In most animal species, males are in charge. But when it comes to spotted hyenas, females are getting the last laugh. Female spotted hyenas are more dominant than their male counterparts. Researchers have always been intrigued by this sex role reversal, but with no satisfactory explanation. That is, until now.
The Shaw Hall cafeteria reopened Monday after it was closed for five days because of a virus that hospitalized about 30 students last week.
At The Gallery in Snyder-Phillips Hall, almost everything had to be handed to Munaz Muntasir by a cafeteria employee. “They give you forks with a piece of napkin and salt and pepper packs,” said Muntasir, a biochemistry and molecular biology freshman. “I had to ask for a bowl. But I could get my own frozen yogurt.”
ASMSU Student Assembly looked toward the future at its final meeting of the 45th session Thursday. “I am extremely satisfied with what we’ve accomplished this year,” Student Assembly Chairperson Michael Webber said. “We started a lot of initiatives and finished them.”
Basketball buzz dimmed at least for a moment Friday as people from around the Midwest focused on sharing ideas for new regional environmental policies. Most of the attendees of the Roosevelt Institution’s launch event for a new journal that focuses on environmental issues were members of the institution, which functions like a nationwide student think tank.
The Shaw Hall cafeteria will remain closed during the weekend as MSU employees continue to clean and disinfect the hall, which is believed to be where a virus that sickened more than 30 MSU students this week originated from.
For MSU group Active Peace, a movie hopefully will be the first step toward creating global peace. The group presented a screening of the film “The Day After Peace” on Thursday in Erickson Hall.
Norovirus, or the stomach flu, was identified by the Ingham County Health Department on Thursday as the cause of about 30 student illnesses this week, many of which originated in Shaw Hall.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is recommending a 2 percent cap on tuition increases over the next three years. The assembly reached the decision at its meeting Tuesday. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The deadline to form a task force to investigate student concern about Sheila Contreras, director of the MSU Chicano/Latino Studies program was extended until later this month. College of Social Science Dean Marietta Baba said she hoped for the nine person task force to be formed by April 1, but it is still being assembled, said Michelle Strobel, spokeswoman for the college. “The dean sent a letter to the students (Tuesday),” Strobel said.
The man known as South Africa’s Martin Luther King Jr. will deliver the university’s keynote speech at spring commencement. Desmond Tutu, a South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is scheduled to speak at 1 p.m. May 8 at Breslin Center. The event will be free to the public.
Health officials are awaiting lab results to determine the cause of a viral outbreak that sickened 25 to 30 MSU students and caused the indefinite closure of Shaw Hall’s cafeteria Wednesday.
MSU senior Megan O’Brien will spend part of her summer taking a crash course in community organizing. O’Brien, a social relations and policy and urban and regional planning senior, was accepted into the Direct Action and Research Training Center, or DART, Organizers Institute.
Kenneth Wyniemko spent almost 10 years in prison for rape and robbery crimes he was later cleared of. On Tuesday, Wyniemko spoke to MSU professor Zach Hambrick’s psychology class about his time in jail, fighting for his innocence.
The Izzone’s wristband admission system is experiencing flaws, making the student section increasingly crowded, ASMSU officials said. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Efforts to turn off nonessential lights and electrical devices resulted in a 3 percent reduction in campus energy Friday, university officials said.
ASMSU hopes to see a trend from November’s record youth voter turnout continue this week as students vote for ASMSU assembly representatives. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A 28-year-old Lansing man was arrested Friday for two sexual assaults that occurred on and near campus Thursday night and early Friday morning, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
On Saturday night, students learned just how hard life would be if the Riddler stopped chasing Batman and became the bouncer at a local bar or club. In this scenario, the key to enter to the bar would not be an ID, but the correct answer to a nonsensical riddle.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon met with the Residence Halls Association on Wednesday and answered questions assembly members had regarding a variety of issues.