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Patriotic greeting captures contest

Months after the terrorist attacks on the United States, Jennifer Brigham developed a greeting card that focuses on the nation celebrating the holiday season in unity.Brigham, a studio art senior, created the winning design for the Kellogg Center’s ninth annual Holiday Card Design Contest.

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Undergraduates give advisers positive marks

MSU advisers are doing more to accommodate and inform students and as a result, students’ perceptions have improved, a recent study said. Lee June, vice president for Student Affairs and Services, said the 2001 Survey on Undergraduate Academic Advising, officially released about two weeks ago, is a repeat of a 1998 survey. Results from the survey showed 81.1 percent of students rated the overall quality of MSU advising as excellent or good, up from 76.6 percent reported in the 1998 survey. “We’re encouraged,” June said.

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Law school donation gives hands-on education

Selected MSU-Detroit College of Law students are getting a unique opportunity through a new program initiated this fall.The Trial Practice Certificate Program is part of the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute.A $4 million donation for the institute from Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger was announced Tuesday.

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New science building to open Feb. 1

Many MSU faculty members are looking beyond the holiday season to the Feb. 1 opening of the new Bio-Physical Sciences Building, located on Wilson Road. “Personally, I am very excited.

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ASMSU nears completion of its online text exchange

After months of work, ASMSU members put some of the finishing touches on the organization’s textbook exchange Web site Wednesday. MSU’s undergraduate student government will have the site running by the end of the semester, after it’s tested and all the details are worked out. The site will operate like a message board, in which students can set their own prices to exchange textbooks with other students. Jared English, an Academic Assembly representative for James Madison College, has been watching the site’s progress and said the timing couldn’t be better. “This would be the best time to use the site to the full potential, for both selling and buying,” he said. The international relations and finance sophomore said the book exchange should appeal to students because it’s free, unlike others that charge students.

MICHIGAN

Protesters fight budget cuts for health care clinics

About 200 parents, students and legislators joined forces outside the state Capitol on Wednesday to protest the defunding of 19 health care clinics statewide.The clinics fell victim to state budget cuts earlier this month that reduced spending by more than $500 million in the wake of declining state revenue.The spending reductions will eliminate 75 percent of the money for the clinics, 14 of which are located on school grounds, protesters said.“The idea was to apply some pressure and let folks know at the Capitol that these are needed programs,” said Debbie De Leon, a member of the Ingham County Board of Commissioners.

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ASMSU representative resigns

At the end of last Tuesday’s ASMSU Academic Assembly meeting, Monica Leslie, a representative for the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, calmly wished her colleagues a Happy Thanksgiving - then she resigned. Leslie, who has been active in MSU’s undergraduate student government, said she felt it was the appropriate time to inform everyone of her decision because she didn’t want to disrupt the business that needed to get done. The communication freshman said time commitments, internal conflicts and lack of communication with administrators were reasons for her resignation. “I wanted to learn how the system worked - and I learned a lot, but I still have a lot to learn,” Leslie said.