When Molly McGrath isn’t at class, she splits her time between her two jobs.The nursing junior works in the pediatric outpatient clinic at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital and behind the counter of Melting Moments Homemade Ice Creams, 313 E.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly elected some of its leaders Tuesday night, but will hold a special meeting next week to decide the last one.Matt Clayson was elected as Academic Assembly chairperson for the second year in a row.
An effort to educate people about Native American culture lacked support Wednesday as volunteers at 10 sites on campus and other Lansing-area locations failed to attend events.The first North American Indian Women’s Spirit of National Gathering, which was organized to help end stereotypes and to teach people more about Native American culture, was plagued with low turnout at all 13 volunteer sites.But Carlos Fuentes, assistant director at MSU’s Service-Learning Center, said he understood why there was a low volunteer turnout.“I know this is a hard time to do things this time of year,” he said.
Gerald Boyd, managing editor of The New York Times, and Robin Stone, a former editor of Essence magazine, will give the Neal Shine Lecture on Ethics in Journalism today in the Union Gold Room. The presentation, “Do the Right Thing: Social Change and Relevant, Responsible Journalism,” is free and open to the public.
Damon Knight, a science fiction author who helped push the genre into the mainstream, died Monday. Knight, 79, had taught for 27 years at the annual Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop at MSU.
An interfaith discussion about Christianity and paganism will take place tonight at the Union. The discussion will feature representatives from the Riverview Campus Fellowship, a Christian organization, and Wiccan Journey, a pagan organization. This will be the third year the event has taken place.
For Ryan Dew, nothing beats a deluge of salt when it comes to snacking.“Potato chips are one of the biggest snacks here, and the greatest,” the finance sophomore said.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety is welcoming students to the department to increase knowledge about diversity.Latino students met with employees Tuesday to help improve communication.MSU police Sgt.
In addition to a 6 percent housing rate increase and a failed tax increase referendum, the University Apartments Council of Residents have yet to fill all of its 25 spots for next year’s officers.Only eight positions in the council have been filled, leaving apartment officials scrambling to prepare for next year. Last week, the council elected four executive board members and representatives from University Village and Cherry Lane apartments.
ASMSU members will start this summer to encourage students to vote in the fall. The undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly members set a goal last week to get at least 2,000 students registered to vote in East Lansing. Organization officials say they hope the rest of the 120 member organization will get involved in the project, which will kick off at the Academic Orientation Program in June. A campuswide voter registration drive will start about Aug.
Undergraduate students will have the opportunity to unveil a decision to run for a chairperson position on ASMSU’s Academic Assembly tonight - just before the elections begin.The undergraduate student government applications will be collected up until an hour and a half before the assembly is to elect its three paid 2002-03 leadership positions at 6:30 p.m.
A team of students from the Eli Broad Graduate School of Management took home the title from the 2002 Big Ten Case Competition. The annual competition, held earlier this month at The Ohio State University, pits teams of students against each other in analyzing, researching and solving real-world business problems.
Robin Sloan sits up a little when he talks about the stench of open sewers in Bangladesh.The economics senior and Student Convocation speaker lived in the country’s capital, Dhaka, for three months while on an independent internship.“Living in Dhaka, you sort of exist every day with the rest of the crowd,” Sloan said.Sloan conducted research while in the small Asian nation, working on a project to determine the impact of information technology on people in developing and impoverished countries.The country has more than 131 million people and is slightly larger than Iowa.“I went there with the intention of really understanding what it was like in a developing country,” Sloan said.
About 20 students from MSU’s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America are holding a campaign to increase awareness of organ donation. Group members hope to encourage students and community members to talk to their friends and families about organ donation.
Before coming to MSU to teach an honors section of Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities 211C, Area Studies and Multicultural Civilizations: The Americas, Jualynne Dodson will present and discuss her work on campus. Dodson, who is from the University of Colorado, will be next fall’s visiting Hannah Professor of Integrative Studies.
Dr. William Strampel officially began a new job this week, hoping to carry on a legacy and continue moving MSU in the right direction.
MSU officials and the Graduate Employees Union have continued to sign tentative agreements as they approach their target date for completing negotiations. University and union officials signed an agreement Wednesday to commit April 22 as the deadline.
“Halo halo” is the name of a popular Filipino dessert of fruits, nuts and other items.
Dressed in colors of the rainbow Friday afternoon, about 50 students gathered at the rock on Farm Lane holding signs with phrases such as “Don’t Legislate Hate” and “Homophobia is Gay.”The group participated in the Pride March, organized by lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender students at MSU to demonstrate support and promote visibility of their community.
MSU students have found a new place to park bikes and store household items - the Red Cedar River.This is what more than 65 students and volunteers discovered Saturday while cleaning up the river, campus and area parks as part of the Residence Halls Association recycling program’s Trash Bash and River Splash.This was the first year the campus cleanup extended to the Red Cedar River in cooperation with Adopt-A-River and Friends of the Red Cedar River.