At the Tuesday Steering Committee meeting, some faculty voiced their opinions and objections to a requirement for all staff to provide documents verifying dependents on university health plans. Since the “Jan.
Economics senior Adam Mitchell said hasn’t been serious about quitting smoking before, but this time he quitcold turkey.
Chemical engineering professor Bruce Dale’s contributions to alternative energy only begin with the driving of his Chevy Volt.
When professional writing senior Brooke Hawkins first saw the new River Trail Neighborhood Engagement Center, she was amazed. Although Hawkins no longer lives in the residence halls, she works at the River Trail Neighborhood’s Writing Center. “If this had happened when I was living in the dorms, I probably would have been happier,” Hawkins said.
From age six, Allison Koning knew she wanted to be a nurse. The accelerated BSN program is a consecutive 14-month undergraduate nursing program in the College of Nursing.
Sitting next to a table of board games and a bookshelf stocked with titles such as “The Gender Frontier” and “Lesbian and Gay Voices,” psychology senior and queer student Jennifer Wallsteadt made herself comfortable in the LGBT Resource Center, located in room 302 of Student Services.
The addition of a meditation room as part of the Butterfield Hall renovation project was announced at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, media general assembly meeting last Wednesday. Residence Education and Housing Services Assistant Director of Communications Ashley Chaney displayed a board with the plan and images of the meditation room at last week’s meeting. The room is set to open in August of 2014.
America’s Tea Party movement might be losing its influence and followers, a recent survey shows. Rasmussen Reports released a poll last week that shows the Tea Party movement is at its lowest popularity ever. The poll, conducted Jan. 3 and 4 from 1,000 likely voters, found 8 percent of respondents identified as members of the Tea Party movement, down from a high of 24 percent in April 2010.
At last Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, members of the board welcomed newly-elected Trustee Brian Mosallam to their team. In an interview with The State News, Mosallam talks tuition, college affordability and campaign promises.
At last Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, Democrat Joel Ferguson was re-elected as chairperson and Republican Brian Breslin was elected as vice chair of the board.
For Mika Obrecht, a junior at Howell High School, eating a “miracle berry” to change sour flavors sweet sounded like a crazy concept, but she was willing to try. The experiment was at one of more than 20 different booths educating participants about the nervous system at the third annual MSU Neuroscience Fair and Brain Bee, held Saturday afternoon at Biomedical Physical Sciences Building.
The future of college media, including MSU journalists, and their First Amendment rights could be at stake after a recent court ruling at Eastern Michigan University. The court ruled in favor of Eastern Michigan’s Counseling program, which dismissed a student counselor for refusing to work with a gay student for religious reasons.
To celebrate a new year and a new semester, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum held a welcome-back party for students Saturday night.
Last Friday, the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, announced an upcoming trip to watch MSU’s annual hockey game against rival University of Michigan on Feb. 2 at Joe Louis Arena, in Detroit. COGS will be providing 200 tickets to graduate students for $7 each. The ticket also will include free transportation to Detroit and back, if the student chooses.
Assistant professor within the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Jessica Luo Carlo died Jan. 2.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, welcomed the new semester Thursday evening at its weekly general assembly with a presentation from East Lansing Mayor Pro Tem Nathan Triplett.
Skating came naturally to elementary education junior Jessica Chartier. She started skating at age 7. Now, she could skate in circles around her former self as co-captain of the Spartan Synchronized Skating team. “We’re ready to skate, we’re ready to compete, we’re ready to try our best,” Chartier said.
After leading police during the Cedar Fest riots and regulating campus parking, MSU police Assistant Chief Mike Rice is leaving his beloved department to pursue his other passion: financial advising. Rice, an MSU alumnus, enjoyed a retirement party with a group of about 100 friends, family and fellow officers Thursday at Kellogg Center after 43 years, four months and seven days with the MSU Police Department. Rice will begin part-time financial advising Monday.
At MSU Physical Plant’s Construction Junction meeting Thursday morning, the plant’s engineer and architect John LeFevre announced the crosswalk near Bogue Street and Shaw Lane will be under construction this summer to eliminate the intersection’s roundabout.
The MSU Board of Trustees will meet at 3:30 p.m. today at the Administration Building to discuss filling open administrative positions, university spokesperson Kent Cassella said.