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Teach For America recruiting students Monday for service
Teach For America recruiters will have an open house from noon to 2 p.m. Monday in room 13 Student Services.
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Lab gets $25 million fund increase
MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory will receive a 50 percent increase in funding, university officials announced Thursday The Cyclotron’s funding, provided by the National Science Foundation, will increase from about $50 million to $75 million for the next five years.
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RHA renews contract for recycling program
The Residence Halls Association wants students to take out the papers and the trash. RHA’s recycling program negotiated a contract this month with Waste Management, 16320 Grove Road in Lansing.
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Italian speaker talks history
Visiting guest speaker Luca Codignola will hold a lecture from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. today in 340 Morrill Hall on the topic “Early European Expansion: Evidence from the Jesuit Missionaries in North America.” Codignola, originally a history professor for the Universita di Genova in Italy, serves as the Emilio Goggio visiting professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. Codignola specializes in early Canadian history and went to Toronto to teach Canadian history to the students from an Italian viewpoint. Anne Meyering, MSU associate history professor, met Codignola last year while Meyering was holding a seminar.
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Program lets computer users help researchers find anthrax cure
From the comfort of their own home or residence hall room, students can take part in a program that is working to help researchers find a cure for anthrax, a potentially deadly bacteria. The project, funded by Microsoft and Intel Corp., uses a screen saver-type program to link participating computers together, creating a virtual supercomputer.
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Fine arts professor displays Cuban book info at Kresge
After opening an exhibit in Havana and returning back to the United States, Anne Gilman will appear at Kresge Art Museum to present her book art at 7:30 p.m.
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ASMSU revamps committees
A reorganization of the undergraduate student government could make its two assemblies work closer and more efficiently, ASMSU representatives said this week.The organization’s Steering Committee - the agenda-setting committee for ASMSU - is being revamped.“It provides a greater voice for organization wide decision making,” said Matt Clayson, Academic Assembly chairperson.
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Academic Assembly to lobby against tuition cap
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday encouraging the state Legislature to give more money to the state’s 15 public universities to keep tuition increases reasonable. Some assembly members will lobby for increased state appropriations at the Capitol beginning Feb.
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U police hope to improve relations
MSU police Capt. Ken Hall has a big job ahead of him. The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety announced the formation of the Student Support Division this month to increase communication between students and police. The division was created in response to the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, and will be overseen by Hall. The task force was appointed by MSU officials in the wake of the placement of an undercover officer into the student group United Students Against Sweatshops, now called Students for Economic Justice, beginning Feb.
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Campus briefs
Conference helps minorities adjust The False Expectations Appearing Real conference will be held from 9 a.m.
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Campus briefs
Conference helps minorities adjust The False Expectations Appearing Real conference will be held from 9 a.m.
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Endowment to benefit math education
A project designed to help children learn math will soon help MSU’s students learn to teach math with the creation of the Lappan-Phillips-Fitzgerald Endowed Chair.
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Career fair provides opportunities to minority students
Although Michelle Bowman was a freshman when she first attended the Minority Career Fair, companies paid attention. “I got my résumé out there and got people to notice me,” the chemical engineering senior said.
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Lack of use may mean cease of StateWalk
The long walk home could be lonelier for some students after tonight’s decision about the fate of the Residence Halls Association’s StateWalk program.StateWalk, a free service for students walking on campus after dark, might be eliminated by RHA because of low participation.
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U still enjoys unlimited downloading
Pipes are bursting on college campuses across the country. But it’s not any fluid that’s overflowing - it’s data.Bandwidth, the amount of space available on a network connection, is becoming a concern for some colleges with high-speed connections to the Internet.
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AOL provides online classes
AOL Time Warner Inc. created a service that will allow its 33 million subscribers to take classes without ever leaving their homes.Launched Dec.
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Student assembly leader evades censure
For the first time in two years, there has been a motion to censure an ASMSU Student Assembly leader.A representative made the motion to censure Quinn Wright, chairperson of the undergraduate student government’s Student Assembly, at the Thursday meeting because he failed to submit paperwork in a timely fashion to grant the North American Indian Student Organization $4,000 for its powwow event.“It’s a wake-up call,” said Matt Weingarden, Student Assembly vice-chairperson for internal affairs.
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System secures Web documents
To the dismay of many librarians, there is no Dewey Decimal System for the Internet. But the efforts of a group of state libraries and the Online Computer Library Catalog are trying to change all that.The Web Document Digital Archive Project is a consortium of state libraries, including Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Arizona, the United States Government Printing Office and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.The program, still in its pilot stage, is designed to protect Web-based publications from the equivalent of decay -
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Protesters duel over bombings
Armed with colorful posters, bullhorns, a 15-foot banner and a number to call in case of arrest, about 50 people marched on Friday to protest U.S.-led bombings in Afghanistan.Ten feet behind them, about 20 protesters marched in support of the bombings.The two groups marched from the Union to the FBIoffice at 2911 Eyde Parkway.“We’re trying to show those who oppose the war that terrorists will not respond to a peaceful resolution,” said Marc Stemmer, a political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore.
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U challenged to donate
College competition has moved from fields to hospitals with a new program designed to promote blood donation among students. “Points for Pints,” created by the American Red Cross, is in its first year and is placed during the 2001-02 NCAA men’s basketball season. MSU is one of 19 schools participating in the blood drives and contending for an award based on the amount of blood donated between Nov.