Case Hall returned to closing at midnight, rather than 9 p.m., housing officials said Tuesday. The change, made on Friday, resulted from a negative reaction to the 9 p.m.
Lansing - A new tax assistance program announced on Tuesday will help low-income Lansing area residents file tax returns. Low-Income Tax Assistance Program volunteers, mostly MSU finance students, will spend time with area residents to make sure their taxes are filed correctly and they receive the proper refund.
Although the number of men and women smoking, drinking and using other drugs is about equal, each gender has different reasons for abusing substances, according to a study released earlier this month.The study is based on a nationwide survey of females age 8 to 22 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.Researchers found while boys experiment with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs because of the thrill or social status, girls participate due to stress or depression."Girls are more likely than boys to be depressed, have eating disorders and to be physically or sexually abused," said Emma Berndt, spokeswoman for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Students and MSU officials will gather at 8 p.m. today in the Brody Auditorium to address recent racially motivated events on campus. The forum will address a sexually charged flier posted in Shaw Hall and two women in Emmons Hall who were called derogatory names. Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs, Nikki O'Brien, coordinator for African American Student Affairs, and history Professor Pero Dagbovie are among the officials expected to attend. "We want to address the situations which took place within the last month, specifically the one in Emmons," said Terrance Wilbert, an Emmons Hall racial ethnic student aide.
An extra 75 cents might be added to student's tuition bills if ASMSU can convince the students to open up their pocketbooks.A bill to increase the MSU undergraduate student government's per semester tax from $10 to $10.75 was passed by the Student Assembly on Thursday, and will be placed on the March 19 student ballot.All student taxes are refundable.This is the second tax ASMSU is sponsoring in next month's election.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers announced Tuesday he has secured more than $1 million in funding for a Lansing-area environmental corporation.Rogers, R-Brighton, gained $628,000 from the U.S.
A committee supporting benefits for student domestic partners will have one more voice in their corner.MSU's Council Of Graduate Students unanimously passed a resolution Monday to support the committee comprised of ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association and family community services senior Kendra Kearney.ASMSU is MSU's undergraduate student government.COGS President Jim Ciszewski said the organization's next action is to take the discussion to the administration."The next step is to start a dialogue between the student government and the administrators and the trustees and see if we can reach an agreement," he said.
The city of East Lansing and surrounding areas are beginning efforts to make the Northern Tier community safer for pedestrians and residents, starting with street lights. Lights were constructed along the stretch of Abbott Road between Lake Lansing Road and the Clinton County line last month and were turned on over the weekend, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said. Staton said the new street lights were part of a plan to increase safety on the roadway ever since the land north of Lake Lansing Road came into the city. Staton stressed the importance of the lights and wondered when they will be added north of Clinton County. "The volume of traffic out there just requires it," he said. Two female MSU students were hit by a car in the area, one of them killed, while walking along the unlit streets in October.
Lansing - The owner of The Dollar Nightclub is not responsible for the $80,000-$90,000 owed to the city in back taxes, council members say. Lansing City Councilmember Brian Jeffries said the person who owns the property The Dollar stands on, not the club owner, is in debt to the city.
The State News claimed honors in the 2002 Michigan Press Photographers Association's annual Picture of the Year contest. Former State News photographer Megan Spelman, an international relations senior, was named College Photographer of the Year. Spelman's portfolio showcased 10 pieces, which included nine single images and a photo story titled "Finding Home." "I'm flattered," she said.
Lansing - The statewide peace march on Saturday cost the city about $16,600 in extra officers and firefighters but the cost was necessary, Lansing police Lt.
International students who have crossed the planet to seek an education at MSU will now have their personal information traced wherever they venture - and available on the Internet.On Saturday, the Immigration and Naturalization Services, or INS, released an updated tracking system allowing faster access to information on foreign college students.SEVIS, the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, will now have a quicker version of long-standing procedures requiring colleges to monitor the academic status and address of foreign students online.SEVIS requires colleges to forward personal information - such as an international student's failure to enroll or arrest record - to a national computer database.
For Harold Strong, the key to getting ahead in business is diversity.Strong, a senior consultant with Siemens Health Services in Malvern, Pa., stressed the importance of all organizations diversifying the workplace Monday in the Eppley Center.He said there are many facets of diversity organizations should seek to employ, and race is only one of them."Diversity covers more than just race," he said.
Beth Wellman and her mother, Anne Tracy, stood in the center of the North Presbyterian Church last year singing a duet to "Dona Nobis Pacem."It was a song Tracy's four children often sang on the trip to their grandmother's house.
MSU's Residence Halls Association will go door-to-door in residence halls on Sunday collecting cans to raise money for research into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Lansing - Children can try combine playing with bubbles and learning at a science exhibit at the Impression 5 Science Center inLansing on Saturdays. The exhibit will explain the phenomenon of bubbles - including why they pop in the air and how they form. Visitors at the center, 200 Museum Drive, will be surrounded by bubbles and adults and children can explore the opportunity to discover the mysteries of the soapy concoctions. "We have different programs every Saturday to promote hands-on activity and this Saturday will be the Phil Ginotti Super Bubble Mania Saturday," said the center's interpretive program manager Erik Larson. The Phil Ginotti Super Saturdays are made possible through contributions made to the center in memory of Ginotti who was a past vice president of the center.
Two water main breaks in the last week have kept MSU work crews busy, said Gus Gosselin, manager of the Physical Plant maintenance department. Pipes broke on Farm Lane near the Auditorium, closing the northbound lanes of the road. Another break was discovered Monday near Giltner Hall.
About 600 pounds of shredded paper sit inside gray plastic bins on the floor and shelves inside a dusty, dark warehouse in the southwest corner of campus.A garage door opens as a pair of workers begin unloading the day's haul.In the middle of it all is Bill Clark.A truck driver for MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management, Clark spends his days collecting materials faculty and students recycle - office papers, pizza boxes, phone books, magazines, brochures, newspapers and books.He said about 60 to 70 percent of the paper that can be recycled is actually collected - the rest gets thrown out with the trash."A lot of people aren't aware most buildings on campus have recycling facilities," he said.
School supplies are getting cheaper these days.ASMSU is hoping to expand its services to students by offering one-subject notebooks with MSU's undergraduate student government's logo on the front."It's an interesting program to investigate," Academic Assembly Chairperson Matt Clayson said, adding the program has yet to be finalized, but the assembly will be reviewing the proposal."It all depends on finances," he said.The notebook program surfaced after the organization had success with distributing about 10,000 bluebooks to students around campus."This would not replace the bluebook program," said Steve Lovelace, Academic Assembly representative for the College of Arts and Letters.ASMSU would save money by using the same design in the notebook's front page, which includes a list of services provided by the organization as well as its phone number and the Web site address, Lovelace said."They have to look at them everyday," he said.