When the owners of Davey's Basement, in Mason, decided to pull the Mason High School Gay-Straight Alliance's float during the school's homecoming parade, they didn't expect the town to boycott.
On Monday, the nation honors Martin Luther King Jr., a man who dedicated his life to promoting civil rights. Now, students can help honor other heroes who share some of King's principles or those who furthered his dream. A group of three undergraduate students who can convincingly argue their case for who deserves similar recognition will win $1,500 for their presentation. The sixth annual Multicultural Heroes Hall of Fame Case Competition will take place Feb.
The Muslim Students' Association, or MSA, is hosting the second annual Eid party, which celebrates the Eid Al-Adhaa, or when the Prophet Abraham was tested by God. The holiday occurs on the 10th day of the last month of the lunar calendar and is a celebration of the end of the pilgrimage to Mecca. The pilgrimage is one of the five pillars of Islam and is required of all Muslims able to undertake the 10-day journey through the desert. "A lot of students at MSU were able to go this year because it was during winter break," said Tammam Alwan, president of MSA. The event will be held at 7:30 p.m.
The retirement of the standard Michigan license plate has some Michigan motorists feeling blue. "It's the Michigan tradition," said Lauren Still, a no-preference freshman.
Six of the 10 most polluted cities in the world are in China, one MSU researcher said. This is a problem for Jack Liu, who was born there and now studies the impact of economic growth on the environment. "Now, more and more people are realizing the importance of the environment to humans," said Liu, the director for MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability. Liu said economic development is important, but comes at the expense of the environment.
For the Student Greenhouse Project, one day of celebrating the Earth just didn't seem like enough. So the group decided to celebrate Earth Day for an entire week. Green Week, which will happen the week of Feb.
Michigan restaurants have been dishing out more than just hot food and friendly service. A string of Norovirus outbreaks in the area has patrons questioning the integrity of their meals. "Norovirus is in all of us, in our intestines," said Pattie McNiel, an academic specialist for the National Food Safety and Toxicology center at MSU.
Syed Hashsham was raised in Sidhartha Nagar, a village in India. There, he said, water quality is a huge problem. Now, to "make an impact," he's designing a device that detects waterborne pathogens. "Research costs a lot," the civil and environmental engineering associate professor said.
While the traditional 30th anniversary gift might be pearls, End Violent Encounters, Inc., or EVE, will settle for a small donation. The Lansing-based nonprofit domestic violence organization will distribute house-shaped donation boxes to local businesses, marking its 30th anniversary.
The following list updates court proceedings and developments connected to MSU and East Lansing that occurred throughout winter break.
Lia Tennant left the Student Book Store, 421 E. Grand River Ave., Sunday night feeling sore. "I'm pretty upset — I spent $450," the chemical engineering freshman said.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon traveled to Hong Kong this week to talk with philanthropists from the Sun Wah Education Foundation.
A team of astronomers, including two MSU professors, discovered a black hole in an unlikely location. Stephen Zepf, a physics and astronomy professor at MSU, said the team's discovery of a black hole within a globular cluster, which is a dense collection of stars found in nearly all galaxies, is the first one of its kind. "The idea of black holes grows directly from Einstein's theory of general relativity," Zepf said in an e-mail.
East Lansing officials want $35,000 set aside for a fund that would promote MSU technology and keep businesses in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties. The untitled fund is in its early stages of creation, but City Manager Ted Staton said East Lansing wants to use the money with surrounding communities to strengthen the economy in Greater Lansing.
Teach classes, hold office hours, perform emergency surgery on a rare African lion. For MSU veterinary professor Bryden Stanley, not every day can be considered typical. Amboseli, a 17-year-old lion living in Lansing's Potter Park Zoo, was anesthetized on Dec.
Improving post-secondary education opportunities for high school students remains a priority to the Michigan House of Representatives, even though political control in the House has switched. "Everybody is committed to the idea that we need to better higher education and make college more affordable," said Rep.
Honesty, integrity and humility were hallmarks of Gerald R. Ford's presidency, according to members of the MSU community who knew him best. The 38th president died Dec.
The execution of Saddam Hussein was meant to be a crowning achievement for the newly appointed Iraqi government. However, the release of a cell phone video depicting Iraqi officials taunting the former dictator has sparked violence between Islamic religious sects, and some people have begun to question the integrity of the highly publicized trial. Michael Rubner, a professor of international relations in the James Madison College, said the U.S.