Multiple dorm invasions and thefts occurred in Holden Hall on the night of Nov. 13, including one that ended in three laptops and an iPhone being stolen.
MSU United Students Against Sweatshops, which pressured MSU to agree to the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh last year, is now pushing for the university to cut ties with JanSport.
By Ian Martin imartin@statenews.com When hearing the words “music” and “math,” you may not think there’s much of a correlation between the seemingly contrasting subjects, which can be described as “expressive” and “analytical.” Dr. Jason Brown, however, would beg to differ. Brown, who is a mathematics professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, will be giving a lecture at 4:10 p.m., Tuesday in C304 Wells Hall, entitled “A Hard Day’s Math: The Connections Between Mathematics and Music.” The lecture’s title, inspired by the legendary opening chord of The Beatles 1964 hit song “A Hard Day’s Night,” stems from a sudden realization Brown had while thinking about the song in 2004, during the song’s 40th anniversary. Brown said the opening chord to the song was something people had tried to play for years, but could never ‘quite get it right.’ “Everyone had their own idea of what the notes were and I thought back then ‘maybe there’s a scientific way to approach it,’” Brown said. Brown, who taught himself to play guitar at the age of 12 by learning the songs to Beatles records, said when thinking about the song, he remembered a chapter in a book he had read as an undergraduate, on the sounds of mathematics. He has since used something called a Fourier transform, which is a part of Calculus, to ‘unravel that mysterious open chord.’ Brown has written a number of papers on the connection between mathematics and music. “I think on one level you can use mathematics to understand the physics behind sound in music and to see the frequencies of the notes that are played in chords.
While experimenting with new sounds and rhythms is a constant process for any musician, percussion performance student Kelsey Tamayo said percussionists are recognized for approaching their music with limitless creativity and originality. "A lot of composers like writing new music for percussionists mostly because we are game to do anything," she said. As a teaching assistant and a third year member in the MSU Percussion Ensemble, Tamayo said the group is able perform pieces with diverse elements and sounds as a result of combining the skills that each member has acquired through previous ensemble experiences. While the percussion ensemble is not a fixed group on campus, all of the students that study within the percussion program at MSU gather to collaborate on assigned pieces of music for various performances and events throughout the year. Based on the instructions from the composers and the sounds that each group is trying to achieve, Tamayo said the percussionists often have the freedom to create their own unique sound by utilizing the mallets and equipment of their choice.
Name: charu ganesh (she comes up on people search as charumati but this is how she spelled her name/introduced herself so i assume this is what she wants to go by) Grade: senior Major: world politics what exactly is garbhangra? so today is basically a dance event, we’re not really performing or anything. garba is just a traditional indian dance that has roots in goodjruh which is one of the states in india. and hangra is a style of dance that has roots in punjob. so we’re just going to be fusing those two styles and events like this are open to everybody, we’re willing to give workshops and teach everybody how to do all the dances and everything, but it’s a lot of fun. it doesnt have any religious ties or anything, it’s just a traditional indian style of dance that we all use to celebrate. how do you get involved in garbhangra? so CIUS is a southasian organization and we do tons of cultural events and everything like this so if anyone wants to participate they can definitely come out to everything, theres no cover or anything like that, its a style that a lot of indian students do already know just from previous garba events and things like that so most people already are kinda familiar with what goes on but for those that arent, at least for myself, i didnt know how to do it or anything before college so, but we do have tutorials so it is accessible to everyone whats the goal of the event tonight? our main goal really is to give back to our members and throw a fun to event to kind of reel in semester, its our last big one, i guess, for fall, but our goal today is basically to get our members to come out and also sign up for our cultural show satrang which is happening in late march of next year, so thats basically a show where we have 7 different styles of cultural dance that we all perform on stage in this huge charity event and its large end of the year so we try to get people to come out to garbhangra and sign up for that so that’s today’s main purpose, we’re just kind of making it a fun thing for everyone as well is this something you do every year? yes, every year, every spring, usually late march or early april how long has this been going on for? this is actually our 25th anniversary, so this year is actually pretty special to us, our theme actually kind of revolves around the 25th year celebration kind of anniversary theme, so its a big year for us, we’ve been (down?) for a while, this show has never been as big as it is now so we’re pretty proud of that do you know how this started? i dont know for sure just because we dont have very good records of all the people that founded the organization, things like that, so we’ve tried to kind of trace our roots, we do have southasian descent, one of the founders. cultural organizations like this exist on most every campus in north america so i can imagine it started out as people wanting to come together and celebrate their holidays and kind of connect with people that (?) so CIUS is an all inclusive organization so by no stretch of the imagination is it only for southasians or only for indians, we’re actually really open to anyone coming and joining, we really encourage that as well so thats why our event is completely free tonight, we’ve kinda been hoping tonight that we get more people from brody neighborhood and (?) to come out and celebrate with us, so yeah we really love it when there are people that may not have a sort of background in india that come out and participate in celebrations like that Name: fhibani sanghvi (comes up as fenil atul on people search but this is how she spelled her name/introduced herself so i assume this is what she wants to go by) Grade: sophomore Major: finance can you explain garbhangra a little bit? so every spring CIUS puts on a cultural show called satrang and garbhangra is kind of our way to bring everyone together, its also where they can sign up for their dances, its just a really fun event that has different styles of dance that they do to garba, which are two dances from india, but its just supposed to be a really fun event where people can sign up to be in (?) how did you get involved in this organization? well i was in other organizations in high school so from that i knew a lot of people in CIUS so i kinda just joined because they did it, to meet new people and stay in touch with indian culture what