The banks of the Red Cedar River are not as clean as they look, according to data issued last week by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan.The group gathered information on pollutant violations from 1999 to 2001 from the Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.
The African Studies Center in 201 International Center will present two lecturers. The African Studies Brown Bag with linguistics Professor Grover Hudson is on “Linguistic Analysis of the 1998 Ethiopian Census” at noon Thursday.
A proposal supporting Palestinian rights and a U.N. resolution is causing a stir among the student body of the MSU-Detroit College of Law that is culminating in a debate at 9:30 p.m.
The University Physician’s Office at MSU is sending health information e-mails to MSU employees, retirees and health care providers. The Healthy Email Project provides information on common health concerns that has been reviewed by physicians.
Students living in residence halls will no longer have an excuse to walk by empty blue bins marked plastic, paper and glass. The Residence Halls Association begins its recycling program today, available in all the residence halls on campus.
A new nursing scholarship could provide the state of Michigan with $4 million that could potentially offset the shortage of nurses statewide.
With puppets and henna tattoos, ethnic foods and maps of the East, a group of volunteers made efforts to educate Holmes Hall students Sunday. The Asian-African cultural night was part of an effort by the group Raising Awareness by Internationalizing Students’ Education, or RAISE, to visit the residence halls and promote awareness. RAISE is a program within the Office of Internationalizing Students, which is a part of the Department of Student Life.
Social relations senior Luisa Schumacher left Friday’s speech by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at Kellogg Center a changed woman.“When I graduated, I always said I was going to go to Washington, D.C.,” Schumacher said after the event, sponsored by the James Madison Founders Circle.
It was exactly the way the Spartan Marching Band wanted to end a busy Homecoming weekend as they joined the School of Music and a surprise guest conductor Saturday for the 2002 Spartan Spectacular.
“Guys, we’re gonna get candy!” Lyman Briggs freshman Shelby Newman shouted to her friends as they patiently waited at their spot on Grand River Avenue for the Homecoming parade to start Friday night.Newman and her friends are freshmen, and they know all the words to the MSU’s fight song - and they made sure other spectators knew that by proudly belting it out and clapping as they waited to hear the Spartan Marching Band’s version.With more than just a hint of fall in the air, families, alumni, students and MSU fans lined the streets as the more than 120 units supporting everything from political candidates to role playing groups marched along the parade route.There also was an appearance from the green-skirted mascot, Sparty.
It was a cool 23 degrees outside when Northern Michigan University students Ben Weimert and Mark Slykhouse began the 390-mile trek to East Lansing on Sunday morning.“We left at 5 a.m.,” Weimert said.
MSU’s undergraduate student government hopes to solve the noise problem in East Lansing.ASMSU passed a bill at its weekly meeting Thursday, creating a program to address the pressing issues and possible solutions to the high-decibel noise attributed to MSU students in East Lansing.The program will outline and develop a set of guidelines for students living off campus.
Snap, crackle and pop were the sounds resonating from the MSU bakery as students attempted to beat Iowa State University’s Guinness record of the world’s largest Rice Krispie Treat.“We used to work with Pillsbury on the world’s largest brownie,” bakery manager Gerald Stoecker said.
The last vacant seat in the Residence Halls Association’s executive board was filled Wednesday night.The general assembly approved the hiring of advertising sophomore Brian Winters, and elected him the next director of public relations and advertising for the organization.
Michigan is not making the grade when it comes to affordability at its public colleges and universities, a report issued by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education says.In “Measuring Up 2002,” Michigan received an affordability rating of “D-plus” for 2002, down from a “C” grade two years ago.
MSU medical students, along with health agency representatives and supporters of Proposal 4 met Wednesday to learn more about the proposal.Ron Davis, a member of Citizens for a Healthy Michigan, spoke in front of about 50 people - most in cerulean blue “Vote Yes on Proposal 4” T-shirts - about why they should be in support of the ballot proposal Nov.
MSU’s undergraduate student government filled one of its many open positions Monday.Computer science sophomore David Wilson was hired as the director of Technology and Web site Affairs, now in charge of updating the ASMSU Web site and keeping the computers working.“The kid’s a ninja,” said James Perra, ASMSU interim association director.
Green and white balloons crowded into rooms filled with homemade food and cheerful voices of MSU staff Wednesday.It was more than just National Bosses Day for four lucky MSU employees as they received the Supervisor Recognition Award from MSU’s department of Child and Family Care Resources.
Bright red spray paint across the rock on Farm Lane on Wednesday delivered two important words to MSU students - date auction.
Some residents of the only quiet hall on campus have been in an uproar over a new policy they learned Sunday.The rule required that all doors must remain shut during quiet hours.