More than 150 residents, business owners and East Lansing officials gathered Saturday night at the Wharton Center as part of a fund-raiser to help improve relations between students and the city's permanent residents. The East Lansing Community Relations Coalition, a nonprofit organization, raised more than $4,000 during its second annual "A Taste of East Lansing" fund-raiser.
Now that Student Assembly members have spent time changing ASMSU internally, new Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said he is looking toward a "horizon" of university changes. "Some of these are long-term goals, but you won't get anywhere if you don't start right there on the front lines," he said. Schepers spoke Thursday night, when he ran unopposed for a chair position of MSU's undergraduate student government.
The Department of Mathematics will hold its 2004 awards ceremony on Tuesday from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Faculty Folk Spring Luncheon will be held on Friday from noon to 1 p.m. in the University Club, 3435 Forest Road.
On Saturday, former Vietnam War and civil rights protesters, administrators and police officers gathered to talk about their experiences with previous social unrest at MSU. The East Lansing Historical Society sponsored the event, which drew community members of all ages to the Hannah Community Center to relive the era. Tom Wibert, East Lansing police deputy chief and member of the Historical Society, put together the event on civil disobedience.
Stepping in front of the panel of judges in a classroom-turnedcourtroom for the oral argument competition Sunday, MSU College of Law student Amanda English tries not to look nervous. English begins her argument.
More than one-third of Michigan's state representatives will not have the opportunity to run for re-election this fall, as term limits on legislators take effect for the first time since voters approved them in 1992. The limits, which took effect in 1998, restrict state representatives from serving more than three two-year terms in office. This year, 37 of the state's 110 House members will not be eligible for re-election.
Some lawmakers are working to replace the Michigan Educational Assessment Program, or MEAP, tests taken by high school students, with a new test still to be chosen. Sen.
A panel discussion of former East Lansing demonstrators will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. On Feb.
Runners and walkers alike are invited to move their feet this weekend to raise money to aid with providing low-income housing. The MSU Chapter of Habitat for Humanity is sponsoring HabiTrack, a 5K run/walk on campus that is open to runners and walkers of all ages and experiences. Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit organization with a goal to help low-income individuals and families get proper housing.
Lansing - Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed two bills during Thursday's Earth Day celebration at the Capitol that will charge Michigan's polluters for dumping industrial and toxic wastes into the state's waterways. The laws require dumpers to pay one-time or annual fees for the unloading of wastes into Michigan's rivers, lakes and groundwater. One of the laws requires municipal dumpers to pay a minimum of $400 annually for surface water dumping in small communities and up to more than $200,000 in larger cities, such as Detroit.
Guest lectures and a vigil on campus Saturday will commemorate the 89th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
MSU's campus will play host to a carnival for inner-city children today. The fourth annual "Kid's Fest" will feature food, fun and games for more than 300 children from inner-city areas.
Organizers anticipate exceeding the million-person goal they set for themselves in what has been dubbed the "March for Women's Lives" in Washington, D.C., on Sunday. The pro-choice march is expected to be the largest of its kind. Charles Cook, community specialist for Planned Parenthood Federation of Michigan, said the unofficial count rises every week. "It's already well over a million," he said.
Members of the Residence Halls Association's General Assembly established a policy Wednesday not to fund events in which religious groups try to preach to MSU students. The bill that was introduced sought to amend RHA's bylaws to disallow funding to religious groups and religious events. RHA President Ernest Drake said the bill was aimed at avoiding the allocation of funds to events that preach to residents. "Basically, we would not fund events that would evangelize a specific faith," he said. Initially, however, the bill faced some trouble.
When Talha Baweja moved from Karachi, Pakistan, to East Lansing to start school at MSU, there was more than just a new culture to adjust to. "I liked snow the first winter," he said.
A memorial service has been planned for MSU Professor Ruth Simms Hamilton, who, at the age of 66, was found dead Nov.
Kalamazoo - Everyone at the rally seemed anxious to converse since they had been wordless all day for the National Day of Silence. Participants had been silent to symbolize the silence the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community feel they must overcome in society. But the crowd at the Wesley Foundation building on Western Michigan University's campus Wednesday night remained quiet for MSU political theory and constitutional democracy junior Nathan Triplett.