Speaker to address success for women

MSU's Women in the Community program will host a lecture titled, "Tools to Work With: Making a Change," featuring speaker Keturah Jones at 7 p.m.

Vet Med dean begins CDC job in Atlanta

MSU College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Lonnie King will fly to Atlanta on Friday to begin a year-long stint as the director of the new Office of Strategy and Innovation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. "It's a leadership position and involved in establishing strategy and direction for public health," King said.

Lecture series honors Black History Month

Four civil rights and religious leaders will speak on campus in honor of Black History Month. The fifth annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series kicks off today and will run every Thursday this month.

Joint fire training focuses on survival

Smoke alarms blared and firefighters called to each other through complete darkness in a basement of the abandoned building at 1331 E.

ASMSU members to debate constitution

ASMSU's Academic and Student assemblies will discuss amending the student government's constitution at the only joint assembly meeting of the year at 6:30 p.m.

McDonald house asks for winter volunteers

There will be a winter information and recruitment meeting at 7 p.m. on Feb. 16 for the Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan to fill volunteer positions. The house, located on 121 S.

Business to evaluate jewelry for charity

H & H Jewelry Design, 5316 Ivan Dr. in Lansing, will be appraising jewelry on Saturday as part of a fundraiser for Ele's Place, 1145 W.

Student performers to come to library

The East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, will host the annual Dragon's Faire from 2-3:30 p.m.

E.L. wants applicants for community award

The city of East Lansing is looking for nominations for the Crystal Awards, which honor people and organizations who have worked to enhance the quality of life in the city.

Board meeting moved to recognize holiday

The MSU Board of Trustees' Feb. 11 meeting has been rescheduled a day earlier to accommodate Founders' Day activities. The meeting will begin with finance and policy committee meetings at 2 p.m.

Campus movie fees, stores change

Some new changes hit the Residence Halls Association's movie rental offices during winter break - a new late fee policy, renovated offices and different store locations. There are movie rental locations in five dorms on campus - Holden, Akers, Brody, Mason and Gilchrist halls. Previously, students were charged $2 for each day a movie rental was late, and the fine kept escalating until it was paid, even if the movie was returned.

State bill might delay lobbying by politicians

Politicians leaving office would have to wait six months before they could take a position with a lobbying firm if Rep.

Mich. earns B+ grade on national report card

Michigan's government received a passing grade from the Government Performance Project, with a B+ for how the state is managed. "Grading the States 2005," gave Michigan one of the highest scores, giving only two states higher grades.

Jewish tree holiday celebrated at Hillel

Although there's still snow on the ground and a chill in the air, members of the Hillel Jewish Student Center celebrated the coming of spring on Tuesday by eating several types of fruit for the Jewish festival Tu B'Shvat. Students gathered around a table laden with fruit and had a seder, which is a traditional Jewish meal.

University computer system hacked into

Last week, the server that houses the MSU library's computer system, Magic, was broken into, possibly exposing the personal information of about 100,000 members of the MSU community. Officials in Academic Computing and Network Services noticed activity on the server Thursday and took it offline the same day.

Group to plan liberal arts courses

A cross-campus assembly of faculty members have been selected to plan the curriculum for the new liberal arts residential college program, slated to accept students in fall 2007. The members were chosen after acting Provost John Hudzik discussed possible candidates with the deans of the College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, the College of Social Science and the College of Natural Sciences.

Simon receives key to city, builds community relations

The city of East Lansing extended a hand of friendship to MSU President Lou Anna Simon Tuesday evening during a reception held in her honor. East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows said good communication between the city and the university is crucial to the continued success of both parties. "I have felt our relations with the university while I have been mayor have been positive," he said.

ASMSU opposes East Village blighted status

ASMSU officials decided in an emergency meeting last week to oppose the "blighted" - or deteriorated - status of a highly populated student housing area. More than 20 Student Assembly representatives created a bill stating the area, East Village, is not decaying or deteriorating. The bill says "ASMSU will work to protect the student housing in the area by any means necessary and that ASMSU refuses to support (East Lansing) City Council in its redevelopment efforts until they have promised to maintain the area as a primarily student neighborhood..." Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said there will be lot of discussion and planning. "We just need to sit down at the table with students, the city and university officials to figure out what's going to work for everyone," he said. The City Council declared the area as blighted in 2000, and when the label expired in May 2003, the area was declared blighted a second time on Dec.

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Economic writer to lecture on diversity

Nationally known economic writer Julianne Malveaux, whose work appears regularly in USA Today, will deliver a public lecture on issues such as race, culture and their economic impacts at 7 p.m.