The intricate topic of the restructuring of MSU's governance system will be brought up again today at Faculty Council. This will be the council's second discussion and overview of the proposed Faculty Voice Task Force 1. "This is a complex topic, clearly," Provost Kim Wilcox said.
A discussion on how to maintain positive family communication will be led by Dr. Tina Timm of the MSU Family and Child Clinic at noon March 19 in room 27 of the Nisbet Building. Topics of the class include recognizing the spoken and unspoken rules about communication, how to communicate directly, what is heard versus what is said and basic communication tips. Admission is free.
The "American Images and the Workers' Landscape" lecture will be held at 12:15 p.m. today at Kresge Art Museum as part of the Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Spring 2007 Brown Bag Series.
The documentary film "Invisible Children" will be shown at 8 p.m. today in 101 N. Kedzie. The film was created by three California residents to show how the ongoing conflict in Uganda has affected children in the African nation.
The Marathon of Majors will be held at 5 p.m. March 22 in the first-floor classroom wing of Bessey Hall.
A presentation on caring for a newborn baby will take place at noon Wednesday in room 27 of the Nisbet Building. The one-hour class will present infant care topics on the characteristics of newborns, such as crying, safety, signs of illness and feeding. Mary Machowicz, a registered nurse and education coordinator for the Expectant Parents Organization, will run the class.
The Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute at MSU College of Law will be holding a reunion and annual lecture series from 6-9 p.m.
Well before March 3, Gail Carpenter knew her spring break was going to be no vacation. Carpenter, an animal science freshman, is one of the 50 or so students who work on MSU's University Farms.
An MSU Women's Health Fair will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Union's main lounge.
MSU was recognized Thursday for their efforts to go above and beyond environmental regulations. The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, at MSU is the 143rd recipient of a Clean Corporate Citizen designation from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The MSU College of Music Web site was made available Feb. 23 — the same day the college was elevated to its new status by the MSU Board of Trustees.
As a 9-year-old boy, José Villagrán worked all day hunched over in cucumber fields. His hands bled from being pricked by the crop. Villagrán, an interdisciplinary studies in social science senior, grew up as a migrant worker with his family, traveling between Texas and Wisconsin for about five years. The injustices Villagrán saw while working in the fields pushed him to actively fight for migrant worker rights while a student at MSU.
When Robert Mugabe took power in Zimbabwe 27 years ago, he preached peace and cooperation. In 1990, Mugabe received an honorary doctorate degree from MSU when he visited campus.
After the MSU College of Law's Dean Terence L. Blackburn took a temporary leave of absence in October, the college has been led by two acting deans. Because of concerns raised by faculty during the college's accreditation process last summer, and some professors' desire to see Blackburn's role as dean terminated, he left to serve as a legal reform specialist in Jordan for an American Bar Association program in the Middle East.
In a way, Stephanie Hynes had to be a laboratory guinea pig to pass a class. While she wasn't confined to a terrarium, the education and Spanish sophomore is one of hundreds of students who'll participate in psychology research this semester — a seven-hour Psychology 101 requirement. Hynes completed her research requirement by filling out multiple surveys, such as a women's issues questionnaire, and participating in a visual simulation project, in which she was monitored while playing a computer game. "It made me think a lot more about myself, especially the women's survey one," she said.
Former MSU President M. Peter McPherson will be named chairman of the board of Dow Jones & Co. on April 18, according to Editor & Publisher.
MSU organizations and the city of East Lansing are baiting students to do community service with the reward of a free concert by a mystery artist. After approximately a year and more than 100 hours of planning, ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association, MSU and the city will sponsor the Volunteer To Rock concert on April 11 at Wharton Center. The concert will be a reward for students who perform 10 hours of community service. "Everyone thinks MSU is a party school but no one realizes that more than 10,000 students do community service and this would be a great way to celebrate community service," said Cynthia Chang, ASMSU's assistant director of governmental affairs for the city.
The odds seem to be in favor of Lyman Briggs School becoming a college by its 40th anniversary this fall. The proposed change was discussed Tuesday within MSU's Academic Governance at the Executive Committee for Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting.
MSU organizations and the city of East Lansing are baiting students to do community service with the reward of a free concert by a mystery artist. After approximately a year and more than 100 hours of planning, ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association, MSU and the city will sponsor the Volunteer To Rock concert on April 11 at Wharton Center. The concert will be a reward for students who perform 10 hours of community service. "Everyone thinks MSU is a party school, but no one realizes that more than 10,000 students do community service and this would be a great way to celebrate community service," Cynthia Chang, ASMSU's assistant director of governmental affairs for the city, said.
Lansing's Capital Area Transportation Authority bus service will modify its services to MSU's campus during spring break. From March 5-11, CATA will operate at a base level, with many of the routes students use every day being changed or cut completely. Check CATA's Web site, www.cata.org, for all of the route changes during spring break.