Students trying to register for campus parking permits Monday experienced some difficulty accessing the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety's online registration Web site. The volume of visitors to the site forced students to wait in an application queue ranging from several hundred to as many as one thousand students. MSU police Sgt.
Senior wide receiver Aaron Alexander pleaded guilty to drunken driving charges and faces an Aug. 12 sentencing, a clerk from the 54-B District Court said. Alexander is still a member of the football team, said John Lewandowski, assistant athletics director and director of Sports Information. However, Lewandowski wouldn't comment on whether MSU football head coach John L.
A group of incoming freshmen performed skits on college life on Friday in the McDonel Hall Kiva to wrap-up the one-week program Maximizing Academic Growth in College, or MAGIC. For nine years, the program's aim has been to provide incoming racial and ethnic minority students with information about transitioning to college through workshops and other activities.
For years, Web browsing has been dominated by a single application, but one newcomer is starting to garner more attention at several universities. Microsoft's Internet Explorer has led the field of Internet-browser applications, according to statistics from WebSideStory Inc., a San Diego-based company providing Web marketing applications and Web analysis.
His loosely clasped fists striking the batons and his black shoes dancing on the pedals, French carillonneur Stefano Colletti filled the air with the sounds of the bells of Beaumont Tower. Colletti's recital, which included the music of Bach, Satie and his own improvisations, was one in the Muelder International Summer Carillon Recital Series. A carillon is a musical instrument with at least two octaves of bells played from a clavier, a series of batons arranged like a keyboard that one plays with both hands and feet.
A little before 2 p.m. on Monday, veterinarian Jill Brester was elbow deep in a cow. Brester, an intern with the Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences, was performing a routine abdominal surgery on the cow at the MSU Training Center for Dairy Professionals, a new university facility which officially opens today.
In the six and a half years MSU's television news magazine, Focal Point, has operated, it has given students a head start at a career in broadcasting.
In the middle of August, 300 volunteers will enter every bathroom in the new Spartan Stadium to simultaneously flush every toilet and turn on every faucet. This test, called a "super flush," is to make sure the plumbing can handle an entire stadium full of spectators using the facilities. It has been standard practice to test new structures ever since Notre Dame's newly renovated stadium flooded during its first game in 1997, MSU Associate Director for Media Relations John Lewandowski said. During Notre Dame's home opener against Georgia Tech, the plumbing could not take the overwhelming needs of the crowd, causing the stadium's concourses to flood; thus the concession stands could no longer sell beverages, he said. It occurred during a television time-out as fans flocked to the bathrooms. The stadium's plumbing and the super flush are being coordinated by Keebler Plumbing & Heating in Lansing. The super flush will make sure the new plumbing can handle the demands of the new stadium, Lewandowski said. "They're trying to simulate a halftime," he said.
Members of the general public had a unique opportunity last weekend to get a glimpse at what life was like inside the first dorm on campus - a glimpse that, until recently, was buried underground. For the past five weeks, MSU students and archaeologists have been excavating the site of Dormitory #1, nicknamed Saints' Rest by its residents.
Students and researchers excavating the site of MSU's first dorm might have uncovered a link to the fire that destroyed the building - a trowel found in the dorm's basement. In December 1876, the student residents of Saints' Rest had left for winter break, and the only people in the building were a group of workmen doing grouting in the basement.
MSU students will have to wait a few weeks longer than in previous years to receive their tuition bills for the upcoming school year. As tuition for the 2005-06 school year hinges on the authorization of the Legislature's state higher-education budget, the MSU Board of Trustees has delayed the process of setting tuition and sending out tuition bills until the university's state funding is certain. Last year, tuition rates were approved in late June, and students received their tuition electronically on July 23.
The MSU Board of Trustees added the term "gender identity" to the university's anti-discrimination policy's harassment section in 2003.
The latest in a series of computer attacks within the MSU community has struck the Human Resources servers. On Friday, MSU officials sent an e-mail to some members of the MSU community informing them that two of the department's servers, which hold information such as social security numbers and personal home addresses, had been hacked into by an unknown attacker. Assistant Vice President for Human Resources Pamela Beemer sent an e-mail to notify the potentially affected people about the intrusion. The letter said someone attempted to gain unauthorized access to two MSU Human Resources servers between June 25 and 26.
