For Biggie Lemke, it took six years to feel comfortable with her body."There's no such thing as an eating disorder that's not that bad," the former MSU student said.
Lights, waterfalls and fake foliage brought one student group's dream to life on Wednesday. A model of the proposed student greenhouse project was on display Wednesday in the Union. The model featured running water, working lights and detailed pathways of a biodome to grab the attention of students passing by. "There's a need for a public greenhouse on campus," education junior Zac Oppenheim said.
Students looking to have their voice heard at the spring 2003 commencement ceremony now have their chance. Applications for a student commencement speaker are available in Room 101 Student Services. Those who wish to apply must submit a five-minute typed speech along with the application. The deadline to apply is 5 p.m.
Three years of changes to a document that governs graduate students were approved by the Academic Council on Tuesday.The Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities Document cements the rights of graduate students, lays out the steps for filing grievances and explains the processes for theses and dissertations.The document was created in 1971 and had not been modified since 1984, Graduate School Dean Karen Klomparens said.The changes must be approved by the MSU Board of Trustees to be considered official.Among the changes to the document is a mention of the Graduate Employees Union, which was formally recognized in April 2001."We needed to catch up and recognize the contracted union," she said.Minor word changes also needed to be made to the document to stay current with the times, while substantive changes were made to clarify language, she said.References to "typing" when referring to a thesis or dissertation were amended to include "word processing." The new document also guarantees legal representation to graduate students accused of a criminal offense, said chemistry graduate student Sam Howerton, who was president of the Council of Graduate Students three years ago when the changes began.Howerton said these changes were made with a desire to improve the university but will probably go unnoticed by most students."This document is transparent to most graduate students except for those few individuals who end up having problems," he said.
About 10,000 free condoms will be distributed on campus in the next few days, in an effort to increase health awareness. The Residence Halls Association and Olin Health Center are heading up the initiative after releasing the results of a recent health survey.
Applications are available to join the Senior Class Council for the 2003-2004 academic year. Any junior or returning senior is eligible to sign up. The deadline to apply is Thursday.
Adam Raezler's ASMSU application almost didn't make it into the pile because of a little confusion his freshman year. "It was the first time I'd been to that end of campus and I got lost," the political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore said. Raezler said just as he was considering giving up, he found the building and now sits on the MSU undergraduate student government's Academic Assembly as a representative for James Madison College. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m.
In an effort to make multi-disciplinary environmental science missions across campus more visible, MSU's Board of Trustees approved the Environmental Sciences and Policy program at its February meeting. The program will be headed by Thomas Dietz, an environmental science and public policy professor from George Mason University in Virginia. "Michigan State does world-class research, education and outreach in environmental science and policy," Dietz said in a written statement. "Our new program will make the work more visible, make it more easily available to those who have to make decisions about the environment and, by making links across the field, lead to better science and better decisions," he said. Currently, MSU's classes, research and outreach programs in environmental science are spread throughout several departments and colleges in the university, including the colleges of social science, natural science and agriculture and natural resources. The new program will allow undergraduate and graduate students to specialize in environmental science and policy. Provost Lou Anna Simon said the new program will allow the university to focus and align its environmental science strengths for the advantage of students and faculty. "MSU has an enormous amount of strengths around the university in environmental science," Simon said.
Conservative speaker Daniel J. Flynn is bringing his message on "Why the Left Hates America" to MSU today. Flynn will speak at 7:30 p.m.
After last week's $12.5-million cut to Michigan's Life Sciences Corridor, MSU researchers competing for grant money from the program are worried about their research.The cut, which is part of Gov.
In about four years, an alcohol abuse awareness program that originated at MSU has spread to 73 schools nationwide.
ASMSU is moving forward with plans to establish a scholarship and to rededicate its conference room in honor of the late Charles Beachnau.Beachnau, who was the MSU undergraduate student government's association director, died in June of a heart attack.
A panel of researchers and medical ethicists will convene for an animal biotechnology forum to discuss cloning at 7 p.m.
A model of the proposed student greenhouse project will be displayed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday on the first floor of the Union. The model is five feet in diameter, said Philip Lamoureux, director of the Student Greenhouse Project, and includes running water, benches and lights.
Enrollment in computer science classes is declining at MSU.George Stockman, a professor of computer science and engineering, said in his 20 years at MSU, he's seen waves of student demand in the field."When I came here in 1982, we were graduating a lot of bachelor's degree students, and not so many graduate students," he said.
The MSU Mock Trial Team will be heading to a national competition in Iowa. The team won a bid to the American Mock Trial Association Grand National Tournament, which will take place April 4-6 in Des Moines, Iowa. "I couldn't believe it," international relations sophomore Justin Kuxhaus said.
The female journalism sophomore diagnosed with a meningitis-like disease last month has been moved out of intensive care, a source close to the student said Sunday. The student, whose identity and condition are being withheld at her family's request, is recovering at Lansing's Sparrow Hospital, where she was previously in a medically-induced coma. Hospital officials confirmed the student is still in the hospital's care. The student will undergo rehabilitation at the hospital and doctors are not certain when she will be released, the source said. The student, who is a resident of the ninth floor of South Hubbard Hall, was diagnosed with meningococcemia on Jan.
More than 50 students came to hear actor Wes Studi speak on the parallels between the Iraqi people and Native Americans at the first annual North American Indian Student Organization conference this weekend.Four schools - the University of Michigan, Northern Michigan University, Lansing Community College and MSU - were represented at the two-day conference in the Union and attended workshops about leadership and affirmative action.The conference didn't draw as many people as the group had hoped, NAISO Co-Chairman Bryan Newland said."There wasn't as much as we were expecting, but I think the weather caused some problems," he said.
Students have a new way to keep up-to-date with the MSU Residence Halls Association. RHA has developed a new, more interactive Web site to make it easier for students to get information, RHA technology director Nick Clark said. Clark said he has been working on the site since last summer, but it is now easier to use. The site sports the group's new logo and many Web forums. "The site that they had last year was really bad because it was just one page of text that didn't get changed, ever," Clark said.
ASMSU is putting the pressure on student groups to remind them that pies are for eating, not throwing.MSU's undergraduate student government has been discussing harassment toward professors and might initiate a proposal to condemn such actions.Statistics and probability Associate Professor Vincent Melfi was hit with a cream pie-like object as he was lecturing to his Statistics 315 class on Nov.