The second of a three-part series on women’s issues will take place tonight in the Union Green Room. The series, called “Borders, Barriers and Bridges,” deals with various issues affecting women.
Jim Ciszewski decided three weeks ago that he was up to a challenge - he wanted to become president of the Council of Graduate Students.Last week, members of the graduate student government officially gave him the task.
Don Stevens spent his life fighting unpopular fights. An MSU trustee from 1958-78, Stevens was instrumental in the hiring of Clifton Wharton, MSU’s first black president. Stevens died Friday at age 87. “Don Stevens was the kind of guy who always kept his word,” Wharton said.
Undercover police investigation guideline recommendations were finalized by the University Committee on Student Affairs last week.Other groups will receive the guidelines before they are submitted to MSU President M.
Lindsay Verwey vividly remembers the last time she was the target of a racial slur.The Lansing Eastern High School freshman was shopping for makeup when she was approached by another girl.“She just gave me a dirty look and called me a ‘spic,’” she said.Incidents like that aren’t a common occurrence, Verwey said, but they do happen from time to time.“It hurts you inside - you feel like you’re not wanted,” she said.
After more than five years of planning, MSU officials uploaded a Web site that shows results of students’ opinions about teachers.The site, Students’ Opinion of Courses and Teaching, www.soct.msu.edu, allows students, faculty and staff members to see students’ ratings for undergraduate courses and course instructors.
Black students at MSU have the opportunity to graduate twice in one weekend.MSU’s first Black Celebratory will be May 3 in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
A conference titled “The Mixed Experience” will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Multicultural Center in the Union basement.
The Residence Halls Association’s executive board wrapped up elections Wednesday, adding Holden Hall Rep.
Phyllis Englebert will be seeking support for the freedom of a Middle Eastern prisoner from 4-6 p.m.
The MSU Museum received two grants Wednesday to showcase Jewish and Great Lakes-area cultures later this year.The Michigan Humanities Council awarded the museum $12,432 to display a U.S.
Panel discussion to address conserving campus energy The panel discussion “Michigan’s Energy Future: Shaping the New Century,” will be held at 7 p.m.
Madalyn Pollock fidgeted with her pearl necklace Wednesday as tears filled her eyes.Photos of her husband flashed across the screen in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre as an introduction to journalist Laurie Garrett’s presentation.
The University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees Organization coming to an agreement with university officials this week has left members of MSU’s Graduate Employees Union with mixed feelings. “I think the mood is sort of people are excited and optimistic, but also frustrated with the lack of progress we’ve been making in bargaining,” said Jessica Goodkind, the graduate union’s president. MSU officials were unavailable for comment on Tuesday. Goodkind said the union and MSU agreed on a few issues, including training and development of teaching assistants, on Monday.
The unversitywide student polls for ASMSU and University Apartments’ Council of Residents reopened Tuesday with few problems. On the main menu of the ballot a help page is available if any voting problems occur for the second set of elections.
On any given day, the deep plunks of a string bass, the soothing sounds of a trombone and the hypnotizing harmony of a saxophone solo can be heard emanating from inside MSU’s Music Building. And those sounds only will become more frequent.
ASMSU adopted a 22-page set of financial bylaws last week, updating the three-page document created in 1992.The new bylaws alleviate some procedural problems, but do not specify money distribution guidelines.With $12,500 remaining for the undergraduate student government for spring semester, finance committee Chairperson Andy Schepers said the old financial bylaws needed to be revamped because they were too vague and didn’t give the organization enough direction about how money should be spent.
With the threat of anthrax gripping the nation, Lyman Briggs School will be presenting a speaker from BioPort Corp. BioPort is the only Food and Drug Administration-licensed manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine, company spokeswoman Kim Brennen Root said. Root will be speaking at 7:30 p.m.
MSU students will pay an additional dollar for The State News beginning in the fall. When the votes from last week’s election were tallied, 501 students voted in favor of the increase, 418 opposed it and six students abstained from voting during the 2002 student tax referendum. The increase upped the tax from $4 to $5 per semester and is the first increase in 13 years.
Vygaudas Usackas found himself in Moscow wearing an Ox, his team’s mascot, on his back, while talking to Russian reporters about the Lithuania vs.