Despite Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of equality, some say the atmosphere for minorities at MSU hasn't lived up to the civil rights leader's expectations.To help educate students about other cultures, Multiracial Unity Living Experience is a group that sponsors activities to spark conversations and change attitudes about race on campus.
The marriage between Trustee Joel Ferguson and the MSU community is officially over. The Lansing native and MSU alumnus has lost the rings. Well, he might have given them away. Although he doesn't believe his 1990 John Hancock and 1993 Liberty bowl rings have been stolen, it seems the long-time trustee doesn't remember how he parted ways with his football trophies. In addition, Ferguson said he has no clue how his rings found their way to auction on the eBay Web site.
The University Graduate Council presented three years worth of revisions to the Graduate Students Rights and Responsibilities to the executive committee of Academic Council. The document sets academic regulations governing MSU graduate students. The graduate council will again present a list of the proposed changes at next month's Academic Council meeting.
Winter is here, and while many activities available for the partaking are fun, many officials warn they also are harmful.
Delta Twp. - With a combined cost of $43 million and a slow economy, Lansing Community College has reached out to local businesses and community partners to help pay for its new technical centers.As an extension of LCC, Michigan Technical Education Center (M-TEC) and Technical Training Center are scheduled to open next year.The M-TEC cost the city nearly $34 million and the training center close to $9 million.
Two of MSU's educational programs for state residents are looking for creative solutions to upcoming funding problems - and hoping to avoid layoffs that may be inevitable. The Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, MSU Extension and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station were counting on nearly $4 million in state money to make up for a 2 percent cut to higher-education funding.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm was thrown for an expensive loop Tuesday when she learned she'll have to quickly slash $142.6 million to balance this year's budget. The state's leading budget experts announced Tuesday revenue expectations will fall short of predictions made in November.
West Lafayette, Ind. - In basketball, offense plays a critical part in winning games. Tuesday night, the Spartans didn't have much of it.The end result was a 72-60 loss, which gave MSU (9-6 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) its fourth loss in five games.Offensively, the Spartans entered the game shooting 47.6 percent from the field.
MSU will host the North American Animal Welfare Judging Contest on Feb. 28 during its annual Agriculture and Natural Resources Week. Participants will evaluate animal welfare in given situations.
Though I agreed with most of Monday's "Spartans question claim of human clone" (SN 1/13), one point struck me as needing an answer.
The University Graduate Council presented three years worth of revisions to the Graduate Students Rights and Responsibilities to the executive committee of Academic Council.The document sets academic regulations governing MSU graduate students.The graduate council will again present a list of the proposed changes at next month's Academic Council meeting.
Events The Michigan State Sustainable Agriculture Network will hold its Seminar Series: "Michigan Agriculture in 2003" at noon Thursday in 222 Erickson Hall.M The MSU School of Music will hold "A Celebration of the Beautiful Voice" benefit gala concert at 7:30 p.m.
MSU's Residence Halls Association is sponsoring a visit from R &B artists Ja Rule and Eve - and students can win tickets to the event. The concert, held in cooperation with the University Activities Board, will take place at 7:30 p.m.
Library goers eager to silence the nuisance of cell phones may be in luck if an ASMSU bill banning cell phone use in most areas of the MSU's libraries is approved by university officials.ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, voted on a bill Tuesday which gives student support regulating cell phone usage to stairwells, entryways and bathrooms.
Lansing Mayor David Hollister was the first of Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm's appointments to go in front of the Senate Government Operations Committee in a series of hearings to examine candidates for top spots in the governor's cabinet Tuesday. A state Senate committee unanimously confirmed Hollister as the director of a new state department on labor and economic growth. "He will represent Granholm very well," said Mary Dettloff, spokeswoman for Jennifer Granholm.
Wharton Center might be far from the Paris Opera House. But both venues can thank the same cloaked figure for their success.On Wednesday, "The Phantom of the Opera" returns to the Great Hall, six years after it shattered box office records and put MSU's performance hall on the map."We built a really huge reputation on 'Phantom of the Opera' and we've been able to retain it," Wharton spokesman Bob Hoffman says.But Wharton Center isn't about to take its past success for granted.
"When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation." America: Land of the free, home of the brave. Yeah, right. One would have to be blind, deaf and ignorant not to see the truth.
The Friday Night Film Series continues at 7 p.m. Friday in W449 Main Library. The movie featured is "Germany in Autumn," a documentary about terrorism in Germany in 1977.
A recent decision by former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to commute the death sentences of 167 inmates has members of the MSU community talking. Ryan, who left office Monday, said the move was necessary because of errors in "trials, sentencing, the appeals process and the state's failure to reform the system." Bryan Crowe said he agrees with Ryan's decision. The engineering arts senior said the state was better off being cautious than wrongfully executing inmates. "My immediate reaction was 'that's ridiculous,' but he did the right thing in not allowing the state to execute innocent people," he said.