Brandon Bartoszek's eyes grew and then relaxed Wednesday afternoon as the needle approached the underside of his forearm and pierced the skin.It is the sixth time the urban and regional planning sophomore has donated blood since his start in high school.
Jay Rodman is going to have a lot of picture-sorting to do.Rodman, special projects coordinator for MSU's Office of International Studies and Programs, was part of the group of 10 Michigan K-12 teachers and four MSU faculty and staff who traveled to Nepal last month.
A panel of lawyers, legislators and school officials met at the MSU-DCL College of Law Building on Wednesday to support affirmative action and educate people to fight for it in Michigan. Hosted by the Wolverine Student Bar Association/Black Law Students Association at MSU-DCL, the discussion "Affirmative Action: Is It Still Necessary?" examined the issue from legal, political and social perspectives. Music composition graduate student Harold Cowherd, who attended the discussion, said he was dissatisfied by MSU officials' lack of comment on affirmative action.
Arguably, two of the nation's most visible political analysts are coming to Michigan on behalf of MSU's Michigan Political Leadership Program. James Carville and Tucker Carlson, two co-hosts of CNN's "Crossfire," will speak at the Laurel Manor in Livonia on March 4 and the Frederik Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids on March 5 for fund-raising events that will benefit the program. Shannon Horvath, program administrator for the Michigan Political Leadership Program, said the program is geared toward people already in the workforce who dream of becoming political leaders in Michigan. "We train and inspire tomorrow's political leaders," she said.
Fifteen police officers and one regional loss-prevention manager united on campus this week to learn more about crime-prevention techniques and bring resources back to their communities around Michigan.Randy Tripp, associate director of the Michigan Drug Abuse Resistance Education Training Center, said the weeklong session is the first time this type of basic prevention school has been in Michigan."Having police officers come in gives them additional skills to recognize situations in their community," Tripp said.The MSU School of Criminal Justice Five-Day Basic Crime Prevention School began Monday and will continue through Friday, addressing a variety of different topics from a multi-faceted approach.Presentations are based on problem-solving, stimulating communication skills, public-speaking skills, problem-based learning and technical assistance from a community-based focus, Tripp said.The school was organized by The Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute at MSU in partnership with the Crime Prevention Association of Michigan.Despite the opportunity offered to statewide law enforcement officers, security personnel, school resource officers, crime-prevention practitioners and private-industry personnel, only 16 of the 24 available spots were filled for the training session.Officers from the Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids areas were in attendance, but no local officers had registered to attend weeklong crime-prevention school."There's many different reasons why there may not be as many local people here," Tripp said.
MSU students who hope to study abroad but want a taste of it before committing to an entire semester will have another option.A new week-long program in Nicaragua will be offered through the MSU Office of Study Abroad starting in the spring.
When MSU forestry Professors Donald Dickmann and Larry Leefers began teaching a class about Michigan's forests seven years ago, they realized there weren't any textbooks available to paint a complete picture of forestry in Michigan."When we started teaching the course, one thing we recognized early on was there was no book written that dealt with forest ecology specifically in Michigan," Leefers said.
Bills regarding college mergers and an explicit T-shirt were presented during Tuesday's ASMSU meeting.Officials from MSU's undergraduate student government plan to announce concerns about lack of student involvement in a decision to downsize the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.ASMSU officials will follow the lead of the college's own student government, the Student Senate, which recently passed a bill to show its opposition to the merger.The departments are set to combine because of budget difficulties.The bill said ASMSU would issue a statement to college officials, Provost Lou Anna Simon and MSU President M.
MSU, ranked No. 1 in the country for supply chain management, and China, the largest emerging market in the world, will converge in discussion at the first annual Broad China Supply Chain Forum on Friday. The forum "Supply Chain: China's New Growth Engine" will be held from 8 a.m.
Essayist and fantasy writer Jacqueline Carey will give a free reading of selections from her work at 7:30 p.m.
Fareeha Shuttari's father used to call the family to break fast by banging a spoon against a metal plate.
The MSU Senior Class Council will host its sixth annual Green and White Charity Bowl, a touch football tournament, at 8:30 a.m.
A day after the controversial consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire's Episcopal Church, members of the MSU community disagree on whether it should have been allowed and whether it violates Christian teachings.As dissenters protested outside the ceremony, the Rev.
MSU-DCL College of Law graduate Jeffrey Gray said he only wants a good job and to practice law in his hometown after he won the Charles King Award.The $500 award is given in recognition of the student with the highest grade point average for the each graduating class.Graduating MSU-DCL last spring with a 3.93 GPA, Gray now works as a law clerk intern with United States District Court Eastern District of Michigan with Judge Lawrence Zatkoff.Gray said he is happy to have achieved the award but feels he only studied hard."There aren't really a whole lot of memorable moments in law school to be honest," Gray said.
African studies will mesh with agricultural economics as a professor leads a brown-bag discussion on Thursday. Agricultural economics Professor David Tschirley will discuss "Lessons from a Decade of Cotton Sector Reform in SSA" at noon in room 201 of the International Center. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (517) 353-1700 or e-mail africa@msu.edu.
Employers from the science, environmental and mathematics fields will gather on campus for the Natural Science Career Fair from 5 to 9 p.m.
A new survey shows attorneys across the country recommend an undergraduate degree in liberal arts for aspiring lawyers. The legal staffing service The Affiliates conducted the survey, finding 37 percent of practicing attorneys picked liberal arts as the best major to prepare a student for legal work, followed by 31 percent who chose business studies for their undergraduate degrees.
Untying knots, stealing gold bricks from closed iron safes and unfolding hypercubes all are part of the fourth dimension. Although it sounds like a science-fiction concept, the fourth dimension is the topic of the most recent installment of the Lyman Briggs School Lecture Series. Michael Starbird, a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, will discuss the abstract domain at 7:30 p.m.
Student Life's Noontime Conversation Series continues Wednesday with a discussion about the war in Iraq. William Allen of MSU's Department of Political Science will lead a discussion entitled "The Consequences of the Iraq War: Too Little Too Fast." The conversation runs from 12:10 to 1 p.m.
Support for charter schools has fallen slightly since 1998, according to a report released Wednesday by MSU researchers.The report, based on a 965-person survey conducted by the MSU Education Policy Center, showed support has declined 8 percent in the last five years, from 63 percent in 1998 to 55 percent this year.