History can be relived at the touch of a button at the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library. Tucked away in the fourth floor west wing of the MSU library, more than 50,000 voices and sounds are housed, creating the nation's largest academic voice library. Its earliest recording is a Sept.
The regularly scheduled Tuesday evening East Lansing City Council meeting has been rescheduled in observance of Passover. "Passover is a religious observance for part of the community," said Judith Taran, East Lansing communication director. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Ninety white-gloved hands move in unison. The children lift their hands to sign "glory" with a circle around and over their heads. To sing "It's so good to know God is just a prayer away," they move quickly, ending with a drawn-out sign, left hands held close to the chest while the right hands stretch out from the body. The children's choir, called God's Heavenly Hands & God's Joyous Singers, is made up of 45 hearing youth from Detroit and the surrounding areas. They travel locally, regionally and nationally to perform spiritual songs for both the hearing and the hearing-impaired. "Our goal was to learn to sign to grow spiritually ourselves and to, through song, bring the hearing impaired to Jesus Christ," choir director Vivian Hughes said.
Grants for 38 new research projects in the 2004 fiscal year have been awarded by Project GREEEN, totaling more than $952,200. Project GREEEN, which stands for Generating Research and Extension to meet Environmental and Economic Needs, is Michigan's plant agriculture initiative at MSU. Projects were awarded funding in four categories: basic research, value-added research, applied research and extension/education/demonstration. There were 78 new project proposals and 36 continuation proposals this year. For listings of 2004 newly funded and continuing Project GREEEN research projects, visit www.greeen.msu.edu/newspage.htm.
The MSU Mock Trial Team might be young, but don't cross the members in the courtroom. The four-year-old team took eighth place in March at the American Mock Trial Association National Tournament in Richmond, Ky. "Our program is getting better by leaps and bounds every year," said Pete Martini, a public administration and public policy senior and mock trial member.
The 1st Annual Food for Thought 5K Run/Walk is an MSU Student Food Bank fund-raiser. The event is set to take place at 9 a.m.
From his home in Bad Axe, Cory Collings said he'll miss being a student at MSU. He has no memory of being hit by a drunken driver almost two weeks ago.
As the music of the piano and other instruments drifts in the background, the choir leads the St. John Student Parish congregation in song. With their hymnal books open, the parish stands in Father Mark Inglot's presence.
Over the past year, ASMSU debated 83 bills, held 32 general meetings and spent almost 80 hours in deliberation. As 21 new members take office tonight, officials from MSU's undergraduate student government reflected on a session where few bills were passed, even fewer had a direct impact on students, and an Academic Assembly initiative to add candy to the business office was half-jokingly referred to as "the best thing we've done all year." Election confusion Officials attributed most of the session's troubles to an election debacle last spring in which more than 60 representatives were disqualified, leaving the assemblies with fewer than a dozen representatives on each, many of whom did not have previous ASMSU experience.
"The Challenges of Peer-to-Peer File Sharing" symposium will be held on April 15 from 7 to 9 p.m.
Drs. Steven Arnoczky and Cheryl Swenson examined tissue and cells used in a study Monday that has important implications for the treatment of transplants. Arnoczky and Swenson, along with other researchers in MSU's Laboratory for Comparative Orthopaedic Research, have conducted a study that shows freeze-drying tissues and bones for transplants might not inactivate viruses as efficiently as previously thought.
Focusing his attention on stabilizing tensions in Iraq, U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers is making his third trip there in less than a year. The U.S.
Erin McLaughlin Special for The State News While most of MSU's campus lay still and freezing from the bitter snow, a warm and tropical atmosphere lingered in the Union on Saturday night.
Friday night, it was curtains for Don "Big Jim" Ravioli. Less than an hour into a gala celebrating the grand opening of a friend's speakeasy, the mob boss was brutally gunned down in front of gangsters, gamblers and scantily clad harlots. The lights flickered out seconds before the shooting and, despite a broken champagne bottle near Big Jim's bullet-ridden body, no other evidence remained.
As windows and doors are cracked open for the first time to let the spring air in, members of MSU's undergraduate student government are looking at making April "Lock Your Door!
Members of the MSU Rube Goldberg Machine Team spent more than four months tinkering with wires and mousetraps to get their contraption ready for the national competition held Saturday at Purdue University.
The Kresge Art Museum will add a new painting to its Figurative Expressionism Collection Initiative with the help of a grant from The Judith Rothschild Foundation. The work, "Two Figures, Two Heads" by Louis Finkelstein, was purchased with the $10,000 grant, and although it is not housed in the museum, the work will be made available for the next Figurative Expressionism exhibit. The Figurative Expressionist works are those with the figure kept in the work while moving toward abstract expression. Finkelstein, who created the work in 1998, studied painting at The Cooper Union, The Art Students League of New York and the Brooklyn Museum School.
"One small step for Greek Life...One giant leap in the right direction." Banners emblazoned with the 2004 Greek Week slogan hung below the cover of a tent while members of fraternity and sorority teams walked laps during the second annual Relay for Life. The relay, along with other kick-off events, was held Friday at Munn Field.
A global advertising expert will give a guest lecture this week for a one-credit course in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.