Welfare bill to change terms for benefits
In the next step toward welfare reform, recipients could be required to work 40-hour weeks or receive no benefits, starting today.“Michigan is one of the first states to take welfare head-on as an issue,” said Matt Resch, spokesman for Gov.
Board to vote on smoking ban in businesses
Leslie Little doesn’t smoke and is too young to go to the bar.Most of the places the pre-vet freshman visits don’t allow smoking, so where she and her friends spend their weekend usually doesn’t involve a question of where there will be less smoke.“I prefer if (a place) is non-smoking, being a nonsmoker,” she said.
ASMSU to form rape awareness group
Despite not having the support of the undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten, ASMSU Women’s Council’s sexual assault education program is in the process of forming a registered student organization. Acquaintance Education Rape Advocates is being proposed to the undergraduate student government’s funding board, and will be implemented in about a month if it is approved. The purpose of the organization is to build a foundation for a two-hour workshop that would educate first-year students on rape awareness and sexual assault. The structure of the workshop would be helped by getting organization benefits, which include funding. “We are trying to build something substantial,” said Jeanette Lantzy, Academic Assembly external vice chairperson.
U police add alcohol education officer
Instead of handing out minor in possession of alcohol tickets, MSU police Officer Anne Stahl will be trying to prevent people from getting them. Stahl, an MSU community police officer, will be joining the Department of Police and Public Safety’s Detective Bureau on March 1 as an alcohol education officer. “When I’m on the road it is iffy if I get to do things with my specialty,” she said.
Faculty members honored; awarded with $3,000 grant
Ten faculty members will receive a Distinguished Faculty Award today. The award winners are recognized based on several criteria, ranging from research, teaching ability and public service, to advising and continuing education. Ten winners are chosen each year by an All-University Award Committee appointed by MSU President M.
Contest rewards responsible recycling
Lansing - Two weeks ago, Lansing resident John Kanillopoolos didn’t have any extra trash bags to lend to his friend, but now he has more than enough money to buy some extras. Kanillopoolos was the latest winner of the Lansing Recycler of the Week contest, a program started two years ago by the operations and maintenance division of the city’s Public Service Department. Winners have an option of choosing a $100 cash prize or 75 green city trash bags, worth $125.
Training center to be built in Delta Township
Lansing - The Lansing Community College Board of Trustees finalized its application Friday to place a new training facility in Delta Township. The $6.9 million Michigan Technical Education Center and $16.7 million training center will train workers for General Motors Corp., its suppliers and other high-tech manufacturers.
Student governments end association
Ann Arbor - The undergraduate student governments of the Big Ten voted to dissolve their organization and replace it with a biannual meeting Sunday at the University of Michigan. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, was the only school that voted to keep the Associated Students of the Big Ten.
Cancer clinical trials become more accessible
In a unique contract among patient advocate groups, employers and insurance companies, a coalition agreed Wednesday to cover routine patient costs associated with cancer clinical trials. Clinical trials are experiments and studies involving people that test new cancer drugs and study the effectiveness of existing treatments.
Students speak out on civil rights
Ann Arbor - Ronald Cruz has been sleeping in Ann Arbor churches since Friday. The University of California, Berkeley education graduate student flew into Michigan to attend the Second National Conference of the New Civil Rights Movement at the University of Michigan this weekend. “The movement is very young,” Cruz said.
Street closes for City Center project
While construction on the City Center project is wrapping up on M.A.C. Avenue, Albert Avenue will be closed near the Marriott Hotel at University Place, 300 M.A.C Ave for the week.Two cranes are being placed in the area between M.A.C.
RHA to branch out from statewide organization
With more than 14,000 people living in MSU’s residence halls, representatives from the university’s Residence Halls Association say it has outgrown its need for statewide representation.The nation’s largest association of residence halls announced last week it will no longer be affiliated with the Michigan Organization of Residence Halls Associations.
Students display epidemiology studies
Jill Erickson graduated from MSU with a dietetics degree in 1998, but her education is far from complete.She spent her Friday afternoon among a group of students from the Department of Epidemiology for its second Research Day, an expo held to showcase the different research projects students are completing.For Erickson, it’s a glimpse at what will be expected of her once she comes back to school as an epidemiology graduate student.“For me, it’s a good introduction to the department,” she said.
Task force looks at nutrition in schools
State representatives and health officials are creating a task force to research Michigan’s elementary and middle school’s nutritional practices and guidelines.The task force is one step in state Rep.
Cross-cultural exchange enhances understanding
When students in Mid-Michigan learned that students in Africa needed shoes, they brought in 110 pennies and pairs of shoes to help. Holt Public Schools third-graders noticed a picture of a boy from Africa without shoes on while they were reading an article about other cultures through an MSU supported program. “They were saying, ‘We just have to send shoes to these kids,’” said Sally McClintock, a founder and facilitator of the Linking All Types of Teachers for International Cross-cultural Education program. A group of international MSU graduate students are working with local educators to prepare students for a global future through the program, LATTICE.
Lansing youths die in car, bus collision
Two Lansing youths died in a car accident Saturday night when the Oldsmobile Cutlass they were riding in collided with a Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus. Jared Heintzelman,17, and Anthony Bermudez,12, were killed on the corner of Shiawasee and Larch streets at 10:04 p.m., Lansing police officer Lt.
RHA to send letter of apology for Toughman
The Residence Halls Association members voted 17-1 with six abstentions to send two letters to people involved with a Toughman Contest last month.Representatives will send one letter to MSU’s Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students and another letter to AdoreAble Promotions Inc.Members of the LBGT community became concerned after the promotions company put on a “homosexual match” during the competition last month, which pitted two men in a mock bout.RHA’s special events program sponsored the trip to the contest at the Palace of Auburn Hills on Jan.
Conference addresses anti-Semitism, promotes tolerance
Students from 10 Michigan campuses gathered in Lansing together during the weekend to discuss anti-Semitism, Israel’s history and upcoming elections.