This weekend, James Madison College students turned cramming into a collaborative art form. The MADhouse at James Madison College sponsored a marathon book reading of Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" on Saturday.
By Daniel Thai Special for The State News On Saturday night, munchkins marched to the beat of Pink Floyd. More than 500 students came to the International Center as the sounds of Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" meshed with the sights of Victor Fleming's "The Wizard of Oz" to create the "Dark Side of the Rainbow." Urban legends have been floating around for years about the coincidental occurrences of events when the album and movie are played simultaneously.
After more than four months of debate, ASMSU's Academic Assembly passed a bill Tuesday night to support academic minors. Academic Assembly Chairperson Dan Weber said having minors will provide undergraduate students with an incentive to work outside of their field of study. "Most specializations are too limited," he said.
Students who aren't satisfied with what they see on their dorm room TV usually reach for the remote control.
Experts from across the nation and world are convening at the MSU College of Law for a conference on terrorism and international criminal law. The Journal of International Law is hosting the day-long conference, which begins at 9 a.m.
Laughter, song and the aroma of Middle Eastern cuisine will fill the Hannah Community Center today. The Muslim Students' Association, or MSA, will host its fifth annual Eid dinner at 7 p.m.
With about 400 cubic yards of waste left on campus after every football Saturday, there is enough to completely cover the field at Spartan Stadium in 3 feet of trash in less than two seasons. While some universities have tailgating recycling programs, MSU has limited abilities to create a program. Only 1-2 percent of all waste from tailgating is recycled, said Pete Pasterz, MSU Recycling and Waste Reduction manager. The only recycling that occurs on game day is for vendor's boxes inside the stadium, Pasterz said.
A Shi Shi statue stolen from the entrance of the Kathleen D. and Milton E. Muelder Japanese Garden over winter break has been returned, MSU police Sgt.
MSU's Women in the Community program will host a lecture titled, "Tools to Work With: Making a Change," featuring speaker Keturah Jones at 7 p.m.
MSU College of Veterinary Medicine Dean Lonnie King will fly to Atlanta on Friday to begin a year-long stint as the director of the new Office of Strategy and Innovation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC. "It's a leadership position and involved in establishing strategy and direction for public health," King said.
Four civil rights and religious leaders will speak on campus in honor of Black History Month. The fifth annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series kicks off today and will run every Thursday this month.
ASMSU's Academic and Student assemblies will discuss amending the student government's constitution at the only joint assembly meeting of the year at 6:30 p.m.
The MSU Board of Trustees' Feb. 11 meeting has been rescheduled a day earlier to accommodate Founders' Day activities. The meeting will begin with finance and policy committee meetings at 2 p.m.
Some new changes hit the Residence Halls Association's movie rental offices during winter break - a new late fee policy, renovated offices and different store locations. There are movie rental locations in five dorms on campus - Holden, Akers, Brody, Mason and Gilchrist halls. Previously, students were charged $2 for each day a movie rental was late, and the fine kept escalating until it was paid, even if the movie was returned.
Although there's still snow on the ground and a chill in the air, members of the Hillel Jewish Student Center celebrated the coming of spring on Tuesday by eating several types of fruit for the Jewish festival Tu B'Shvat. Students gathered around a table laden with fruit and had a seder, which is a traditional Jewish meal.
Last week, the server that houses the MSU library's computer system, Magic, was broken into, possibly exposing the personal information of about 100,000 members of the MSU community. Officials in Academic Computing and Network Services noticed activity on the server Thursday and took it offline the same day.
A cross-campus assembly of faculty members have been selected to plan the curriculum for the new liberal arts residential college program, slated to accept students in fall 2007. The members were chosen after acting Provost John Hudzik discussed possible candidates with the deans of the College of Arts and Letters, James Madison College, the College of Social Science and the College of Natural Sciences.
ASMSU officials decided in an emergency meeting last week to oppose the "blighted" - or deteriorated - status of a highly populated student housing area. More than 20 Student Assembly representatives created a bill stating the area, East Village, is not decaying or deteriorating. The bill says "ASMSU will work to protect the student housing in the area by any means necessary and that ASMSU refuses to support (East Lansing) City Council in its redevelopment efforts until they have promised to maintain the area as a primarily student neighborhood..." Student Assembly Chairperson Andrew Schepers said there will be lot of discussion and planning. "We just need to sit down at the table with students, the city and university officials to figure out what's going to work for everyone," he said. The City Council declared the area as blighted in 2000, and when the label expired in May 2003, the area was declared blighted a second time on Dec.
Nationally known economic writer Julianne Malveaux, whose work appears regularly in USA Today, will deliver a public lecture on issues such as race, culture and their economic impacts at 7 p.m.
ASMSU officials passed a bill last week supporting the university's proposal to ban public urination on campus. Paul Harmon, ASMSU association director, said the group supports the proposal because people should not be urinating on campus. "As long as the university makes facilities available for people to use, I don't see why we wouldn't support something that protects the image of MSU," he said. Internal Vice Chairperson of Student Assembly Patricia Smith said the ordinance could improve MSU's image during tailgating season.