Beth Wellman and her mother, Anne Tracy, stood in the center of the North Presbyterian Church last year singing a duet to "Dona Nobis Pacem."It was a song Tracy's four children often sang on the trip to their grandmother's house.
MSU's Residence Halls Association will go door-to-door in residence halls on Sunday collecting cans to raise money for research into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Two water main breaks in the last week have kept MSU work crews busy, said Gus Gosselin, manager of the Physical Plant maintenance department. Pipes broke on Farm Lane near the Auditorium, closing the northbound lanes of the road. Another break was discovered Monday near Giltner Hall.
About 600 pounds of shredded paper sit inside gray plastic bins on the floor and shelves inside a dusty, dark warehouse in the southwest corner of campus.A garage door opens as a pair of workers begin unloading the day's haul.In the middle of it all is Bill Clark.A truck driver for MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management, Clark spends his days collecting materials faculty and students recycle - office papers, pizza boxes, phone books, magazines, brochures, newspapers and books.He said about 60 to 70 percent of the paper that can be recycled is actually collected - the rest gets thrown out with the trash."A lot of people aren't aware most buildings on campus have recycling facilities," he said.
School supplies are getting cheaper these days.ASMSU is hoping to expand its services to students by offering one-subject notebooks with MSU's undergraduate student government's logo on the front."It's an interesting program to investigate," Academic Assembly Chairperson Matt Clayson said, adding the program has yet to be finalized, but the assembly will be reviewing the proposal."It all depends on finances," he said.The notebook program surfaced after the organization had success with distributing about 10,000 bluebooks to students around campus."This would not replace the bluebook program," said Steve Lovelace, Academic Assembly representative for the College of Arts and Letters.ASMSU would save money by using the same design in the notebook's front page, which includes a list of services provided by the organization as well as its phone number and the Web site address, Lovelace said."They have to look at them everyday," he said.
Students showing apathy to possible tuition increases and university cuts are about to get an education.On Friday, members of Students Protecting and Representing Education, or SPARE, discussed going door-to-door, mailing fliers, presenting slide shows before Campus Center movie presentations at Wells Hall and passing out membership bracelets in an effort to rally support against tuition increases and university cuts."We have to keep putting pressure on (students)," said Jared English, director of university governmental budgetary affairsfor ASMSU.
Maggie Roso and Michael Simyn sat at a table in the corner of the Union Gold Rooms on Sunday afternoon playfully laughing at each other, eating brownies and waiting for the perfect song."Maggie said that all of her dances are for me," Simyn said.
A year and a half ago, Patti Roost went to work for three children she had never met.A 4-month-old infant, his teenage mother and her 13-year-old brother had been raised in a fatherless home by a drug-addicted mother who was so paranoid she didn't allow her children to attend school."Pretty much for their whole lives, these children have been with no real home, mainly taking care of their mother," said Roost, a volunteer for Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Ingham County.The children were placed in foster care with a relative.
MSU's peace and justice studies specialization program hosted its first lecture Friday, featuring author and teacher Hans Joas.Joas is director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany and a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Harold Strong, an executive board member from the Philadelphia Boys and Girls Clubs, will be holding an interactive discussion on issues of diversity in the workplace. "We will be talking about the business aspects of diversity and how small businesses are affected by diversity," Strong said.
Sporting their black tuxedos with gold ties, the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity stepped in a circle around the dance floor while Benzino's "Rock the Party" blared from the speakers. "Stepping," a combination of stomps, claps and chanting, was one of the many dances performed at the fraternity's third annual Black & Gold Ball Saturday night in the Union ballroom. Jhamal Swift, the fraternity's president, said the dance was unique among other social events held at MSU. "It's a different type of social atmosphere for African Americans, as well as providing a professional and formal event where students can interact in a business-like and adult manner," the chemical engineering senior said. Swift said the dance gave students the opportunity to network. "It's one of the most important things in college," he said. The dance closed out "The Deep Phreeze" week, which was highlighted by community service and social events held by the fraternity.
Dana Hawes' emotional words echoed throughout the Wonders Hall Kiva on Saturday night as the crowd of listeners looked on, hanging on every word he read.
White and red candles, laid out in a star shape on the floor, flickered in the dark Culturas de las Razas Unidas room, as no-preference freshman Maggie Pena told her story. "While my brother and I were admiring his car, in the corner of my eye I spotted a lady in white in the middle of the street, and he saw a lady in black run behind our house," she said.
Autumn Boggues didn't expect to be surrounded by security guards during her first visit to Sparty's Night Club last month."When we started to dance, we noticed about 12 security guards watching us, and they would not leave," the political science and pre-law freshman said.
Sandy Mazzoni never worried about locking the door to her Mason Hall room."I feel relatively safe," she said.
The Rev. W. Franklyn Richardson said African Americans have a long way to go.The second speaker in the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series delivered the message of acknowledging all aspects of black culture and increasing opportunities for all disadvantaged people in the United States."We are a long way from where we should be," he said.
The breakup of the Department of Romance and Classical Languages was approved 7-1 at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday.Trustee Donald Nugent voted against the proposal saying the project should be delayed for one year until the proposed $5-million state-funding cut can be resolved.The split restructures the current program into two new departments: one comprised of Spanish and Portuguese and the other of French, Italian and classical languages.MSU President M.
Dick Gaither travels the country conducting seminars for students to improve their interviewing skills, and on Wednesday, he came to the MSU-Detroit College of Law.Gaither said he gets all sorts of questions."They will come and ask me 'I got that tattoo with the tongue of the snake going into my ear, will this stop me from finding work?'" Gaither, president of Job Search Training Systems Inc. "You're not going to be as valuable a candidate as opposed to someone without the tattoo."Gaither gives students advice on how to go into an interview prepared, confident and ready to answer tough questions.He explained if someone asks, "Why should I hire you?" a person answering they will be asset to the company is not enough.
Riki Wilchins says gender identity has been left behind.The executive director of the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition, spoke on the importance of gender identity education Tuesday in Wells Hall.Wilchins, a gay rights activist, helped establish the Gender Identity Program of New York City's Lesbian & Gay Community Services Center in 1991 and authored many books, including "Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender," on gender identity."No one should be punished because of how they act," she said in her speech.
MSU has formed a group to review residence hall security measures on campus. Director of University Housing Angela Brown, Residence Halls Association President Tim Liss and MSU police Capt.