The four major-party candidates vying for two seats on the MSU Board of Trustees will meet in a State News-sponsored debate tonight. Republicans Connie Binsfeld and Scott Romney and Democrats Dorothy Gonzales and Cal Rapson will square off in the 90-minute forum at 6 p.m.
MSU has recently become flooded with condoms, thanks to “Condom-Nation,” an Olin Health Center program designed to make contraceptives more accessible to students.Dennis Martell, a health educator at Olin, said the program should cut down on the number of students having unprotected sex.“We’ve heard all the excuses - ‘I didn’t have one on me’ or ‘I didn’t have any money to buy one’ or ‘I didn’t feel like running down to the vending machine,’” Martell said.“We want people to have easy access to them.”The condoms have been distributed since the beginning of the semester and will continue to be given away throughout the school year.
The MSU-Detroit College of Law Tax Clinic has helped a lot of people file their returns since it opened in January, but as the program’s inaugural year draws to a close, those involved know they will provide their services to many more. The clinic offers free services to low-income taxpayers who need help with anything from filing returns to resolving conflicts with the Internal Revenue Service.
The Council of Graduate Students is under new leadership.COGS officials elected Sam Howerton the council’s new president Wednesday night.
Professor Fayyaz Hussain says he does all he can to expose his students to life from a different perspective.And Thursday he tried to show his Global Diversity and Interdependence class an alternative angle by inviting MSU President M.
Sludge-caked bikes, browned but previously white plastic lawn chairs, a soggy mattress and a rusted bed frame were just a few of the pollutants pulled from the Red Cedar River muck earlier this month by environmentally-conscious MSU students. And Wednesday afternoon, the items were showcased.
Count Dracula isn’t the only one drawing blood this Halloween - first- and second-year osteopathic medicine students were after that red liquid too.The College of Osteopathic Medicine held its annual blood drawing workshop Wednesday in Fee Hall.
Amanda Smith is a little more skeptical than she used to be.Especially of those who approach the door to her dorm room with what could be perceived as a good deal.Smith, a Spanish freshman, and her roommate were bamboozled out of about $180 last month after purchasing several magazines from a man who said he was an MSU communication student collecting points to win an overseas trip to Australia.“In hindsight I guess it made sense (that it was a scam),” Smith said.
The Residence Halls Association and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, approved several allocations recently.
The state’s premiere research universities - MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University - will collaborate with major health care providers to improve the quality of medical care to in-state Parkinson’s disease patients.The Michigan Parkinson Initiative, which was announced Wednesday during a press conference at the Kellogg Center, enlists the help of the medical schools of the three universities, the Henry Ford Health System, Beaumont Neuroscience Center, St.
Students looking to camp out for Izzone tickets this past weekend were instead greeted with a paperboard sign - tacked to a portable toilet - informing them that the campout had been nixed.“I had no idea what was going on,” said advertising sophomore Melissa Klink, who was turned away.
More than 100 students took a big step in ensuring they wouldn’t get an “E” for dining etiquette Tuesday. The Office of Supportive Services brought students from all years and majors to “Professional Etiquette and Tableside Manners,” an event to prepare students for meal interviews and meetings they may attend in a professional setting. The program was held Tuesday at the Brody Complex’s Lafayette Square.
Two distinguished and recognized Washington, D.C., journalists chuckled and poked fun in the Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre on Tuesday while discussing the 2000 presidential campaign.
Gretchen Whitmer and Bill Hollister will bring their stances to campus for a debate Wednesday. Democrat Whitmer and Republican Hollister, who are battling for the 70th District state House seat, will meet at the Radiology Building’s auditorium during a 4 p.m.
MSU libraries plan to revisit a part of history.The university was chosen to participate in a national project to preserve literature that documents unique agricultural and rural heritage.Twenty states have become involved in the National Preservation Program for Agricultural Literature since its start in 1996.The program is directed by staff members at Cornell University’s Mann Library.“It’s both an honor and a responsibility to be chosen,” said Cliff Haka, director of libraries at MSU.
Supporters of peace in the Middle East gathered Monday night at the rock on Farm Lane for a nonpolitical rally to speak out against the violence that has claimed dozens of lives.The event, sponsored by the Hillel Jewish Student Center, attracted about 50 people from the university community.
International lawyers from the University of Pristina Law School in Kosovo visited the MSU-Detroit College of Law for a roundtable discussion on the future of a Democratic Kosovo on Monday.They said the world will be watching as nationalist Kostunica attempts to rebuild Serbia.
The deep, midday voice of WKAR’s Steve Jensen unexpectedly signed off one last time last week.Family and colleagues were stunned when word spread that the veteran reporter and talk-show host for the university-owned public radio station died early Friday morning of a brain hemorrhage.“Him having this was completely out-of-the-blue,” said Melissa Ingells, classical music producer for WKAR (870-AM). “We heard him doing his last show on Thursday and it seemed fine.“We’re all still pretty much in shock around here.”Jensen, 55, was brought to Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital Thursday night shortly after wrapping up his final broadcast.He died hours later.The Okemos resident had worked full-time at the station, which is affiliated with National Public Radio, since 1967.
In response to the violence that continues in the Middle East, the Hillel Jewish Student Center has organized a rally calling for peace that will be held at 5 p.m.
While the major-party presidential candidates stumped in swing states this weekend, two top advisers to foes Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov.