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MSU

U police hope to improve relations

Casey Mcnenly
January 24, 2002

MSU police Capt. Ken Hall has a big job ahead of him. The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety announced the formation of the Student Support Division this month to increase communication between students and police. The division was created in response to the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, and will be overseen by Hall. The task force was appointed by MSU officials in the wake of the placement of an undercover officer into the student group United Students Against Sweatshops, now called Students for Economic Justice, beginning Feb.

MSU

Campus briefs

Conference helps minorities adjust The False Expectations Appearing Real conference will be held from 9 a.m.

MSU

Campus briefs

Conference helps minorities adjust The False Expectations Appearing Real conference will be held from 9 a.m.

MICHIGAN

Workshop to help women plan finances

Jeanne Chan
January 24, 2002

In February, women will have a chance to learn more about financial management. Jane Fahey, president of Fahey Financial Inc. will present “Taking Control: A Financial Management Workshop for Women” on Feb.

MICHIGAN

State lacks small farm pollution plan

Aaron Johnson
January 24, 2002

The Ingham County Health Department has kept track of E. coli levels in the Red Cedar River for four years, but has just now started to work out what is contributing to the problem.And while the Red Cedar is just one small river in the middle of Michigan, the issues of its health coincide with the state’s efforts to develop a general plan to protect Michigan waterways.“Water and the Great Lakes literally define Michigan,” said Matt Resch, spokesman for Gov.

MICHIGAN

Liquor store owners check prices on Web

Shaun Byron
January 23, 2002

Liquor resellers can now point and click for their products.The Michigan Liquor Control Commission and the Department of Information Technology has developed a price quoting Web site for liquor suppliers.Suppliers can now send in price quotations and commission staff can view the Web sites to determine whether products meets federal standards.The system, launched last week, is also part of the state government’s initiative to create more Internet commerce in Michigan.

MICHIGAN

Engler to deliver final State of State address

Lindsay Frederickson
January 23, 2002

Gov. John Engler, in his final State of the State address at 7 p.m. today, is expected to promote his new HiSpeed Internet plan, talk of increased health care coverage and discuss the state’s ailing budget.Engler will be pushing for changes to Medicaid that will provide coverage to an additional 200,000 Michigan citizens.

MICHIGAN

Company begins redevelopment

Aaron Johnson
January 23, 2002

Lansing- Mayor David Hollister and Combined Van Lines Inc. officially began construction Tuesday on the company’s new home.Combined Van Lines already maintains two facilities in the state capital, but will consolidate its operations in a 31,000-square-foot facility to be built on a vacant site at the end of Seager Street.The site, a brownfield, has been vacant for more than 40 years because of slag from nearby railroad tracks.

MICHIGAN

Community center ready to open

Shaun Byron
January 23, 2002

The Hannah Community Center blends classrooms and lockers from the past with modern computers and shining green floors.New wood trim surrounds glass cases on the second-floor lobby, where the work of local artists will be put on display, and wrought iron railings and lighting were installed to keep with the building’s original 1926 design.All of the center’s features, new and old, will be open to the public to view during its grand opening at 5:30 p.m.

MSU

Lack of use may mean cease of StateWalk

Casey Mcnenly
January 23, 2002

The long walk home could be lonelier for some students after tonight’s decision about the fate of the Residence Halls Association’s StateWalk program.StateWalk, a free service for students walking on campus after dark, might be eliminated by RHA because of low participation.

MSU

U still enjoys unlimited downloading

Chris Boyer
January 23, 2002

Pipes are bursting on college campuses across the country. But it’s not any fluid that’s overflowing - it’s data.Bandwidth, the amount of space available on a network connection, is becoming a concern for some colleges with high-speed connections to the Internet.

MICHIGAN

Senators rewarded for protecting wildlife

Lindsay Frederickson
January 23, 2002

Lansing - If Michigan Democratic Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin have anything to say about it, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will remain closed to oil exploration, leaving Americans looking elsewhere for fuel.For their efforts in protecting the refuge and their opposition to drilling in the Great Lakes, Stabenow and Levin were awarded the Arctic Defender Award by the Mackinac Chapter of the Sierra Club in a ceremony Monday.“The senator has stated numerous times that he opposes opening the refuge to drilling,” said Levin’s spokesman Eric Weber, who accepted the award.

MSU

Student assembly leader evades censure

Alison Barker
January 22, 2002

For the first time in two years, there has been a motion to censure an ASMSU Student Assembly leader.A representative made the motion to censure Quinn Wright, chairperson of the undergraduate student government’s Student Assembly, at the Thursday meeting because he failed to submit paperwork in a timely fashion to grant the North American Indian Student Organization $4,000 for its powwow event.“It’s a wake-up call,” said Matt Weingarden, Student Assembly vice-chairperson for internal affairs.

MSU

System secures Web documents

Chris Boyer
January 22, 2002

To the dismay of many librarians, there is no Dewey Decimal System for the Internet. But the efforts of a group of state libraries and the Online Computer Library Catalog are trying to change all that.The Web Document Digital Archive Project is a consortium of state libraries, including Michigan, Ohio, Connecticut, Arizona, the United States Government Printing Office and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.The program, still in its pilot stage, is designed to protect Web-based publications from the equivalent of decay -