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Olin, centers offer healthy resources
Organizations at MSU and throughout the Lansing area offer a variety of resources to help students stay physically, sexually and mentally healthy. Fellow students and health educators at Olin Health Center offer free counseling and anonymous HIV testing throughout the community, and students can make appointments by visiting Olin's Web site, olin.msu.edu. The Planned Parenthood Mid-Michigan Alliance also provides HIV and sexually transmitted infection testing, with fees on a sliding, income-based scale, in addition to free pregnancy testing. Other local organizations, such as The Listening Ear and MSU Counseling Center's Sexual Assault Crisis and Safety Education Program, are designed to be resources for those who have been sexually assaulted. Students can make appointments at the Counseling Center on the second floor of Student Services.
Custodian uses illness to teach sun's danger
Helen Mindiola was quiet as she went about her work, changing the paper towel roll in the first-floor Main Library bathrooms.
Young spirits
The physiology junior started out at MSU three years ago, ready to begin on the journey to medical school.
Rock, religion attract teens
It's Christianity for another generation. At least that's the goal of Teen Mania Ministries, a national Christian organization seeking to promote Jesus Christ to young people around the country. The organization's Acquire the Fire festival spent the weekend in Breslin Center, drawing middle school and high school students from all over the state. "It's a radical punch in the face of Jesus," said Richee Parks, a conversation series manager for the ministries, which puts on about 30 similar festivals around the nation. The organization realizes that young people are wary of organized religion but in search of spirituality, Parks said. Facial piercings, oversized or loose jeans and casual T-shirts were no problem for teens at this religious event. The festival featured speakers who hope to inspire teens to live out Christian ideals in their lives and live bands with Christian messages played to rock tunes.
A debate for generations
Washington - One generation marches because it remembers. Louise Kazarinoff, a 77-year-old Ann Arbor resident, marches in remembrance of her friends who performed illegal abortions on themselves with knitting needles. "If you are our age, you have friends with those stories," said Marina Brown, Kazarinoff's friend and traveling companion. Brown stood alongside an estimated crowd of more than 1 million people gathered at the March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, sporting a big straw hat covered in buttons and stickers supporting pro-choice beliefs and denouncing President Bush.
