White and red candles, laid out in a star shape on the floor, flickered in the dark Culturas de las Razas Unidas room, as no-preference freshman Maggie Pena told her story. "While my brother and I were admiring his car, in the corner of my eye I spotted a lady in white in the middle of the street, and he saw a lady in black run behind our house," she said.
Autumn Boggues didn't expect to be surrounded by security guards during her first visit to Sparty's Night Club last month."When we started to dance, we noticed about 12 security guards watching us, and they would not leave," the political science and pre-law freshman said.
Sandy Mazzoni never worried about locking the door to her Mason Hall room."I feel relatively safe," she said.
The Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson said African Americans have a long way to go.The second speaker in the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series delivered the message of acknowledging all aspects of black culture and increasing opportunities for all disadvantaged people in the United States."We are a long way from where we should be," he said.
The breakup of the Department of Romance and Classical Languages was approved 7-1 at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday.Trustee Donald Nugent voted against the proposal saying the project should be delayed for one year until the proposed $5-million state-funding cut can be resolved.The split restructures the current program into two new departments: one comprised of Spanish and Portuguese and the other of French, Italian and classical languages.MSU President M.
Dick Gaither travels the country conducting seminars for students to improve their interviewing skills, and on Wednesday, he came to the MSU-Detroit College of Law.Gaither said he gets all sorts of questions."They will come and ask me 'I got that tattoo with the tongue of the snake going into my ear, will this stop me from finding work?'" Gaither, president of Job Search Training Systems Inc. "You're not going to be as valuable a candidate as opposed to someone without the tattoo."Gaither gives students advice on how to go into an interview prepared, confident and ready to answer tough questions.He explained if someone asks, "Why should I hire you?" a person answering they will be asset to the company is not enough.
Riki Wilchins says gender identity has been left behind.The executive director of the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, spoke on the importance of gender identity education Tuesday in Wells Hall.Wilchins, a gay rights activist, helped establish the Gender Identity Program of New York City's Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center in 1991 and authored many books, including "Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender," on gender identity."No one should be punished because of how they act," she said in her speech.
MSU has formed a group to review residence hall security measures on campus. Director of University Housing Angela Brown, Residence Halls Association President Tim Liss and MSU police Capt.
The MSU Office of the President, the Office of the Provost and ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, are sponsoring a "Presidential Forum on Iraq" at 7 p.m.
MSU's new Peace and Justice Studies program will sponsor a lecture at 3 p.m. Friday in B-104 Wells Hall. The keynote speaker is Hans Joas, director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, at the University of Erfurt in Germany. Joas also is a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and will speak on his book, "War and Modernity." "We hope to have an important scholar come every year," philosophy Professor Richard Peterson said.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety will hit the airwaves tonight to help solve last month's assault of an MSU student held at knife point.On Jan.
MSU needs to make long-term decisions that will help future students, rather than patching up small holes with short-term fixes, MSU President M.
The ASMSU director of technology has been fired in the middle of a redesign of the organization's Web site. Officials for MSU's undergraduate student government said David Wilson was let go because he failed to show up for work at the beginning of the semester. Wilson was hired as the director of technology in October.
The State News took first place in general excellence in Division I of the Michigan Collegiate Press Association's College Newspaper Contest. It's the second year the newspaper competed in the contest.
Activist Amado Balderas will be speaking about Chicano and Latino studies Thursday in Wilson Hall. Balderas, a high school history teacher in Texas, contributed to the creation of El Sexto Sol de MEChA at the University of Texas-Pan American. Balderas will be speaking from 7-8:30 p.m.
The women of Delta Sigma Theta want people to open their pockets. The sorority recently began fund-raising efforts to assist the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. to aid residents of the small town of Tulia, Texas. Last summer, 46 Tulia, Texas residents were arrested as part of a drug sting conducted by a special police officer brought in by the Cochran County Police Department. Of those arrested, 40 were black, three were Mexican, and three were whites in interracial relationships. According to the video, the officer had no tangible evidence to convict the citizens, except for his handwriting on his leg that he wrote during a drug deal. "I was surprised that they didn't have any evidence against them, and the only thing they had was him writing on his leg," merchandising management sophomore Glenda Olivache said. Standing in front of the room handing out brochures and pledge sheets, social relations senior Malaika Ward urged everyone to persuade as many people as they can to donate money. "And what's the word we're going to use?" asked Ward, social action chair for the sorority. "Tax-deductible," the audience responded in unison. Several residents are still incarcerated.
Communication professor Frank Boster wishes his mentors could see him receive his Distinguished Faculty Award. "I wish they had been around to see that the time they invested in me wasn't a waste," Boster said, remembering his former MSU professors who recently died.
More Spartans are volunteering overseas. The MSU Peace Corps is ranked seventh in the nation in terms of the number of volunteers serving abroad, a jump from last year's rating, which put MSU in 14th place.
The possible split of a language department, the restoration of Marshall Hall and improvements to Spartan Stadium are on this month's MSU Board of Trustees meeting agenda.The meeting will be held at 9 a.m.
A new MSU e-mail Web site has been delayed due to a glitch in the software, computer lab officials said.The system, which would make Telnet e-mail access obsolete, will hopefully be launched before spring break, interim computer lab director Tom Davis said.Davis said the system's problem arose last week and needs to be fixed before students and faculty can access their revamped e-mail accounts.