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The trouble with Tiananmen

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MSU’s Chinese population regards the anniversary of movement’s stifling warily

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Michigan State University’s independent voice

City’s practices, policies place emphasis on bettering the environment

Photos By Danyelle Morrow/The State News LEFT: Senior catcher Joel Fisher RIGHT: Junior right fielder Jimmy Pickens

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WArbirds in Flight

East Lansing attempts to go green through recycling, other efforts By Derek Gartee dgartee@statenews.com The State News

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or years the city of East Lansing has been going green. Not in school spirit, but through a number of environmental initiatives. East Lansing has been moving toward a more sustainable agenda and with the recent changes to city policy, the trend is growing. One of the largest city programs is for recycling. The city allows for many modes of recycling for citizens. “We have both a curbside program and a drop-off site,” East Lansing Environmental Services Administrator Catherine DeShambo said. East Lansing recycles over 1,000 tons of waste each year which consists of anything from boxboard, cardboard or paper, to glass, tin and even steel. In the past year, East Lansing saw a 10 percent increase in curbside recycling. The sustainability successes began with a long-term plan by the city to change its ways. In 2007, the city signed on to the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. The program is run by the United States Conference of Mayors and aims “to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets,” by reducing greenhouse emissions by 7 percent within five years. After this agreement, the city established its own climate sustainability plan to put the city on the track towards a greener future. The plan set goals to create green waste and energy policies and set an example for the greater area. The city also created a com-

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Lowell, Mich., resident John Ogle, left, helps Muskegon, Mich., resident Glenn Wilson, right, carry his plane out of a field Saturday, at Capital Area Radio Drone Squadron Field in Grand Ledge, Mich. The planes featured wingspans over 80 inches in length, and several of the planes cost up to $5,000 to assemble. Plaques for "Best Flight" or "Best Model," among others, were awarded to the various remote control pilots.

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“I think it’s important to get a taste of the true product,” Mike Metzger, vendor for Hickory Knoll Farms Creamery

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Recent Green Acts

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2007

The city signs on to the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which sets goals to reduce greenhouse emissions by 7 percent in 5 years.

2009

The city partners with Eaton County and Delta Township to give Compact Florescent Lightbulbs, or CFLs, to Lansing area residents as well as collecting old CFLs for recycling.

2010

The city adopts a Green Building Incentive Policy which requires environmentally friendly certifications on all future building policies to promote energy efficient design practices.

2011

The Non-Motorized Transportation Plan passes, implementing the complete streets policy to consider pedestrians and non-motorized transportation in addition to cars.

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City Council approves two Zipcars to be placed in the downtown area. Zipcar creates a vehicle sharing program that allows car rental services on an hourly or daily basis.

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Council approves new purchasing policies for city vehicles. The vehicles will now take into account sustainability in addition to price value.

Crane, professor and proliferator of MSU’s Voice Library, has died

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Communication senior Maevea Bottex holds flowers Sunday at the East Lansing Farmers Market behind Biggby Coffee. The market opened Sunday for the first time this summer.

Farmer’s market’s opening week brings improvements By Colleen Otte cotte@statenews.com The State News nn

This year, the opening day of the East Lansing Farmer’s Market’s usual aroma of fresh produce was combined with the scent of fresh pavement. The fifth year of the market began Sunday morning with a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the completion

of improvements to the market site. Improvements included the resurfacing of the parking lot, a permanent performance area, twice as much bicycle parking, walkways, basketball hoops and new landscaping, Community Events Assistant and Market Manager Abby Rudnicki said. City of East Lansing Communications See MARKET on page 2 u

On June 1, former MSU professor and head of the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library, Maurice Crane, died in East Lansing, the Lansing State Journal reported. He was 87 years old. Crane was born in Atlantic City, N.J., in 1926. He received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois, according to a biography on the MSU Library’s website. In 1953, Crane came to MSU where he taught humanities. After G. Robert Vincent retired, Crane took over as the new head of MSU’s Voice Library in 1974, the biography said. The Voice Library is the largest academic voice library in the nation and is home to different sound materials such as speeches, interviews, lectures and performances. With taking on the role of head of the Voice Library, Crane became a source for radio and television producers, broadcasters and scholars. Crane received the Distinguished Faculty Award, MSU’s highest faculty honor, in 1979. After being named the head of the Voice Library, he stressed the importance of building the library and making it available for the public to use as a research tool, the biography

The Voice Library, which Crane spent 26 years working on is the largest of its kind in the nation. said. As head of the Voice Library, Crane allowed the public to utilize the library’s card catalog and he instituted a policy which let the public borrow copies of recordings not under copyright. “What Dr. Crane did was take a small private collection which was very important, and popularize it, make it accessible, and add to it at an incredible rate,” John Shaw, Crane’s successor and longtime assistant, told the Lansing State Journal. Aside from serving as head of the Voice Library, Crane was a local television personality. Crane hosted a show called “Passing Through,” on which he interviewed interesting visitors to campus such as American psychologist and writer Timothy Leary and comedian Dick Gregory, the LSJ reported. In 1984, Crane was nominated for a Grammy for his cassette collection of speeches given by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Crane retired from MSU in 2000, but continued to live in the East Lansing area until his death. There will be no visitation or funeral for Crane as he chose to donate his body to MSU for research.


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