The MSU debate team placed second out of 41 schools at its first tournament of the season.The team competed in the Georgia State University National Debate Tournament from Sept.
Michigan-area United Methodist Church Bishop Linda Lee will lead a group of children and adults, who are interested in the impact poverty has on children, at 3 p.m.
The East Lansing City Council could give college and university branches more classroom space at its meeting tonight by allowing them to operate in office buildings.
Active Living for Adults will celebrate its 20th anniversary tomorrow at the Valley Court Community Center, 201 Hillside Court.Active Living for Adults has provided daycare services to local families with functionally impaired adults since 1983.
Contemporary paintings from Bregenz, Austria, will be on display at the MSU-DCL College of Law building for two months beginning this Friday.The free gallery of 47 paintings by artists who live and work in Bregenz will be open from 4 to 6 p.m.MSU-DCL professor and event organizer Nicholas Mercuro said the program is another step in MSU's relationship with Bregenz, which began with a Study Aboard program."MSU's relationship with Austria goes back four years ago," Mercuro said.
More than 170 companies will be on campus Thursday offering jobs to students. MSU's Career Gallery 2003 will be at Breslin Center from 3 to 7 p.m. Career Gallery officials suggest students sign up on www.monstertrak.com before attending the gallery, because some companies require students to do so in advance. Students may get tickets at the doors but can avoid the line by picking them up between 8 a.m.
The National Food Safety & Toxicology Center turns 5 years old this year and is celebrating this week.To commemorate the event, the center, located in room 165 of the Food Safety and Toxicology Building, will hold several events.
Helen Nethaway-Mindiola has seen it all. She's seen riots, war protests and students' cries for help. And she's seen it all from the writings inside a bathroom stall. Nethaway-Mindiola is a custodial worker who changes sheets of paper in the women's bathroom of the MSU Main Library.
The University Activities Board lost more than $100,000 of its annual budget because of recent statewide budget cuts.
Those interested in taking an early evening stroll around campus are invited to Kresge Art Museum today. A walking tour, led by the author of "MSU Campus: Buildings, Places, Spaces: Architecture and the Campus Park of Michigan State University," will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Lansing - Car horns blared and chants were issued out of a bullhorn on Michigan Avenue on Monday as Lansing residents picketed outside of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce.Protesters held signs such as "Chamber Business Pimps" and "The Chamber Supports Poverty Wages," all while informing passers-by of their cause and encouraging drivers to honk in support.The protest stems from an injunction the chamber of commerce, located at 300 E.
Absolute Gallery in Old Town is holding "Absolute Pfleghaar," a sculpture and painting exhibition by artist Michael Pfleghaar, until Oct.
By Joshua Carr Special for The State News Performer Umenosuke Onoe closed out Japan Week on Friday with his rendition of the ritualistic transformation and traditional Kabuki Onnagata performance to the nearly packed Kellogg Center auditorium. Hiromi Maenaka, assistant director at MSU's Asian Studies Center, worked with an official from the Japanese Consulate in Detroit to bring the show "Kabuki, Onnagata, and Creating a Feminine Ideal" to campus. Onnagata is a term referring to when a man performs a female role, and the technique stems from the 400-year-old art form Kabuki, Onoe said. "I chose Onnagata when I was 16 years old in high school," Onoe said through a translator. During the show, Onoe walked the audience through the painful makeup and wardrobe process he endures as a Kabuki performer to transform from a man into an Onnagata woman.
The fifth annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will take place Saturday in Lansing. Making Strides is an American Cancer Society's program, that works to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer.
The MSU College Republicans recruited 271 members this year for the Michigan Federation of College Republicans . Recruitment in September drew 171 more members than the group brought in last year.
Local author Andrea King Collier will discuss her book "Still With Me: A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss" at 7 p.m.
A line of children, students, senior citizens and Lansing area residents stood silently along Grand River Avenue on Sunday afternoon holding signs with messages stating "Abortion Kills Children" and "Life, the first inalienable right." Participants were instructed to meditate and pray during the Life Chain demonstration, an international pro-life movement that takes place annually the first Sunday of October in cities throughout the United States and Canada. East Lansing high school senior Isabelle Mann stood quietly with her two friends in front of Barnes & Noble, 333 E.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded MSU nearly $1 million to establish an Agriculture Innovation Center. MSU's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will work with the Michigan Partnership for Product Agriculture to head one of 10 centers located throughout the nation. The center will help farmers and processors learn to compete in the global economy and provide technical assistance and business planning advice to assist agricultural producers in developing value-added agriculture commodities.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., introduced legislation Friday that will allow families and friends to send letters and packages to armed forces overseas without paying postage. "With troops on extended deployments, mail is an essential link between our troops on deployment and their families back home, but the cost keeps adding up," Stabenow said in a written statement.
A brightly colored male peacock casually disregarded 35 MSU students sitting on picnic tables at Potter Park Zoo on Sunday afternoon.The group, not including the blue-and-green bird, waited for a John Deere tractor to deliver them to a scattering of brush.