The Women’s Resource Center and MSU’s Department of Residence Life are teaming up to present a jazz concert on campus. “An Evening With Women in Jazz: A Tribute to Breast Cancer Survivors and Their Supporters” will be held from 6:30 p.m.
Citizens for a Peaceful Response, a group founded Sept. 11, is holding a teach-in to challenge racial myths, discuss alternatives to war and begin a public discussion regarding an appropriate response to the terrorist attacks on the United States. The event will be held at 6 p.m.
As the Pentagon enacted the first steps of “Operation Infinite Justice” on Wednesday, Corey Portalatin anxiously waited to see what would happen. The pre-vet and marketing sophomore’s fiancé is based in Norfolk, Va., where the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier departed on its way to the Mediterranean on Wednesday.
Sigma Sigma Phi, a medical fraternity in the College of Osteopathic Medicine, is sponsoring a blood drive from noon to 5:45 p.m.
Driving across the country in a car can be a challenge in itself. But imagine riding a bicycle all the way from Santa Monica, Calif., to Washington, D.C. Lutrell Christian, a 1973 MSU graduate, is doing just than in an effort to raise $1 million for Tony La Russa’s Animal Rescue Foundation in San Francisco.
If money can be an indicator of love for this campus, MSU President M. Peter McPherson’s heart must be as big as his wallet. How big is that?
The Red Cedar and Grand rivers will be so fresh and so clean after Saturday.The MSU Sportfishing Club, the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council and the Lansing Board of Water and Light, 1232 Haco Drive in Lansing, are inviting residents to help clean the banks of both rivers.The project is part of the Adopt-A-River program, which has been working to clean the area rivers since 1994.Volunteers wishing to help the club’s cleanup of the Red Cedar River should meet at Sparty at 10 a.m.
Women interested in becoming a part of the MSU greek system are encouraged to participate in women’s Recruitment, which begins today.Despite the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington Sept.
In a conference as stocked with talent as the Big Ten, it’s hard to try and pick a clear favorite.
On Dec. 7, 1941, John Moon was 13. Sitting in the back seat of a Buick on the way to see his Aunt Bess in Detroit, he heard on the radio Pearl Harbor had been attacked. Moon, now 72, is a senior companion volunteer for Active Living for Adults and said the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington evoked emotions comparable to his initial reaction to Pearl Harbor. “My reaction was similar to what is going on right now,” he said “Amazement and shock.” The public has been bombarded countless times with media comparisons to the attack on Pearl Harbor, an event the student population at MSU has little means to relate, other than stories from grandparents and residents like Moon. “I was kind of too young to be shocked right away, but I knew there was this terrible thing,” Moon said of the Pearl Harbor bombing, the event that drew the nation into World War II.
The prognosticators were unaware of last weekend’s cancellations when we compiled our predictions, and we apologize for any inconveniences.
E-commerce sites may not collect commission, but virtual sales agents may be more effective in selling products than their real-life counterparts. MSU researchers have found adding electronic salespersons and 3-D product images to e-commerce sites creates better customer satisfaction.
Amid the hum and dust of construction, four MSU students rubbed shoulders with professionals in their field Wednesday while getting a sneak peak at the James B.
Everyone has a friend that always talks about making a movie.Some people even rope their buddies into acting out a few scenes in their ambitious masterpiece.But for all those people who have actually spent a great deal of time and money to create their own film, there aren’t a lot of places available to show it.
You haven’t seen every side of Shakespeare until you’ve seen “Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet).” It’s a hybrid of “Romeo and Juliet,” “Othello” and author Ann-Marie MacDonald’s sense of humor and is being performed at Bath Middle School, 13675 Webster Road, this weekend. “It starts out with this drab academic who’s been working on her doctorate and her thesis is that ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘Othello’ were originally comedies,” Bridgette Redman said.
Ahh, predictability. Almost all of modern sports movies are full of obvious twists and turns you can see coming before you even buy your ticket - and I’m not just talking about Adam Sandler movies. Every team is awful at first, gets good, undergoes tragedy and then overcomes that tragedy to attain victory.
University Housing has been receiving complaints from students about changes made to Caf-II-Go this fall, and officials say they are working to solve the problems.Bruce Haskell, residence halls food service coordinator, said students began to complain when Caf-II-Go reduced its vegetarian selection and changed its deli and salad bars to pre-made sandwiches and salads to make the experience faster and more convenient.
A new virus-like creation could be worming its way into computers around campus. The software program, known as W32-Nimda, could cause more problems than this summer’s “Code Red” worm that infected hundreds of thousands of computers. W32-Nimda infected tens of thousands of computers worldwide Tuesday and forced some companies offline. “What we’ve got here is some local symptoms of what is a national problem at the moment,” said Paul Hunt, vice president for libraries, computing and technology.
By Sarah Emery For The State News Tom Foote said he knows what it is like to meet up with the adult form of his inner child on a daily basis. Foote, a 1990 MSU graduate, is the founder and director of Sketchy People, a Lansing-area improvisational group. The group is based on the mantra that “improv exercises your brain.” Foote said it teaches the importance of challenging thought through the use of various stage games and antics.
I think it is great plans are being made to make the campus a better place for 2020 and thereafter, but aren’t there some smaller steps that could be taken now? Parking has been such a problem on this campus and even though the new ramp was installed off of Trowbridge Road, it doesn’t help commuters who have class on the other side of campus.