The possible closing of MSU’s visual impairment education programs was a subject of discussion at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. MSU officials are considering closing the program due to low enrollment.
Once in a while we all just want to get naked and be free. The cast of the Department of Theatre’s production of “Hair” gets this enviable task on the stage of Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The colorful production, which opened Thursday, has the spirit and all the right moves to relax anybody.
Lansing - Chants rang from the Capitol steps Friday afternoon when protesters holding signs proclaimed a desire for Palestinian freedom. “One, two, three, four, we don’t want your racist war,” the group shouted.
Although ASMSU’s meeting attendance is on the rise after several new 2002-03 representatives joined the organization, the length of past meetings caused the roll call to become shorter.Academic Assembly undergraduate student government officials decided attendance should be monitored for the upcoming year, but no similar measures have been taken by Student Assembly.For Academic Assembly’s first 2002-03 meeting Tuesday, about 14 out of 24 seated members were present.
Security will be stepped up for May 3’s Student Convocation at Breslin Center.MSU officials said higher security measures will be taken as a result of the Sept.
Lansing - During the first three games in their series with Dayton, to say the Lugnuts’ bats were asleep would be an understatement.
Making it easier for families to send their children to college is a platform for each gubernatorial candidate.
“The Michigan Health Care Rally - Eliminating Health Care Disparities: A Prescription for the 21st Century” will take place Tuesday to educate people about today’s health care system and increase awareness of various health disparities. The rally will be held 1-4 p.m.
Emma McLaughlin slowly approached a drum that sat on a wooden chair in the middle of the Music Building Auditorium stage Friday afternoon.Walking with a grin plastered on her face, she looked at the packed audience and removed the drum from the chair, before sitting cross-legged on the floor.Emma, who has Down syndrome, played the drum rhythm to the “Michigan State Fight Song” at Celebrate Abilities, the fourth anuual music therapy program recital.The 9-year-old from Dimondale was among 23 students of various ages who performed songs they learned as part of their sessions at MSU’s Music Therapy Clinic.
Lansing - Latricia Horstman was surprised by how many people came up to her and thought the event she co-organized with Sarah Stollak, Ladyfest Lansing 2002, was for lesbians only. “It isn’t anti-men, it’s pro-women,” Horstman said.
MSU students have found a new place to park bikes and store household items - the Red Cedar River.This is what more than 65 students and volunteers discovered Saturday while cleaning up the river, campus and area parks as part of the Residence Halls Association recycling program’s Trash Bash and River Splash.This was the first year the campus cleanup extended to the Red Cedar River in cooperation with Adopt-A-River and Friends of the Red Cedar River.
Ryan Holden is misunderstanding the meaning of degradation of women when he states that Playboy’s purpose is for entertainment, not to degrade women (“Playboy ad not part of the big problem,” SN 4/10). The women who wrote letters to the editor prior to Holden about the Playboy ad were arguing against the use of women’s bodies to sell products.
Greeks danced through the aisles of the Auditorium on Saturday night in anticipation of the National Pan-Hellenic Council step-show and the start of Black Greek Week.The show began at 7 p.m.
The sounds of Billy Joel, Studio 54, “Grease” and “The Flinstones” signaled the end of Greek Week on Sunday at the Auditorium. Songfest was the last event of Greek Week, which featured MTV Fundraising Night, a speech by Judge Mitch Krane, Battle of the Bands, the “Beat the Greeks” game show, Special Olympics and Greeks into the Streets. The week of activities and community service raised about $60,000 for Area 8 Special Olympics, Coaches for Kids, Haven House, Children’s Miracle Network and Verlinden Elementary School in Lansing. “I think that our showing this week as far as fund-raising and community service was far above what is has been in the last few years,” Greek Week director Chris Braverman said. Fourteen teams, each with two fraternities and one sorority, participated.
An MSU fraternity and the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community confronted each other several times on Friday, more than a week after the fraternity’s pledges mocked gay men on campus. Witnesses said Pi Kappa Phi members approached Mason and Abbot halls residents early Friday morning and engaged in an animated discussion in which fraternity members referred to Mason and Abbot halls as the “gay house” and inquired if the Mason and Abbot halls residents outside were LBGT students. More than eight hours later, roughly 50 LBGT students stopped at the fraternity house during the Pride March singing “Two, four, six, eight, gay is just as good as straight.” Pi Kappa Phi members declined to comment Sunday. The confrontations follow actions in which Pi Kappa Phi’s pledges wore pink, sleeveless T-shirts to the Mason and Abbot halls cafeterias on April 1 and April 2 that had phrases such as “I like little boys,” “Capt.
Ernie Harwell just began his 55th season of broadcasting major league baseball, and today the hall-of-famer will share some of his memories at a book signing on campus. Harwell will make an appearance at MSU-Detroit College of Law from 3:30-4:30 p.m.
I believe The State News needs some better communication among departments. On Tuesday’s front page the teaser quote from an article on page three stated, “We wouldn’t want the University of Michigan to come here and recruit undergraduates to their university.” The State News should read this and listen to its readers because the very same paper had an ad on page 10 for, you guessed it, the University of Michigan.
The crew team picked up wins in eight of the 12 races at the Buckeye Invitational this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. The No.
Matt Nemeth entered the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building looking for a quiet place to study.
MSU students, faculty and staff will meet tonight at Lafayette Square in Brody Hall to discuss multicultural curriculum infusion.The group will discuss diversity at MSU, with topics such as what a multiculturally infused curriculum should look like, academic freedom and the role of students and staff in solving the problem.Another session will be held April 22.Darren Lamb, programming director for Black Student Alliance, said he thinks MSU’s curriculum is not as multicultural as it could be.“I don’t think it’s diverse enough because just by taking a few black history courses, I now know there are tons more courses that can be offered about black history and culture,” the journalism senior said.