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Mysterious letter in ROTC building shakes students, enforces need for safety measures.

Steadily approaching is the looming deadline for fiscal year 2007 taxes. While April 15th is still more than two months away, it is important to begin now to avoid return delays and file an accurate 2008-09 FAFSA application. Releases from the IRS indicate an expectation of heavy delays already for early filers. Further, new changes may provide students with opportunities for extra tax credits in their filings.
Deadlines for mailing W-2, 1098 and 1099 forms was January 31st. This means all filing citizens should have received their tax information.

For most, filing taxes will consist of completing a single Federal and single Michigan tax form. These forms will be a 1040EZ, 1040-A or 1040 for the Federal filing and an MI-1040 form for Michigan. Some students, like those whose residence is in a state other than Michigan, will need to file a Federal and either a single form to their home state, or a form to both their home state and Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota, for example, require a Form 1 or Form 1A for Wisc. or an M1 form for Minn.

Filing for out-of-state students in Michigan requires one more step. Outside of home state and Michigan standard forms, out-of-state filers need to submit a Schedule NR form, representing Non-Resident, in Michigan. Again, depending on the state the student claims as their home state, a similar form may be needed.

The Tech Talks Research series, started Fall 2007, provides a singular venue for professors and researchers on the Michigan Tech campus to meet other faculty in their interest areas. The series has run a number of successful meetings on topics from transportation to computer science. These sessions not only provide a means to introduce potential research partners to each other, but also as a focus group for an initiative to bring approx. 100 new research faculty members to the Tech campus.

Tech Talks is an initiative of the Provost’s office and the Vice President for Research. Spear-headed by Asst. Provost Donna J Michalek, the series was born from a meeting held Spring 2007 for non-tenured faculty on campus. “We wanted to provide a means for them to meet each other,” Michalek said in an interview Tuesday. “Then we thought, ‘Why not do this for everyone?’”