Members of Students Protecting And Representing Education met Friday to discuss plans to sponsor an unauthorized "skip day" for students in protest of possible cuts to higher education.SPARE was formed to combat possible university cuts and tuition increases because of potential reductions in state appropriations to higher education.
Students performing live dissections on animals in base-level science courses should be given alternatives, some MSU faculty and students say. In light of a case brought up at the University of Illinois-Champaign when a student's grade was penalized after refusing to dissect a live frog, the first policy protecting religious and ethical beliefs at a large university could be implemented in April. "I know of high schools where students that have conscientious objections to dissecting frogs are offered alternatives," said Tom Tomlinson, an MSU professor and director for the Center of Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences Building.
The fifth annual MSU Music Therapy Recital will be held at 4 p.m. Friday at the Music Auditorium. The recital will highlight the musical abilities of children and adults diagnosed with autism, traumatic brain injuries, mental illness and other physical and mental impairments.
When Patrick LeBlanc first attended MSU as a student, he was a cheerleader.Now he's back at MSU, cheering for the College of Veterinary Medicine's Veterinary Teaching Hospital.More than 20 years after his days in green and white, LeBlanc was named the new director of the hospital.LeBlanc received his veterinary degree from MSU in 1982 and became a member of the faculty in 1986.But he left the university in 1994 to run a manufacturing business.
A former president of Brazil and a former U.S. secretary of state are slated to speak at MSU in the final two lectures of the World View Lecture Series. The lectures will take place March 24 and April 3 in Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre.
Greeks want you to vote, so they can have a vote. As students log on to vote in the ASMSU elections Wednesday they will face several issues, including a proposal to allow representatives for the Interfraternity and Panhellenic councils to have a voting seat on Academic Assembly. Steve Schauer, author of the proposal and Interfraternity Council representative for Student Assembly, said membership in MSU's undergraduate student government allows greeks to share their viewpoints on student issues. "It allowed us to speak and have ideas," he said.
Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority begins its community service oriented Skee Week today. At 8 tonight in the University of Michigan Room in the Union, there will be an informational session titled "Health Issues for African-Americans." At 8 p.m.
Six women in white dresses with green head wraps twirled in circles as 12 green-and-white striped sticks snapped in the air to the steady beat of traditional music at Cultural Vogue on Saturday at Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre.Five men in traditional green and white Indian dress laid on the floor in a straight line, slowly rotating their bodies as a woman glided over their backs in the presentation of the dance Raas Gula by the Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students.
While some Americans apply mendhi, or henna, to all areas of the body as a decorative statement, students learned Thursday at Asian Wedding Planner that it is used in Indian cultures as preparation for a wedding."It's supposed to be applied to the bride's hands and feet before the wedding," event coordinator and telecommunication junior Aman Sidhu said.
Delays caused by trains might soon be a thing of the past. U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, asked the House appropriations committee Friday to set aside $18 million for an underpass project that would relieve congestion on Farm Lane. The university initially estimated the construction and planning costs would be about $25 million, but that number decreased to $18 million after officials modified construction plans. The tracks also intersect Harrison Avenue, but buildings are too close to the street for an underpass to be built. Nearly 60 trains, some up to two miles long, chug along the tracks crossing Farm Lane on campus daily, said Jeff Kacos, director of Campus Park and Planning. Delays can stop traffic for up to 45 minutes when one train has to wait for another to cross.
Scott Matthew Doree, a former MSU student charged with lying to federal authorities and misusing grant money, has been ordered to appear in a Grand Rapids federal district court at 2 p.m.
The MSU Residence Halls Association is hosting an all-nighter. RHA will hold a lock-in from 10 p.m.
Political science Professor Mark Tessler, a Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor from the University of Michigan, will be the first guest speaker in the MSU Department of History's 2003 Lecture Series. The lecture is titled, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2003." He will appear at 8 p.m.
The MSU-Detroit College of Law is holding its annual Animal Law Symposium from 12:30-5 p.m. in Room 343 of the MSU-DCL Building.
Today is the deadline for applications to audition for the Freshman Class Council's "Battle of the Bands." Previous band applicants will also be selected by the council and the University Activities Board today. The event will take place from 9 a.m.
For some MSU students, learning is about study-time, lectures and textbooks. But for Brenda Sternquist, it's all about the classroom. "Classrooms are really, really important to me," the merchandising management professor said.
MSU's Residence Halls Association elected Wilson Hall General Assembly Representative Christopher Harper as its new internal vice president Wednesday night.
A video game featuring a virtual bar and blood alcohol content meter will inform MSU students about the consequences of abusing alcohol this fall. The program is an update of Alcohol 101, a CD-ROM used in Olin Health Center, residence halls, sororities and fraternities. The new interactive program, called Alcohol 101 Plus, allows users to make decisions for virtual characters in video scenarios involving alcohol consumption. Participants can pick from a variety of characters including a basketball player in a bar the night before a game or a freshman in a dorm room. If students choose to drink, a message appears on the screen detailing the consequences of their decision. Jasmine Greenamyer, a health educator at Olin, said the program always has been well received by students. "We're excited for the update," she said.
Some students were sizzling mad over french fries Wednesday after a Shaw Hall cafeteria worker gave them a new name - "freedom fries." The name mimics a move by cafeteria workers at the U.S.
For a few hours, users of MSU's Pilot e-mail system had a new option for checking their messages. A new Web site that will replace the 10-year-old Pilot system was unofficially launched Wednesday afternoon.