MSU event honoring ex-president Simon draws enthusiastic supporters and angry protesters
To enter the building, attendees were met with a line and a chalk message: “If you cross this line, you’re complicit.”
To enter the building, attendees were met with a line and a chalk message: “If you cross this line, you’re complicit.”
The Spartans snapped their five-game losing streak with a dominant victory over Detroit Mercy.
The Spartans are looking to snap a five-game losing streak without junior guard Gabby Elliott, who suffered a season-ending ACL injury against Ohio State.
Attendees heard from accounting graduate Darryl Ervin. He shared his own struggles as a first-generation college student and father while attending MSU. He said these challenges helped him build character, gave him purpose and shaped him into the person he is today.
The Spartans will need to find a way to carry on without Elliott as they try to stop a five-game losing streak against Detroit Mercy on Sunday.
MSU's board verbally heard the results of an investigation into the resignation of former business school dean Sanjay Gupta. His supporters demand the report be made public and said his removal would discourage donors to the university.
At the Dec. 16 Board of Trustees meeting, Woodruff reported she has visited the Title IX Office and revisited the Center for Survivors within the last month, one of her commitments to engaging with faculty and students.
Budget and Finance Committee Chair Melanie Foster delivered a report on the financial possibility of reinstating the swim and dive team. The findings leave the future of swim and dive at MSU largely in question.
Once invitations were sent out and the RSVPs came back, the event had to be moved to a larger venue to accommodate capacity limits — the Breslin Center at noon on Dec. 19. With Simon’s controversial history came pushback from student groups and survivors who became aware of this ceremony.
The board is in conversation with Isaacson Miller, an executive search firm that has been used to find deans and administrators at MSU in the past and is currently searching for a candidate to helm MSU's Office of Civil Rights and Institutional Equity.
Budget and finance committee chair Melanie Foster cited two reasons why reinstatement would be difficult: the long-term need for a facility and the cost sharing arrangement between MSU athletics and external fundraising.
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“Especially with Hannakuh coming up … lighting, each night, another candle, bringing more light and kindness into this world," Shemtov said. "That’s the best answer we can give, and ... hopefully that will have an effect and share that warmth with our surroundings and hopefully, that will make the world that much brighter.”
Michigan State University will host its fall 2022 commencement this weekend. Undergraduate ceremonies will take place Saturday, Dec. 17, at the Breslin Center, 534 Birch Road. All commencement ceremonies will be live-streamed at www.commencement.msu.edu.
Interim president Teresa Woodruff will lead her first board meeting on Friday, Dec. 16 at 9 a.m. Here is a look at what is on the agenda.
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