The MSU Museum received two grants Wednesday to showcase Jewish and Great Lakes-area cultures later this year.The Michigan Humanities Council awarded the museum $12,432 to display a U.S.
Panel discussion to address conserving campus energy The panel discussion “Michigan’s Energy Future: Shaping the New Century,” will be held at 7 p.m.
Madalyn Pollock fidgeted with her pearl necklace Wednesday as tears filled her eyes.Photos of her husband flashed across the screen in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre as an introduction to journalist Laurie Garrett’s presentation.
The University of Michigan’s Graduate Employees Organization coming to an agreement with university officials this week has left members of MSU’s Graduate Employees Union with mixed feelings. “I think the mood is sort of people are excited and optimistic, but also frustrated with the lack of progress we’ve been making in bargaining,” said Jessica Goodkind, the graduate union’s president. MSU officials were unavailable for comment on Tuesday. Goodkind said the union and MSU agreed on a few issues, including training and development of teaching assistants, on Monday.
The unversitywide student polls for ASMSU and University Apartments’ Council of Residents reopened Tuesday with few problems. On the main menu of the ballot a help page is available if any voting problems occur for the second set of elections.
On any given day, the deep plunks of a string bass, the soothing sounds of a trombone and the hypnotizing harmony of a saxophone solo can be heard emanating from inside MSU’s Music Building. And those sounds only will become more frequent.
ASMSU adopted a 22-page set of financial bylaws last week, updating the three-page document created in 1992.The new bylaws alleviate some procedural problems, but do not specify money distribution guidelines.With $12,500 remaining for the undergraduate student government for spring semester, finance committee Chairperson Andy Schepers said the old financial bylaws needed to be revamped because they were too vague and didn’t give the organization enough direction about how money should be spent.
With the threat of anthrax gripping the nation, Lyman Briggs School will be presenting a speaker from BioPort Corp. BioPort is the only Food and Drug Administration-licensed manufacturer of the anthrax vaccine, company spokeswoman Kim Brennen Root said. Root will be speaking at 7:30 p.m.
MSU students will pay an additional dollar for The State News beginning in the fall. When the votes from last week’s election were tallied, 501 students voted in favor of the increase, 418 opposed it and six students abstained from voting during the 2002 student tax referendum. The increase upped the tax from $4 to $5 per semester and is the first increase in 13 years.
Vygaudas Usackas found himself in Moscow wearing an Ox, his team’s mascot, on his back, while talking to Russian reporters about the Lithuania vs.
The Lithuanian ambassador to the United States will be at MSU-Detroit College of Law today to talk to students throughout the day. Vygaudas Usackas will conduct a European Union class tonight and meet with members from MSU International Studies and Programs and James Madison College. Like the students he will be talking with, Usackas pursued a law degree as a college student. He studied law at Vilnius University in Lietuva, earning his degree in May 1990.
Cadets in MSU’s ROTC program listened to two participants in last year’s Armed Forces Eco-Challenge in Alaska. Capts.
The wording of ASMSU’s $3 tax increase referendum question was changed on the universitywide ballot.
Tina Rosenberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign policy editorial writer for The New York Times, will speak at 7:30 p.m.
More than 150 people on feet and wheels braved the cold air Saturday morning to compete in the Tower Guard Shamrock 5K Run, Walk and Roll.
Greg Olsen made sure to get a front-row seat for National Public Radio’s “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.”The show, hosted by NPR science correspondent Ira Flatow, broadcasted live Friday afternoon from the new Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.The show featured area experts on automotive technologies and MSU engineering, food science and packaging professors.But as the crowd of about 150 people listened to Flatow and guests discuss automotive innovations and food science improvements, Olsen, a telecommunication junior, kept his eyes on the engineers working the various consoles and dials.“It was great to see what they do,” he said.Olsen, a regular listener of NPR, said he was able to learn things on two levels by attending the broadcast - science and radio broadcasting.“I always learn something, that’s the great thing,” he said.Combining two areas of interest is how Flatow got his start in science journalism.In the late 1960s, he entered the State University of New York at Buffalo, planning to become an engineer.“I went into college and I stumbled upon a campus radio station,” he said.
After postponing her visit to campus because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Laurie Garrett, the only journalist to have won the Pulitzer, Peabody and Polk awards, will lecture in the Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The event, “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health” will begin at 4:30 p.m.
The Residence Halls Association is one step closer to filling next year’s executive board. The association elected John Sturk, the North American Indian Student Organization’s representative, to the internal vice president position for 2002-03. At Wednesday night’s election, Sturk calmly strolled about a room in Wilson Hall, outlining his goals to improve diversity and understanding of parliamentary procedure within the association.
Janice Harte is hoping her voice stays in mint condition today. The assistant professor of food science, who is recovering from a case of laryngitis, is one of four MSU experts to be prominently featured on a National Public Radio broadcast originating from MSU. “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday,” hosted by veteran science correspondent Ira Flatow, will go live from the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building at 2 p.m. Harte said she’s excited to be on the program. “It’s quite an honor,” she said.
The Muslim Students’ Association is sponsoring its Unity Eid Dinner at 7 p.m. today in the Union Ballroom.