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UAB programs face $100,000 setback
The University Activities Board lost more than $100,000 of its annual budget because of recent statewide budget cuts.
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Kresge hosts walking tour through campus
Those interested in taking an early evening stroll around campus are invited to Kresge Art Museum today. A walking tour, led by the author of "MSU Campus: Buildings, Places, Spaces: Architecture and the Campus Park of Michigan State University," will begin at 5:30 p.m.
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Picket backs city living wage
Lansing - Car horns blared and chants were issued out of a bullhorn on Michigan Avenue on Monday as Lansing residents picketed outside of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.Protesters held signs such as "Chamber Business Pimps" and "The Chamber Supports Poverty Wages," all while informing passers-by of their cause and encouraging drivers to honk in support.The protest stems from an injunction the chamber of commerce, located at 300 E.
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Old Town gallery sponsors art exhibit
Absolute Gallery in Old Town is holding "Absolute Pfleghaar," a sculpture and painting exhibition by artist Michael Pfleghaar, until Oct.
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Kabuki show closes Japan Week
By Joshua Carr Special for The State News Performer Umenosuke Onoe closed out Japan Week on Friday with his rendition of the ritualistic transformation and traditional Kabuki Onnagata performance to the nearly packed Kellogg Center auditorium. Hiromi Maenaka, assistant director at MSU's Asian Studies Center, worked with an official from the Japanese Consulate in Detroit to bring the show "Kabuki, Onnagata, and Creating a Feminine Ideal" to campus. Onnagata is a term referring to when a man performs a female role, and the technique stems from the 400-year-old art form Kabuki, Onoe said. "I chose Onnagata when I was 16 years old in high school," Onoe said through a translator. During the show, Onoe walked the audience through the painful makeup and wardrobe process he endures as a Kabuki performer to transform from a man into an Onnagata woman.
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American Cancer Society holds walk
The fifth annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will take place Saturday in Lansing. Making Strides is an American Cancer Society's program, that works to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer.
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College Republicans recruit more people
The MSU College Republicans recruited 271 members this year for the Michigan Federation of College Republicans . Recruitment in September drew 171 more members than the group brought in last year.
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E.L. library features talk by local author
Local author Andrea King Collier will discuss her book "Still With Me: A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss" at 7 p.m.
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Pro-life supporters form 'life chain' in downtown E.L.
A line of children, students, senior citizens and Lansing area residents stood silently along Grand River Avenue on Sunday afternoon holding signs with messages stating "Abortion Kills Children" and "Life, the first inalienable right." Participants were instructed to meditate and pray during the Life Chain demonstration, an international pro-life movement that takes place annually the first Sunday of October in cities throughout the United States and Canada. East Lansing high school senior Isabelle Mann stood quietly with her two friends in front of Barnes & Noble, 333 E.
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U.S. department funds 'U' agriculture center
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded MSU nearly $1 million to establish an Agriculture Innovation Center. MSU's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will work with the Michigan Partnership for Product Agriculture to head one of 10 centers located throughout the nation. The center will help farmers and processors learn to compete in the global economy and provide technical assistance and business planning advice to assist agricultural producers in developing value-added agriculture commodities.
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Senator lobbies for free overseas postage
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., introduced legislation Friday that will allow families and friends to send letters and packages to armed forces overseas without paying postage. "With troops on extended deployments, mail is an essential link between our troops on deployment and their families back home, but the cost keeps adding up," Stabenow said in a written statement.
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Students clean sites to celebrate Gandhi
A brightly colored male peacock casually disregarded 35 MSU students sitting on picnic tables at Potter Park Zoo on Sunday afternoon.The group, not including the blue-and-green bird, waited for a John Deere tractor to deliver them to a scattering of brush.
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Center opens minds, bodies to unique repose
Visitors twisted and stretched into various poses on hardwood floors Sunday during mini-yoga sessions offered at the Center for Yoga, Movement and Massage.The free sessions were part of the center's annual open house and included half-hour yoga classes and mini-therapy sessions that offered visitors 20-minute massages.
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Philosophy professor named journal editor
MSU philosophy professor Hilde Nelson has been named editor of Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. The quarterly journal publishes essays and book reviews dealing with the historical and cultural impact of sexism and feminist philosophy. Nelson will be in charge of executing the goals set for the journal, which include expanding readership and creating a more extensive forum to engage in feminist discussion. MSU will house the journal for the next five years, until 2008.
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Eerie ball ends reading program
By Melissa Domsic Special for The State News Frankenstein and his bride boogied down Friday night as the "Monster Mash" blared through an eerily decorated ballroom. As a finale to the month-long festivities of East Lansing's One Book, One Community program, students, faculty and city residents came together for the Frankenstein Costume Ball held in the MSU Union.
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Despite wind, rain, 'U' enjoys homecoming activities
Biting winds, dark skies and stinging rain didn't dampen the spirits of hundreds of MSU students, alumni and residents as they lined the streets of East Lansing on Friday night to watch MSU's Homecoming Parade.The parade was one of several Homecoming activities last week for the MSU community.Sharon Radtke, a Homecoming committee member, said more than a year went into planning for the event, and canceling the parade simply because of bad weather wasn't an option because participants spent so much time on their floats.More than 100 volunteers directed participants and floats from 115 student organizations in a procession from the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, to Bogue Street. "The parade went smoother than past years," Radtke said.
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Granholm resubmits plan for labor department
Gov. Jennifer Granholm resubmitted an executive order Thursday that will create the new Department of Labor and Economic Growth designed to streamline Michigan job creation and economic development.The order was originally submitted Sept.
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State employees protest at Capitol
This year's yet-to-be-solved state budget puzzle inspired nearly 3,000 state workers to march at the state Capitol on Thursday.The budget for the 2003-04 fiscal year, which began Wednesday, includes a $230 million hole that Gov.
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Professors to debate NAFTA
Some experts say the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, has caused more action politically and socially than economically. Professors from around North America will discuss the successes and failures of NAFTA during an Oct.
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Senator opposes gay marriage
A possible amendment to the Michigan Constitution recognizing only "one man, one woman" marriages ignited lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender concerns when it was proposed Thursday.The resolution, the Marriage Protection Amendment, states that only marriages between a man and a woman will be recognized as valid.