With classes winding down and most of the student body getting ready to leave East Lansing, students are turning their attention to a final chore: packing.
When hospitality business senior Sally Charness stopped at the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday afternoon, she didn’t know she was about to be blinded. Students from the Council of Students with Disabilities, or CSD, asked her to wear a blindfold while reading braille printed on pop cans to simulate blindness. She soon could decipher an “S” on a can of Sprite, but she said it was hard to tell for sure what she was reading.
Once history professor Edward Jocque receives his stack of Student Instructional Rating System, or SIRS, forms after entering his final grades, he takes the time to carefully look through the responses. After sifting through the evaluations with responses on extreme ends of the spectrum, Jocque said he uses the forms to help improve his class, adding that he once changed the structure of his final exam based on SIRS suggestions.
More than 500 students had the chance to try on drunk goggles, play games and earn a free T-shirt when they stopped by the sidewalk near Olin Health Center on Wednesday to participate in Olin and the Residence Halls Association’s Duck Days event. Students, community members, Olin Health Center professionals and the MSU Police Department contributed to the event.
When the men’s and women’s golf teams travel to French Lick Resort in French Lick, Ind., this weekend for the Big Ten Championships, they’ll both have winning as a common goal.
With regular season action winding to a close, both the MSU men’s and women’s tennis teams will open up postseason play this week in their respective Big Ten Tournaments. The MSU men’s tennis team (17-10 overall, 6-5 Big Ten) earned the No. 7 seed and will face No. 10-seeded Purdue in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at Northwestern’s Vandy Christie Tennis Center in Evanston, Ill. Meanwhile, the women’s tennis team (8-14, 0-11) enters the Big Ten Tournament as the No. 12 seed and also will face Purdue at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ohio State’s Varsity Tennis Courts in Columbus, Ohio.
Where were the members of Campus Crusade for Christ, or Cru, and other religious student groups when the Westboro Baptist Church, or WBC, came to spread their hateful views?
Apparently, public involvement is equal to being a “witch hunt,” at least in the case of Trayvon Martin. At least, it is to some. The shooting of Martin is not a unique case.
Sexual assault and rape are severe crimes that can often go unsolved. But with the implementation of a specialized rape kit testing laboratory, these crimes against people, including MSU students, could be analyzed quicker and more effectively. The specialized laboratory that will be used to analyze the DNA of sexual assault victims on MSU’s campus will be implemented in Michigan State Police’s existing Northville, Mich., laboratory beginning this summer.
Interdisciplinary studies in social science sophomore Courtney Moeggenberg pays her own tuition, works two jobs and takes out her own loans.
It simply was by chance that social work freshman Leia Edwards met her boyfriend Ciro Vasquez last June.
Medical amnesty legislation is just a pen stroke away from becoming law after the Michigan House passed the bill for a second time Tuesday, sending it to the governor’s desk for final approval.
The East Lansing City Council discussed an amendment to an ordinance at its Tuesday night work session that has stood in the way of a local fraternity’s expansion application, possibly clearing the way for the application to be approved at a later date after months of uncertainty. Members of FarmHouse Fraternity, 151 Bogue St., previously submitted an expansion application that was brought before council last week with plans to add space for 16 more bedrooms. The application ran into conflict with zoning regulations for the East Village redevelopment project, a vision that officials hoped would eventually stimulate the city’s economic growth through retail. The project was put on hold in the fall of 2009 because of economic struggles. Project zoning requirements mandate that buildings set aside 50 percent retail space on the first floor, but the fraternity’s application only set aside 25 percent of first-floor retail space, meaning it did not meet standards for approval, Planning and Zoning Administrator Darcy Schmitt said.
James Lackey, 43, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by MSU police Officer Chris Rozman for Lackey’s involvement in several campus thefts, MSU police Sgt.
Journalism senior Anne Cook began a bucket list with friends in December that included eating at all the campus cafeterias, taking a picture with Sparty and going for a ride in the Karaoke Kab. She didn’t think going into Beaumont Tower was even a possibility.
Despite Residence Halls Association’s declaration of support last fall for a proposal to include a consolidated fitness plan in next year’s residential fees, the IM Sports facilities have postponed actions to create a campuswide fitness service for students living in residence halls.
Controversial bills that would provide more requirements for voters and third party registrants remain stalled in a House committee after legislators heard testimony about the bills in the Redistricting and Elections Committee on Tuesday morning. Several advocacy groups testified against the bills, including representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
In January, East Lansing Fire Chief Randall Talifarro was placed in charge of both the East Lansing and Lansing fire departments and now spends time working in each division. Talifarro replaced Lansing Fire Chief Tom Cochran after he retired in January. Cochran now provides assistance to the departments on an as-needed basis.
As the clock winds down on the spring semester and students throughout campus are cramming material learned during the semester to prepare for final exams, the question of where to study remains on students’ minds. Throughout their years at MSU, students have developed areas where they feel comfortable sitting down and getting things done.
Revisions to the university policy on dual enrollment for undergraduates were approved by University Council at its final meeting of the academic year yesterday. The new policy, which goes into effect this fall, allows undergraduate students to dual enroll in graduate programs once they reach junior standing. Currently, students only can dual enroll in graduate programs once they are within 15 credits of completing their undergraduate degree.