Students and community members will be able to "Explore Other Worlds" in an interactive science fiction research workshop tonight. The debate and discussion, part of the One Book One Community series of events, will be from 7 to 9 p.m.
Loud laughter resonated from the Pasant Theatre Thursday night as a series of comedic skits kicked off Hispanic Heritage Month on campus. ChUSMA, a comedy trio from California, performed a variety of skits aimed at adding humor into everyday problems.
Two ASMSU representatives addressed the possibility of cutting ties with the Association of Michigan Universities during a conference in mid-September without the consent of ASMSU officials.The Association of Michigan Universities, or AMU, which consists of student governments from 15 public universities, hosts conferences four times a year to vote on legislative issues concerning Michigan.Adam Raezler and Colleen Card, both representatives for the Academic Assembly of MSU's undergraduate student government, issued a report to the ASMSU Student Assembly on Thursday to suggest that ASMSU doesn't benefit from involvement with AMU."For years, ASMSU has worked very hard and diligently to create an outstanding working relationship with the state and federal government and throughout the past years we have worked magnificently with them," the report said.
Award-winning German reporter and author Karin Gündisch will hold a reading in the International Center this evening. Gündisch is the author of children and young-adult literature focusing on identity and German-American relationships.
The MSU student believed to have been walking around Shaw Hall with a gun early Wednesday was actually carrying a toy BB gun, officials said Thursday. An 18-year-old male student turned himself into police late Wednesday and admitted that he was the person reported to be carrying the gun.
Peggy Papp, from the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy in New York, will present the lecture "The Power of Family Therapy" from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
The Residence Halls Association will sign a new one-year recycling contract with MSU's Office of Recycling and Waste Management by the beginning of next week, association officials say. The organization recently ended five years of service with Waste Management, a national recycling company, after conflicts with contract terms and concerns from RHA about whether materials were being recycled. RHA spokesman Brian Winters said association officials experienced difficulties with Waste Management in the past, and they began to search for a new recycling service. "There was a concern they weren't holding up their end of the contract while we were holding up our end of the contract to a tee," Winters said. The agreement with the university's recycling office, which charges $3,725 a semester, is less expensive than the contract with Waste Management, Winters said. Instead of recycling glass, plastics, bottles, cans, newspaper and office paper, as in previous years, MSU only will handle newspaper recycling and printer ink cartridges.
Members of the MSU Marching Band will perform a benefit concert for local charities Sunday afternoon. MSU Men's Basketball Coach Tom Izzo and MSU Athletic Director Ron Mason are special guests at the concert, which features Spartan music, band standards and other favorites.
Coordinators of this year's Homecoming week said they hope to be more focused on the students, with new events such as a free concert planned the night before the big game. In past years, Homecoming has been geared toward alumni, Sveta Desai of the University Activities Board said.
MSU-DCL College of Law officials said the school had its highest number of applicants ever this school year, keeping with a national trend in law schools. MSU-DCL also has its highest number of students enrolled since the school was founded in 1891. About 80 more students are enrolled in MSU-DCL's incoming class this year, MSU-DCL spokeswoman Janet Harvey-Clark said.
To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, Culturas de las Razas Unidas presents "Chusma" at 7 p.m.
There will be a presentation of the film, "Hoosiers," at the MSU Library, Room W449 of the Main Library at 7 p.m.
The MSU Human Resource Development will hold a sexual harassment forum 8:30 a.m. to noon Friday at 10 Nisbet Building.
MSU students Daniel Grimm and Andrew McCoy will speak about the two weeks they spent in Israel studying international democracy and strategies for fighting terrorism today.Grimm and McCoy were chosen last spring to participate in the Federal Defense for Democracies Fellowship program.
Improvements to an online mentoring program for women in engineering and sciences will make finding a mentor easier for MSU students.MentorNet, a national one-on-one mentoring program that started in 1998, has been upgraded this year to allow students to select their mentors from a pool of professionals.Tom Wolff, associate dean for undergraduate studies in the MSU College of Engineering, said the upgrades improve the program, which he said has gradually improved since it was introduced at MSU in 2001.
Facing a crowd of more than 200 students Tuesday night in Kedzie Hall, ABC "20/20" news anchorman John Stossel spoke about the importance of free market."Capitalism is vile on college campuses, and it is good for people to hear that point of view," he said before the lecture.Stossel also addressed the disadvantages of government regulation in his speech "Freedom and its Enemies.""When the government protects us from the bad stuff, it also protects us from the good stuff too," Stossel said in his speech.
A typical student might stumble out of bed right before class starts, but advertising senior Katie Stanaway has to get up hours before her classes begin in order to prepare for another hectic day.Stanaway is the single parent of two children, a 2-year-old son and a 9-month-old daughter.
The MSU College of Human Ecology's Advising Center will be one of 12 advising programs recognized nationally this year for excellence in advising.The college will receive the Outstanding Institutional Advising Program Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association.
The College of Human Medicine will present Paul Farmer as the featured speaker at this year's Andrew D.
The start of Hispanic Heritage Month has some local Hispanics thinking about their culture. State Sen.