With a budget of about $150 and a planning committee of three, MSU students will have the opportunity to celebrate the 82nd International Women’s Day four days after the rest of the world.
MSU officials will be reevaluating a proposal for MSU to create a new for-profit Internet service providing company.MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon, who presented the proposal at last month’s Board of Trustees meeting, refused to comment about the reevaluation, saying it only was taken off the trustee’s agenda, not suspended.The proposal would have created an Internet service providing company operating with a lower overhead cost than local competitors.
Students will have a chance to vote on representation and tax increases when student election polls open today. Position elections for ASMSU, the undergraduate student government, and other changes will stay open until noon Saturday at www.student-elections.msu.edu.
Robert Cichewicz said he instantly noticed a difference when he entered the new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Library on Monday.“This one smells better,” the horticulture graduate student said.
MSU is responsible for 21 blind dates that have turned into relationships this semester.The Buddy Program combines an international graduate student with an American undergraduate student for eight weeks to introduce the buddies to each other’s cultures.
ASMSU officials are requesting changes to three parts of the organization’s constitution, including leadership guidelines.
Pink Floyd and the Pythagorean Theorem aren’t related - but Peter Bates, the new chairman of the Department of Mathematics, has experience with both.Between studying math books and taking tests at the University of London in the 1960s, Bates booked the rock band for a campus activity.“The student union wasn’t putting on any events so my friends and I took it upon ourselves and booked Pink Floyd,” he said.
Radio stations broadcasting on the Internet may have to dig deep into their pockets to keep the United States Copyright Office and the Recording Industry Association of America away.By May 21, a copyright office committee will decide whether to levy fees for Internet broadcasting.
Carleton College Professor Adeeb Khalid will give a speech entitled “Reform and Contention in Modern Islam” Tuesday. Khalid is appearing as part of a lecture series titled Middle East Contexts for September 11th. The lecture series accompanies a Department of History course this spring dealing with the Sept.
When Charles Breneman finally saw the high-tech equipment and white tiled floors of MSU’s Cyclotron, he was impressed.His son had worked at the facility as a summer job while attending MSU years ago, but he’d never seen the particle accelerator before.“It is a fascinating thing,” the Haslett school board member said.“There are so many opportunities and you don’t have to have a Ph.D.
Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders will speak in East Lansing Tuesday about attitudes, behaviors and perceptions associated with alcohol in university communities. Elders, the first black surgeon general, will give a speech entitled “Prevention or Punishment: Challenging the Environment of High-Risk Drinking in a University Community.” The presentation will be at 7 p.m.
The University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees Organization will have a one-day walk-out today, as members voted in favor of the action 462-106 last week. Organization members will form picket lines around major buildings and high traffic areas on the Ann Arbor campus.
Six months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Lansing Mayor David Hollister still has his eye to the sky. “We have been advised that middle-America capital cities could be targeted,” Hollister said.
For Tim Liss, the election for Residence Halls Association president ended where it began - Akers Hall.The journalism junior, who began his residency at MSU in Akers Hall, walked away from Wednesday’s RHA presidential elections with a victory over Holmes Hall Rep.
MSU Residence Halls Association’s general assembly is about to run out of money for the semester, but only after supplying money to every money-requesting student group that met the association’s donation criteria.When the association returns to business March 13, the MSU Student Food Bank and Case Hall likely will receive the remaining $3,417.33 in the general assembly budget for student activities.
Attending athletic events at MSU will be a little more expensive beginning this summer. Beginning July 1, parking rates will increase for all MSU athletics, university officials announced Thursday. The increase was put into effect to help defray the cost of increased security and parking lot repairs. Officials estimate MSU hosts about 650 special events every year.
Tuesday’s issue of Wayne State University’s student newspaper caused some to take a second look at a headline.
National Public Radio White House correspondent Don Gonyea will speak on campus next week. Gonyea, an MSU alumnus and native of Monroe, will present “Stories from the Bush White House” at Kellogg Center at 7 p.m.
The State News is requesting a $1 per semester tax increase when the universitywide polls open online March 12-16. The increase would up the tax from $4 to $5 per semester. “The State News wouldn’t be asking for it if it wasn’t needed,” Editor in Chief Jeremy Steele said.
For some students, spring break may be extended by one day.A one-day strike that calling for undergraduate students not to participate in class March 11 is being sponsored by Lansing-based Direct Action and Students for Economic Justice.The strike will be in support of MSU’s Graduate Employees Union, which is negotiating for its first contract.