Apparel and textile design senior Amber Bembnister has been busy this month. The peer-elected student director of the second annual ATD Fashion Show has been working closely with fellow students and faculty advisers to make sure the production goes off without a hitch.
A blog created last year by MSU graduate students about the ups and downs of graduate student life recently has partnered with news publication Inside Higher Education. The blog, GradHacker.org, officially began publishing on the Inside Higher Education website in December 2011 and now averages between 3,000-4,000 unique hits per day, said graduate student and GradHacker co-editor Katy Meyers.
Red, green and black decorations, jazz music and the smell of soul food greeted members of the MSU community during East Neighborhood’s Soul Food Extravaganza! on Thursday evening. The event, hosted by East Neighborhood and Culinary Services, was held at Akers Hall cafeteria and helped celebrate Black History Month.
Zack Sztanyo will make his debut on the big screen in his first-ever full-length feature film Friday. But the political science senior said he is much more nervous than he is excited. “I hate seeing myself act,” Sztanyo said.
Nearly four years after fighting the university to address policy issues that landed her in front of the Student-Faculty Judiciary Board, former ASMSU Association Director Kara Spencer once again discussed MSU policy issues on campus, along with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE.
This year, instead of giving up the usual temptations for Lent — candy, sweets and pop — interior design junior Amanda Devera is striving for more. “They’re my weakness,” she said. “But I think this year, I decided to not give something up … and (instead) go to church more.”
From severe weather to disease outbreaks, MSU’s emergency operations plan is an evolving set of procedures officials are using to react to life-threatening situations.
For the past three weeks, finance freshman Erin Lasenby has spent about three to five hours a day with her friends.
State senators quickly pushed through a bill Wednesday that would strip some graduate student employees of the right to bargain for pay and other benefits through labor unions. The bill, which first was introduced in the Senate last week, would prohibit graduate research assistants from forming unions, which are designed to protect the rights of student workers.
Today, Steve Coffman, 64, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MSU in 1969 and 1976 respectively, has run in 73 marathons and is preparing for his 74th in April, this year’s Boston Marathon. It will be Coffman’s 35th consecutive Boston Marathon.
When Israeli soldiers came to campus Tuesday, a struggle overseas was brought to East Lansing after a group of student activists protested the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. As an Emerson Fellow for StandWithUs, a program that aims to educate students across the globe about Israeli affairs, political theory and constitutional democracy senior Raffi Appel invited special guests to campus to share their side of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.student group protests war with walkout
A lawsuit claiming the MSU College of Law discriminated against a 61-year-old job applicant is moving forward after a federal court ruling Friday. The suit, which first was filed July 28, 2011, by Nicholas Spaeth, claimed the MSU College of Law and five other law schools discriminated against him because of his age when they reviewed job applicants.
When international relations junior Sam Kilberg spent 10 weeks studying abroad in China last summer, he said he made lifelong friends and completed his entire third-level Chinese language requirements. “I had the trip of a lifetime,” Kilberg said.
Special education sophomore Cheryl Graff stopped by the Union on Tuesday to pick up etiquette tips that could help make or break a lunch or dinner meeting during her future career.
A university document regarding student rights and responsibilities could see an update if ASMSU and university officials come to a consensus on necessary changes in the next month.
Students interested in hearing from five of Michigan’s medical schools can attend the third annual Michigan Medical Schools Night from 6:30-9 p.m. tonight on the first floor of the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
MSU students will be holding a bone marrow drive Friday for a University of Michigan student diagnosed with aplastic anemia, a condition in which a person stops producing a sufficient amount of new blood cells.
When Shelly Bennett found her roommate sleeping naked in their Wonders Hall room while the athletic training freshman’s 13-year-old brother was visiting, she knew her living situation wasn’t working out.
There’s two primary living options in East Lansing: on- and off-campus housing. Each have their own merits.
Students interested in living on campus often are inundated with special deals, events and activities, but one way to stay involved in on-campus happenings is to stay updated with the Residence Halls Association, or RHA. RHA is the on-campus student government at MSU, which serves more than 15,000 students and provides a number of services through hall governments and free student events. RHA President Sarah Pomeroy said the group not only provides representation of campus residents to university administrators but also provides entertainment and health tips for on- and off-campus residents. One of the more well-known activities the group provides is its weekend movies at Wells Hall, which are free to on-campus residents with a valid ID.