The College of Arts and Letters announced Wednesday its plans to launch a new lecture series.Lectures will focus on current college strengths, such as jazz, film and American studies.
Krysten McCully didn’t know she’d spend part of her day rolling around inside a human-sized bowling ball after class Tuesday afternoon.But that was just one activity she and many other students enjoyed at the Sports Illustrated Campus Fest, which will continue today behind the rock on Farm Lane.“This whole thing is really great,” McCully, a pre-vet freshman, said.
The Residence Halls Association will hear both sides of a debate about plans for a proposed student greenhouse at its general assembly meeting today.The meeting will be in the Essex Underground of Wilson Hall at 7 p.m.RHA pledged support for a student project last year in an effort to replace a greenhouse taken down in 1998.The project received approval from the university, but was amended later.
An MSU-Detroit College of Law forum today will address the state school voucher ballot proposal. Pro-voucher group Kids First!
Rianne Jones says she never thought distributing 25,000 copies of the Red Cedar Log was beyond reach.“I was really confident,” said Jones, Red Cedar Log editor in chief.
For the next two days, students can do something other than study between classes.And students could also be coming home after their classes with more than just books.The Sports Illustrated Campus Fest returns today to MSU with its full array of exhibits, games, sporting activities, sweepstakes and free stuff.
Dinosaurs might be extinct. But the MSU Federal Credit Union-sponsored Dinosaur Dash is still running strong. The 15th annual 5K race is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.
For Gary Manson, good faculty is going to make his new job as acting dean of the College of Social Science just a little bit easier. Manson was officially named acting dean at Friday’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting.
Students looking to embark on a new career after graduation will soon have an additional resource available to them, thanks in part to the university. The MSU Career Services & Placement will offer a report Wednesday that some say will help make students aware of more career opportunities available in the Lansing and East Lansing area. Lansing’s office of Manpower Inc., the largest staffing firm in the world, will release the report, which was researched and designed by two MSU students.
AUGUSTA, Mich. - Colleen McNamara, a five-year veteran of MSU’s governing body, was elected chairperson of the university’s Board of Trustees on Friday. McNamara, who joined the board in 1995, replaces former Trustee Bob Traxler, who resigned in August to accept a position on the Mackinac Island State Parks Commission. “It’s really an honor,” McNamara said Friday.
HICKERY CORNERS, Mich. - MSU trustees, President M. Peter McPherson and other administrators inaugurated the university-owned, newly renovated W.K.
ASMSU wanted its MTV for Oct. 15.But MSU’s undergraduate student government might have to settle for “Ladies’ Night” instead.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled to speak at this year’s Black Power Rally, a Black Student Alliance-sponsored event scheduled for Oct.
There was more than the excitement of a legendary rivalry in the air Friday as players and fans prepared for a contest between the Spartans and the Fighting Irish.In a Kellogg Center banquet room, officials gathered to celebrate the connection between MSU and the University of Notre Dame.