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Rate change could hurt student loans: Interest rate changes could cause lenders to stop offering loans
A possible decrease in the interest rate of federally funded student loans could actually hurt students in the long run. The change may cause lenders who fund federally guaranteed student loans to pull out of the industry, creating a shortage of student loans across the nation.
Students kick off MSA campaign
Flashy posters, flyers and catchy slogans are beginning to litter lecture halls and the Diag as aspiring politicians kicked off their campaigns yesterday for seats on the Michigan Student Assembly.
But this winter's candidates say their campaign strategies will be more focused on personal contact than postings this election season.
Big Ten forms wrestling task force
The Big Ten Conference has followed the University's lead by forming a wrestling task force to improve the safety of collegiate wrestling and forward collective recommendations to the NCAA.
"The Big Ten Conference embraced our recommendations and made a task force," Associate Athletic Director Peggy Bradley-Doppes said at yesterday's Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics meeting. "They not only embraced them, they strengthened the recommendations.
Library to index role of women in history
Yellowed letters and dusty family albums can signify old memories to family, but such documents are also essential to historians trying to get a clearer picture of the past.
"People don't know that their stuff is valuable," said Rachel Onuf, director of the new Women in History project at the Clements Library, which, by coincidence, commences during Women's History Month.
Racial graffiti found in Markley: Racial epithets raise concerns of increased racial tension on campus
Continuing a string of vandalism incidents at Mary Markley Residence Hall this year, the door to the room of two female black residents was marked with racial and sexual epithets last month.
A paper posted on the door was covered with two swastika symbols, the word "nigger" and the phrase "two stupid bitches."
Radiology Prof. receives faculty award: Prof. David Kuhl, the Henry Russel Lecturer, presents a lecture on nuclear medicine
After being presented with the Henry Russel Lecturer award yesterday, radiology Prof. David Kuhl gave a lecture on the history of nuclear medicine.
Although audience members may not have left with a complete understanding of the subject, they at least were taught two things - the correct pronunciation of acetylcholine, and that Kuhl gives a great lecture.
MSA reaffirms its fight for student regent seat
The Michigan Student Assembly passed a resolution last night in support of the assembly's ongoing fight for student representation on the Board of Regents.
The assembly sponsored a press conference yesterday in the Michigan Union to publicize the student regent campaign, titled the "Yes! Yes! Yes!" campaign.
SAFE House hosts discussion on domestic violence
If approached by a domestic abuse victim, Northfield Township City Services Board member Gary Weiling would have told the victim to "just get out" of the relationship.
But Weiling and other community members gathering at SAFE House's brown bag luncheon learned yesterday that telling a victim to leave the relationship is the worst way to confront domestic abuse.
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Higher Education Notes: Hackers attack computers on 25 U.S. campuses
Thousands of computers at 25 university campuses in the United States were attacked by hackers on the night of March 2, resulting in widespread system failures, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported this past Thursday.
The attack caused minor disturbances, but no critical data was lost, computer administrators said.
Storm drops more snow, schools close
Parts of Michigan braced for another foot of snow yesterday, after a storm linked to two deaths closed schools and left cars stuck in snowdrifts across the state.
The day after a blizzard hit the northern Lower Peninsula, the National Weather Service issued a winter storm watch for up to 10 new inches of lake-effect snow in Antrim, Charlevoix, Crawford, Kalkaska, Missaukee and Otsego counties.
School promotion standards bill passed
LANSING (AP) - Michigan public school pupils wouldn't automatically advance to the next grade each fall under a bill passed yesterday by the Senate.
The bill is designed to combat the practice of "social promotions," or the automatic advancement of pupils from one grade to the next regardless of how much they've learned.
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