The MSU Students for Palestinian Human Rights is sponsoring a film viewing today to increase conversation on campus about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The documentary "Women In Struggle" will play at 7:30 p.m.
Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly will elect the group's new president at 7 p.m.
At its Tuesday meeting, the Executive Committee of Academic Council passed a motion to hold all Academic Senate meetings in future years on the last Thursday of regular courses during the fall and spring semester. "We need to set these meetings way in advance," said Muralee Nair, horticulture professor and member of the Executive Committee. The decision was prompted by the difficulty Executive Committee members had in setting this spring's second senate meeting around both faculty and administrators' schedules. Academic Senate is a faculty-wide forum that met for the first time in eight years last spring.
There's more to eating disorders than eating. MSU graduate student Tiffany Titus knows this firsthand after suffering from both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa for more than five years, she said. "It's a way to deal with emotions I don't want to deal with," Titus said. This week, she is helping the group Respecting and Understanding Body Image get attention for the problem as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
Culturas De Las Razas Unidas, or CRU, and the Chicano/Latino Association held a reception Tuesday night at the Union for discussion between faculty members and students to find ways to improve graduation and retention rates for minority students. Increasing communication between Chicano/Latino faculty and students helps ensure that students will make it to graduation day, said CRU co-Chair Isaias Solis.
When East Lansing residents Patricia and David Brogan were MSU undergraduates in the 1950s, they experienced events firsthand that are now history. They remember the annual "Water Carnival" on the Red Cedar River and David Brogan's attendance at the 1954 Rose Bowl as a sophomore, during which MSU defeated the University of California, Los Angeles. Photographs of these events are part of "Memories of MSU," an exhibit that opened Sunday at the MSU Museum and will continue through December. The exhibit is a look back at the last 150 years of MSU through photographs, artifacts and timelines from students' perspectives. "It's fun to see it," Patricia Brogan said.
State News photographers swept the category for the Michigan Press Photographers Association's College Photographer of the Year award at the organization's annual conference last weekend. The category contains first, second and third ranking and two honorable mentions. The MPPA honors professional and student photographers from across the state for submissions in categories ranging from feature photos to sports photos.
About 250 students attended the Midwest Association of Filipino Americans, or MAFA, conference this weekend. The annual assembly, which is held at a different school every year, brings together students from a variety of Midwestern colleges and universities to promote unity and educate them about Filipino American history and culture. "The Filipino American population in the Midwest is very small," said MAFA co-coordinator R.J.
Out of the nearly 2,000 faculty members invited, 100 showed up to the Academic Senate meeting on Friday.
A 2-foot-tall, milk-chocolate giraffe and an edible African tribal mask were put on display for chocolate lovers to admire and drool over at the MSU Museum's 16th annual Chocolate Party Benefit on Sunday at the Kellogg Center. The sweet sculptures and molds were part of a chocolatier competition for chefs and culinary students from across the state to portray the party's "Out of Africa" theme.
As the first notes of the "Selena" soundtrack began, a group of about 25 students began cutting loose on the first floor of the Administration Building on Thursday.
To bring faculty members up to speed on important university issues from last spring, MSU is convening a session of Academic Senate today. Last April, about 700 faculty convened for the first time in eight years to address faculty members' concerns that their input was not being received by MSU administrators on major issues. Today, faculty will be updated on issues pertaining to MSU President Lou Anna K.
In the quest for more clout while bargaining for a new contract, the Graduate Employees Union protested outside the Union and on the bridge between Wells Hall and the Administration Building on Thursday. "The more voices we can get and the more support from the MSU community we have, the more power we have at the bargaining table," GEU member Mat Bartkowiak said. Bartkowiak shouted, "MSU is losing in the Big Ten," to draw attention to scoreboards.
Local gym managers said renovations being made to the IM Sports-West are long overdue, but they're not worried about the competition. "It's great the school has put money back into the university," said Powerhouse Gym manager Kellee Ostrander.
An estimated 1,000 women will come together Saturday to address the needs and concerns of the Chicano and Latino community for the 12th annual Día de la Mujer, or Day of the Woman, conference at Kellogg Center. The theme for the event, "Comadres Developing a Plan of Action," was created to empower, motivate and inspire Latinas in their quest for advancement, and help bring the community into a new area of advancement, said conference coordinator Mar'a Zavala. The event focuses on women because women are traditionally leaders in Chicano and Latino families because they raise the children, Zavala said. Comadres, Zavala said, is a Chicano and Latino word that signifies a time that brings women of all generations together to push a child forward into adulthood. "In this instance, it's a push to get the conference into maturity to develop issues and a plan for action," she said. The conference's 25 workshops will focus on issues that impact women in the Chicano and Latino community.
Jeffrey Docking, an East Lansing native and MSU alumnus who has spent the last eight years at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., is returning to Michigan in July when he becomes Adrian College's 17th president.
Although many students are scrambling to meet the April 15 tax deadline, the process of filing can be even more complicated for international students, said officials at the MSU tax clinic. The Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, doesn't allow the electronic filling of the 10-40NR, which is what a non-U.S.
Using frosting, licorice, chocolate chips and sprinkles, international relations sophomore Lindsay Miller constructed an edible map of Israel. Miller and two other students constructed their sweet geographical creations Tuesday night at the Hillel Jewish Student Center, 360 Charles St.
Student Parents On a Mission co-Chairperson Melissa Alsobrooks told student government leaders at the group's Feb.
Giant foam dice bounced across a board symbolizing the United States as part of the "Play Hard, Play Safe and Play Again" game Tuesday in Shaw Hall's cafeteria. The game was part of the annual Spring Break Safety Fair coordinated by the Women's Resource Center, or WRC, with the help of Olin Health Center, which runs the game. "I think the most important thing is just a reminder you need to protect yourself on spring break," said Olin health educator Jon Kermiet.