More than 200 members and friends of the MSU International Students Association, or ISA, gathered at the East Lansing Marriott at University Place ballroom, 300 M.A.C. Ave., Friday night in a blur of dresses, finger foods and laughing couples.
Residence Halls Association President Mark Dobson was named President of the Year this weekend at the Michigan Organization of Residence Hall Associations, or MORHA, conference at Western Michigan University. MORHA is comprised of 11 Residence Hall Associations.
MSU malaria prevention group Students Taking on Malaria Prevention, or STOMP, entered an international competition Thursday to secure a $25,000 donation to equip about 135 homes in Kenya with mosquito netting.
For the University Activities Board, comedy is another way for students to get into campus happenings. Last Tuesday, UAB held auditions for Last Spartan Standing, a comedy competition for aspiring campus comedians.
An MSU professor hopes to teach students to do just that — teach. Diane Ebert-May, professor of plant biology, received a $2 million grant via MSU from the National Science Foundation to host workshops that will help postdoctoral students learn effective methods for teaching science.
Recent deaths of MSU students Don Ausman and Kevin Boskey do not seem to be related, police said. MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor and Capt. Kim Johnson of the East Lansing Police Department said the public should not be concerned about any contagious illness causing the deaths.
Many Michigan geography and geology classes statewide have been lacking a vital teaching tool for some time — a textbook.
Plans to centralize management of residence hall fitness centers began Wednesday at an MSU Residence Halls Association meeting. A bill was passed that charged University Housing, the Department of Residence Life and RHA to work together to explore and propose plans to centralize the fitness centers.
A 22-year-old female student reported being sexually assaulted Wednesday morning outside of Wells Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU football player Mitchell White pleaded guilty to charges stemming from an off-campus brawl in October at a pretrial hearing Wednesday at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. White, a freshman walk-on receiver, originally pleaded not guilty during his arraignment Dec. 23, 2008. White is set to be sentenced March 16, according to court documents.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly voted down a bill Tuesday to state its stance on a course repeat policy. The bill would require the assembly to state ASMSU’s stance to the University Committee on Academic Policy, or UCAP.
MSU’s financial future, the academic calendar and the Outside Speakers Policy were among many items discussed during Tuesday’s meeting of MSU’s Executive Committee of Academic Council. Provost Kim Wilcox said MSU will have to make adjustments during the next couple of years to combat the struggling economy.
Leaders from the East Lansing and MSU communities gathered Tuesday to emphasize the importance of HIV testing and awareness by being tested themselves. Organizations including the MSU Residence Halls Association, Black Student Alliance and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, teamed with Michigan Equality, Olin Health Center and Lansing Area AIDS Network to host the event.
Enrollment by Iraqi students at MSU almost tripled in one year from 2007-08, according to data from the Office of the Registrar. And the number could continue to climb if a new Iraqi government scholarship program, which would send 10,000 Iraqi students abroad, is approved by Iraq’s Parliament.
The Department of Residence Life is giving students the opportunity to showcase Spartan life with MSUTube, a project to give prospective students a look into MSU life using online videos.
The Grundy brothers don’t let the stress of a tournament interfere with their love of chess. “It’s really awesome,” said fourth-grader Jeffery Grundy, of Macomb Township.
Ruckus, a legal music file-sharing program offered to MSU students, shut down Saturday. The program, promoted by university officials as a way for students to legally share and exchange music, issued a notice on its Web site Saturday afternoon saying the “service will no longer be provided,” with no other information available.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, confirmed five judicial appointees to the Residence Hall Area Board at its meeting Wednesday.
Diners at The Gallery at Snyder-Phillips Hall were caught in a Chicken Little moment Thursday, when water poured from the ceiling and dislodged four ceiling tiles. Tables below where the ceiling collapsed were unoccupied and, as far as bystanders could tell, nobody was hurt.
Students in the East Lansing Public Schools are getting a crash course in art. In an effort to expose children to global artists, the schools have joined with MSU’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, to bring in artists to visit with the students. The program has operated for about a year.