Mallory Hines, an MSU alumna and Lowell, Mich., native is working at a local café until her Sept. 24 departure to Santiago, Chile, where she will spend the next five months participating in outreach events and earthquake-relief work through Youth With A Mission, or YWAM.
Along with six other students in a documentary film class, Nicholas Baker, a media arts and technology senior, created “Publicly Defended,” a documentary chronicling the legal trevails of Eddie Joe Lloyd, who was released from jail in 2002 after a DNA test proved him innocent in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl from Detroit in 1985.
I was dismayed at the arrogance displayed in the editorial “Punishment for pie-thrower should be tempered (SN 9/01).” Not only did The State News editorial board members demonstrate their ignorance towards the specifics of (anthropology senior Ahlam) Mohsen’s case, but additionally demonstrated their ignorance toward social justice movements and activism more broadly.
In high school, I remember health class teaching sex education with a specific set of phrases such as, “Say no,” “You could die before the age of 25” and “Children are forever.” Safe sex was promoted to cover all the bases, but abstinence was the main push in a classroom full of hormonal teenagers who recently discovered themselves.
The traditional five-day Welcome Week is gone and has been replaced by a three-day Fall Welcome. In short, it’s now meetings, events, a college colloquium, programs, an open house and a convocation one after the other.
Throughout the past year, MSU’s Alumni Association has been working nationally and regionally to refocus on engaging young alumni by aiding in career searches, providing interview tips and facilitating networking between young alumni and older graduates.
Athletic officials have yet to comment on how junior guard Korie Lucious’ pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving will affect his standing on the MSU men’s basketball team. Lucious pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving on Thursday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The charge was reduced from one count of operating while intoxicated, or drunken driving. Both are misdemeanor charges.
Demolition for a multimillion dollar development in East Lansing is now projected to begin at the end of this year or beginning of the next, following a finance meeting between city officials and the developer.
Recent developments with the forthcoming multimillion dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, bring the project’s researchers closer to answering science’s many unknown and unanswered questions. The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Office of Science, gave the project critical decision 1 approval Wednesday, which establishes the design of the building to house the facility and the next phase’s cost.
Window panes in Campbell Hall were reported broken the afternoon of Aug. 30, said MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek. Fingerprints and bloodstains also were found at the scene.
The first monthly meeting of the Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, will take place Tuesday.
Hundreds of zombies with blood dripping down their pale, decrepit skin staggered through downtown Lansing to benefit a local food bank Saturday afternoon.
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder will continue to spend as much money as necessary for his campaign, said spokesman Bill Nowling after a report was issued showing how much money each gubenatorial candidate spent on their campaigns through Aug.
Raising llamas has been an addiction for Lauren Puma ever since she competed in her first llama show more than 20 years ago. This weekend, the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education hosted the Lamafest 2010.
The ShoMe The Money Go Green Buckle Series horse event, which ran from Friday to Sunday at the Pavilion, attracted hundreds to show off their horses.
Students have now a new option when looking to stave off hunger. The Campus Special, a company that works with local businesses to provide coupons to students, launched a free online food ordering service for area restaurants, on Aug 25.
Students who graduate in 2011 might have an easier time finding jobs than those who graduated in 2010, according to a recently released survey.
A proposal to expand a neighborhood’s overlay district to prevent permanent residences from becoming rental houses will be presented to the East Lansing City Council at its Tuesday night meeting at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
Wharton Center is opening its doors for the 2010-11 school year with a magical nanny and a talking ogre leading the pack of world-renowned acts making their way to campus.
The University Activities Board, in collaboration with the Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives, the Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions and others, will be sponsored Spartan Remix from 7-10 p.m. Thursday at the Union.