ASMSU’s director of human resources - the person in charge of hiring and firing organizational officials - resigned during the weekend.Derek Werner, former ASMSU Director of Human Resources, resigned in an e-mail to Interim Association Director James Perra.
The second floor lounge in the Union was filled with the bellowing voices of students waiting for their shot at stardom.But one voice could faintly be heard echoing from within the confines of the women’s bathroom.“I didn’t want anybody to hear me singing, it was a nervous thing,” said general business administration and pre-law sophomore Rochelle Haqq.
The ninth annual MSU-Penn State University blood drive, “Defending Our Title, Defending the Blood Supply,” will take place from Nov.
Prevention for the West Nile virus will be assessed sooner next spring than this year, according to county health officials. Michigan reported the second-highest number of human cases of West Nile virus this year, with 463 infections and 36 deaths.
Konnie Licavoli and Cindy McCue want students to know they should think before they drink. Licavoli is the mother of Eric Blair, an 18-year-old Delta College student who drowned in the Red Cedar River in 2001 after drinking at a party, and McCue is the mother of Bradley McCue, an MSU student who died after consuming 24 shots on his 21st birthday in 1998. The two mothers will speak on responsible alcohol use and the need for students to take care of each other at the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre at 7:30 p.m.
A group of 30 women dressed in purple T-shirts squeezed in between desks and chairs in an Eppley Center lecture hall for their first belly dancing lesson. The lesson was one of the workshops offered at Every Woman’s Weekend, an event revived after two decades by the Women’s Council Saturday. No-preference sophomore and Women’s Council member Ana Williams said belly dancing is harder than it looks.
Celia Guro is ready to talk about stress. Guro, director of counseling for the College of Osteopathic Medicine, was a participant in the Healthy U program called “Managing Stress and Balancing Your Life,” which ran on Tuesdays from Oct.
Students that can’t understand what their professors or teaching assistants are saying can be reimbursed for their class fees if a state senator has her way.State Sen.
A legion of students vying for the affection of four singles entered the ultimate compatibility contest Thursday night - hoping to get singled out.Case Hall Singled Out, sponsored by the Case Hall government, was based on the popular MTV 1990s game show, “Singled Out.”The price for the winners of the contest was an all-expenses-paid dinner to Olive Garden Italian Restaurant, 5015 Marsh Road in Okemos.About 30 men and 40 women were placed in the dating pool.
In the near future, students might be able to hop on a bus and travel anywhere on campus they want - without worrying about paying. ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is working to develop a transportation tax that each student would pay to ride the Capitol Area Transportation Authority buses - much like the taxes students pay each semester for services provided by ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association and The State News. Adam Raezler, James Madison representative for the undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly, said the tax won’t come easily, but he has hopes of it happening by the 2004-05 school year. “This is just a great service for students,” he said.
The University Activities Board and Residence Halls Association are co-sponsoring auditions for “Spartan Idol: The Making of an MSU Superstar” today and Tuesday. RHA and the University Activities Board had been discussing the idea, said Derek Wallbank, external vice-president of RHA.
Standing arm in arm, Jennifer Won and Ben Yu waited for Saturday night’s formal dinner to begin.The couple stood in the halls of the Kellogg Center before dinner - the last event of the annual Asian Pacific American Student Organization weekend conference.The tables were covered in white linen cloths and candles softly lit the room.All day Saturday, the organization conducted workshops on Asian Pacific Americans in the job market, media, sexuality, activism and other issues.Won, a merchandising management senior, wasn’t able to attend the workshops earlier in the day, but dressed up to attend the dinner with her boyfriend.Won said she was glad the conference was able to touch on Asian Pacific-American sexuality issues.“They rarely discuss those issues,” she said.
More than 300 people gathered at Wells Hall on Friday at a teach-in about the United States’ potential war in Iraq, organized by a coalition of faculty members and students protesting the war.From the start, English professor and speaker Ken Harrow said the teach-in was “not purely an educational function, but a political function as well.”Speakers later urged the audience to join Friday’s rally against war on Iraq in downtown East Lansing.Harrow, along with four other staff members and a representative from the Students for Peace and Justice, spoke during the two-hour seminar, sponsored by the Faculty, Staff, and Student Coalition Against the War in Iraq.Assistant English professor Salah Hassan said after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, most of the Middle East was split up and colonized by Great Britain and France.
Rainy conditions and chilly temperatures could not deter about 20 devoted golfers from attending the first Happy Gilmore Golf Scramble at Forest Akers East Golf Course on Friday afternoon.The University Activities Board event was slated for two weeks ago, but because of inclement weather, it was called off and rescheduled.“I was really excited to play because I’m a big golfer,” Scott Wolfe said about the event that was canceled two weeks ago.
On football Saturdays when the sun comes out, so do the tailgaters.One of the largest tailgating spectacles on MSU’s campus is that of the greek organizations who take over the rock on Farm Lane.Waking up early on the weekend isn’t an issue, as fraternities and sororities begin taking over the area next to the Red Cedar River.“I’m out here at 8 o’clock every week,” said Nick Nykerk, a Sigma Pi member and civil engineering sophomore.
With multiple sporting events Saturday, parking and cleanup will be problematic on campus.With volleyball at 3 p.m., the men’s basketball team’s annual Green and White game at 4 p.m.
The Residence Halls Association has reached into its pockets to help finance various student group events, but the organization’s generosity might lead to a shortage of funds.Although student groups appreciate RHA’s willingness to help, some members of RHA’s General Assembly aren’t happy the organization has almost spent its entire General Assembly fund so early into the semester.“The general assembly have put themselves in this position,” said Case Hall Rep.
Okemos - Megan Long rested flat on her back as a series of small needles were placed into her feet, hands, head and ears.Acupuncture is a traditional Oriental medicine that dates back 4,000 years.
The Asian Pacific American Student Organization kicks off its annual fall conference today with the theme “APASObilities.” “Our theme comes from the fact that anything is possible,” said APASO secretary Stephanie Moy, an elementary education sophomore. Moy said the purpose of the conference is to spread Asian-American culture to the MSU community and increase awareness. “We want to help the whole campus, not just Asian Americans,” she said.
Events objecting to the war on Iraq will take place Friday on and off campus.A teach-in on Iraq will take place from 3-5 p.m.