ASMSU’s Academic Assembly voted down a bill Tuesday to state its stance on a course repeat policy. The bill would require the assembly to state ASMSU’s stance to the University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP.
MSU’s financial future, the academic calendar and the Outside Speakers Policy were among many items discussed during Tuesday’s meeting of MSU’s Executive Committee of Academic Council. Provost Kim Wilcox said MSU will have to make adjustments during the next couple of years to combat the struggling economy.
Leaders from the East Lansing and MSU communities gathered Tuesday to emphasize the importance of HIV testing and awareness by being tested themselves. Organizations including the MSU Residence Halls Association, Black Student Alliance and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, teamed with Michigan Equality, Olin Health Center and Lansing Area AIDS Network to host the event.
Enrollment by Iraqi students at MSU almost tripled in one year from 2007-08, according to data from the Office of the Registrar. And the number could continue to climb if a new Iraqi government scholarship program, which would send 10,000 Iraqi students abroad, is approved by Iraq’s Parliament.
The Department of Residence Life is giving students the opportunity to showcase Spartan life with MSUTube, a project to give prospective students a look into MSU life using online videos.
The Grundy brothers don’t let the stress of a tournament interfere with their love of chess. “It’s really awesome,” said fourth-grader Jeffery Grundy, of Macomb Township.
Ruckus, a legal music file-sharing program offered to MSU students, shut down Saturday. The program, promoted by university officials as a way for students to legally share and exchange music, issued a notice on its Web site Saturday afternoon saying the “service will no longer be provided,” with no other information available.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, confirmed five judicial appointees to the Residence Hall Area Board at its meeting Wednesday.
Diners at The Gallery at Snyder-Phillips Hall were caught in a Chicken Little moment Thursday, when water poured from the ceiling and dislodged four ceiling tiles. Tables below where the ceiling collapsed were unoccupied and, as far as bystanders could tell, nobody was hurt.
Students in the East Lansing Public Schools are getting a crash course in art. In an effort to expose children to global artists, the schools have joined with MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, to bring in artists to visit with the students. The program has operated for about a year.
MSU, the National Guard and the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security have partnered to bring a new certificate program in homeland security to MSU.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly code and academic policy committee amended a bill Tuesday to revise the university’s course repeat policy. The University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP, is reviewing the policy and asked for ASMSU’s stance.
About 20 community members gathered Wednesday night to pay tribute to the thousands of Israelis and Gazans suffering or dead as result of tensions in the Middle East.
Journalism junior Nick Mordowanec said he was surprised to see an article he wrote in January’s edition of ing magazine. He said he was even more surprised to see another student’s name on the byline.
MSU officials have made a call to remove landline telephones from dorm rooms in the Brody Complex and Mayo Hall by the start of the fall 2009 semester.
The trial for MSU student Nigel Scarlett, a former high-ranking ASMSU representative accused of sexually assaulting a woman on campus one year ago, has been delayed.
Green businesses have one more resource at MSU. Ruben Derderian, a Michigan businessman with more than 30 years of experience as an executive, was selected as associate director of the MSU Product Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources.
An MSU doctor and his team have gained more insight into how children and families that beat obesity achieve their success.
Funeral services for MSU student Don Ausman will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Harry J. Will Funeral Home, 37000 6 Mile Road, in Livonia.
Students might soon be able to make their voices heard about ideas for changes to the academic calendar through a survey set to be distributed within the next few weeks.