Taking first place at the National Association of Home Builders student competition Jan. 18 in Las Vegas, the MSU Construction Management Program returned home with a traveling trophy and a $1,000 cash award.
For some, presidential primaries can be confusing. For this reason, MRULE, the Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, will hold a Democratic caucus candidate forum tonight in an effort to educate voters about the presidential candidates and the upcoming Feb.
The lawyers were present, the defendant was led in and everyone stood while U.S. District Court Judge David McKeague made his way to the bench. Outside Moot Court Room at MSU-DCL College of Law, U.S marshals guarded the door to check all handbags and identification.
The International Center seemed louder than a Bayside High football game when the comedic stylings of former "Saved By the Bell" star Dustin Diamond, who played Screech, left fans of the show hooting and hollering on Saturday.
MSU administrators will soon receive proposed changes to the way student groups ask their peers for tax money. The Student Tax Committee has been meeting since last year to clarify a 20-year-old policy on enacting new student taxes. "We felt a need to review it in terms of whether there needed to be other changes to bring it up to date," said Lee June, vice president of Student Affairs and Services. Students began to vote on taxes after the MSU Board of Trustees' policy went into effect in 1984. The committee was designed to "make the process reflect more of the current situation on campus," said Cathy Neuman, assistant director of Student Life.
Starting a new semester can be a stressful time for students. But Olin Health Center is sponsoring a series of events to help students ease the stress.
Spring recruitment for some MSU fraternities and sororities begins this week. Fraternity recruitment runs Jan.
Yelling "Vagina, vagina, vagina!" is a sure-fire way to get a crowd's attention. And it was with just such an announcement that "Vaginas Speak," an open-mic forum at Espresso Royale Caffe, 527 E.
One by one, young men and women made their way out of Olin Health Center on Wednesday evening carrying bags full of cereal, canned food and soap.
This fall, a concert sponsored by MSU's undergraduate student government might be added to Welcome Week activities. ASMSU's Student Assembly passed a bill Thursday to set aside $50,000 for the concert, which will be during student move-in week.
By Stephen Beard Special for The State News Parents of an American peace activist killed in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli bulldozer spoke on campus Saturday night, calling for an independent investigation into her death and for support of the Palestinian people. Washington state resident Rachel Corrie, 23, was killed on March 16 while trying to stop a bulldozer from demolishing a Palestinian home in Rafah. An Israeli investigation concluded that the driver could not see her, but during the Michigan Peace Team event, the family argued that an independent investigation is necessary.
Retired MSU Professor Mary Gardner, who died Thursday at the age of 84 after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, was a woman of firsts. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in communication at the University of Minnesota, the first woman to earn tenure as an MSU journalism professor, and the first woman to be elected president of the Association of Journalism and Mass Communications. In the mid-'80s, Gardner helped establish MSU's Hispanics in Journalism program, the first of its kind in the country, with a $100,000 grant from the Gannett Foundation.
Tuesday's State of the Union address given by President Bush is probably a difficult act to follow.
Food and industry management senior Elizabeth Manning had specific goals for her visit to the 40th Annual Minority Career Fair.
The 2004 American Indian Lecture Series will kick off today with a talk by Donald L. Fixico. A former Newberry Fellow and Ford Fellow, Fixico will present "Reconstructing American Indian History" from 2 p.m.
Move over, C-SPAN. ASMSU could be heading to the airwaves. Vikas Menon, association director for MSU's undergraduate student government, said he has been looking into broadcasting assembly meetings on campus cable.
ANGEL learning management system has gained popularity, but still is not considered heavenly by many MSU professors and students. More than 1,000 course sections are signed up for the online class-assistant program, which stands for "a new global environment for learning." That's an increase of more than 250 classes from last semester, said Byron Brown, coordinator of instructional technology support for Libraries, Computing and Technology.
MSU's Asian Studies Center will bring the chairman of the University Grants Commission in India to campus this week. Professor Arun Nigavekar will hold a lecture, "Higher Education in India: Emerging New Scenarios" at 5 p.m.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson came back from Iraq in late September, but his task in helping to rebuild the war-torn economy wasn't completed until last week. On Jan.
Wes Clark Jr. paid a visit to campus Wednesday morning to spread the message for the presidential campaign of his father, Gen.