Crop and soil sciences senior Pat Owens is one of three students that resides on the MSU Sheep and Teaching Research Facility and has been for two years. “It’s a lot of fun, you get to meet a lot more people living here and we get along really well with the boss,” Owens said.
Child abuse is rare at MSU but when it does occur the university now has a policy in place to help address the situation. The policy first was adopted in January. An updated in August, with the update allows for an in-house decision on whether to report prior incidents of child abuse that adult students disclose to MSU faculty or staff, usually verbally or through academic assignments.
The dean of MSU’s College of Communication Arts & Sciences announced that she accepted a top administrative position at the University of Georgia Thursday afternoon in a letter to college faculty and staff. Dean Pamela Whitten’s position as the vice president for academic affairs and provost for the University of Georgia will begin on Feb.
MSU’s Sankofa Graduate Association, along with various other student organizations, will be addressing the recent tragic death of Renisha McBride through a discussion event at 4 p.m. today in the Union’s Multicultural Center. The event, Justice For Renisha McBride: A discussion of race, gender and violence, will serve as a conversation, addressing the issue and teaching students ways to take action and protect themselves, said Janelle Edwards, program coordinator for the Sankofa Graduate Association.
Despite a three percent overall improvement in the college labor market this year, graduates will continue to face challenges as they search for jobs, according to the 2013-14 MSU Recruiting Trends report. Nearly all undergraduate majors will experience an increase in hiring this year, according to the report.
Hundreds of eager fans gathered at the NCG Eastwood Cinemas on Wednesday evening for a special advanced screening of the second part of the Hunger Games film series, ‘Catching Fire.’
Nestled in a far corner of the Plant and Soil Sciences Building, the MSU Salsa Club slowly transformed room A149 from a classroom to a ballroom, complete with decorations to fit the winter wonderland theme of their dance class. The makeshift classroom was momentarily adorned with snowflakes, tinsel and candy canes. Although the decor was whimsical, the cause was serious: raising money for the benefit of the people in the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan.
Students and faculty gathered Wednesday night at the Rock to celebrate Transgender Day of Remembrance and recognize the deaths of transgender individuals through a candlelight vigil. The national annual event brought out students and faculty members to show their support on issues faced in the transgender community and remember those were killed for being transgender.
For a brief moment, it looked as though a time-honored tradition at the Breslin Center of giving all fans in attendance a free taco if the basketball team scored more than 70 points was in jeopardy. It appears the worry may be coming to an end. Taco Bell Corp. said in a statement that the company plans to continue the promotion at 10 local Taco Bell stores, the Associated Press reported.
A new Twitter hashtag has opened the doors for a slew of comments providing an honest, uncensored look at how black MSU students view their university experience. The hashtag “BBMSU,” short for “Being Black at MSU,” recently was created to publicize both positive and negative experiences and aspects of the university that black students have noticed.
A new student group on-campus has been “on the rise” lately, promoting social involvement and community service. On The Rise was formed through a casual conversation between social relations and public policy junior K’Lynn Victoria Thomas and Joshua Gillespie, assistant director at Residence Education and Housing Services, or REHS.
Anything from an on-campus laboratory to an MSU student’s dorm room has a chance to earn Green Certification from the Office of Campus Sustainability.
For the first time in 141 years, MSU officials formally recognized the Greek community as student organizations during a relationship statement signing.
The 2013-14 budget update was presented at Tuesday’s University Council meeting, with the report stressing the estimated impact of the federal budget sequestration, or series of federal spending cuts, that took more than $16.7 million out of MSU’s research budget alone. “This represents the sequester as it is currently implemented,” MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon said during the meeting. “There is another fear of the sequester that if there is no budget deal, there will be a 12 percent decrease effective in the January or February timeframe.”
For physiology senior Mohkam Singh, every morning is somewhat the same. The alarm wakes him up about an hour before class; he showers, eats, then begins to get ready for the day. Singh picks out what he will wear without forgetting to add a very important final touch — his turban. “It takes me about 5-10 minutes to tie my turban in the morning,” said Singh, who’s been wearing a head turban since childhood.
A pool of 100 candidates for MSU’s new Vice President for Strategic Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, or VP for SIPF, was narrowed down to one today when the recommended candidate was announced. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon recommended Kemel Dawkins to be the next VP for SIPF. The announcement comes more than two months after Dawkins was named as one of the three finalists for the position.
The academic courses young adults take have a large influence on the friendships they form in both high school and college, according to a national study conducted by an MSU professor. The study evaluates high school students, but the same principles carry over to students when they eventually go to college, said Kenneth Frank, a professor in MSU’s College of Education and the study’s leader.
A severe storm whipped through East Lansing on Sunday night, causing damage and power outages for students, residents and officials. The storm started at about 5 p.m. and continued with high winds throughout Sunday night and into Monday.
Despite having the youngest team in decades, the MSU Fencing club is looking to their upcoming competition with confidence. Meg Green, the women’s sabre captain, described the season so far as “fantastic” despite the large amount of young players.
Computer science junior Jordyn Castor can’t learn the concepts of physics the same way her MSU peers do. Castor has been blind since birth after being born 15 weeks premature.