The Senior Class Council is sponsoring its 2002-03 Senior Class Gift Challenge from noon-5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. The challenge is an annual competition for donations between the senior classes of MSU and the University of Michigan.
The nation's largest community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, will host a 5K run/walk called "Chase For Charity" on Saturday in front of the MSU Psychology Research Building. The MSU chapter of the fraternity developed the race in an effort to promote community fellowship and raise money for the various organizations they represent.
The Residence Halls Association will recognize a few halls for quality programming for this semester.The organization is accepting bids for the Hall/Organization of the Semester Award for different halls and organizations on campus.
Martin Luther King Jr. called the Rev. James Lawson "one who's been in this struggle for many years.""He's been to jail for struggling; but he's still going on, fighting for the rights of his people," King said of Lawson in his last speech, "I See the Promised Land."And now Lawson is scheduled to visit MSU on Jan.
The energetic pulse of Latin music resonated through the basement hallway of East Shaw Hall on Tuesday night, as students captured the movements of salsa and merengue.
Two ASMSU representatives are hoping to identify problems that exist between teaching assistants and undergraduate students.Tom Morse, the College of Communication Arts and Sciences representative, and Dan Weber, the College of Natural Science representative, both members of ASMSU's Academic Assembly, have been meeting with faculty and graduate students since the beginning of November to discuss the initiative."We're just trying to find out what undergraduates think about their TAs," Weber said.
Members of the Residence Halls Association participated in a conference at the University of Wisconsin Osh Kosh to develop program ideas and build leadership skills last weekend. MSU's RHA came back from the Great Lakes Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls conference, Nov.
Freshmen and sophomores still searching for academic information can save time by stopping by Bessey Hall on Thursday.The Marathon of Majors is a gathering of academic advisers and representatives from all 14 MSU colleges from 5-7 p.m.
Shaw Hall will host a series of pro-active events to inform residents about safety issues during Security Awareness Week. The event is sponsored by Shaw Hall's Residence Life staff.
The Kiwanis Club of Holt is sponsoring a blood drive from 1-6:45 p.m. Nov. 21 at the United Methodist Church, 2321 N.
Members of the Delta Chi Fraternity have created a plan of action they hope will sway the East Lansing Housing Commission from evicting members living in the house. Since May 2001, three noise violations prompted the commission to impose terms and conditions on the fraternity.
Despite MSU's close loss to Penn State University in the ninth annual blood drive challenge, American Red Cross officials say people in need still benefited.MSU students gave blood at 15 on-campus blood drives and more donations were taken at the Red Cross Donor Room, 1800 E.
His résumé reads like a parent's dream.Outstanding Student Volunteer of the Year, senior citizen aide, National Honors Society Youth of the Year, a certificate of appreciation from the mayor of Flint, President's Education Award Program certificate signed by Bill Clinton, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars member - the list goes on and on.So when mechanical engineering junior Justen Bond was named the sole recipient of the 2003 National Black Engineer of the Year award in the student leadership category, he shouldn't have been surprised."I try to get involved in anything I can," he said.
A 6-foot-1 man attempted to sexually assault a female MSU student Monday night, MSU police say. The 18-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk near Kresge Art Center and the Fairchild Theatre at about 7:50 p.m.
The American Cancer Society is sponsoring the Great American Smokeout on Thursday in an effort to promote smokers to pledge to quit.An estimated 47 million U.S.
ASMSU decided Thursday to update its software programs after discovering there was no tangible proof the group owned older versions currently being used.According to ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, the 3-year-old Gateway computers were taken in early this year for maintenance and reformatting, but when the organization got the computers back, Microsoft Office - the programs ASMSU had been using since it purchased the computers - had not been reinstalled."I was informed that the software and licenses for our Gateways could not be found and that without them, it would be difficult to prove ownership and therefore have the software reinstalled," ASMSU Interim Association Director James Perra said in a written statement Monday.Perra, who has been the interim association director since mid-October, said he has unsuccessfully attempted to reach former ASMSU technology directors to ask them where - if they existed - the licenses were."We're pretty darn sure we have licenses some place," Perra said.In the ASMSU Student Assembly's biweekly meeting, a bill was passed to spend $794 on the program Microsoft Office XP and 10 licenses; Microsoft Windows XP and two licenses; and Microsoft Publisher 2002 and two licenses.
One of the top voices for undergraduate education has been officially spoken for.June Youatt will take over as assistant provost for undergraduate education in the Office of the Provost starting Dec.
MSU's Panhellenic Council elected new members to its executive council last week.Each of the 13 sororities voted for each of the positions.
Forty excited girls gathered Saturday at IM Sports-Circle, eager to learn a hip-hop and cheer routine taught by the Spartan Soul dance team.
Known as the founder of statistics, C. Radhakrishna Rao, will be on campus to speak on "Statistics: Reflections on the Past and Future Visions for the Future." Rao will speak at 4 p.m.