The University of Michigan plans to go smokeless by 2011.

“We talked around the issues of community well-being and heath and individual rights,” said Robert Winfield, director of University Heath Services and the chief health officer at U-M.

The campus’ dormitories have been smokeless for 10 years.

Michigan citizens can now apply for enhanced Michigan driver’s licenses.

As of Tuesday, the enhanced licenses will function as passports when crossing into and out of the United States by land or sea from the Caribbean, Canada or Mexico. The licenses are part of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, a federal initiative that hopes to streamline border crossings while increasing security.

There are several ways to balance Michigan’s $800 million shortfall.

Craig DeRoche, former speaker of the Michigan House of Representatives, does not think raising taxes is one of them.

“When you raise taxes, you will get less of what you raise taxes on,” he said during Tuesday night’s panel discussion, “Fixing Lansing.

Students looking to use wireless Internet somewhere other than on campus can take their laptops to downtown Mount Pleasant.

Since the fall of 2006, downtown Mount Pleasant has offered free wireless, including in many of the local shops.

“It’s an added incentive for coming downtown,” said Michelle Sponseller, downtown development director.

This summer Mount Pleasant will be hosting “Le Tour de Mont Pleasant,” the first bike race of its kind in mid-Michigan.

Mount Pleasant will be welcoming bicyclists to mid-Michigan July 12-14 for a festival celebrating bicycling and healthy lifestyles. There will be races for all ages and skill levels during the festival.

After five days of being “blacklisted” from Comcast e-mail users, one thing helped restore the cmich.edu e-mail accounts – Twitter.

“Someone’s account got compromised, they sent out a bunch of spam e-mail to a bunch of places, Comcast wound up blocking CMU,” said Jeff McDowell, Information Technology Help Desk manager.

Alpha Psi Omega will be accepting applications for its script writing contest until Friday.

“We make the contests available to any CMU students and faculty,” said Ian Boley, Mount Pleasant senior. He is helping to run this year’s contest after receiving second in last spring’s contest.

Athletes donned wigs, outrageous outfits and lip-synched for a good cause on Sunday night.

Jock Rock is an annual event that raises money for the American Red Cross; this year is raised just under $2,000. Donations were collected for the Isabella Community Soup Kitchen and many athletes signed autographs.