As a group, ASMSU is less than satisfied with www.mail.msu.edu. Last semester, ASMSU passed a bill to fight for a revamping of the MSU e-mail system. Nothing was accomplished then, but the new group of student government officials is going to find out what it would take to update the system.
The second student Green Week wrapped up yesterday, finishing with a community service day sponsored by environmental groups on campus. “We’re not just preaching environmentalism, we’re getting out into the community and making a difference,” said Brandon Knight, MSU alumnus and coordinator of the Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition.
It wasn’t nearly as competitive as the Harvard-Yale Regatta, but the Lyman Briggs School vs. James Madison College canoe race on the Red Cedar River Sunday had rivalry implications all the same.
In her search for a signature event for the College of Arts and Letters’ Year of Arts and Culture, Dean Karin Wurst said Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk captivates the college’s ideals.
When Eastern Michigan University student Leah Sprague opened her e-mail last month, scattered along with her class messages and Facebook.com notifications was a bulletin from the university that she wasn’t expecting — a campus crime report.
A cup of coffee may be a morning energy boost for some, but it’s a social activity for Nicole Nguyen, Web master of the MSU Coffee Club. “For me, having a cup of coffee is not something you do to just wake up in the morning,” said Nguyen, an English and professional writing junior. “It’s a really good way to get together with people. It’s a social environment.”
Anishinaabe, known commonly as the Odawa, Ojibwe and Algonquin indigenous people of North America, have a tradition of planning seven generations ahead in an effort to preserve their culture.
For Megan Donahue, experimentation with homemade antennas at 12 years old led to a lifetime career in physics.
In the fall of 2006, when Sarah Crespi and other MSU students were talking about using the power of a Wiki Web site to help protect the Great Lakes, she knew they were on to something.
After 25 years, MSU is asking faculty and students to help write a new mission statement for the university.
For Keali Chambers, learning how to control and manage certain invasive species drew her to a job in entomology. The fisheries and wildlife junior has been working with emerald ash borer beetles that kill millions of ash trees in Michigan alone.
A continuous battle cry from students for a quieter library persuaded MSU Main Library officials to reserve the entire east wing for quiet study only. The change in policy — effective at the beginning of this semester — asked cell phone users to take their calls to the stairwells and for study groups to use the west wing for their projects and discussions.
ASMSU will vote on a bill Thursday to decide whether the undergraduate student government should try to get candidates to Lansing before the presidential primary elections.
Students and staff said they are reacting positively to a policy change which designated the Main Library east wing for quiet study only.
Four years ago, a group of programs at MSU and the surrounding community gathered to share ideas and resources in assisting students who have been victims of sexual assault and to warn others.
Ramadan is an Islamic 30-day fasting period that some MSU Muslims describe as an important yet stressful religious holiday.
Dressed in happi, a traditional Japanese workman’s festival clothing, four drummers crouched low to the stage, extending their front legs while pounding two miya taiko, or barrel drums. Their movements were inspired by the movement of fishermen pulling in nets of fish on the Japanese island of Miyake.
Dr. Adam Feinstein will teach participating MSU students how to use Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, or OMM, as a therapeutic technique. The clinic will take place beginning at 7 p.m. today in E106 Fee Hall.
With the help of a $3.5 million grant, MSU is hoping to expand the market for environmentally friendly food grown on Michigan farms. The grant, awarded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, will help the university establish a facility where researchers will study the effects of cows grazing on pastures rather than on corn. The center, located at the Kellogg Biological Station, will also help establish markets for products produced from the pasture-grazing animals.
Ramadan at the Greater Lansing Islamic School, 920 S. Harrison Road, means double recess time for sixth-grader Mohamed Hassan and his friends to play soccer and swing on the swings. Since he is fasting — like many other Muslims during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — he doesn’t need his lunch hour.