The National Endowment for the Humanities named MSU a recipient of the $500,000 challenge grant to help fund the LeFrak Forum. MSU is one of 17 grant recipients across the country.
The Executive Committee of Academic Council spent the majority of their meeting Tuesday talking about where to send a proposal that would change what colleges hold the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
When deciding between using birth control pills or condoms to protect her during sex, Dina Tashjian, a pre-medical freshman, chooses both. "I'm not sleeping around, I have a boyfriend, but it seems safer - a double protection - to use condoms as well as pills," Tashjian said. According to a study, paid for in part by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Tashjian is right to be careful.
MSU's nonpartisan voter task force is beginning a late push to register students for the upcoming presidential election. YouVote began the first of its five residence hall voter registration drives Tuesday in Brody Hall, and will continue until Oct.
ASMSU will soon review its services and procedures in a committee proposed last spring. The Constitutional Convention Committee will meet to discuss MSU's undergraduate student government after they fill three committee seats reserved for at-large students. ASMSU's Steering Committee met Friday to recommend both the Student and Academic Assembly chairpersons to draft letters to college deans requesting students to sit on the committee.
An online map indicating the accessible areas on campus was completed last week and is due to be available on the MSU Web site this month. The map project was brought to Director of the Office of Affirmative Action, Compliance, and Monitoring Paulette Granberry Russell's attention last year by Council for Students with Disabilities members.
Olin Health Center will hold once-monthly Saturday gynecology clinics from 10 a.m.-1p.m. Kathi Braunlich, Olin's spokeswoman, said weekend clinics have been implemented at the requests of students.
University officials are warning students to get ready to party with Sparty. By highlighting MSU's international and academic reputations while recognizing its lengthy history, those planning the university's 150th birthday, or sesquicentennial celebration, say the year-long soiree will be one to remember. "The events will showcase our intellectual energy," said Sue Carter, co-chairwoman for the sesquicentennial.
About a dozen students from MSU and the University of Michigan met in the Union Sunday for a student summit aimed at defeating the Michigan Marriage Amendment. Visitors from the Coalition for a Fair Michigan, the Triangle Foundation, Michigan Equality, the Ypsilanti Campaign for Equality and the Stonewall Democrats spoke to students about advocating against voting for the amendment. "This is the first statewide campaign that's ever happened in the state of Michigan that has to do with LBGT issues," said Ethan Roeder, field director for Coalition for a Fair Michigan.
The MSU College of Law will host the 2004 Patent Law Day conference today. The conference is the beginning of a series of meetings and events organized throughout the year by the law college's Intellectual Property and Communications Law Program. The program was founded in 2003 and has since become a leading national program working on intellectual property rights and communications law issues. Conference speakers scheduled to appear include Judge Avern Cohn of the U.S.
Parents looking to send their children to MSU can do so using today's prices by purchasing a Michigan Education Trust contract.
Members of the new student religious group, the Round Table, met Sunday at the Islamic Center of Greater Lansing in an effort to understand the positions various religions have taken on the Sept.
The American Red Cross Mid-Michigan Chapter is seeking a more defined relationship with the Residence Halls Association after years of hosting blood drives on MSU's campus. On Wednesday a long-debated bill that would create the union did not pass during a RHA general assembly meeting. The bill sought the association's support with on-campus advertising for blood drives and other services offered by the American Red Cross.
By KRISTI JOURDAN Special for The State News The International Center was full Saturday night with students interested in trying henna tattoos, listening to live music and winning a variety of prizes. The University Activities Board provided five hours of entertainment, known as the annual Super Saturday Night, to get students interested in what UAB offers. "Students like free things," UAB Assistant Director Cathy Carson said.
One of MSU's devoted volunteer program directors will be leaving on Nov. 22 to serve in Balad, Iraq. Carlos Fuentes received a call in March informing him that his unit, F Company 238 AVIM, was placed on red alert.
Kristin Dierwa passed out the last time she donated blood to the American Red Cross, but it did not prevent her from rolling up her sleeve to give more in the North Wonders Hall blood drive early Wednesday morning.
Some student organizations are willing to sacrifice profits to provide students with low-cost entertainment. The Residence Halls Association's first general assembly meeting Wednesday passed a bill to provide $3,700 for the Gavin DeGraw concert held today in the Union Ballroom. Funds for the singer/songwriter's already sold-out show were passed before the year's budget was approved because the money was needed for today. However, some general assembly members questioned if RHA will profit from the concert. "This is a rare situation where we don't make a profit," RHA President Ernest Drake said.
At its first meeting Wednesday, Council of Graduate Students members discussed how they could influence existing university committees and form their own for graduate students. After electing two students to committees in Academic Governance, COGS members discussed nominations for their finance committee and for the Academic Council's provost-search committee. COGS will recommend four of its members for the committee, of which two representatives will be selected in late September, COGS president Carl Newman said. "We'd like to get a list of people for the committee as soon as possible," Newman said.
The success of last month's bike clinic prompted the MSU Bike Project to hold clinics every Tuesday throughout the semester. Bike clinics were initially scheduled for once a month.
Residence Halls Association movie offices opened Wednesday with the launch of a new online movie rental system called Lending And Management Program, or LAMP. The program requires students to register online at rha.msu.edu/LAMP to rent movies.