The Michigan Department of Community Health announced on Monday a new oral health action plan that officials hope will improve dental health in Michigan. The plan has several points, but mainly focuses on improving oral health care and making it more available to Michigan residents, said T.J.
The committees have spoken and a new residential college for the arts and humanities that has been in draft stages for the past year will now move on to becoming a reality. Committee members in the Academic Governance system have expressed support for the college, slated to make its debut in fall 2007, after the proposal was approved by Academic Council on Tuesday. MSU President Lou Anna K.
Andrea Amalfitano said he bleeds green and white. "Heck yeah, I'm glad to be back," he said. Arriving at MSU on Sept.
The independent commission charged with investigating the April 2-3 disturbances moved closer to recommending a designated celebratory area for students on Tuesday, commission members said. The commission may suggest East Lansing officials allow property owners to apply to close streets to support large crowds, said commissioner Joe Tuchinsky, treasurer of American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan and its Lansing branch.
One month after Hurricane Katrina approached the Gulf Coast, MSU academic leaders are holding a public forum to discuss the social implications of the disaster. Today's seminar, titled "The Cost of Marginalization: Place, Race, Class and Media in the Katrina Catastrophe," is the first in a series of three talks scheduled for the next three weeks. Each of the forums, which are open to the public, will feature a faculty panel to initiate discussion. Panelists will be given time to explain their expertise, and then will be asked several questions by the forum's moderator, said Janet Lillie, an assistant dean in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences and a coordinator of the event. "What we really wanted to do was serve the audience's needs," she said.
The Clinton Area Fire & Rescue is hosting a Family Fun Fest on Saturday, October 15 from 10 a.m.
Several MSU officials and students will gather tonight to celebrate the affiliation of MSU with the national Worker Rights Consortium, or WRC - an organization that monitors and helps eliminate the production of university apparel in sweatshops. The reception, which will take place at 7 p.m.
AIDS Walk Michigan and the Lansing Area AIDS Network will be holding a walk at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Valley Court Park in East Lansing. The event is being held in association with seven other walks throughout Michigan.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced last week that all high school students will take a standardized college-entrance exam in place of the MEAP test. Starting the spring of 2007, the ACT and WorkKeys, a work skills assessment, will be implemented for all high school students. "The new testing puts all Michigan students on the path to college," Granholm's spokeswoman, Liz Boyd said.
A project created by MSU students about the Cherokee Nation now appears on the American Indian tribe's national Web site. As part of the class WRA 417: "Multimedia Writing," about 12 students researched and created a project focusing on the Allotment Era - a period between 1887 and 1934 when all of the land owned by U.S.
Annie Dalby wiped away tears as she hugged her sister, Lyndsay Dalby, after Lyndsay handed her a bid card, or invitation, to join Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority Monday afternoon. The Dalby sisters, who are now also sorority sisters, are among the women who participated this past week in the greek system's Recruitment Week - the process of becoming an active sorority member - that culminated in invitations to join different houses Monday. "We're sisters and now we're in the same house, so it means a lot," Annie Dalby said.
Sunday morning hits and the proverbial scene is set: Cups are everywhere, trash litters the floor and cupboards are sticky. An East Lansing house party has come and gone, leaving devastation in its wake. It's a student's demise, said electrical engineering junior Jim McGinn, whose apartment still has beer cans from Thursday. But to Charlie Moore the scene equals money. Or potential business at least. Twenty-nine-year-old Moore founded Get That Dirt Inc. to fill a business niche he discovered after talking with East Lansing friends and calling area cleaning services. "I heard (from) a few my friends who said they wished there was a cleaning service here - they were too busy, too tired to clean their own room," said Moore, a graduate student at Western Michigan University and an Okemos resident.
The Main Library is holding a contest to help students learn about its services. The winner will receive a free Apple iPod. Students must go to the library and fill out an entry form by 5 p.m.
More students have been using ASMSU-sponsored services - such as legal counsel, copying and fax machines and interest-free loans - since last year, but student government leaders say they are still working to get the word out. "The more people we can service the better," said Andrew Schepers, chairperson of ASMSU's Student Assembly.
The East Lansing Planning Commission will host a public forum to discuss the East Village Master Plan on Wednesday. The plan could redevelop the area, which houses the Cedar Village apartments and six fraternities among other buildings, into retail space, apartments or condominiums. The affected area is bounded on the north and south by Grand River Avenue and the Red Cedar River and on the west and east by Bogue Street and Hagadorn Road. Peter Dewan, vice chair of the planning commission, said the forum will allow for "inclusiveness" with the public.
The independent commission will meet from 8 a.m. to noon today in the Executive Conference Room of the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. Commissioners will discuss possible recommendations for their draft report, due out before the Oct.
As part of East Lansing's International Students and Scholars Week, the Kiwanis Club of East Lansing and Circle K International of MSU will be holding a reception to welcome foreign students. The reception is planned for Wednesday evening from 4-6 p.m.
The Bush administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a ban on the procedure commonly referred to as a partial-birth abortion on Monday. The case is part of a two-year, cross-country legal fight over the federal law and might be the beginning of a showdown that could eventually be swung by the president's new court nominee, John Roberts. On Sept.
An East Lansing woman crashed her car into a building in Spartan Village on Saturday, causing an estimated $25,000 worth of damage, according to an MSU police report. The 28-year-old woman was driving a silver 2005 Mazda 6 eastbound on Middlevale Road when she said she hit a curb and struck the building, MSU police Sgt.
Business students looking to get involved in on-campus groups will have an opportunity to explore a number of options today at the Eli Broad College of Business Student Organization Fair. The fair will be held tonight from 7-9 p.m.