The MSU men’s water polo team has achieved something no other college water polo team has before by playing in four consecutive national championship games.
The Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience and the Senior Class Council are partnering to host the second annual Dodgeball Tournament at 2 p.m. Sunday in IM Sports-West Gym 1.
While many MSU students use spring break to party or lie on the beach, others will use the time off to help the environment. Alternative Spring Break, or ASB, is a student organization that allows students to use their week off for service activities. The trips are divided into nine categories, ranging from those with an environmental focus to disaster relief.
The Marketing Mix and the MSU Marketing Association, or MSUMA, will team up to bring students the first-ever Marketing Workshop and Career Fair at 3 p.m. today at the Union. Several additions were made this year to MSUMA’s annual Career Fair, said marketing senior Molly Vu, vice president of communication for the Marketing Mix.
For the next three days, Kellogg Center will be the home of the third annual Black Religion and Spirituality Conference.
For ASMSU Student Assembly Chairperson Mike Webber, this semester has been about as good as they come. Webber said through teamwork and individual determination, the assembly has succeeded together, and hopes next spring will continue to thrive.
While the points may keep growing on Saturday, the pints have been growing since the beginning of November.
When Baba Koumare first came to America, he couldn’t speak English very well, but he understood that the media wasn’t portraying Africa in a positive light. “When I got here, people would ask me, ‘Oh my God, Baba, do you wear shoes in Africa? Do you guys wear clothes? Do you live in trees? Do you have huts?’” the supply chain management junior said.
Findings from a recent government study will help researchers in gauging the effectiveness of preventative treatments for cancers associated with human papillomavirus, or HPV. The report, released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this month, said about 25,000 cases of HPV-associated cancers occurred annually between 1998 and 2003.
Josh Rabinowitz and his wife adopted their daughter from Kazakhstan almost two years ago. Rabinowitz, an Ann Arbor resident, traveled to East Lansing on Sunday for the MSU Global Festival after learning of it through a support group for families with adopted Kazakh children.
About 150 protesters braved the cold Saturday night to attend an Alliance of Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transgender and Straight Ally Students’ rally for equal rights. The rally, one of six in Michigan, was held at the rock on Farm Lane and protested the outcome of the Nov. 4 election result of California’s Proposition 8, a ban against same-sex marriage.
Citing a lack of legislative information and explanation from Lansing, Matt Grossmann decided to take policy-making reporting into his own hands. The MSU political science assistant professor combined today’s world of blog-driven political commentary and student interest in policy-making to create the Michigan Policy Network, a Web site launched Nov. 11 dedicated to covering policy issues in Lansing.
McGlobe, an international student organization based in McDonel Hall, will host a talent show tonight to promote interaction between American and International students.
Police followed protocol Wednesday when they pulled a student who reportedly had a gun out of his class in Conrad Hall, MSU police Deputy Chief David Trexler said.
Sore muscles may have greeted them Thursday morning, but that didn’t keep students from attempting dances such as the merengue and the bachata at “Movimiento Saboroso,” hosted by Culturas de las Razas Unidas, or CRU, on Wednesday night.
The Broad China Business Society will host its sixth annual supply chain forum from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. today at Kellogg Center.
An efficient vehicle cruising in the Michigan sun is what a team of students envision as they work to finish MSU’s first solar car. The car’s frame was formed five years ago and has since been modified several times. MSU’s growing Solar Car Team has the manpower to complete the car by spring, said Lindsay Karn, the team’s public relations manager and an elementary education sophomore.
Issues brought up in Tuesday’s ASMSU Academic Assembly meeting centered upon textbook costs and students struggling to pay for them. Christopher Kulesza, chairperson of the assembly, spoke in his State of the Assembly speech about the need to keep the organization’s commitment to fight for a watchful eye on what books are used in classes to help reduce the amount of books students need to buy.
The MSU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom will be hosting speaker Jennifer Gratz, who will speak on her stance against affirmative action. Gratz will be speaking from 8-9:30 p.m. today in 102 Conrad Hall.
If a group of MSU students has its way, other students won’t shower today. Students for Peace and Justice — or SPJ — are sponsoring the No Shower Day in order to combat water waste. The purpose is to get students and the community thinking about the impact they have on water waste, said Maureen Nagy, a public relations officer for SPJ.