Plates full of cookies and jugs of juice were placed on a table in the Bailey Hall lounge Monday. Red and blue lawn chairs were strategically placed around the rest of the room as American Red Cross workers in white lab coats patiently waited for students to come in and donate blood. The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge began Monday and will run until Nov.
She’s already a racial ethnic student aide at Hubbard Hall, working an outside job and taking 15 credits toward her criminal justice degree. Now add to sophomore Faye Higgs’ schedule: four hours of practice, five nights a week. “I have 300 black students to be there for, 20 meetings a month and an outside job,” she said. But Higgs said it’s worth it to be a dancer in the 12th annual Fake the Funk at the Breslin Center, where more than 9,000 cheering attendants checked out her moves Saturday evening. “It’s time-consuming,” she said.
MSU’s two largest student governments - who have not always been on the best of terms - have taken steps to improve their working relationship this year. “Quite a few years ago, RHA and ASMSU did have some major communication problems,” ASMSU Student Assembly Chairperson Matt Weingarden said.
Small white crosses lined the grass around the rock on Farm Lane. On each of the crosses, which stood no more than a foot off the ground, students wrote the name of a loved one who passed away. A little altar has been built near the crosses, with offerings of bread to the spirits of ancestors.
Whenever psychology freshman Laura Mitus walks around Snyder Hall, she sees the same girls every day.
Group to plant flowers for hall beautificationAt 10 a.m. on Saturday, the Briggs Ambassadors, a group of students who promote the Lyman Briggs School, are helping to beautify Holmes Hall.
All Gina King could do was sit and watch the news from her East Lansing home and worry about her family in Virginia as a sniper terrorized the Washington, D.C., area.When the smoke settled after a three-week shooting spree, 10 people had been shot to death and three were wounded.Two suspects, John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were arrested on Oct.
Salman Ateequi carefully passed a SIG-Sauer handgun off to his classmate after he practiced aiming and balancing an empty bullet shell on the gun’s barrel by dry shooting the weapon.With just three sessions of the Citizen’s Police Academy remaining, Ateequi says he knows a great deal about community policing.
The major-party candidates for two open seats on MSU’s Board of Trustees squared off in a relatively mundane debate Wednesday night at the Communication Arts and Sciences Building. GOP state Sen.
MSU Libraries, Computing & Technology is hosting Michigan Writers’ Series, featuring readings and discussions with prominent Michigan writers.
The Office of Minority Student Services in the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine is presenting an informational seminar titled “So You Wanna be a D.O.ctor: Pre-medical Student Informational Seminar” on Nov.
Greeks at MSU are earning better grades in their classes, and their grade-point averages have been rising for at least the past five years.The Spring 2002 Greek Academic Report says all Interfraternity Council groups averaged a 2.831 GPA, up from 2.689 in spring 1997.
Dressed in elaborate costumes, a group of people re-enact the crucifixion of Christ in Chicago.A 9-foot-tall statue of the virgin Mary is paraded through the streets of Grand Rapids.These images, mounted on the burgundy background in the lobby of the Main Library, are part of a photo exhibit celebrating Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican holiday honoring the dead.The exhibit was taken by history Assistant Professor Juan Javier Pescador.
In three years, MSU students might have a new place on campus to see a concert, a lecture or even to have a class.
Six years ago, the food demonstration portion of Healthy U was a disaster.Chef Mike Homan of the Michigan Athletic Club, 2900 Hannah Blvd., had to haul all the food and equipment through the Union just to teach some MSU employees how to cook a meal.But that’s a thing of the past.Now Homan finds himself working the food presentations only a hop, skip and a jump away from his kitchen at the MAC - just across the hall.“The morning of it is tough, but once you get involved in the crowd it’s fun,” Homan said.
Four candidates for the MSU Board of Trustees will debate at 6 p.m. today in 145 Communication Arts and Sciences Building. Bill Ballenger, editor and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics, will serve as moderator.
ASMSU’s director of human resources - the person in charge of hiring and firing organizational officials - resigned during the weekend.Derek Werner, former ASMSU Director of Human Resources, resigned in an e-mail to Interim Association Director James Perra.
The second floor lounge in the Union was filled with the bellowing voices of students waiting for their shot at stardom.But one voice could faintly be heard echoing from within the confines of the women’s bathroom.“I didn’t want anybody to hear me singing, it was a nervous thing,” said general business administration and pre-law sophomore Rochelle Haqq.
The ninth annual MSU-Penn State University blood drive, “Defending Our Title, Defending the Blood Supply,” will take place from Nov.
Prevention for the West Nile virus will be assessed sooner next spring than this year, according to county health officials. Michigan reported the second-highest number of human cases of West Nile virus this year, with 463 infections and 36 deaths.