A new program from the Residence Halls Association is hoping that off-campus students will partake in programs and events that, as of now, only those living in dorms can enjoy. RHA has begun to offer membership to students not living in residence halls.
The Faculty Council heard presentations about campus sustainablity and a procedure to replace a retiring faculty member during its Tuesday meeting. Terry Link, director of the Office of Campus Sustainablity and chairperson of the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus, provided a slide presentation with information to supplement the Campus Sustainability Report. Sustainability is the interdependence of living organisms and communities over time, stated the report, which was compiled in September 2003. The report viewed the campus on a timeline from 1990 to 2001 and concentrated on social, economic and environmental factors. "We want to use money and resources in ways that benefit us both today and tomorrow," Link said. Many figures and tables are available in the report, ranging from average SAT scores to electricity consumed on campus.
The first of three public bicycle clinics hosted by the MSU Bike Project will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the ballroom of Demonstration Hall. The clinics will feature bike mechanics who will be offering minor repairs, adjustments to bikes and advice for major repairs.
A competition tonight will pit student teams against one another as they make arguments as to why their favorite multicultural hero deserves a special place in history.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, hopes to hold a forum with community members and MSU President M.
Magan Butler-Coleman's list of possible medical schools is getting longer, and she gets excited when she starts to talk about her future. "I want to be a doctor - I want to be the light in someone's life," she said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, and Eugene Hickok will speak on campus at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Spartan Room in Case Hall. Hickok is an adviser to U.S.
Like music to its ears, MSU's college radio station, WDBM (88.9-FM) was named College Station of the Year by Broadcast Music Inc. and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.
Members of MSU's College Democrats and College Republicans issued a joint statement Monday requesting that ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, re-evaluate its new election code. But ASMSU's new code was finalized Friday. Last year, almost 40 candidates were disqualified from ASMSU elections when the two college groups released unapproved candidate endorsements in fliers, postcards and e-mails.
There's nothing different about Kellie Scopel. She has the same hair, the same clothes and the same shoes as all of her friends.
Morris Thomas sets aside grim textbooks when lecturing. Instead, the visiting geography professor opens a world of personal experiences to make class more realistic and interesting. In a room with 150 students or more, Thomas turns his class sessions into a hands-on learning experience by allowing students to see firsthand things he talks about and by rewarding them with suckers when they volunteer or answer trivia questions correctly. Dressed in a white and navy blue polo shirt with matching suspenders, Thomas wheels himself into a room full of chattering students.
As the struggle for civil rights stirred the nation in 1954, 17 black undergraduates at MSU pioneered a sisterhood and carved out their place in the university's culture for years to come.
Despite a student group's efforts to convince the university to join the labor-monitoring organization Worker Rights Consortium, MSU officials said there are no plans yet to make a decision.
· How to make advanced medical decisions will be the focus of "Getting It Together - Part 3: Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care," presented by the Women's Resource Center.
The second annual Barrister's Charity Ball for MSU-DCL College of Law students, faculty and staff will take place from 6 p.m.
Cortney Peissig's work on the farm is paying off. The Exxon Mobil Corp. recently named Peissig and three students from other agriculture schools as the recipients of its inaugural Mobilfluid 424 Scholarship.
The All-University Traffic and Transportation Committee will hold a public forum Thursday to discuss recommendations that could improve traffic safety across campus. The committee will meet at 3 p.m.
Starting in the fall of 2006, members of the university community will be looking at a new eating option.
Students are highly inefficient at dating, one MSU professor says. "The efficient thing to do would be to go up to (someone they are attracted to) and say, 'excuse me, I would like to meet you,'" psychology Professor Gary Stollak said.
Visitors are asked to remove their shoes and their judgments before joining the weekly spiritual circle of the Krsna-bhakti club. The group meets every Wednesday in the Multicultural Center in the basement of the Union.