Sunday, March 22, 2026

Take a peek behind the curtain and test drive the NEW StateNews.com today!

News | Msu

MSU

Experts tell campus to look inward for diversity

The first step in diversifying a campus is to look within the campus itself, organizers of the "Best Practices in Diversity at MSU" conference said Friday morning. A varied group of students, faculty, administrators and staff made up the 300 representatives who gathered Friday at the Kellogg Center for the conference, which aimed to exchange ideas between university colleges and units that would create more diverse classroom experiences. "We want to produce students who can function in what we consider a global marketplace," said Paulette Granberry Russell, senior advisor to the president for diversity and director of affirmative action, compliance and monitoring.

MSU

'U' to require ACT writing test

Evan Rondeau
October 20, 2003

High school students applying to MSU for the fall of 2006 will be required to take the new, optional writing portion of the ACT, which will add a half-hour to the more than four-hour test.ACT spokesman Ed Colby said the decision to create the additional portion of the test was made in August 2002.

MSU

Free trade forum to feature poet-activist

Members of Students for Economic Justice are asking MSU students to join them and poet-activist Alixa Garcia for a discussion on free trade. Colombian native Garcia will share her experiences organizing against the Free Trade Area of the Americas at 8 p.m.

MSU

Department supervisors recognized

Antonio Planas
October 17, 2003

Before most of campus was awake, employees from MSU's Office of University Development stood in quiet darkness, anxiously waiting to surprise two of their bosses during the 3rd annual Supervisor Recognition Awards.The MSU Fight Song blared from boom box speakers, on Thursday as Charles Webb, vice president of University Development, and Marti Heil, associate vice president of University Development, walked in the door of the second floor conference room at the Eyde Building, 4660 S.

MSU

Group to sponsor Indian dance session

Indian rhythm will flow Friday in the IM Sports-West basement at 8 p.m. at "Tarang." ASHA for Education, a volunteer organization which raises funds for educational projects in India, is sponsoring the event, the first fund-raiser for the organization. Participants will learn a dance called Garba/Raas and MSU's Bhangra dance team will perform.

MSU

Clemency rally to be at noon at Capitol

The Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project and the Lansing Chapter of the American Civil Rights Union will hold a rally on the steps of the Capitol today at noon. They'll present 20 petitions asking Gov.

MSU

Program sends 'U' to under-served areas

Don Jordan
October 16, 2003

MSU will join various university and community health institutions to form the Michigan Center for Health Education Training in the Communities, using a $5 million federal grant. The program, funded by the U.S.

MSU

Lecture to discuss autoworker today

Auto worker and labor organizer James Boggs will be discussed in a symposium presented by the African American and African Studies departments today. Writer Grace Lee Boggs will speak on "James Boggs: The Man, Organic Intellectual and Activist." A roundtable discussion called "Race and Labor in 21st Century America: Lessons from James Boggs" will follow. Grace Lee Boggs was trained as a philosopher and was once partners with James Boggs in what the departments are calling "the struggle for a new America." The symposium, called "James Boggs' 'The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook' - 40 Years Later," runs from 1 to 5:15 p.m.

MSU

Conference to look at African concerns

Concerns about Africa will be addressed today at the 20th Annual World Food Day Teleconference. "Collaboration or Calamity: Africa in Peril" features Urban Jonsson, UNICEF regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa.

MSU

Task force to address defense funding

Meghan Gilbert
October 16, 2003

Members of Michigan's judicial system are working to change public defense practices.The Institute for Public Policy and Social Research sponsored a forum Wednesday titled "Reducing the Corrections Budget through Effective Public Defense" for senators, MSU-DCL College of Law faculty and state officials.The forum offered the information from a task force assigned to make recommendations to reformat Michigan's defense system.According to the task force, Michigan offers no state funding for trial defense services and assigned counsel receive some of the lowest wages in the country.

MSU

Simulation Day depicts life with a disability

Amy Davis
October 15, 2003

Matthew Clark said it was difficult to use the bathrooms in Wells Hall while he was in a wheelchair.Clark, a landscape architecture senior, participated in a simulation, one of the many events planned for Accessibility Awareness Week.

MSU

ASMSU drafts amendments to change 6-week-old noise law

Amy Davis
October 15, 2003

In the week following an ASMSU-sponsored forum for student input on the East Lansing party-noise ordinance, officials from MSU's undergraduate student government have been drafting amendments to the policy using concerns addressed by students at the meeting.Lynsey Little, ASMSU director of community affairs and chairwoman of the University Student Commission, said both student organizations will create a proposal to amend the six-week-old ordinance.