do you like most about this event? i love to dance so i think that has to be my favorite part about this event, also its really fun to meet all the new members that we get this year , yeah its just fun, you get to dance around people and see what dances theyre gonna do is cius doing anything special since it’s the 25th anniversary? we are but its a secret Name: rachna chhaya Grade: junior Major: general management can you explain this event? so this event is called “garbhangra” and what we do tonight is we’re gonna have a few hours of just dancing. the indian culture is built on a lot of music and dance and performance and arts like that so it’s a very big part of everyone’s culture and so we have a dj that also goes here and he’s gonna play music all night and everyone’s gonna come and dance and also throughout the process we have a show called (?) every spring that we perform at wharton center, its a cultural show, and so we practice for that all of second semester to put on the show and so tonight our event, one of the main purposes is so people can sign up for that show, whoevers interested, so we have a list of choreographers and those choreographers have decided to create certain dances and so whoever comes today will choose whatever dance they wanna be in and sign up and hopefully we’ll all place them in the ones they wanna be in and then starting in january through march we will be practicing for that and our show at wharton is on march 28th what brought you to this organization? personally ive been dancing all my life, it’s something i really like to do, it would just be weird if it weren’t in my life and actually my roommate introduced me to this organization so once i joined we liked what they did, we enjoyed dancing, i choreographed the last two years’ for the shows as well, so i was really involved, and also on board as funding coordinator so (?) why did you start dancing? actually, not that exciting of a story, but my mom enrolled me in classes when i was little and it was a hobby at first but once you get deeper and deeper into it, it became something i really liked to do and wanna keep doing on the side for the rest of my life so this is a really nice way to be able to do that favorite part of the event? dancing, its great, and you meet so many people and its great because the show allows people from every ethnicity, from any level of dance experience, to join, just to have fun, just to put something on that we do every spring and actually all of our money that we make in that show goes to charities and so it’s like we make a lot of money for a good cause and everyone can enjoy (?) what charities do you donate to? we donate to two charities- one here and one back in india, so the one we donate to (?) and the one we donate to back from india is called (?), it’s for children who are blind, so we help them (?) anything else you’d like to add? not really, our show is free for msu students, (?) Name: manasa gummalla Grade: junior Major: biology can you explain this event a little bit? this is garbhangra so this is an event that we post for our members and its sort of a fusion of garba and hangra, which are two different types of dance. and its kinda a way to let them come and sign up for the dances theyre gonna participate for this event (?) and its like our huge event of the year now can you explain how the dances differ? garba is more like a classic dance in the northern of india and hangra is also from the northern part of india but its more of like an energy-ish type of dance what brought you to this organization? all my friends were all doing it and so i heard about it and then i heard that we have a dance show and i used to dance when i was a kid so i was like “oh it sounds like its gonna be a blast” how did you start dancing as a kid? my mom signed me up for dance and she would force me to go and then i guess i started really liking it how long have you been in this organization for? ive been in this organization for a few years, since my freshman year has it impacted your life in any way? it totally impacted my life, i feel like i made a whole new friend group, and (?) im really interested in indian culture so whats your favorite part of this event? dancing can you describe your show next semester? its a show with different types of dances, like indian dance, classical indian dance, (?) and we have other (?)
In 1994, MSU and Pennsylvania State University began a friendly blood drive competition aiming to collect as many donations as possible. Twenty years later, the competition continues. On Monday, MSU was in the lead with 888 units over PSU’s 648.
International student Khaled Alghafli has a full scholarship from his government but still has everyday financial worries.
When the men’s basketball team looks across the court at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for pregame introductions, they will already be down 9-1. No. 19 MSU (1-0 overall) faces off against No. 4 Duke (2-0 overall), who will dress nine McDonald’s All-Americans compared to MSU’s one Branden Dawson Tuesday night in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The men’s soccer team (11-4-5 overall, 4-2-2 Big Ten) has earned the No. 3-seed overall in the 2014 NCAA Tournament. The Spartans will play the winner of this Thursday’s Kentucky (10-5-4 overall, 5-1-2 Conference USA)mtg vs. Oakland (9-6-3 overall, 5-0-3 Horizon) matchup on Sunday.
No. 10 MSU got a much-needed bounce back victory Saturday, topping the Maryland Terrapins, 37-15, from Capital One Field at Byrd Stadium. The Spartans used a stifling defensive performance and powerful rushing attack to bulldoze to another road conference win.
The MSU Sexual Assault Program is in need of more funding to hire more licensed counselors. While much of the program’s work can be done by volunteers, we are trained only in crisis intervention.
By Kayman Whaley kwhaley@statenews.com I can’t describe how infuriating it is to see a leftover, messy and used tray left on a table in the cafeteria.
A winter weather advisory is currently in effect for East Lansing until Tuesday at 9 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.
Notre Dame (No. 25) defeated the men’s swimming and diving team this weekend at IM West, 127-171, winning seven of 16 events.
This weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, the women’s cross country team took first place and the men placed second at the Great Lakes Regional Championships. Only two weeks after redshirt senior Leah O’ Connor won the Big Ten Championship after running closely to Wisconsin’s sophomore Sarah Disanza, she took another victory.
East Lansing police are searching for 28-year-old Bradley Walczak, who was last seen around 6:15 p.m.
As part of the National It's on Us Week of Action, multiple campus organizations are planning workshops and events to raise awareness about sexual assault's prevalence in college communities and to provide students with resources to deal with sexual assault.
Running from Nov. 14- April 26, the Broad plans to invite a different designer each month to present their past work and the ideas they have for East Lansing's future.
About 30 students endured the cold weather to protest police violence for the second time Thursday evening.
“Have you ever been told you can’t do something?” was the question speaker Paul Artale posed to an auditorium full of graduate students.