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Eating disorder campaign begins
Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund will highlight Michigan’s events during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, with a press briefing at 10 a.m.
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Humane Society celebrates Spay Day
The Capital Area Humane Society today is encouraging residents to follow the advice of Bob Barker and have their pet spayed or neutered. Tuesday is Spay Day USA, the Humane Society of the United States’ celebration of keeping pets healthy.
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Agribusiness stimulates struggling Mich. economy
While Michigan’s overall economy stumbles, one sector is growing at an unprecedented pace. An MSU study released this month found Michigan’s agribusiness sector increased 12 percent in 2007, the year the data was collected. The number represents more than double the amount of growth in the industry during the previous two years combined.
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40th annual rodeo event attracts national talent, student competitors
MSU Rodeo Club and the International Professional Rodeo Association, or IPRA, rounded up some of the best rodeo riders in the country for the 40th annual Spartan Stampede last weekend at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
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Lack of health insurance could be costly mistake for students
After injuring her knee and paying the hospital bills on her own, journalism senior Maryhelen Harper knows how helpful a health care plan can be.
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Incentive for tuition freeze under dispute
A federal stimulus bill requirement that Michigan must use federal stimulus funding to replace cuts to education could erase the incentive for MSU to comply with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed tuition freeze.
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Early testing can lead to healthy kids, study shows
Simply having a pregnancy test in their possession leads many women to test more often, which leads to healthier babies, according to research done by an MSU professor.
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University introducing more advanced ID cards
MSU freshmen, whether they know it or not, are part of the university’s cutting-edge technology. Upon enrollment, first-year students were issued a new form of ID card that allows the university to store larger amounts of data than previous cards. Although other students still have old ID cards, all faculty and staff will transition to the new card this semester.
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3 finalists chosen in MSU's Next Top Model
You wanna be on top? At the MSU’s Next Top Model competition, sponsored by Purpose Organization, 10 girls were put to the test to see if they have what it takes to be a serious model.
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ASMSU post in question after member resigns
A top ranking student government position is in limbo after ASMSU’s Academic Assembly chairperson stepped down Tuesday evening. The resignation came a week after his performance was called into question.
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MSU, Ferris to share Grand Rapids med school building
MSU students and faculty will have company when they move into the College of Human Medicine’s Grand Rapids campus in 2010. At last Friday’s meeting, the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 10-year lease to Ferris State University’s College of Pharmacy, giving Ferris’ program access to the Secchia Center’s seventh floor.
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Cuts could stall MSU research
MSU chemical engineering professor Dennis Miller spends his days researching a seed 1/16th of an inch in diameter. The canola seed, which can be used to produce biodiesel, could be one answer to achieving energy independence, he said.
NEWS
No bright side in GM, Chrysler bailout
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, two venerable titans of American industry, will burn through $17.4 billion in government loans in three months and want billions more to stay alive.
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MSU to host Pow-Wow of Love this weekend
The 26th annual Pow-Wow of Love will be Saturday and Sunday at Jenison Field House.
MICHIGAN
Transplant ‘cures’ man’s HIV
A patient in a German hospital shows no rebound of HIV after receiving a bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Johnson receives 6 years in prison
Former MSU football player Craig Johnson was sentenced Tuesday to more than six years in prison for robbing two banks in December 2007 and January 2008, a federal court clerk said.
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Scientists study plants for breakthrough
Imagine a world where a plant could be engineered for a specific job. It might sound like a scenario out of a science fiction novel, but biochemistry and molecular biology professor Robert Last is working on just that.
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Students plan trip to energy conference
About 10,000 college students from around the nation, including about 70 from MSU, will travel to Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27 to engage in Power Shift ’09 — a youth conference to influence Congress and the Obama administration to enact legislation to combat global warming.
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Deadline for Lansing’s Green Contest extended
The deadline for entries into a recycled art exhibit for Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero’s Greater Lansing Go Green! Initiative has been extended until Friday.
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ASMSU chairperson steps down
A week after his job performance came into question, Christopher Kulesza resigned from chairperson of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday night. Kulesza planned to become the Director of University Budgets, but the assembly did not confirm him to that position.