Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., celebrated its 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show on Satruday evening at Wharton Center. With 42 female models, nine different scenes and one musical performance, the show attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. The models showcased clothing from a variety of stores ranging from swimwear to formal wear.
Helping keep high school music departments running is why Samantha Brooks decided to host MSU’s first ever VH1 Save the Music Foundation Benefit Concert on Thursday at the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre. The recent graduate and Tau Beta Sigma’s event co-chair decided holding the concert would be the perfect way to raise money for a cause and bring the MSU and East Lansing communities together.
David Closs, chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management at MSU, is one of 50 experts invited by the U.S. General Services Administration to contribute to a discussion Friday at the White House. Participants in the dialogue will explore ways to help the federal government create sustainable supply chains. The business, academic, nonprofit and government specialists will be presented with problems, and they will take their experience in supply chain management to try and find solutions, Closs said.
This summer, the bustling activity of students and visitors frequenting the Union will come to a brief stop. From early May through mid-August, the first floor of MSU’s traditional gathering space will be renovated as part of a $2.4 million project approved by the Board of Trustees in January. Guests already are seeing evidence of changes now as some of the Union Central Store shelves aren’t being restocked.
Although lawmakers still have not come to an agreement on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, some grassroots groups such as the OneVoice movement still believe a solution is possible through youth leadership and cooperation. Members of OneVoice, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to making a two-state solution come to fruition for Israel and Palestine, came to MSU on Thursday evening to share their message and discuss ideas for change with student attendees.
On Thursday evening, Mosher, an Arabic and comparative cultures and politics junior who has Latin American heritage, performed two poems — one about her Spanish heritage and another about her least favorite class — for an audience of about 50 people in Hubbard Hall cafeteria.
Less than a month before the university’s proposed Energy Transition Plan, or ETP, heads to the Board of Trustees for a vote, members of ASMSU’s Executive Committee on Student Affairs passed a bill supporting the proposed policy Thursday night.
After he began working out regularly when he came to campus as a freshman, biomedical laboratory operations sophomore Tim Bazil said he finds exercising makes him feel better about himself and is a good way to take a break from the books.
Laura Young cannot imagine what her college experience would have been like if she had not taken Russian.
Javon Ringer wasn’t sure whether or not wolfing down as many hot dogs as fast as he could in front of a crowd sounded like a good idea. “I might give it a try,” said the former running back for the MSU football team. “I might eat one or two.”
The Tunnel of Oppression is an experience that forces students to encounter the seen and unseen oppressions in our society, the director of Tunnel of Oppression, political science and pre-law and general management junior Michelle Cooper said in an email.
Medical students are scheduled to host the fifth annual 5K R.A.C.E., or Run for Access to Care for Everyone this weekend. The race begins at 1 p.m.
One Saturday, with an assignment due within hours, supply chain management freshman Aashray Patel was left helpless when he couldn’t access ANGEL, MSU’s current online learning management system, or LMS. Getting more angry and nervous by the minute, Patel said he waited hours before the system began to work correctly. “I went crazy about it,” Patel said.
Students can join others from 7:30-10 p.m. Friday in Erickson Hall Kiva for the Night of Hope, an event to discuss depression, its effects and how to help those who are struggling with it.
The MSU Museum is preparing to host its 17th annual Wine Tasting Benefit. The benefit will be held from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Friday at Kellogg Center.
The International Students Association and the Office for International Students and Scholars will host TEDxMSU this weekend.
When education freshman Kristen Bock works her shift in the dishroom of Holden Hall cafeteria, she said it’s not uncommon for her to see pieces of food left lying on trays. “People will leave entire slices of pizza, (or) fruit not even touched and sometimes whole sandwiches,” Bock said. “It’s kind of ridiculous.”
Closing out more than a year of pushing for gender-neutral housing initiatives, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, passed a bill Wednesday night to approve the university’s recommendation in implementing a flexible housing option for fall 2012.
A meeting next month between university officials and ASMSU will determine the fate of ASMSU’s proposed Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus tracking mobile application, which has been in the works since last semester. ASMSU Director of Media Relations Samantha Artley said there has been little recent development on the app, but a meeting in mid-April is expected to shape the app’s next steps.
For graduate student Katy Meyers, presenting in this year’s Graduate Academic Conference, or GAC, is all about breaking down stereotypes. As an archaeologist, she said people often have misconceptions about what she does, assuming she raids tombs or gathers artifacts for museums.