The clinking of casino chips and beeping from slot machines echoed throughout the halls in the second floor of the Union Friday."The only thing I know how to play is roulette," computer engineering freshman Terrell Black said.
Frances Peshkin remembers when her family was forced out of their small village in Germany by the Nazis and placed in a Jewish house.She remembers when her cousin saved $1,000 so she and her mother could immigrate to America.She also remembers how hard it was for her mother to find a job in Illinois and support a 6-year-old daughter.Now, Peshkin can share her memories with other people who remember what it was like to be Jewish and alive during World War II.The MSU Museum opened a combined exhibit Sunday called "Varian Fry - Assignment Rescue, 1940-1941" on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, and "Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During Depression and War." It will be on display until June 2003 and features photos, newspapers and other documents about writer Varian Fry and Jewish life in Michigan.Older members of the group reminisced about their childhood through the exhibit."The America we came to in Illinois is not that different from the one they came to in Michigan," Peshkin said.
Transfer students are not as involved in schoolwork and college activities than other students, according to recent results from the National Survey of Student Engagement. Kyle Bailey, a mechanical engineering sophomore, said transferring was easier than he thought, but said he did have some trouble adjusting. "The transition was pretty easy," the transfer student from Howard University said.
An MSU environmental group hopes to set new trends for the university by exploring the possibility of renewable energy - through a proposed student tax.Eco met with ASMSU's Student Assembly on Thursday night to gain support for a preliminary plan to implement a $5 per semester tax to fund either wind turbines or a solar panel system, which are both environmentally friendly sources of energy.ASMSU is MSU's undergraduate student government."Renewables are not only smarter, they're cheaper," said Mitch Petz, a finance junior and Eco member.
The MSU Museum's Heritage Gallery will open a new exhibit at 2 p.m. Sunday. The exhibit will host the exhibits "Varian Fry - Assignment: Rescue, 1940-1941" and "Uneasy Years: Michigan Jewry During The Depression and War." Fry's work deals with relief efforts to help Jewish refugees who were threatened by the Nazis in 1940. "Uneasy Years" looks at efforts of Jewish people living in Michigan to fight anti-Semitism and contribute to the American war effort.
With dancing, dominoes, poetry and pig roasts, the Puerto Rican Student Association is planning to celebrate its heritage next week.Puerto Rican Culture Week kicks off today with a dance in the International Center from 10 p.m.
Although some think aching back problems are unusual, statistics show it is more common than expected. According to a recent survey, about 46 percent of MSU students say they have experienced back pain.
Don Gonyea, National Public Radio's White House correspondent, is currently visiting journalism classes and speaking to students until Saturday.
Professor Bruce W. Jentleson, director of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, will be speaking at 7:30 p.m.
Of the 113 MSU-Detroit College of Law graduates who passed the Michigan Bar Examination last July, 44 were sworn in at the college Wednesday night."This is the official part when you actually make a commitment to be an attorney," said Michele Ekblad before swearing in.
An executive board member of the Residence Halls Association has reduced the number of accounts in the budget in order to make money management easier.Bryson Jacques, comptroller for RHA, decreased the organization's seven accounts to two last week.
MSU will celebrate International Education Week starting Saturday. The event is in its third year and is sponsored by the dean's office of International Studies and Programs. Jay Rodman, special projects coordinator for international studies and programs, said this year MSU has more events and higher profile speakers than the last three years. "It's very exciting," Rodman said.
Gaddi Vasquez, director for the Peace Corps, will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the MSU-Detroit College of Law Building.
David Clark, Internet pioneer, will speak about the future of wireless services and communications policy at 7 p.m.
A student organization hopes to register 100 students to donate bone marrow for cancer patients in two bone marrow drives. Asian Pacific American Student Organization (APASO), group affiliates Hapa Asian Pacific Alliance, alpha Kappa Delta Phi and Shaw Hall racial ethnic aides held the first of two drives to register students on a bone-marrow donation list. The first drive was held Tuesday, and a second drive will be held from 11 a.m.
MSU's student environmental group, Eco, hopes to get a $5 student tax each semester for the purchase of renewable energy.
As a freshman, State News rookie reporter Kevin Hardy would run back and forth from the newsroom in order to make his deadline - literally."It was a pair of Nikes that got me to and from the city council meetings," he said.
The University Activities Board and the Brody Complex Residence Life staff are sponsoring "A Night in Vegas: Casino Style Games and Entertainment" from 9 p.m.
MSU students can receive their HIV test results faster if Olin Health Center agrees to be a pilot site for a new method of testing.Olin Health Center was asked by the Michigan Department of Community Health to participate in a testing program that would provide results in 20 minutes before it is approved for state use.
MSU's Board of Trustees will discuss Friday ways to strengthen the College of Education via a $5 million grant awarded earlier this semester and review recent findings of the Red Cedar Greenway Master Plan study.The university was one of four institutions to receive the grant from the Carnegie Corp.