The MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, or CERES, is holding a Brown Bag Luncheon Series by Lisa Cook, a professor in James Madison College from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Whether you’re 21 and ready to hit the bars or you want to stay inside and celebrate the holiday, there’s a way for everyone to get a little Irish this St. Patrick’s Day.
The Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, 12685 E. C Ave. in Augusta, Mich., is offering its third annual Field of Ornithology Course, or FOC, this spring. The course will run from Wednesday through May 22 and include lectures and field trips every other week.
Inspired by the nighttime creatures she heard scurrying and squeaking in her backyard, MSU alumna and Morrice, Mich., resident Brenda Roy wrote and illustrated a children’s book, which was published at the end of January. Called “Night Noise,” the book combines poetry with biology to create a story about nocturnal animals. The State News talked with Roy about her new book and its reception, as well as her plans for the future.
The “One Night of Queen” show will be put on at 7:30 p.m. Monday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
The opening reception of the master of fine arts exhibition will be held from 7-9 p.m. Friday at Kresge Art Museum.
The 2010 addition to the Battlefield pantheon is a solid all-around experience with a couple of tweaks and a multiplayer mode that will make players rethink FPS tactics.
After years of training, the students join the traveling professional group, Nrityagram. At 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, they will perform at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Connecticut, the No. 1 overall seed and winners of 71 straight games, is the prohibitive favorite to win its second straight national championship. The Huskies dominated the competition throughout the season, winning their games by an average of almost 35 points.
As the season likely has come to a close for the No. 16 MSU hockey team, two players have big decisions looming. Junior defenseman Jeff Petry and junior forward Corey Tropp might decide to leave school early to join the NHL teams that own their rights.
The MSU wrestling program has produced 19 individual wrestling champions, but only five have gone on to win multiple national championships. Thursday, Franklin Gomez will begin his journey to repeat as champion of the 133-pound class in the same way as he entered last season’s NCAA Championships.
MSU baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. likes playing Eastern Michigan. His past with the Eagles ups the stakes when his current new team takes on his old one. In a game originally scheduled March 12, the Spartans will travel to Ypsilanti on Wednesday to play Eastern Michigan at 5 p.m.
Not only do circus animals suffer physical abuse, but also emotional abuse. Even if bred in captivity, tigers, bears, elephants and other circus animals are not domestic animals. While in captivity, they have the same urges to perform natural behaviors as their counterparts in the wild. Unfortunately, almost every natural behavior is denied to them.
The day doesn’t have to be used to celebrate the real acts of St. Patrick, or even the mythical ones. Even if it’s just as simple as hoping to catch a little green dude and being rewarded with his pot of gold; that’s better than getting more than adequately tipsy for no reason.
No Child Left Behind was crafted with good intentions but created a lot of difficulties once it was implemented. The plan left behind teachers, forcing them to spend most of their time on reading and math proficiency, especially in primary schools where one teacher taught most of the subjects.
The multimillion dollar Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum came one step closer to reality Tuesday at a ground breaking ceremony that attracted more than 400 people. The museum’s namesake couple, as well as its architect, London-based Zaha Hadid, were among the 14 people who dug shovels into the ground near the museum’s future site, next to Berkey Hall.
After adding gender identity to its discrimination policy, MSU continues to look for ways to increase accessibility to the university’s transgender community. Although it is hard to know the exact number of MSU students who identify as being transgender at MSU, it’s a group that some say is growing.
MSU freshman Sasha Savage will not face charges for her alleged involvement in a November 2009 prank, but remains suspended from MSU, according to her lawyer. She faced felony charges carrying sentences of up to 20 years in prison for her alleged involvement in a firework prank on Nov. 1, 2009.
A man allegedly connected to a sexual assault at MSU in February has been apprehended in Illinois, MSU police said. Montague Stanford, 40, of Naperville, Ill., is awaiting formal charges from the Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office for an alleged sexual assault of a female MSU student on MSU’s campus.
Two MSU students got into an altercation in Case Hall on March 5 that led to an assault, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. A 19-year-old female MSU student said she and a 19-year-old man from Livonia got into the altercation after the man fell asleep in her dorm room while intoxicated.