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Grant to help promote new business growth

Karen Confer
October 13, 2010

The Lansing area could see several new businesses spring up after an entrepreneurial support organization called Leap Inc. received nearly $200,000 from the Regional Entrepreneurial Collaborative grant program. Leap Inc. was one of nine state organizations to receive the grant, which was funded through Michigan’s No Worker Left Behind Program and sought to promote new business growth in the state, according to a statement from Gov.

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Author to speak thursday at bookstore

Meagan Choi
October 13, 2010

Nonfiction author Michael Sims, who edited “Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories,” will give a free talk at 7 p.m. Thursday at Schuler Books & Music, 2820 Towne Center Blvd., in Lansing.

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ASMSU discusses Library, syllabi

Megan Durisin
October 13, 2010

ASMSU is working to expand the Main Library’s Sunday hours in exchange for dwindling Saturday hours. Academic Assembly’s Code and Academic Policy Committee is drafting a proposal to shift two of the library’s Saturday hours to Sunday morning.

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Campus groups team up for homecoming events

Anthony Harvey  and  Josh Sidorowicz
October 12, 2010

Several university organizations have coordinated activities and events for students all week long on campus in anticipation of the football game Saturday. The Student Alumni Foundation, or SAF, and the University Activities Board, or UAB, kicked off various events Sunday and will continue holding them until Saturday’s game.

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Homecoming is boost for business

Alanna Thiede
October 12, 2010

Homecoming weekend at MSU will mean big business for stores and restaurants in East Lansing. With thousands of alumni and fans flocking to the university for Saturday’s game and festivities, local businesses benefit from the influx of visitors.

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RCAH celebrates indigenous culture

Lauren Gibbons
October 12, 2010

Students in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, program at MSU listened to indigenous music and speakers from afar as a part of the Indigenous People’s Day Celebration.

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Granholm vetoes early morning booze bill

Karen Confer
October 12, 2010

Sunday mornings in Michigan will remain dry after Gov. Jennifer Granholm vetoed a bill Tuesday. Passed by the state House and Senate Sept. 29, the bill would have allowed for liquor sales on Sunday mornings starting at 7 a.m. and part of Christmas day. Both are illegal in Michigan.

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Increase in police for homecoming

Emily Wilkins
October 12, 2010

Although thousands of alumni will pour into town this weekend for MSU’s homecoming, the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, and MSU police are handling the weekend no differently compared to other Saturdays with home football games.

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Frat demolition to begin next week

Alanna Thiede
October 12, 2010

Interior demolition will begin next week to convert the former Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house, 128 Collingwood Drive, into a 14-unit apartment building. The renovations will include all new interiors, as well as an 8,000-square-foot addition to the rear of the 12,000-square-foot building, project developer Dale Inman said.

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MSU researchers pinpoint illness

Megan Durisin
October 12, 2010

MSU researchers linked a group of illnesses reported in dogs nationwide to Blue Buffalo Co. dog food. The sick dogs were between 8 months and 8 years old and showed symptoms of weight loss, loss of appetite, kidney damage and increased thirst and urination. MSU’s Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health is working with the Michigan Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to investigate the food, said center director Carole Bolin in a statement. Blood samples from all 16 dogs tested with the illnesses had found very high levels of vitamin D. Blue Buffalo Co. since has issued a voluntary recall.

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Peace Corps meeting held to inform students

Summer Ballentine
October 12, 2010

After taking about 50 Malawian students to the zoo, graduate student Ty Lawson watched as they screamed and chased after zebras, animals they hadn’t seen before. From his two years of service in the Peace Corps, this is one of many stories Lawson remembers about his experience in Malawi. Lawson was among several Peace Corps alumni present at an informational meeting Tuesday evening encouraging students to apply to the Peace Corps. Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet spoke about her experiences in Samoa with her husband at the meeting. Hessler-Radelet said there is a huge demand for volunteers. “Countries still ask for Peace Corps (volunteers) much more than we can deliver,” Hessler-Radelet said. MSU is ranked first in Michigan for number of Peace Corps volunteers and fourth nationally.

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Man arrested for attacking alumnus

Andrew Krietz
October 12, 2010

Xiao Chuanguo was sentenced to five and a half months in jail for coordinating an attack on MSU alumnus Shi-min Fang, according to the New York Times. During the trial, Chuanguo, a college professor and doctor in China, confessed to paying four men a total of $15,000 to assault Fang and journalist Fang Xuanchang on Aug.

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Granholm signs higher ed. budget

Karen Confer
October 12, 2010

Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed the higher education budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year Tuesday, approving a $8.2 million funding cut for MSU. The budget would cut 2.8 percent from funding for all of Michigan’s 15 public universities, as well as the MSU Extension offices. It also would include a funding increase for some financial aid programs, including the Michigan Competitive Scholarship. Both houses agreed in late September on a budget bill negotiated in a conference committee.

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Journalism school marks 100 years

Lauren McKown
October 11, 2010

Faculty, current students and more than 5,000 alumni will celebrate the past 100 years of journalism education at MSU this month with events commemorating the School of Journalism Centennial.