Activist Amado Balderas will be speaking about Chicano and Latino studies Thursday in Wilson Hall. Balderas, a high school history teacher in Texas, contributed to the creation of El Sexto Sol de MEChA at the University of Texas-Pan American. Balderas will be speaking from 7-8:30 p.m.
The women of Delta Sigma Theta want people to open their pockets. The sorority recently began fund-raising efforts to assist the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. to aid residents of the small town of Tulia, Texas. Last summer, 46 Tulia, Texas residents were arrested as part of a drug sting conducted by a special police officer brought in by the Cochran County Police Department. Of those arrested, 40 were black, three were Mexican, and three were whites in interracial relationships. According to the video, the officer had no tangible evidence to convict the citizens, except for his handwriting on his leg that he wrote during a drug deal. "I was surprised that they didn't have any evidence against them, and the only thing they had was him writing on his leg," merchandising management sophomore Glenda Olivache said. Standing in front of the room handing out brochures and pledge sheets, social relations senior Malaika Ward urged everyone to persuade as many people as they can to donate money. "And what's the word we're going to use?" asked Ward, social action chair for the sorority. "Tax-deductible," the audience responded in unison. Several residents are still incarcerated.
Communication professor Frank Boster wishes his mentors could see him receive his Distinguished Faculty Award. "I wish they had been around to see that the time they invested in me wasn't a waste," Boster said, remembering his former MSU professors who recently died.
More Spartans are volunteering overseas. The MSU Peace Corps is ranked seventh in the nation in terms of the number of volunteers serving abroad, a jump from last year's rating, which put MSU in 14th place.
The possible split of a language department, the restoration of Marshall Hall and improvements to Spartan Stadium are on this month's MSU Board of Trustees meeting agenda.The meeting will be held at 9 a.m.
A new MSU e-mail Web site has been delayed due to a glitch in the software, computer lab officials said.The system, which would make Telnet e-mail access obsolete, will hopefully be launched before spring break, interim computer lab director Tom Davis said.Davis said the system's problem arose last week and needs to be fixed before students and faculty can access their revamped e-mail accounts.
A group of MSU dancers has claimed top honors at an international dance competition. The MSU Sitare Punjab de Bhangra dance team took first place in the seventh annual Bhangra Nation World University Competition.
The School of Criminal Justice is hosting its annual career fair from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday in Big Ten Rooms A and B in Kellogg Center. The fair is sponsored by the American Criminal Justice Association, Alpha Phi Sigma and the Criminal Justice Honor Society in collaboration with the school.
Dawn Counts knows what it feels like to be a kid again.Standing behind the microphone, the law student compared a significant other to the joys of childhood.
Five master of business administration students took second place honors at Wake Forest University's annual Babcock MBA Marketing Case Competition held Jan.
Standing atop a wooden platform, Bindi Patel asked Roberto Alcantar to wear a pink poster on his back and walk around Munn Ice Arena. "I can't wear it!
Plaid shirts, cowboy hats and blue jeans adorned members of the Ramsey family as they walked around the concourse of Munn Ice Arena this weekend to raise money for cancer research.Physiology sophomore Ross Ramsey watched his family in the third annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
By the time Nicole Bobiney got back to her Emmons Hall room, it was too late in the day for her to switch her classes. "I had a lot of problems with it," the psychology freshman said.
About 100 MSU students learned the right fork to use for their appetizer, salad, main course and dessert when they were given a number of utensils to choose from Tuesday at the Kellogg Center.The MSU Alumni Association and the Senior Class Council sponsored a manners and etiquette dinner at which speaker Pattie McNiel showed students step by step how to eat properly at formal dinners."We're doing this so hopefully they'll be ready to go out in the real world," said McNiel, coordinator of the Distance Learning Program in the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.This is the third year of the dinner, for which McNiel said she personally knows of someone who's benefited from it - her son."Shortly after he went to it, he started his job interviews," she said.
Orchesis, a student-organized dance club, will perform "Re-Inventing Skin!" at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m.
MSU is one of two facilities in the state to perform a new breast tumor shrinking procedure. The procedure, called cryoablation, was approved about a year ago for the removal of benign tumors and is offered by the MSU Department of Surgery and Harper Hospital in Detroit.About 80 percent of all breast tumors are benign.To qualify for the procedure, patients need to have a biopsy to ensure that the tumor is benign and is no larger than 2 centimeters.Most tumors are surgically removed but cryoablation is cheaper, less painful and less damaging to skin tissue than the traditional method, department Chairwoman Carol Slomski said."People have been trying to figure out how to get rid of tumors without cutting them out for a long time," she said.
Bernice Johnson Reagon delicately began singing at the Kellogg Center on Thursday, then stopped suddenly."You know, I'm not supposed to sing this by myself," she said to the audience of about 50 people.With gathering strength, the crowd joined in on the freedom song, some singing loudly while others gently hummed.They escalated into singing a song about courage in the face of adversity.Reagon, an original member of the famed "Freedom Singers," renowned scholar, singer and founder of the "Sweet Honey in the Rock" a cappella ensemble, was the first of four professors to speak in the third annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series, sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine.The series, themed "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey," was created as a part of a special university fund for visiting minority faculty.Reagon talked about the unbroken faith of slaves and sticking out in a crowd, while singing songs of freedom, strength and power.As she began the program with the song "Sweet Honey on Me," she told a story about her pastor speaking of the importance of remembering history."If I remember what has come before me, if I actually acknowledge that I exist because of the running and stumbling and dying before me
MSU is celebrating the 2003 Chicano Heritage Month with an array of activities to educate and inform students about the importance of their culture.Student groups such as Culturas de las Razas Unidas will host programs such as "Latin Explosion" and D
A discussion on ways the nation funds terrorism became heated as spectators voiced their disagreement with a speaker at Case Hall earlier this week. Debbie Schlussel, a controversial conservative political commentator who has appeared on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," FOX News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and other notable political talk shows, spoke to students at James Madison College. Schlussel, who has studied radical Islam and terrorism, said terrorists receive money from certain goods bought by Americans. "If they can find a way with any product to fund terrorism, they will," she told the group of more than 35 students.
More than 100 students and faculty members went to bat for the future of their agricultural engineering department and major.