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City Council to address issues today
The East Lansing City Council will discuss the status of the Hannah Community Center construction project during its work session tonight.
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Whitmer tackles new issues, lessening tuition gap
This is the second in a three part series about the Michigan House and Senate reconvening. When the Legislature reconvenes in a few weeks, Gretchen Whitmer wants to give students a tuition refund. Whitmer, D-East Lansing, said when the session begins on Sept.
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Networking service comes to E.L. networking to East Lansing
They are not Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” but their partnership is still a little curious. Regardless of school rivalries, MSU student Paul Chambers and University of Michigan student Ryan Deyer joined forces for NetX, a networking business.
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RHA still committed to goals, serving U
It’s a new semester and that means new faces, goals and attitudes for MSU’s Residence Halls Association’s executive board. The university’s RHA is the largest residence hall association in the country and the second largest student organization on campus behind ASMSU, the university’s undergraduate student government. Jeff Donofrio, the new director of public relations for RHA, said its main goal is to address the concerns and to be the voice for more than 14,000 undergraduate students throughout the 20 residence halls on campus.
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Downtown project will provide locale for E.L. outdoor events
Orange construction barrels have marked the landscape of East Lansing for the past several months and now will be no different.Fountain Square, the plaza area on the corner of M.A.C and Albert avenues, will be revamped immediately following Labor Day weekend.
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Police say oops to illegal parking
Kelly Downey racked up $53 in parking ticket charges while moving in this Welcome Week.Oops.But MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety introduced a system to warn and inform parents and students about illegal parking without the cost: the “oops ticket.”“I’d rather have that on my car than a ticket,” said Downey, an advertising sophomore who ended the week with four parking tickets.
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Grant provides funds for program to explain senior citizens rights
A grant from the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging is helping a Lansing law school change seniors’ lives.Sixty Plus, Inc., a legal clinic of Thomas M.
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Michigans economy, job market still going strong
Even though unemployment is on the rise nationally, a spokesman for Gov. John Engler says Michigan is doing just fine.“We’re building the economy through tax cuts and job training,” said Matt Resch, a spokesman for Engler.
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Groups greet students, look for new members
To kick off the school year, minority organizations are welcoming students with programs that will allow them to gain information about their groups.Asian Pacific American Student Organization will be sponsoring a Welcome Back Banquet today at 6 p.m.
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MSU to celebrate 150th anniversary with Freshman photography contest
The freshman class is getting snap-happy this week.As this year’s freshman class will graduate in 2005 - the university’s 150th year - the department of Libraries, Computing and Technology gave each incoming freshman a disposable camera to capture their first moments at MSU.“These pictures will literally be a snapshot of the class that will mark (the 150th) benchmark of the university,” said Don Straney, assistant to the provost for faculty development.
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Frat and sorority scene makes mark
For MSU students, greek chapters are among the most popular organizations on campus.According to the 2002 edition of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 331 Colleges,” MSU is the sixth highest college in the nation for a “major frat and sorority scene.”“I think it’s a good thing that people recognize that we’re here,” said Billy Molasso, assistant director of Student Life.
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Forum to discuss adding student voice to trustees
ASMSU is taking the first of what would be many steps in creating a voting student seat on the MSU Board of Trustees tonight with a forum discussing the possibility.The bill was introduced during an August 8 academic assembly meeting, but was tabled until this session.
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Party at the Aud gets U involved
When Party at the Aud ended Saturday night, the Auditorium’s lawn was littered with fliers, the rock on Farm Lane had a fresh coat of paint welcoming the map-toting freshmen and more than 230 student groups and activities had recruited a year’s worth of members.“This is the biggest and best time to recruit people,” said special education sophomore Shelley Carlin, a member of MSU Best Buddies.
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U argues legislative issues
This is the first in a three part series about the Michigan House and Senate Reconvening. With the second half of the 2001 Michigan Legislature’s session fast approaching, MSU students are hoping to see a greater emphasis on higher education in the legislative agenda. Students from the MSU Democrats and the MSU College Republicans say they are hopeful the tuition tax credit is repealed and funding is lifted to 3 percent when session reconvenes Sept.
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Bags welcome student renters to neighborhoods
Police and resident volunteers distributed about 4,000 bags to student renters as a way of welcoming them back Friday morning.Volunteers representing the East Lansing Police Department, the East Lansing Parking and Code Enforcement department, MSU’s greek community and other interested residents showed up at the Bailey Community Center, 301 Bailey St., Friday morning to pass out the bags to their student neighbors.This is the second time in the past three years the Community Relations Commission has sponsored the program.
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Students protest, claim human rights Gap
Fall fashion and student opinions clashed like stripes and plaids Thursday night at Gap, 435 E. Grand River Ave. Members of MSU’s Students for Economic Justice protested the store’s fall fashion show to raise awareness about sweatshop labor. “We came out to educate the public,” said member Zak Bleicher, an international relations and political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore.
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Peepholes show residents new view of dorm safety
Knock knock. Who’s there? Students living in the dorms can now have the satisfaction of knowing who’s knocking at their doors now that peepholes have been installed in just about every dorm room.The installation of the peepholes took place over the summer and was a result of careful deliberation among the Residence Halls Association, Residence Life and University Housing said Angela Brown, director of University Housing. “We discussed safety awareness and created a safety committee, which reviewed night receptionist safety and overall dorm safety,” Brown said, adding that students have been asking for peepholes for years. “(The peepholes) are great,” said Emmy Gregory, a pre-vet freshman.
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Free yearbooks return this year
For the second year the Red Cedar Log yearbook is available to all students at MSU - and anyone else who wants to pick one up.The Red Cedar Log is the largest college yearbook in the country with more than 20,000 copies available this year. In 1996 the yearbook was shut down for financial reasons.
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West Nile virus found in Michigan crows; U helps search for cure
Two dead crows found in Oakland and Macomb counties died of the West Nile Virus, MSU officials said. After the birds were found Aug.
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Annual horse show
The Appaloosa Classic Horse Show held this past weekend at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education received a smaller turnout than last year, but the show must go on, and it did with an exhibit of well-groomed horses and their equestrians. There were 662 entries in the weekend long show, about 100 fewer than last year, said Leslie Zobel, Chairwoman for the Michigan Appaloosa Horse Association horse shows.