On Wednesday evening, Dennis Liegghio, the executive director of NoResolve.org, held his Know Resolve presentation at the Engineering Building. Liegghio, who was 14 years old when his father committed suicide, said the nonprofit organization’s goal is to promote the idea of hope after the loss of a loved one though coping skills and resilience.
As an Office of Cultural and Academic Transitions, or OCAT, aide in Rather Hall this year, Brent Mitchell noticed cliques based on race forming in his hall. Mitchell helped create the Trends From All Ends fashion show held Wednesday night in Rather Hall. The show featured OCAT aides from Brody Complex, as well as about 50 students sharing their culture before a crowd of about 40.
The 2010 Kappa Delta 5K Run for Child Abuse Prevention Services is planned for 10 a.m. April 17.
MSU Safe Place is in the running for a $25,000 grant and students can vote online to help survivors of domestic violence. The grant, funded through the Pepsi Refresh Project, would support MSU Safe Place in its efforts to help survivors of domestic violence and stalking.
The MTV Fundraising Night, which was held Wednesday in the Auditorium, attracted hundreds of fraternity and sorority members and their friends and family to watch teams dance in the competition. The event is part of the greek community’s annual Greek Week.
St. Vincent Catholic Charities, or STVCC, is looking for new or gently used items to help support homeless families in the area.
Jesus in Islam, the final event of Islam Awareness Month, will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Erickson Hall Kiva.
MSU’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies will hold a two-day event allowing students to examine issues of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from April 21-22. The event, which is called Regional Inequality in Times of Globalization, will be held at the International Center.
The MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources Student Senate will host Small Animals Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 17 at the MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education. The event will offer face-painting, a sheep dog demonstration, educational booths by other MSU student organizations and more.
Some students, such as human biology and psychology freshman Jessica Jary, missed class Tuesday because of a tornado warning, which lasted from 11:23 a.m. to noon Tuesday according to the National Weather Service.
Suzan-Lori Parks, author of various plays, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Topdog/Underdog,” came to MSU on Tuesday to discuss her works and career before a crowd of about 300. In 2002, Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama for her play.
Elizabeth Berens, an advertising junior, received an honorable mention in the University Language Services, or ULS, 2010 scholarship photo contest.
Courtney Hilden spends about four hours of her week with the likes of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ann Plato and Frances Harper — a lost generation of female poets of whom most in the world of academia have never heard. Hilden, however, thinks these women still have a story to tell and a part to play. The English senior will give a presentation on her senior thesis this month — a study of 19th century politically active women poets — as a part of the Center for Poetry’s Spring Poetry Festival.
It is similar to a haunted house, except the realities students will face inside the Tunnel of Oppression are far scarier than monsters and ghosts. The Tunnel of Oppression, a performance meant to address various types of oppression found throughout the world, will be performed at 6, 7 and 8 p.m.
A former MSU student government official is not liable for disruptions last year during the Council of Graduate Students’ executive board election where he produced a report leveling allegations against the group’s then-president, a student judicial board ruled last week.
Trivial Pursuit questions tested the general knowledge and pop culture skills of MSU Honors College members in Eustace-Cole Hall’s upper lounge as the gamers participated in the Geek Week kickoff event Monday night.
MSU’s annual Greek Week will run Monday through Sunday with events in East Lansing and on campus.
Author and food writer Michael Pollan will discuss the challenges facing the American food system with MSU students from 3-4 p.m. Monday in Room C-102 in Wilson Hall. Pollan is the featured speaker at the World View Series presented by Wharton Center. He is the Knight Professor of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley.
After 26 years in its 313 E. Grand River Ave. home, Melting Moments’ owner has closed its retail operation to focus on its vending sales. Owner Mark Geovjian said a physical store didn’t make financial sense, adding the place was too large for the small share of company’s business it provided.
The Book Burrow in the basement of the Downtown Lansing Library started out small when it opened in the 1970s. It slowly expanded and now has more than 2,000 square feet of floor space containing more than 70,000 books.