Several police officers from departments throughout Michigan swarmed Spartan Village on Wednesday to investigate six homicide crime scenes.
Incoming freshmen are leaving their homes, but they might not have heard the advice to turn off the lights when they leave for the last time. With the influx of new faces, the Energy Subcommittee of the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus has discussed the prospects of rejuvenating a campaign to conserve energy on campus, subcommittee member Bob Ellerhorst said.
Six months after a tsunami devastated coastal areas of India, an MSU professor is planning to help victims of the disaster in the southern part of the country. Sam Varghese, a professor of animal science, will leave with his wife Alice on Friday for his second relief trip this year. He plans to be gone three months, and in that time he will run workshops in Trivandrum, India, to teach victims how to raise quail and other small animals for food and profit. Varghese spent a month during January and February in southern India giving aid to victims of the tsunami. "All I could do was go to the shelters, see these people and hand out cash," Varghese said of his previous trip. Varghese distributed $17,500 to victims and taught them about food safety during his month in the country. "It broke my heart to see this devastation, but God willing, I wanted to come back," he said. For his current trip, he raised $14,150 from departments at MSU and an additional $5,000 through Coturnix International Ministries Inc., a charitable organization founded and run by Varghese. On his last trip, he only received $250 in funding from MSU. Jeff Riedinger, dean of International Studies and Programs said the university is better positioned to support long-term development than short-term economic relief. He said he helped convene a meeting of MSU faculty and administrators to hear a proposal from Varghese. "He and a group of other MSU faculty were interested in following up on what MSU could do on a long-term basis," Riedinger said. International Studies and Programs contributed several thousand dollars to help fund Varghese's meeting with foreign aid officials, Riedinger said. The rest of the money donated by MSU was pooled from the Department of Animal Science, MSU Extension and the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said Professor Karen Plaut, chairwoman of the Department of Animal Science. Varghese will use the money to buy baby chicks, feed, equipment and cages which will be donated to the residents he teaches. "Everything will be given to them free so they can get started," he said. Coturnix, a Japanese species of quail, are particularly well-suited for this project because they don't need much space, are cheap to raise and mature quickly, Varghese said. A coturnix can begin laying eggs in about 35 days after hatching, he said, and can lay between 250-300 eggs in a year. He said he will also be purchasing rabbits and possibly chickens, which can be sold for their meat.
A fungal disease that kills one of Michigan's largest crops has been found recently in the Southeast, but Michigan growers and MSU are preparing for the possibility of the fungus spreading. Asian soybean rust has been found in Asia and South America for decades, the infection spread to five counties in Florida and one in Georgia, Department of Plant Pathology Chairman Ray Hammerschmidt said. On campus, there's a lab dedicated to identifying plant diseases, including soybean rust, he said. Hammerschmidt said soybean growers can bring their plants to MSU's Diagnostic Services in the Center for Integrated Plant Systems if they think the rust has infected their plants, but he added that there haven't been any reports of rust in Michigan. "But we are probably more prepared for this disease than any plant disease in history," he said. Growers in Michigan dedicate more than 2 million acres to soybean plots as part of a very large industry in the state, Hammerschmidt said. Soy, because of its high protein and calcium, commonly replaces milk in dairy products. Organic food store Foods for Living, 2655 E.
A week ago, the basement of Holmes Hall was a maze of ripped-out floors, exposed ceilings, hanging wires and gaping holes in the walls. The Lyman Briggs School is renovating laboratories and offices in a two-phase project that will accommodate a predicted increase in student enrollment during the next five years. There will be one physics, four biology and two chemistry labs when construction is completed, said Steven Spees, associate director of the Lyman Briggs School and chemistry professor. "They're expanding the laboratories, adding more equipment and modernizing it," said Richard Bellon, visiting assistant professor for Lyman Briggs. All the labs will be air-conditioned, which costs the most of all the renovations to install, Spees said. "We're adding a lot of labs that require air flow," he said.
John Hudzik said his time served as MSU's acting provost has been both interesting and challenging, but there's one thing he won't miss about the job - the frequent 15-hour workdays. As acting provost, Hudzik took over the role once held by President Lou Anna K.
A federal law passed last year designated a specific date that all schools must teach the Constitution, but some local residents say it's a "foolish" provision.