Plaid shirts, cowboy hats and blue jeans adorned members of the Ramsey family as they walked around the concourse of Munn Ice Arena this weekend to raise money for cancer research.Physiology sophomore Ross Ramsey watched his family in the third annual American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
By the time Nicole Bobiney got back to her Emmons Hall room, it was too late in the day for her to switch her classes. "I had a lot of problems with it," the psychology freshman said.
About 100 MSU students learned the right fork to use for their appetizer, salad, main course and dessert when they were given a number of utensils to choose from Tuesday at the Kellogg Center.The MSU Alumni Association and the Senior Class Council sponsored a manners and etiquette dinner at which speaker Pattie McNiel showed students step by step how to eat properly at formal dinners."We're doing this so hopefully they'll be ready to go out in the real world," said McNiel, coordinator of the Distance Learning Program in the National Food Safety and Toxicology Center.This is the third year of the dinner, for which McNiel said she personally knows of someone who's benefited from it - her son."Shortly after he went to it, he started his job interviews," she said.
Orchesis, a student-organized dance club, will perform "Re-Inventing Skin!" at 8 p.m. today and Saturday and 2 p.m.
MSU is one of two facilities in the state to perform a new breast tumor shrinking procedure. The procedure, called cryoablation, was approved about a year ago for the removal of benign tumors and is offered by the MSU Department of Surgery and Harper Hospital in Detroit.About 80 percent of all breast tumors are benign.To qualify for the procedure, patients need to have a biopsy to ensure that the tumor is benign and is no larger than 2 centimeters.Most tumors are surgically removed but cryoablation is cheaper, less painful and less damaging to skin tissue than the traditional method, department Chairwoman Carol Slomski said."People have been trying to figure out how to get rid of tumors without cutting them out for a long time," she said.
Bernice Johnson Reagon delicately began singing at the Kellogg Center on Thursday, then stopped suddenly."You know, I'm not supposed to sing this by myself," she said to the audience of about 50 people.With gathering strength, the crowd joined in on the freedom song, some singing loudly while others gently hummed.They escalated into singing a song about courage in the face of adversity.Reagon, an original member of the famed "Freedom Singers," renowned scholar, singer and founder of the "Sweet Honey in the Rock" a cappella ensemble, was the first of four professors to speak in the third annual Visiting Minority Faculty Lecture Series, sponsored by the College of Osteopathic Medicine.The series, themed "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey," was created as a part of a special university fund for visiting minority faculty.Reagon talked about the unbroken faith of slaves and sticking out in a crowd, while singing songs of freedom, strength and power.As she began the program with the song "Sweet Honey on Me," she told a story about her pastor speaking of the importance of remembering history."If I remember what has come before me, if I actually acknowledge that I exist because of the running and stumbling and dying before me
MSU is celebrating the 2003 Chicano Heritage Month with an array of activities to educate and inform students about the importance of their culture.Student groups such as Culturas de las Razas Unidas will host programs such as "Latin Explosion" and D
A discussion on ways the nation funds terrorism became heated as spectators voiced their disagreement with a speaker at Case Hall earlier this week. Debbie Schlussel, a controversial conservative political commentator who has appeared on ABC's "Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher," FOX News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" and other notable political talk shows, spoke to students at James Madison College. Schlussel, who has studied radical Islam and terrorism, said terrorists receive money from certain goods bought by Americans. "If they can find a way with any product to fund terrorism, they will," she told the group of more than 35 students.
More than 100 students and faculty members went to bat for the future of their agricultural engineering department and major.
The Department of Family and Child Ecology is accepting applications for a new Extended Day Program.
Last week, five MSU students along with MSU police Det. Steven Beard were dispatched to an apartment to investigate a possible murder at a party after neighbors reported hearing several loud pops and saw people running from the building.Arriving at the apartment, Beard and the students found a dead college student laying on his side with a gun in his hand.
Attorney Justin Kuxhaus paced back and forth in his plaid shirt and blue jeans, making his argument in front of a judge wearing a skull cap and hooded sweatshirt. Observers in the courtroom listened to the case while doing their homework and playing cards. Twice a week, two teams of students gather to assume the roles of lawyers, a judge and witnesses as part of MSU's Mock Trial team. The group next competes Feb.
What would you think if the cafeterias served lunch and dinner instead of breakfast and lunch on Sundays?
Sparty mascot applications are available at the Student Alumni Foundation offices in Room 333 of the Union.
Students will strive to raise $60,000 for cancer research this weekend in the American Cancer Society Relay For Life.
Four former civil rights leaders will be featured in the third annual Visiting Faculty Lecture Series in February called "Slavery to Freedom: An American Odyssey," beginning Feb.
An hour and a half before sitting behind the mic, Andrew Burri wrote the lyrics to the song he was going to perform.Sitting alongside guitarist Phil Detolve, the education freshman belted out "The Sun Burst Through." Burri wrote the music last weekend.Detolve learned the guitar part moments before the show.The duo is one of many who performed at a new place to check out local talent - Holmes Hall.Every Monday night, students flock to the Sparty's Convenience Store on the first floor of the residence hall to take in an open mic night.The event, which is planned and carried out by Holmes Hall residents, began three weeks ago, but was a work in progress for about a year."There was a great demand for it here," Holmes Hall mentor Emily Perhay said.
A sexually suggestive flier promoting recruitment events for fraternity Phi Kappa Psi has officials questioning whether members of the group were the ones who distributed it in the first place.The flier, which reads "Be A Dick, Rush Phi Kappa Psi," depicts a comic strip-type illustration with a stick figure choosing which fraternity to join.
The Graduate Employees Union has begun a month-long drive to increase union membership. Informational meetings, dancing and phone calls will make up the campaign's effort to attain the group's 70 percent membership goal."I think everybody knows about GEU already," union member Brian Holcomb said.
The campaign to find Sparty a new home got a head start with a donation of $75,000 from ASMSU, but MSU's undergraduate student government didn't make it easy for the terra-cotta statue.The bill passed with 21 votes, the minimum needed to pass a bill with the number of people attending the meeting Thursday.The money will go toward restoration and movement of the statue, formally titled "The Spartan." Built in the 1940s, the statue is now cracking and deteriorating from years of exposure to the elements.