The debate team placed third out of 140 teams from across the state at the 45th annual Owen L. Coon Memorial Debates Tournament at Northwestern University Feb.
Kelly Krigner wasn't expecting to be hailed by adoring fans as she passed out programs during Saturday's Spartan Stampede IPRA Rodeo at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education. "I sold four programs to this mom and she asked me to autograph them for her daughters," said Krigner.
In an effort to stop future cuts to higher education, ASMSU members are working to change legislators' perceptions of college students through a dinner next month. At Thursday's Student Assembly meeting, MSU's undergraduate student government passed a bill for $800 to fund the dinner, which will bring 14 legislators and about 30 students together. "It's important for us to be proactive," said Andrew Bell, ASMSU's director of legislative affairs.
Quiet dignity and strength radiated from the deep brown eyes of author Doris Pilkington as she stood before MSU students and faculty to share the struggles of her family Monday evening in the Union. Students, faculty and community members began filling the conference room to hear the story of Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped an Aborigine reservation in Australia and traveled more than 1,500 miles home on foot.
The Women's Resource Center will host several spring-break safety fairs in the next two weeks. MSU Department of Police and Public Safety, Olin Health Education Services, the American Cancer Society at MSU, Sexual Assault Crisis and Safety Education and Self Defense for Women also will pass out information on safety at the fairs.
Doris Pilkington, author of "Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence" will speak at 7 p.m.
Three weeks into the spring semester, ASMSU's Programming Board ran out of money. With several more groups still looking for event funding, ASMSU's Student Assembly passed a bill at its Thursday's meeting that adds $10,000 to the programming budget. Several representatives from minority and progressive student groups attended the meeting to support the bill.
At Wednesday's Residence Halls Association meeting, a bill was passed by a 26-1 vote to amend the organization's bylaws regarding rental equipment. The item most affected by the changes is RHA's karaoke machine.
By Daniel Thai Special for The State News "The Newlywed Game" is alive and well at MSU. The Residence Halls Association and Olin Health Center came together Friday to sponsor the first MSU Couples Challenge as part of Women's Healthy Sexuality Month.
Improvements to traffic and pedestrian safety across campus were discussed Wednesday during a special public forum.
MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy is offering their latest installment in public shows featured at Abrams Planetarium. This weekend, Abrams Planetarium is offering "Milky Way Legacy" for general audiences at 8 p.m.
The legacies of Malcolm X, Harriet Tubman, Mohandas K. Gandhi and Sitting Bull were brought alive on campus Wednesday night, as four teams of students competed in the third annual Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case Competition.
ASMSU's Academic Assembly approved funding for a universitywide forum with Provost Lou Anna Simon Tuesday night.
With its two co-directors graduating in the spring and new goals on the table, the face of Women's Council at MSU will be changing. At its Feb.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson will be participating in an open question-and-answer forum at 7 p.m.
While some students attended The Von Bondies concert Wednesday night, across the lobby, others attended the Malcolm X Symposium. The keynote speaker for the symposium was James Cone, a Charles A.
An Internet telephony meeting sponsored by MSU's Quello Center for Telecommunication Management & Law and the Institute of Public Utilities will take place from 1-4:30 p.m.
Couples looking to possibly win some prizes should head out to the "MSU Couples Challenge" at 7 p.m.
Professors, teaching assistants and members the Graduate Employees Union who work in the College of Arts & Letters filled Room 111 of Berkey Hall Wednesday night to discuss how the restructuring of the university will affect them. "We are here to discuss possible solutions to this problem, and how we are going to fight these budget cuts, rather than absorb them," said GEU president Scott Henkel. Philosophy, history and religious studies will be moved to the College of Social Science, which will be renamed as College of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences.
Discussion and the pursuit of possible legal action regarding ASMSU's election code continued Tuesday night, a day after the MSU College Democrats and the MSU College Republicans met in a lengthy special meeting. The two political groups were concerned that the MSU undergraduate student government's code limited free speech. Under the code, candidates from different colleges can't appear on the same flier or handout and requires organizations to gain permission from candidates before endorsing them. Members of ASMSU's Steering Committee, which passed the election code, reworked three sections of the bill with six members of the College Democrats and Republicans.