ASMSU receives death threats for hate speech legislation
Members of MSU’s undergraduate student government received death threats before passing a bill asking the university to define hate speech during a Thursday meeting.
Members of MSU’s undergraduate student government received death threats before passing a bill asking the university to define hate speech during a Thursday meeting.
Going through law school can be a stressful experience for a student, and Connell Alsup knows it. That is why Alsup, the associate dean for student affairs with the MSU College of Law, is working with the school to start an in-house counseling center for law students.
Nichole Shepherd has danced to heal people in need ever since the idea came to her in a dream 10 years ago. “I had a dream about it, and if you dream about it, you’re supposed to do it,” said Shepherd, an English doctoral student enrolled in an Ojibwe language course. Shepherd performed the women’s jingle dress dance, a healing dance, during the seventh annual Ojibwe Language Pow Wow in Snyder-Phillips Hall Auditorium on Saturday.
Before Sunday’s Spartans Against Drunk Driving Survivors’ Forum, the only time Marley Gluf spoke publicly about being hit by a drunken driver was during that driver’s trial.
It was two weeks after losing his mother to cancer when a boy came to the summer camp that Caitlin Costello helped organize last year.
African sculptures decorated the tables. Stars hung from the ceiling with quotes from famous black people. The upbeat music of jazz musician Miles Davis echoed throughout the room, and epic struggles and biographies covered the walls.
Renovations to two residence halls and a proposed loan increase to finance MSU in Dubai will highlight the MSU Board of Trustee meeting today. The board’s decisions will involve more than $9 million in imporvements to Holden Hall, more than $12 million in upgrades to Mary Mayo Hall.
On the 43rd anniversary of Malcolm X’s death, three student groups brought his message to life Thursday. Brothers of the Struggle, Sisters of the Struggle and Black Student Alliance followed in the footsteps of the Black Panther Party and other liberation groups in ensuring that his ideas live on.
Organizations on ASMSU’s Programming Board are looking to slash upcoming program costs after approving more than $60,000 in funding during a meeting Wednesday.
MSU in Dubai is seeking authorization for a $1.5 million increase to its loan maximum on the project, which officials said would allow for more flexibility in potential future expansion of the program. The MSU Board of Trustees will vote at its meeting Friday on whether to increase the loan maximum from $3.5 million to $5 million.
When Chris Uffman attended MSU he was a committed member of the MSU intercollegiate men’s bowling team. More than two years after graduating, Uffman’s love for the game drew him back to East Lansing to coach the MSU intercollegiate women’s team.
Frank C. Rutledge taught theater history, and he made theater history. Rutledge, 72, a faculty member of the Department of Theatre for 47 years, died Tuesday night after experiencing cardiac arrest.
Edward Jocque has heard horror stories from students about professors changing their grading scale mid-semester.
Marta Belsky brought a custom from her days as a college cheerleader at Gallaudet University for deaf and hard of hearing to Breslin Center Wednesday.
A patch of light drew several bundled stargazers into the cold February night Wednesday. But the students and faculty members who viewed Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse in front of Abrams Planetarium said the event is a phenomenon.
Brianne Haner turned to social action theater more than two years ago after witnessing the pain sexual assault and rape cause victims.
Faculty Council took another step in the process to reorganize MSU’s Academic Governance system by approving changes to recommendations for executive-level faculty of university governance Tuesday.
MSU’s chief fundraiser, Charles Webb, will be leaving the university in April, but fundraising efforts shouldn’t lose momentum, university officials said. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said the structure of MSU’s University Development team is strong, largely because of the example set by Webb.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will make MSU’s case for increased funding in front of the state Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Higher Education today on campus. Simon, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman and Wayne State University President Irvin Reid will testify during a hearing at 1 p.m.
Jake Yaeger doesn’t want the shootings at Northern Illinois University to become a part of students daily lives. “When I hear about Virginia Tech, (Northern Illinois), Columbine, any of these shootings, now it’s like it doesn’t even matter,” he said. “That’s what I think is the biggest tragedy.”