The MSU School of Labor and Industrial Relations and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations are teaming up today for a two-day conference on worker rights. The first session begins at 8 a.m.
ASMSU will meet with 500 representatives from the state’s private and public colleges to rally against Proposal 4 this weekend. The rally will be at 1 p.m.
Crunch time is approaching and students will soon face the yearly decision of where to live.To ease the process, ASMSU, East Lansing and the Community Relations Coalition in East Lansing cooperated in bringing the first annual Housing Fair to the Union Ballroom on Wednesday.
Kresge Art Museum received a two year grant for $112,500 last week from the Institute of Museum and Library Services which will be used to update the facility and will be used toward an internship program.Officials for the museum have applied for the grant before, but this is the first time they have been awarded the money.
The number of students getting free legal help from MSU’s graduate and undergraduate student governments has skyrocketed, but the director of ASMSU/COGS Legal Services says that’s a good thing. At least 565 students have come to the Student Services law office for help so far this fall - 46 percent more than sought help in fall 2000, Legal Services director Rachel Huhn said. But the increase doesn’t mean that more students are getting into trouble with the law.
Four Pulitzer Prize winners representing three different decades debated the relationship between the war on terrorism and the first amendment in the 33rd annual Frederick S.
Universal Pictures along with the Residence Halls Association is showing an advanced screening of “8 Mile” at 7 p.m.
Gaping holes in staffing have plagued ASMSU since the beginning of the school year, and the group’s association director said he hopes the problem will be remedied by Oct.
Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are needed for a research project being conducted on campus.Christine Chan, a doctoral student who also has the disorder, is looking for 24 student volunteers as quickly as possible who would be willing to participate in the confidential project.The project involves working with a program called Nestor, an experimental Web browser that draws navigation maps while searching the web.Nestor was originally designed for teachers to track students’ research methods on the Internet, but Chan believes the visual software can be helpful to people with the disorder.The whole process will take no more than two hours and students will receive a private consultation with Chan after participating.Interested students must have certified documentation of the disorder and can contact Chan at chanchri@msu.edu.Tara May
You don’t need to get tackled to feel the new grass in Spartan Stadium.A Connecticut-based manufacturing consultant company came up with the idea last year to take clippings from the new turf and make keepsakes from it.“They bought the trademark from us,” Terry Livermore, spokesperson for MSU Licensing said. “It’s sold by Spartan Marketing Inc., so they have all say on how it’s being marketed.”Barton Associate Inc. has put the trademark to use once already and patented a mouse pad.“We made paper with it,” Barton Associate Inc. President John Barton said.
MSU’s Healthy ‘U’ team is sponsoring a free massage program as part of its Relaxation and Stress Management program on Oct.10 for MSU faculty and staff.
The MSU Medical Technology Club will be hosting its next meeting Friday in the Union’s Ohio State Room.
More than 500 nuclear physicists from around the world and 200 students from the United States will inundate Kellogg Center later this week for the fall meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Nuclear Physics.MSU’s Cyclotron is sponsoring the event for the third time - the first since 1991 - and local scientists say the conference, which runs from Thursday through Sunday, will focus on several issues.
The One Book, One Community program officially kicked off its six-week program Monday with community leaders and free books. More than 150 people attended the “Get Fired Up” event at the Union, where spicy foods, free books and excitement loomed in the air. Kristan Tetens, a university spokesperson who helped develop the program, said the 100 free books provided by Barnes & Noble Booksellers , 333 E.
A collaborative pilot project between professors from two Michigan universities aims to give women support after completing breast cancer treatment.The project, Transition to Survivorship - Following Breast Cancer Treatment, acts as a trial-run support group for women who have recently gone through treatment after the early stages of breast cancer.
ASMSU and East Lansing will unite landlords, police and students in the first MSU Housing Fair. The fair will be held in the Union Ballroom from 2-6 p.m.
Ambitious entrepreneurs ranging from MSU students to the average Joe with a dream congregated at Kellogg Center for an opportunity to showcase their business skills - and a chance to take home more than just a paycheck. The Michigan Economic Development Corp.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, will be hosting a town hall forum at the Wonder Hall Kiva to debate the topic of Proposal 4 at 6:30 p.m.
A memo from President M. Peter McPherson released to The State News on Monday said new undercover surveillance guidelines will be placed in the Spartan Life: Student Handbook and Resource Guide starting next year.Spartan Life, which is distributed to all on-campus students, establishes rules and laws for MSU students.The addition is the result of more than a year and a half spent on revising the rules for undercover operations by MSU administrators and student leaders.
Armed with sleeping bags, tents and pillows, about 350 MSU students gave up hours of their weekend in an effort to become members of the Izzone.The Student Alumni Foundation sponsored a campout for tickets in the largest student-operated spirit section in college basketball - the 953-member Izzone.“We got here at 6 a.m.,” English senior Andrea Sprague said.