Despite MSU's close loss to Penn State University in the ninth annual blood drive challenge, American Red Cross officials say people in need still benefited.MSU students gave blood at 15 on-campus blood drives and more donations were taken at the Red Cross Donor Room, 1800 E.
His résumé reads like a parent's dream.Outstanding Student Volunteer of the Year, senior citizen aide, National Honors Society Youth of the Year, a certificate of appreciation from the mayor of Flint, President's Education Award Program certificate signed by Bill Clinton, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars member - the list goes on and on.So when mechanical engineering junior Justen Bond was named the sole recipient of the 2003 National Black Engineer of the Year award in the student leadership category, he shouldn't have been surprised."I try to get involved in anything I can," he said.
Lansing's Old Town becomes slightly newer with four businesses opening their doors today. Lansing Mayor David Hollister will welcome the stores with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2 p.m.
Lansing's Capital City Airport, Michigan's fourth largest passenger airport, has seen a steady increase in travelers since September.
A 6-foot-1 man attempted to sexually assault a female MSU student Monday night, MSU police say. The 18-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk near Kresge Art Center and the Fairchild Theatre at about 7:50 p.m.
The American Cancer Society is sponsoring the Great American Smokeout on Thursday in an effort to promote smokers to pledge to quit.An estimated 47 million U.S.
East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows, Councilmember Beverly Baten and 20 other East Lansing residents will be recognized today for spending 50 hours performing traffic stops, shooting firearms and driving police cars.
ASMSU decided Thursday to update its software programs after discovering there was no tangible proof the group owned older versions currently being used.According to ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, the 3-year-old Gateway computers were taken in early this year for maintenance and reformatting, but when the organization got the computers back, Microsoft Office - the programs ASMSU had been using since it purchased the computers - had not been reinstalled."I was informed that the software and licenses for our Gateways could not be found and that without them, it would be difficult to prove ownership and therefore have the software reinstalled," ASMSU Interim Association Director James Perra said in a written statement Monday.Perra, who has been the interim association director since mid-October, said he has unsuccessfully attempted to reach former ASMSU technology directors to ask them where - if they existed - the licenses were."We're pretty darn sure we have licenses some place," Perra said.In the ASMSU Student Assembly's biweekly meeting, a bill was passed to spend $794 on the program Microsoft Office XP and 10 licenses; Microsoft Windows XP and two licenses; and Microsoft Publisher 2002 and two licenses.
One of the top voices for undergraduate education has been officially spoken for.June Youatt will take over as assistant provost for undergraduate education in the Office of the Provost starting Dec.
Doctors, lawyers and pollsters will make up Secretary of State-elect Terri Lynn Land's advisory committee and transition team. Land announced Monday she would be working with a nine-member advisory committee and the transition team, along with the current Secretary of State Office to ensure a smooth transition. With a fluid transition, Land says, her goals for the office could be completed.
Lansing - As Maria Ptacin listened to Barbara Workman share the story of her husband's death, she remembered just five years ago when she too shared her loss.
After steering East Lansing bars and restaurants toward responsible service for four years, Joe Bell is ready to let some "fresh blood" take the lead. Bell, the co-director and one of the creators of the Responsible Hospitality Council, has handed over his leadership to two new leaders. "One of my main concerns is that I might have been getting stale," said Bell, the owner of The Peanut Barrel Restaurant, 521 E.
MSU's Panhellenic Council elected new members to its executive council last week.Each of the 13 sororities voted for each of the positions.
Forty excited girls gathered Saturday at IM Sports-Circle, eager to learn a hip-hop and cheer routine taught by the Spartan Soul dance team.
Known as the founder of statistics, C. Radhakrishna Rao, will be on campus to speak on "Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Future Visions for the Future." Rao will speak at 4 p.m.
The clinking of casino chips and beeping from slot machines echoed throughout the halls in the second floor of the Union Friday."The only thing I know how to play is roulette," computer engineering freshman Terrell Black said.
Frances Peshkin remembers when her family was forced out of their small village in Germany by the Nazis and placed in a Jewish house.She remembers when her cousin saved $1,000 so she and her mother could immigrate to America.She also remembers how hard it was for her mother to find a job in Illinois and support a 6-year-old daughter.Now, Peshkin can share her memories with other people who remember what it was like to be Jewish and alive during World War II.The MSU Museum opened a combined exhibit Sunday called "Varian Fry - Assignment Rescue, 1940-1941" on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and "Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During Depression and War." It will be on display until June 2003 and features photos, newspapers and other documents about writer Varian Fry and Jewish life in Michigan.Older members of the group reminisced about their childhood through the exhibit."The America we came to in Illinois is not that different from the one they came to in Michigan," Peshkin said.
In a move that environmental awareness groups hail as victory, office supply chain Staples Inc. announced plans last week to move toward selling environmentally friendly paper products. Staples announced new guidelines in which the company will attempt to average 30 percent post-consumer recycled content in all paper products, phase out purchases of paper products from endangered forests and create an environmental affairs division to report on the new guidelines' results.