By James Andersen For The State News Tim Potter has a simple piece of advice to all bike riders on campus: "Always keep your (bike) chain lubed." Potter, the marketing and sales coordinator for the MSU Bikes Service Center, put on a basic bicycle tune-up clinic Saturday. The session is the first in a spring series.
By Julie Baker The State News For one MSU student and an MSU alumnus, the gloom and doom predictions of global warming offer more than bad news — they offer a challenge. The MSU Bio Diesel Project will be producing fuel using products commonly found in the kitchen during a demonstration at 7:30 p.m.
It was the 1974 football season, the first year women were allowed in the press box at Notre Dame stadium. Then-reporter Sue Carter was sent to cover the game against MSU for a small Lansing radio station. But she wasn't allowed into the locker room. "I had brought a male friend with me, and I gave him my tape recorder and a list of questions and sent him in," said Carter, now an MSU journalism professor. Women have made strides for equality in journalism since then. This year, four women — including Carter and Cheryl Pell, another School of Journalism faculty member — and one man will be inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame. "Great progress has been made, but even greater progress is to come," Carter said.
Visiting beautiful Sydney, Australia, or lovely London could do more for students than provide pictures for a photo album. A Study Abroad Fair, put on by the MSU Office of Study Abroad on Thursday, allowed students to view more than 100 exhibits and decide which location was best for a semester or summer of eventful off-campus learning. Last school year, 2,787 students went abroad through MSU programs, office spokeswoman, Cheryl Benner said.
Former Detroit Mayor and Michigan Supreme Court Justice Dennis Archer speaks today on "Civil Rights and the Law." The lecture, sponsored by the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine, is the first of four to be presented at 5 p.m.
It's only ironic that MSU's ecological group, ECO, is holding its Week of Action to raise awareness of global warming during the coldest week of the year. ECO members braved the biting wind at the rock on Farm Lane Wednesday to inform MSU students about the effects of global warming. Students painted the rock with the phrase, "start global cooling" as a part of Rising to the Challenge: A Week of Action.
Before becoming the general manager of 88.9 WDBM 18 years ago, Gary Reid was a professional musician.
Illegibly graded research papers, thousands of assigned pages to read, Web surfing instead of working and evil professors.
Over the next three years, MSU will extend programs to increase students' social and civic engagement within the community. Administrators plan to add service-learning and internship courses, study abroad programs and a class on civic responsibility designed to bring together students from different departments. This became possible because MSU was chosen along with 17 other universities to participate in Core Commitments Leadership Consortium — a grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities, or AAC&U.
The MSU Stonewall Democrats hope a reorganization of the group will create awareness for the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community on campus. Last semester, the group worked with the MSU College Democrats to get people to vote during the November elections. Now, the group has shifted its efforts back to activism, said Kate Lester, president of the Stonewall Democrats. In today's reorganizational meeting, Lester said she plans to set times and dates for group meetings, try to put together goals and establish an executive board.
Patricia Edwards first attended the National Reading Conference in 1983. In 2006, she organized the conference that took place in Los Angeles.
ECO, a student "sustainability organization" on campus, is hosting a "Week of Action" to inform the MSU community of the effects of climate change and how people can make a difference. Today, the group will be roving across campus to interview students about their thoughts on global warming.
With every keystroke, computer hackers try to work their way into your computer. But not if Robert LaRose and Nora Rifon, two MSU professors, can help it. Last year, the duo conducted a national survey of 557 home Internet users.
One MSU faculty member expressed concern that university officials are spreading resources too thin in terms of expanding medical colleges throughout the state. As administrators seal the deal with the College of Human Medicine's expansion into Grand Rapids, their attention now is focused on creating a "satellite campus" for the College of Osteopathic Medicine in eastern Michigan. However, the university must preserve its local clinical operation, said Jim Potchen, Executive Committee of Academic Council chairman. "This is an expansion and not a move," Potchen said.
Broken promises and a list of demands for on support and funding for the Chicano/Latino studies specialization program were discussed Thursday morning when 10 students met with university administrators. In fall 2005, students from the discipline met with Provost Kim Wilcox to voice concerns about the program's budget and future.
You may have thought it, and maybe even said it — the university doesn't care about the student voice. Now is your chance to make a difference and get your voice heard. About 15 seats are vacant on Academic Council.
Islam Awareness Week begins with a short documentary about a Christian living in a Muslim household in Dearborn.
Despite recent information listing Abrams Planetarium as possibly being demolished, Planetarium Director David Batch said those plans are "outdated." A Dec.
For some MSU advertising majors, the curvaceous and brightly colored FUZE Beverage bottles they're used to seeing behind the glass at Sparty's Convenience Stores could mean more than just quenching their thirst. The company rolled out its FUZE college ad campaign this week, offering students at more than 10 of the top advertising schools in the country a chance to design the beverage's next national marketing blitz. Instructor David Regan's advertising campaigns class was introduced to the competition Tuesday.
While they both came to MSU to further their careers, Ilsoon Lee and Troy Hendricks said the university gave them so much more — their families. Lee, a native of South Korea, came to MSU in 2002 and met his future wife while working in the same lab group. "Most foreign students, they are staying in the lab until evening," Lee said.