About 200 students and faculty danced the cha-cha during Fiesta La Casa, a celebration of the Spanish-language organization La Casa's first year on campus. The third floor of McDonel Hall is known as La Casa, a living and learning community of students interested in Latin American culture.
The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame will add three new names to its list of honorees. Jane Briggs-Bunting, Lawrence Mack and Robert McGruder were selected by the Hall of Fame committee and will be inducted Saturday. Briggs-Bunting is a journalism professor at Oakland University and an adviser to The Oakland Post.
Smallpox vaccinations might contribute to heart disease Michigan Department of Community Health officials advise Michigan health departments and hospitals to suspend smallpox vaccinations clinics. Dr. David Johnson, chief medical executive for the department, said the suspension is due to concerns about smallpox vaccinations leading to heart disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccinated about 25,000 people nationwide, including 375 Michigan residents since February.
Patio lights, fog and a fake orange flame illuminated the North Case Hall study lounge Saturday night as seven students received bamboo torches, said last words to their friends and prepared to live a week without beds, television or showers.Castaways 2, a program similar to the television show "Survivor," began this weekend in Case Hall.
East Lansing City Manger Ted Staton testified to legislators Thursday in hopes using homeland security funding to restore funding once received from state fire protection grants. Staton told members of the House Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee in Lansing the effects of the $470,000 loss in fire grants this year is too much money to cut if places such as East Lansing and MSU are to be adequately protected. "Please resist plans to distribute funds across the board," Staton said.
With their hands raised, five women in bright orange and purple dresses twirled in circles during a dress rehearsal for Satrang in Demonstration Hall on Wednesday. Joined by five men, the group cycled, snapping green and white striped sticks with each other, as traditional Indian music rang in the air. The 10-person group will celebrate Indian culture in a dance called "Garaba Raas" Satrang represents the seven colors of the rainbow uniting the states of India.
MSU police are asking local media to release footage of Sunday's riots in an attempt to punish students involved. Kevin Ragan, news director at WILX, said he wouldn't give police any material without a subpoena, and even then he would only release material which had been broadcasted. "We want to be good citizens," he said.
E-mail discusses SARS University physician Beth Alexander sent out a campuswide e-mail Thursday to notify students about the increased concerns of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. In the e-mail, Alexander said cases of the virus are on the rise and several cases have been found in Michigan. "While national and international public health officials work on the best ways of managing and containing this outbreak, it is important to be informed, and to be very careful about hand-washing, as well as covering mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing," she said in the e-mail. Alexander said information is constantly changing and students, faculty and staff need to be aware of the Olin Health Center Travel Clinic Web site, www.msu.edu/%7Etravel/SARS.2.pdf. Amy Bartner Group names director MSU's Residence Halls Association elected a new human resources director at its Wednesday meeting.
MSU actors are searching for more students to be "in your face" about health and sex. Olin Health Center's In Your Face Reality Troupe will hold interviews for a director starting this month. The troupe is in its 10th season and was first directed by Olin health educator Dennis Martell. "They do it because they like to act," he said.
Jackie Allar never considered engineering as a career until she heard about biomedical engineering. Now, she obsesses over things such as hospital visits and developments in medical technology. "I am like the biomedical engineering nerd," said Allar, president of the Biomedical Engineering Society.
"Race in 21st Century America," a three-day conference that brought out scholars, activists and students from all over the country, wraps up today in the Kellogg Center. This is the third year for the conference, sponsored by James Madison College and the Midwest Consortium for Black Studies. Curtis Stokes, associate professor in the college, said this conference is at the perfect time because it falls in the backdrop of war with Iraq, affirmative action debates and Census statistics revealing that Latinos are the nation's largest minority. "We feel this conference is a vehicle to find fresh approaches to aggress this very conscientious and difficult problem of race," he said. The conference's keynote speaker was Maivan Clech Lam, a professor at the City University of New York.
More than just local residents are noticing the work of East Lansing's City Manager Ted Staton.Staton was awarded the Outstanding Service Award from the Michigan Municipal League, a nonprofit association representing more than 500 Michigan cities and villages, for his leadership in actively campaigning to restore funding to local communities."Ted has been an absolute go-to person for us," said Mike Brady, the Michigan Municipal League director of state and federal affairs.
Members of Sigma Pi fraternity and Chi Omega sorority stood on a dimly lit stage hidden behind open umbrellas while Justin Timberlake's "Cry Me a River" played in the background.Another curtain rose behind them, revealing a faux brick wall spray painted with greek letters and the words "Greek Week 2003."The lights grew brighter, the song cut off abruptly and the greeks revealed themselves, going into a dancing frenzy to fast hip-hop beats.The two greek organizations were just one of many dance acts presented during "MTV Fundraiser Night" on Tuesday at the Auditorium.
A case of three MSU students who were assaulted at gunpoint hit the airwaves Wednesday night to aid the search for a suspect.Last night, Crime Stoppers of Mid-Michigan announced the Lansing Police Department is looking for 21-year-old Edward Griffith, who's believed to have affiliations in Lansing and Detroit, but is expected to be in the Lansing area.The assault occurred Feb.
It all came down to a question of money.An ASMSU bill requesting up to $50,000 to refurbish the MSU undergraduate student government's conference room and offices was heavily debated at the March 27 meeting, mainly because some representatives did not feel all the components of the bill were necessary.The original bill called for installing a television and computer system, similar to those used in classrooms, along with re-carpeting and painting, creating a plaque and scholarship for former association director Charles Beachnau, installing a new phone system and upgrading computer systems."I can't see why a projector and a computer that prints transparencies and a budget for Sharpies couldn't do the trick," said Derek Wallbank, Student Assembly representative for the Residence Halls Association.
Lansing - Students came from across the state sporting school sweatshirts and banners - all 50 of them. Students Protecting And Representing Education, or SPARE, held a rally at the Capitol on Wednesday to maintain higher education state funding as the state faces a budget crisis with a $1.7 billion deficit. "This is embarrassing," said Jared English, SPARE member and ASMSU director of university and governmental affairs.
MSU's School of Hospitality Business will sponsor a black tie reception and dinner on Saturday called Les Gourmets.