie Escobar
November 16, 2001

A six-month bicycle trek across parts of South America, Central America and the United States might be an impossible feat for some.But environmental biology and botany senior Misty Flahie isn’t your average student.“We’ve been training for over two years now,” she said.

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Immigration policy topic of forum today

Leslie Escobar
November 16, 2001

As part of International Education Week, Peter Briggs, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, will lead a discussion about changing immigration policies in the aftermath of the Sept.

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Indian festival celebrated this weekend

Megan Frye
November 16, 2001

Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, will be celebrated with traditional Indian drinking, dining and dancing at the Graduate Employees Union office Saturday. Diwali Daze 2001 will offer snacks from Sindhu Indian Cuisine, 4790 S.

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Game shuttle location changed this year

Jamie Gumbrecht
November 16, 2001

The pick-up and drop-off point for the men’s basketball game shuttle is located at Ramp 5, south of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building this year. Lot 92, which is near Service Road, is no longer a pick-up point. MSU police Sgt.

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Findings may affect sand dune usage

Eric Morath
November 15, 2001

Sand may still be dropping through nature’s hourglass atop Lake Michigan’s dunes that stretch from Indiana to Muskegon, an MSU researcher determined.Associate geography Professor Alan Arbogast presented his research, which disputes claims that the dunes stopped forming 5,000 years ago, to the Geological Society of America last week in Boston.

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Bachelor auction raises money for charities

Alison Barker
November 15, 2001

Colorful beach balls, pineapples, palm trees and leis surrounded bachelors dressed in Hawaiian shorts as they answered the question, “What’s the cutest thing you have ever done for a girl?”Tuesday evening, Gamma Phi Beta held its seventh annual bachelor auction to support the chapter’s international philanthropy, Camp Gamma Phi Beta in Vancouver, Canada.

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Dean appointed to seat on USDA advisory board

Ryan Wallace
November 15, 2001

One of the 11 new appointees for the U.S. Department of Agriculture advisory board is from MSU. Jeffrey Armstrong, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman on Oct.

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Research, technology change administrators

Eric Morath
November 15, 2001

The high-tech hierarchy is changing at MSU.Paul Hunt will become the associate vice president for research, while David Gift will fill the vice provost for libraries, computing and technology position vacated by Hunt.

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Student Assembly chooses Olmsted as new director of minority student affairs

Ryan Wallace
November 15, 2001

ASMSU’s Student Assembly selected its new leader for the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students and the Council of Progressive Students on Friday. Melanie Olmsted was approved Tuesday by Academic Assembly and will most likely be approved by Student Assembly tonight as the director of racial ethnic and progressive student affairs, replacing former director Pia Love. The position’s title was changed from director of minority and progressive student affairs by MSU’s undergraduate government earlier this year. Olmsted, who has served on Student Assembly for two years, will step down as a representative for the College of Social Science to concentrate on her new priorities. “I felt it was the right time to do it, so I did,” Olmsted said. She said she looks forward to working with members from CORES and COPS groups because they are very active on campus. “I would like to motivate them, but they’re already extremely motivated themselves,” the interdisciplinary studies in social science senior said.

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Black activist to speak on campus

Camille Spencer
November 15, 2001

Dick Gregory, an activist for social change and human rights, will be speaking on campus today.His speech, sponsored by the Black History Committee and the University Activities Board, will be held at 7 p.m.

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U invests in electric powered vehicles

Eric Morath
November 14, 2001

MSU’s drive to save natural resources and promote an environmentally-friendly campus is hitting the road - in hybrid cars.The Department of Transportation Services purchased a Toyota Prius and a Honda Insight that run on both electricity and gasoline in March.

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Campus Briefs

As part of National Osteopathic Medicine Week, a program to learn more about the threat of bioterrorism and anthrax will be held tonight at the Kellogg Center. “Anthrax, Bioterrorism: What You Have to Know” starts at 7 p.m.

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Four out of five back strikes

Megan Frye
November 14, 2001

Support of U.S.-led airstrikes in Afghanistan is evident among college students across the country.Last month, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics conducted a telephone survey of 1,200 undergraduate students nationwide and discovered nearly four of five students were advocates of the airstrikes.

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U grad: There are alternatives to bookstores

Casey Mcnenly
November 13, 2001

An MSU alumnus has created another option for purchasing used textbooks.Eric Hamilton, a 1996 graduate, launched a new Web site Monday that brings students together to buy or sell textbooks through the Internet.Hamilton said the site, www.Universitybookswap.com, is designed to be a message board for students looking to make textbook bargains.“We are aggressively going after and tailoring our business to college students,” he said.Students at 64 other colleges across the country are being introduced to this service as well.