The Residence Halls Association elected its new president Wednesday. Kevin Newman was elected by a majority vote of the group's General Assembly, and will assume the presidency in April. This is Newman's third year with RHA.
For some, the new year means partying, parades and good times with friends. Members of the Bahá'í Faith, however, see their new year as a chance to get closer to God. Followers of the Bahá'í Faith on campus will join fellow members from around the world in celebrating the final month of the Bahá'í calendar with 19 days of fasting, which began Wednesday.
Pat White has traveled across the country in passionate pursuit of raising Highland cattle. Today she will bring one of her favorite show animals, a 4-year-old cow named "Voodoo," to the Heritage Livestock Exhibition at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
Scholarships are available for MSU students to study in Israel. The scholarships have been made possible by an endowment from Detroit businessman Ed Levy Jr.
ASMSU's Student Assembly agreed to allocate up to $50,000 to bring mtvU's Campus Invasion Tour to MSU on April 23 - two weeks before finals. After being voted down, but then reconsidered last month, the assembly decided to fund the concert that will feature European rock band Muse. Event planners microbiology junior Sarah Zohdy and international relations seniors Tahera Sakarwala and Jennifer Makarewicz presented the tour idea to ASMSU's Finance Committee on Feb.
Student government members are researching the option for undergraduates' transcripts to have the average class grade in a course or show where that student scored in relationship to the class. Under the average grade option, if the class earns a 2.0 grade-point average, the 2.0 average will appear on transcripts next to each undergraduate's actual GPA. The percentile option measures a student's standing in a class, compared to others in that class.
Michelle Word works on a piece of her artwork for the upcoming Master of Fine Arts Exhibit during a special tour of MFA Student Studios on Wednesday at the Kresge Art Center.
This summer, nutritional sciences senior Doug Gibbons will visit Jamaica, England, Tanzania and five other countries during a free trip around the world. Gibbons won an $8,000 scholarship to travel around the world from the Michigan chapter of the Circumnavigators Club.
The MSU Students for Palestinian Human Rights is sponsoring a film viewing today to increase conversation on campus about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The documentary "Women In Struggle" will play at 7:30 p.m.
Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly will elect the group's new president at 7 p.m.
At its Tuesday meeting, the Executive Committee of Academic Council passed a motion to hold all Academic Senate meetings in future years on the last Thursday of regular courses during the fall and spring semester. "We need to set these meetings way in advance," said Muralee Nair, horticulture professor and member of the Executive Committee. The decision was prompted by the difficulty Executive Committee members had in setting this spring's second senate meeting around both faculty and administrators' schedules. Academic Senate is a faculty-wide forum that met for the first time in eight years last spring.
There's more to eating disorders than eating. MSU graduate student Tiffany Titus knows this firsthand after suffering from both anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa for more than five years, she said. "It's a way to deal with emotions I don't want to deal with," Titus said. This week, she is helping the group Respecting and Understanding Body Image get attention for the problem as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
Culturas De Las Razas Unidas, or CRU, and the Chicano/Latino Association held a reception Tuesday night at the Union for discussion between faculty members and students to find ways to improve graduation and retention rates for minority students. Increasing communication between Chicano/Latino faculty and students helps ensure that students will make it to graduation day, said CRU co-Chair Isaias Solis.
When East Lansing residents Patricia and David Brogan were MSU undergraduates in the 1950s, they experienced events firsthand that are now history. They remember the annual "Water Carnival" on the Red Cedar River and David Brogan's attendance at the 1954 Rose Bowl as a sophomore, during which MSU defeated the University of California, Los Angeles. Photographs of these events are part of "Memories of MSU," an exhibit that opened Sunday at the MSU Museum and will continue through December. The exhibit is a look back at the last 150 years of MSU through photographs, artifacts and timelines from students' perspectives. "It's fun to see it," Patricia Brogan said.
State News photographers swept the category for the Michigan Press Photographers Association's College Photographer of the Year award at the organization's annual conference last weekend. The category contains first, second and third ranking and two honorable mentions. The MPPA honors professional and student photographers from across the state for submissions in categories ranging from feature photos to sports photos.
About 250 students attended the Midwest Association of Filipino Americans, or MAFA, conference this weekend. The annual assembly, which is held at a different school every year, brings together students from a variety of Midwestern colleges and universities to promote unity and educate them about Filipino American history and culture. "The Filipino American population in the Midwest is very small," said MAFA co-coordinator R.J.
Out of the nearly 2,000 faculty members invited, 100 showed up to the Academic Senate meeting on Friday.
A 2-foot-tall, milk-chocolate giraffe and an edible African tribal mask were put on display for chocolate lovers to admire and drool over at the MSU Museum's 16th annual Chocolate Party Benefit on Sunday at the Kellogg Center. The sweet sculptures and molds were part of a chocolatier competition for chefs and culinary students from across the state to portray the party's "Out of Africa" theme.
As the first notes of the "Selena" soundtrack began, a group of about 25 students began cutting loose on the first floor of the Administration Building on Thursday.
To bring faculty members up to speed on important university issues from last spring, MSU is convening a session of Academic Senate today. Last April, about 700 faculty convened for the first time in eight years to address faculty members' concerns that their input was not being received by MSU administrators on major issues. Today, faculty will be updated on issues pertaining to MSU President Lou Anna K.