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'U' learns dining etiquette

Amy Bartner
February 7, 2003

About 100 MSU students learned the right fork to use for their appetizer, salad, main course and dessert when they were given a number of utensils to choose from Tuesday at the Kellogg Center.The MSU Alumni Association and the Senior Class Council sponsored a manners and etiquette dinner at which speaker Pattie McNiel showed students step by step how to eat properly at formal dinners."We're doing this so hopefully they'll be ready to go out in the real world," said McNiel, coordinator of the Distance Learning Program in the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.This is the third year of the dinner, for which McNiel said she personally knows of someone who's benefited from it - her son."Shortly after he went to it, he started his job interviews," she said.

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Dancers to perform

Orchesis, a student-organized dance club, will perform "Re-Inventing Skin!" at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m.

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Facility offers new tumor procedure

Kendra Snyder
February 7, 2003

MSU is one of two facilities in the state to perform a new breast tumor shrinking procedure. The procedure, called cryoablation, was approved about a year ago for the removal of benign tumors and is offered by the MSU Department of Surgery and Harper Hospital in Detroit.About 80 percent of all breast tumors are benign.To qualify for the procedure, patients need to have a biopsy to ensure that the tumor is benign and is no larger than 2 centimeters.Most tumors are surgically removed but cryoablation is cheaper, less painful and less damaging to skin tissue than the traditional method, department Chairwoman Carol Slomski said."People have been trying to figure out how to get rid of tumors without cutting them out for a long time," she said.

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Music educates during lecture

Bernice Johnson Reagon delicately began singing at the Kellogg Center on Thursday, then stopped suddenly."You know, I'm not supposed to sing this by myself," she said to the audience of about 50 people.With gathering strength, the crowd joined in on the freedom song, some singing loudly while others gently hummed.They escalated into singing a song about courage in the face of adversity.Reagon, an original member of the famed "Freedom Singers," renowned scholar, singer and founder of the "Sweet Honey in the Rock" a cappella ensemble, was the first of four professors to speak in the third annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series, sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine.The series, themed "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey," was created as a part of a special university fund for visiting minority faculty.Reagon talked about the unbroken faith of slaves and sticking out in a crowd, while singing songs of freedom, strength and power.As she began the program with the song "Sweet Honey on Me," she told a story about her pastor speaking of the importance of remembering history."If I remember what has come before me, if I actually acknowledge that I exist because of the running and stumbling and dying before me

MICHIGAN

Local high schooler a Jeopardy! contestant

Sarah Frank
February 6, 2003

Standing atop two stacked wooden blocks behind her podium and wearing high heels, 16-year-old Shuyu Wang, who isn't even 5 feet tall, was barely eye-to-eye with Alex Trebek. Her family watched nervously from the audience, and cheered their young scholar on with every correct answer. Wang's mother, Xiaozhu Pan, said watching her daughter compete on "Jeopardy!" this December was exciting and "a dream come true." An Okemos High School junior, Wang is a contestant on the "Jeopardy!

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'U' celebrates Chicano, Latino history month

MSU is celebrating the 2003 Chicano Heritage Month with an array of activities to educate and inform students about the importance of their culture.Student groups such as Culturas de las Razas Unidas will host programs such as "Latin Explosion" and D

MICHIGAN

E.L. teachers lose hope

Brian Charlton
February 6, 2003

The teachers of East Lansing Public Schools have overwhelmingly lost confidence in the district's leadership, union officials say, as the district prepares to make significant changes to brace for a $4.2-million budget shortfall. "The tally overwhelmingly stated both teachers and support staff has lost confidence in Superintendent Tom Giblin's leadership," Michigan Education Association spokesman Mike McEachern said of the vote taken by the city's teachers Jan.

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Speaker stirs up terrorism debate

Amy Bartner
February 6, 2003

A discussion on ways the nation funds terrorism became heated as spectators voiced their disagreement with a speaker at Case Hall earlier this week. Debbie Schlussel, a controversial conservative political commentator who has appeared on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," FOX News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and other notable political talk shows, spoke to students at James Madison College. Schlussel, who has studied radical Islam and terrorism, said terrorists receive money from certain goods bought by Americans. "If they can find a way with any product to fund terrorism, they will," she told the group of more than 35 students.

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Police class teaches 'U' about crime

Chad Previch
February 5, 2003

Last week, five MSU students along with MSU police Det. Steven Beard were dispatched to an apartment to investigate a possible murder at a party after neighbors reported hearing several loud pops and saw people running from the building.Arriving at the apartment, Beard and the students found a dead college student laying on his side with a gun in his hand.

MICHIGAN

Gov. Jennifer Granholm plans walk-in office in Lansing

Joey Guillen
February 5, 2003

Gov. Jennifer Granholm will open a walk-in office for Michigan residents Thursday, her spokeswoman Elizabeth Boyd said. The office will serve as a forum for citizens to express their concerns with government. "The governor is very committed to making state government accessible and responsible to the needs of citizens," Boyd said. Before Granholm took office, the Constituent Services Division was on the third floor of the Romney Building and was designed to answer telephone calls, letters and e-mails.

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Mock Trial team to compete at Notre Dame

Carrie Hoover
February 5, 2003

Attorney Justin Kuxhaus paced back and forth in his plaid shirt and blue jeans, making his argument in front of a judge wearing a skull cap and hooded sweatshirt. Observers in the courtroom listened to the case while doing their homework and playing cards. Twice a week, two teams of students gather to assume the roles of lawyers, a judge and witnesses as part of MSU's Mock Trial team. The group next competes Feb.