The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame is accepting nominations for 2007. Honorees will be inducted during a banquet held April 21 at the Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m.
MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University publicly announced an alliance Tuesday called the University Research Corridor. As part of the alliance, the three universities will work to enhance research capabilities within the state of Michigan and boost the unstable economy. "I hope certainly that this will help young people when they are looking for jobs," U-M President Mary Sue Coleman said in a conference call Tuesday. Within the last five years, the three universities combined have averaged one new patent per day, and these advancements have led to 500 new agreements for further research or private company usage. Officials from the universities said they hope the collaboration will bring competition to Michigan during this time when globalization is key, MSU President Lou Anna K.
Free hugs were given away by Lisa Eddy and Kate Dimitry on the corner of Farm and Shaw lanes Tuesday. Why?
The student organization Spartans Against Drunk Driving, or SADD, will host an open forum at 7 p.m. Sunday, in the Wonders Hall Kiva to give students and community members the opportunity to share their drunken driving-related experiences with others. Amy Gnotek, president and founder of the organization, described the event as "an open-mic night for anyone to come and share a story about how drunken driving has affected them." She said anyone who has lost someone because of a drunken driver or who was arrested for drunken driving will be able to speak. "We want the community to hear about the consequences of drunken driving," Gnotek said.
Visitors to the Lansing City Council's Web site are in for a surprise if they click on the headline to view the council's newsletter. When visitors access the Web site at http://council.cityoflansingmi.com/cnews.html, the Lansing City Council's newsletter page appears.
Students will have seven different food stations to choose from next fall in the new marketplace style cafeteria in the renovated Snyder and Phillips halls. "Students will have a multiplicity of choices to pick from with this marketplace setup," said Bruce Haskell, associate director of university housing dining services.
For about a year, animals recovering from injuries or surgeries have used the MSU Advanced Rehabilitation Center for Animals as their springboard to recovery. Whether it's through a therapeutic ultrasound, an electrical stimulation, a balance beam or the innovative underwater treadmill, animal owners have called on the center's modern technology to get their pets back on their paws. "We get about five or six patients a day," said Patrick LeBlanc, director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, which houses the rehabilitation center.
After an increase in the area's drunken driving-related offenses, a group of MSU students said, it's time to raise awareness about how drinking and driving affects the community To promote awareness about drunken driving, Amy Gnotek, president and founder of Spartans Against Drunken Driving, or SADD, has helped organize a survivor forum giving students and community members the opportunity to share their drunken driving-related experiences with others. "It's basically an open-mic night for anyone to come and share a story about how drunken driving has affected them," Gnotek said.
December graduates will hear commencement speeches from Kay Koplovitz, Deborah L. Wince-Smith and Andrea Van de Kamp. Koplovitz will speak at the 10 a.m.
Three MSU students took top honors at the first ever Fisher Biz Quiz National Challenge. Sponsored by Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. and The Wall Street Journal, the competition focused on how well these students knew business-related current events. The group took first place and brought home a $3,000 check in the process. Helen Dashney, director of Eli Broad College of Business' financial market institute and the group's adviser, said she saw the students come out of their shells. "Once they started working together, they took on a real competitive spirit and were really able to play off each other's strengths," she said.
Bike owners on campus could have more service options if a plan to expand MSU Bikes Service Center gains momentum. The center is located in Bessey Hall.
Students gathered Friday night at IM-Sports Circle to dance and celebrate Indian traditions during the Tarang Indian festival and fundraiser. Tarang is a traditional Indian festival and celebration of colors hosted annually by Asha for Education, a nationwide student organization that advocates literacy and education in India. About 175 students came to the event, many of whom danced to the tunes of cultural Northern Indian music.
By Lauren Talley For The State News IM-Sports Circle buzzed with students and adults carrying out "missions" using LEGO robots early Saturday morning during the Spartan FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) LEGO League Challenge. Elementary and middle school students from Mid-Michigan tried to best each other in specific tasks, such as lifting a toy truck by using LEGO robots they built themselves. "The motivation (for the competition) is very simple," said Satish Udpa, dean of the College of Engineering.
Many students took the opportunity to vote in last week's elections, but a few took an extra step by helping out their fellow voters and earned some cash along the way. Last week, eight MSU students served as election inspectors, who answer voter's questions during the voting process. The City of East Lansing paid the inspectors $100 for a whole day, $50 for half a day and $20 for the training they needed for the job. The inspectors were brought together by MSU's YouVote, which works to motivate more students to vote, as well East Lansing residents. Jerry Bracy said before becoming one of the inspectors, he really had no idea how much work is put into the voting process. "I learned a lot on how everything is run," Bracy said.
Poverty accounts for one-third of all deaths in the world today, according to the Millennium Campaign, a group determined to end extreme poverty. In 2000, global leaders came together at the United Nations Millennium Summit and designed the group, giving them the goal of ending poverty by 2015. The campaign's executive coordinator, Eveline Herfkens, came to MSU on Thursday to make students aware of the campaign's goals and how they can help its efforts. "Today more than ever, we live in a globalized interdependent world and our dependence on others will only increase over the generations," Herfkens said at the start of her speech.
An organization on campus is dancing and holding a festival to raise money for underprivileged children in India at 7 p.m.
Some students learned what campus could look like in the future after officials discussed the construction master plan Thursday at the International Center. At the meeting, Campus Planner Stephen Troost and Planning and Budgets Assistant Director Bill Latta laid out their plans for the university's physical outlook in the future. Troost said the master plan will guide long-term development. "Every construction project is coordinated with the master plan," Troost said.
It has been close to three months since Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Marie Wolfe has seen the children she loves. Jonah and Harper are 19 months old now, and as they continue to grow, they will have to face the world without the help of their estranged parental figure. "I'm missing out on a lot of things in their lives," Wolfe said.
Social activist and minister Jeff Johnson told a crowd of about 150 students they need to take leadership roles in their communities Wednesday evening in Wilson Hall Auditorium. Through his speech, "Who Will Lead the Next Social Movement," which was hosted by MSU's Black Student Alliance, or BSA, Johnson asked students to become leaders of their generation. "Nowhere in the history of the world has a generation not led itself," Johnson said.
As Mary Govoni waited inside her red Pontiac sedan at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Wilson Road Thursday morning, she thought she was being attacked when her passenger side windows were suddenly shattered. Seconds later, the Okemos resident looked outside the car to see a man pointing at a fleeing six-point deer — the culprit of the clamor, said her husband Lenny Govoni. "She didn't know what hit her; it all happened in 30 seconds," said Govoni, who is an MSU Grounds Maintenance landscape services coordinator.