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The honor of being named Miss Black Michigan has been bestowed upon a member of the SVSU student body.
Junior Kyona Cook beat out 340 applicants to become Miss Black Michigan, and in June will compete against 49 other representatives to compete for the title of Miss Black USA. »
On Friday, July 27, the SVSU Board of Control held a special session to set the tuition rates for the 2007-2008 academic year. The decision saw rates increase 12.9 percent, the highest percentile increase within the last six years. The Board postponed its decision as long as possible with the hope that the state would announce its budget for higher education. »
The TCF Bank at SVSU has been relocated from the first floor in Wickes Hall to The Student Center, and has now become Independent Bank. The move reflects the final steps of the bank relocation that began nearly four months ago. »
The administration is in the midst of talks with the Support Staff Association - which is made up of maintenance workers, secretaries and clerks - to renew its contract, which ended June 30, 2006. »
An SVSU faculty member has found a way to raise money for a cause, and it's not by door-to-door solicitation. Instead, sociology professor Brian Thomas is running a fifty-mile marathon to raise money for a disease known as lupus erythematosus. »
Information Technology Services' Support Center has moved to a new location in the South Campus Complex, quite a walk from its old location in Wickes Hall. But just like the staff of the support center hasn't changed at all, neither have its services. »
With the beginning of the fall semester only days away, Student Association has begun setting goals and planning events for its 2007-2008 academic year. »
Some students have asked whether or not the school had taken action to ban hookahs, and officials in charge of enacting a new rule on how they are lit say that there is no such ban. »
For SVSU's much-maligned smokers, the everyday activity of lighting up is about to change...again. The University is in the process of revising its on-campus smoking policy. »
Using VSpace should be easier than ever this semester, thanks to numerous upgrades, tweaks and fixes over the spring and summer. And thankfully so - over 700 course sections have requested accompanying VSpace sites already. For purposes of comparison, as of press time, 64 Blackboard sections have been registered, signifying that SVSU may be near the end of the crossover process. »
