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U professors featured on science radio show

Ed Ronco
March 15, 2002

Janice Harte is hoping her voice stays in mint condition today. The assistant professor of food science, who is recovering from a case of laryngitis, is one of four MSU experts to be prominently featured on a National Public Radio broadcast originating from MSU. “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” hosted by veteran science correspondent Ira Flatow, will go live from the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building at 2 p.m. Harte said she’s excited to be on the program. “It’s quite an honor,” she said.

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Energy Awareness Week reminds U to conserve

Chad Previch
March 15, 2002

Next week, cars without gasoline and machines powered by wind instead of electricity will become the norm at MSU. Beginning Monday, the Office of Campus Sustainability and MSU’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America will host Energy Awareness Week. Students, faculty and staff will have the chance to check out the future, including solar-powered cars and the newest in computer technology. “This is one way we can highlight some of the things we are suggesting,”said Brenda Wrigley, assistant professor of public relations and public relations society adviser.

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U irked by hall damage rule

Tara May
March 14, 2002

Min Cho doesn’t smoke, but he might have to pay $100 for the nearly 50 cigarette burns that cover the blue carpet of the fourth floor study lounge in West McDonel Hall.“I realize that I have responsibility because I live here, even though I don’t smoke, but $100 is just too much to pay,” the computer science freshman said.Floor residents received a notice that they each would have to pay $100 - about $4,000 total - to replace the carpeting.The common-area damages clause of the residence hall handbook states that residents all will be held equally financially responsible for destruction to their floor, unless someone comes forward and confesses to the damage.

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GEU steps up plans to secure contract

Chad Previch
March 14, 2002

With fewer than two months remaining in the semester, graduate employee unions throughout the state are changing their battle plans. “I think members are getting frustrated that we don’t have a contract,” said Jessica Goodkind, MSU’s Graduate Employees Union president.

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Commission on election expresses voting worry

Ed Ronco
March 14, 2002

Although the All University Election Commission recommended for this week’s universitywide elections to be postponed, the five-member student group didn’t have the final decision.Lee June, vice president for student affairs, approved the recommendation Wednesday.ASMSU elections have been delayed until Tuesday after members of the election commission called into question language on the ballot and technical malfunctions with computer voting.The University Apartments’ Council of Residents election has also been postponed, but it is not related to the election commission’s recommendations.A $1 tax referendum for The State News tax will continue as scheduled.

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Online problems postpone election

Megan Frye
March 14, 2002

Changes in the universitywide student elections ballot already are being made by MSU’s Computer Center, Student Life officials said Wednesday.ASMSU representative elections, constitutional changes and a $3 tax increase referendum all were recommended to be postponed Tuesday night by the All University Election Commission.

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NPR journalist visits campus for science lecture

Ed Ronco
March 13, 2002

Ira Flatow, a veteran science correspondent for National Public Radio, will broadcast his weekly “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” show from the new Biomedical and Physical Science Building this week. This week’s show will deal with the food industry and alternative fuel technologies in the automotive industry. “Whenever we go on the road, we try to pick up local issues,” Flatow said. Flatow is visiting MSU this week as part of the McPherson Professorship. “I’ve never had a warmer welcome anywhere else,” he said.

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Campus briefs

Tara May
March 13, 2002

MSU Museum talk details digital art With a storage of artwork moving from dusty galleries to memory chips, MSU Museum officials are addressing the preservation of digital artwork.

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Student government supports U building recycling center

Alison Barker
March 13, 2002

ASMSU officials might support the university building its own recycling facility on or close to campus. At the undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly meeting on Tuesday night, a report compiled by Steve Lovelace, the assembly’s internal vice chairperson, said a new facility would be the best option.

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For-profit Internet proposal taken off trustees agenda

Chris Boyer
March 12, 2002

MSU officials will be reevaluating a proposal for MSU to create a new for-profit Internet service providing company.MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon, who presented the proposal at last month’s Board of Trustees meeting, refused to comment about the reevaluation, saying it only was taken off the trustee’s agenda, not suspended.The proposal would have created an Internet service providing company operating with a lower overhead cost than local competitors.

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Elections open, seek student participation

Alison Barker
March 12, 2002

Students will have a chance to vote on representation and tax increases when student election polls open today. Position elections for ASMSU, the undergraduate student government, and other changes will stay open until noon Saturday at www.student-elections.msu.edu.

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Science library provides more resources

Ed Ronco
March 12, 2002

Robert Cichewicz said he instantly noticed a difference when he entered the new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Library on Monday.“This one smells better,” the horticulture graduate student said.

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Buddy program links students

Chad Previch
March 11, 2002

MSU is responsible for 21 blind dates that have turned into relationships this semester.The Buddy Program combines an international graduate student with an American undergraduate student for eight weeks to introduce the buddies to each other’s cultures.