Health concerns have forced a top Residence Halls Association official to resign - leaving the position of external vice president vacant.Communication sophomore Emily Edick held the position of external vice president since March 2002.
Abrams Planetarium is holding “Celestial Preview: Autumn Skies.” The show is open to the public and will take place Sept.
Abrams Planetarium is inviting families with children between preschool and second-grade to the show “Sol and Company.” “It’s a fun event that includes songs, a sing-along, as well as narration for character voices,” planetarium Director David Batch said. Batch said the show will teach the basics of the solar system that children and their parents can both follow with interest. The show is at 2:30 p.m.
Exhibition tour to discuss cartoons Curator April Kingsley will lead a free tour of the exhibition “Art in the ‘Toon Age,”’ at noon Wednesday at Kresge Art Museum. Emily Buckler Free walking horse show for students The Michigan Charity Walking Horse Show will take place from 8 a.m.
About one month before election day, students will have the option of skimming through yet another book full of information - but this one won’t set your pocketbook back any further. MSU’s undergraduate government, ASMSU, has been working to release a voter guide aimed at informing students and area residents on the candidates running for statewide office Nov.
Calling themselves “The Brody Boyz,” five students busted a move on the Union Ballroom floor Friday. One phrase summed up their purpose for attending the event. To “dance ’til you can’t dance no more,” computer engineering freshman Kenny Morgan said. Morgan and his friends had the opportunity to have fun while supporting MSU’s chapter of the Zeta Sigma Chi multicultural sorority. The sorority hosted a dance from 9 p.m.
Michigan Campus Compact awarded MSU geography Professor Assefa Mehretu the 24th Venture Grant Cycle for his Interdisciplinary Studies in Social Science Service-Learning Project.The grant is worth $2,500, and will benefit over 500 students this semester in the program.Mehretu, director of the Center for Integrative Studies in Social Studies, plans to use the grant to integrate service-learning into his courses and curriculum.“We try to translate what they learn in class and use it in the community to work with area schools,” Mehretu said.He said this is the second time the department has won this award.“(The grant) is very critical to our program,” he said.
A local youth employment service hopes to gain a new perspective by appointing two MSU students to its leadership board. English senior Ericka Sudo and building construction management freshman Peter Linsmeier were appointed to fill vacancies on the Youth Development Corporation’s 24-member board last month.
East Lansing police officers could be a guest at large parties this fall. Wearing plain clothes, officers will attempt to locate parties where alcohol is being illegally sold or provided to minors. Police also hope to curtail incidents of fighting, date rape and larcenies, officers are visiting large parties to make sure they are under control, police officials said.
Lansing - Despite rainy weather, families filled Potter Park Zoo Monday to celebrate summer’s last hurrah. Starting today, the facility will return to fall hours which run from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
When Jenny Kish drives to Mackinaw City with her church group this weekend for the Bridge Walk, she hopes to dodge as many orange construction cones as possible. But relief from the road work that plagued Michigan roads during the summer could be in sight for Kish and more than a million others who are expected to take to expressways this weekend.
Law enforcement officials statewide will enforce a zero-tolerance policy for drivers who fail to buckle up during Labor Day weekend. MSU police are taking part in “Click it or Ticket,” a statewide effort encouraging people to buckle up.
MSU students and faculty from the School of Social Work are participating in a field research program to address questions plaguing foster children and their families.The Child Welfare Learning Collaborative is a partnership created by the Catholic Social Services of Lansing/St.
East Lansing city council member Beverly Baten will look through the eyes of an East Lansing police officer when she suits up for East Lansing Police Department’s fourth annual Citizen’s Police Academy.
A new position is in the works that would allow ASMSU to handle special projects concerning students.
The Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame now is accepting nominations for inductees. Nominees are required to have established themselves or to have roots in Michigan. Steve Lacy, chairman of the Hall of Fame committee, said nominees should be outstanding contributors to their communities as well as educators who have served as models to aspiring journalists. “(These are) people who have made contributions that have exceeded what the average person has done as a journalist,” said Lacy, who is director of the School of Journalism. Honorees will be inducted at a banquet April 20at the Kellogg Center. “It’s a tremendous honor to be recognized by peers in the field,” University Ombudsman Stan Soffin said, who was inducted in 1999. Soffin has worked as a high school journalism and English teacher.
Trailing by 13 points in the latest EPIC/MRA poll, Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus has gone on the offensive in his bid to become the state’s next governor.In the campaign’s first political advertisement since his victory in the August primary election, Posthumus attacks Attorney General Jennifer Granholm’s stance on a proposal passed in 1994 that increased state sales taxes while reducing property taxes.
Football crowds and greek pledges will keep East Lansing buzzing next month, and city officials are hopeful an alcohol and drug awareness campaign will curb drinking and drug abuse in the MSU party scene.The East Lansing City Council voted last week to observe September as National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month.