Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly made major changes to the organization's constitution and bylaws at their meeting Wednesday. Eight amendments were approved by the assembly in a unanimous vote on the constitution as a whole.
For many people on campus February is a time to reflect and show respect during Black History Month.
Debating on two new committees that would allow it to better connect with students, ASMSU's Academic Assembly voted to add one and drop the other Tuesday night. MSU's undergraduate student government voted 14-5 to add a committee below the Director of Constituent Activism, a position added last year to reach out to the university's 34,853 undergraduates.
Jumping, jiving and wailing into the spotlight, the MSU State Swing Society has tried its best to create a new niche on campus for music that was popular five decades ago. The group was created in 2000 by members of the Lansing and MSU communities who hoped to "get a group of people together who wanted to have fun while sharing a common interest and dancing to a different type of music," said group co-founder Bryan Grochowski, a 1998 MSU alumnus. Once founded, the group members set their sites on a statewide competition created by a Detroit-based group called All Night Entertainment.
Advertising graduate student Colleen Norwine was pleasantly surprised on Tuesday afternoon when she stopped by the lobby of the MSU-DCL College of Law building on her way to use the library. Instead of finding students studying or waiting for class to begin, she walked right into the thick of Ethnic Food Day. "I saw the sign, and I love ethnic food," she said.
The Department of Student Life will host the second speech in its "Noontime Conversation Series" today. The speech "Person of the Year: The American Soldier," will be held from 12:10 to 1:00 p.m.
The Executive Committee of Academic Council discussed the policy to fill the vacancy of vice president for research and graduate studies during its Tuesday meeting. Bob Huggett will leave the position on July 1, allowing only months for a replacement to be found.
MSU's College of Social Science presents its "Urban and Metropolitan Studies Forum Series" this month.
With sharp, synchronized movements, funky beats of music and glistening smiles, the MSU Dance Team has a unique style, giving its audiences an entertaining performance.
Human biology freshman Emily Battle was hanging out in her hall with some 21-year-old friends. They were drinking legally in Yakeley Hall, she wasn't.
MSU police are looking for subjects involved in breaking several windows across campus in the last week. The worst of the two instances occurred on Jan.
The College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will sponsor Agriculture and Natural Resources Week on March 5-13. Educational programs will highlight different plant and animal species, including goats, bats and wildflowers.
Going on a safari in Africa, playing soccer with Brazilian tribes and perusing Bangkok's red-light district taught psychology junior Rob Flewelling that life's best lessons are not found in classrooms. Last fall, Flewelling made the world his campus, as he and 600 other college students scaled the globe by ship, traveling to nine different countries.
Spartans know it takes guts to beat the University of Michigan. But Gift of Life Michigan volunteers want to know which school is willing to give those guts away. The nonprofit organ donation program is sponsoring "No Guts, No Glory," an online drive between the rival universities.
Returning from the Mid-Missouri Invitational Tournament with a number of successes, including taking fifth place out of 36 teams, the MSU Mock Trial Team is looking to head into the regional tournament at the University of Notre Dame on Feb.
The Ingham County Wellness Committee is hosting a ice-skating session Saturday. The event is open to the public. From 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., anyone can skate for free at Munn Ice Arena.
Dan Gould is not an Olympic skier, but he knows how to think like one. The sports psychologist who helped freestyle skiers get in the zone for the 1998 Olympic Games will join the MSU faculty next fall. "I got to work with some of the best athletes in the world," Gould said.
A Web site launched by a student group at the University of Colorado at Boulder followed by proposed legislation are the most recent efforts in a growing trend to keep the personal political views of professors out of the classroom at public universities.
Multimedia CD-ROM textbook supplements can be nice, but new editions of textbooks are generally unnecessary, students say. The comments follow a recent study titled "Ripoff 101: How the Current Practices of the Textbook Industry Drive Up Cost of College Textbooks," which was conducted by the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group.
Anyone interested in leadership opportunities is invited to attend the office of Leadership Development's inaugural "LeaderFair" on Feb.