Applications are available to join the Senior Class Council for the 2003-2004 academic year. Any junior or returning senior is eligible to sign up. The deadline to apply is Thursday.
Adam Raezler's ASMSU application almost didn't make it into the pile because of a little confusion his freshman year. "It was the first time I'd been to that end of campus and I got lost," the political theory and constitutional democracy sophomore said. Raezler said just as he was considering giving up, he found the building and now sits on the MSU undergraduate student government's Academic Assembly as a representative for James Madison College. Applications are due by 4:30 p.m.
Underage drinkers account for one-fifth of all alcohol consumption in the U.S., according to a recent national study.The study, conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, reported youths between the ages of 12 and 20 years old amount to 19.7 percent of alcohol consumption in the nation.The study, which was released in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, said the total of underage drinking amounts to about $22.5 billion in sales.The results came from a 10-month analysis of three sets of data, including figures from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, which involved more than 50,000 people aged 12 and older polled in 1999.The article, "Alcohol Consumption and Expenditures for Underage Drinking and Adult Excessive Drinking," also used figures from several national and federal institutions."The value of this survey points to a huge problem that has been around for some time," National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism spokeswoman Ann Bradley said.
In an effort to make multi-disciplinary environmental science missions across campus more visible, MSU's Board of Trustees approved the Environmental Sciences and Policy program at its February meeting. The program will be headed by Thomas Dietz, an environmental science and public policy professor from George Mason University in Virginia. "Michigan State does world-class research, education and outreach in environmental science and policy," Dietz said in a written statement. "Our new program will make the work more visible, make it more easily available to those who have to make decisions about the environment and, by making links across the field, lead to better science and better decisions," he said. Currently, MSU's classes, research and outreach programs in environmental science are spread throughout several departments and colleges in the university, including the colleges of social science, natural science and agriculture and natural resources. The new program will allow undergraduate and graduate students to specialize in environmental science and policy. Provost Lou Anna Simon said the new program will allow the university to focus and align its environmental science strengths for the advantage of students and faculty. "MSU has an enormous amount of strengths around the university in environmental science," Simon said.
The pre-trial of the MSU student accused of posting a racially offensive flier in Shaw Hall will take place at 9 a.m.
Conservative speaker Daniel J. Flynn is bringing his message on "Why the Left Hates America" to MSU today. Flynn will speak at 7:30 p.m.
After last week's $12.5-million cut to Michigan's Life Sciences Corridor, MSU researchers competing for grant money from the program are worried about their research.The cut, which is part of Gov.
History junior Ebon Pinson said a lot of people don't tend to understand lesbian, bisexual, gay or transgender people. "They have their own biases and prejudices," Pinson, founder and president of MSU Same Gender Loving Students of Color, International students and Allies said, adding the misunderstanding is the reason he spends so much time trying to straighten out misconceptions. "Many people don't understand that LBGT is a culture," he said.
In about four years, an alcohol abuse awareness program that originated at MSU has spread to 73 schools nationwide.
A survey of 500 of the Forbes Super 500 showed almost a quarter of its CEOs were members of greek organizations in college.MSU Greek Life adviser Amy Radford said when most students join a fraternity or sorority, they might not realize the benefits it might offer in the long run."Students tend not to see beyond MSU," she said.
ASMSU is moving forward with plans to establish a scholarship and to rededicate its conference room in honor of the late Charles Beachnau.Beachnau, who was the MSU undergraduate student government's association director, died in June of a heart attack.
A track record of the city's liquor-selling establishments will be discussed at a East Lansing City Council work session 6 p.m.
The world's largest online auction house is coming under fire for allowing some racially offensive language to remain in its item listings.Last week, the National Alliance for Positive Action protested Internet auction site eBay and asked the company to stop listing items they believe are racially offensive and degrading to blacks.The alliance is opposing eBay's decision to continue to sell a number of books, card games, prints and musical compilations listed with or including racially offensive titles.Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the National Alliance for Positive Action, said he and several other groups are planning rallies to protest eBay and are requesting the company to either remove all offensive items or provide disclaimers on the Web site.Hutchinson said those items include cast-iron banks that are caricatures, described on the Web site using a racial slur and shown with large red lips, dark skin and rolling eyes."No response has been made from eBay," Hutchinson said.
A panel of researchers and medical ethicists will convene for an animal biotechnology forum to discuss cloning at 7 p.m.
Lansing - The Lansing City Council appointed Randy Williams on Monday to fill its empty third ward seat. The position was vacated when Tony Benavides became mayor last month.
A model of the proposed student greenhouse project will be displayed from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday on the first floor of the Union. The model is five feet in diameter, said Philip Lamoureux, director of the Student Greenhouse Project, and includes running water, benches and lights.
Enrollment in computer science classes is declining at MSU.George Stockman, a professor of computer science and engineering, said in his 20 years at MSU, he's seen waves of student demand in the field."When I came here in 1982, we were graduating a lot of bachelor's degree students, and not so many graduate students," he said.
The MSU Mock Trial Team will be heading to a national competition in Iowa. The team won a bid to the American Mock Trial Association Grand National Tournament, which will take place April 4-6 in Des Moines, Iowa. "I couldn't believe it," international relations sophomore Justin Kuxhaus said.