The Muslim Student Association will join the American Muslim Council and the Islamic Society of Greater Lansing in organizing an interfaith meeting to commemorate the anniversary of Sept.
Clear clouds and a bright sun Wednesday morning began the one year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.At 8:48 a.m., the bells of Beaumont Tower rang in memory of first plane hit the World Trade Center Towers.Students and people passing by stood around the MSU landmark and took in the moment as the trees in the backdrop rustled in the crisp morning air.The ringing of the bells was the only thing heard minutes before 9 a.m.
The University Committee on Student Affairs chairperson presented an informational report about a new policy Tuesday for police on undercover investigations to the Executive Committee of Academic Council.
Lansing - The half-staffed American flag atop the state Capitol stood out against a clear blue sky.
A mixture of emotions was displayed at a church service filled with remembrance and hope Wednesday afternoon. The sanctuary of The People’s Church of East Lansing, 200 W.
Lansing - Ray’n Baker smoothed her handmade white “God Bless the U.S.A.” T-shirt, grabbed her camera and snapped a photo of the piece of twisted metal from the World Trade Center in Wentworth Park on Wednesday.Baker, a senior at Lansing Catholic Central High School, said the Lansing area planned the perfect balance of Sept.
Charles Baxter, author of the novel “The Feast of Love” will be speaking in the Fall 2002 Michigan Writers Series at 7:30 p.m.
A tourism project aimed at brightening up local stopping grounds will soon infiltrate the state.Program leaders from the Michigan Department of History, Arts and Libraries say they hope to improve the quality of cultural life in smaller towns to the benefit of local economies, hoping to make Michigan a leader in cultural tourism.
Patrick Walters The State News Okemos - Whitewater kayaking on the Red Cedar River?
MSU’s Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgendered and Straight Ally Students has only two members to its fill seven leadership positions. With social relations junior Natalie Furrow as the chairperson and general management senior T.J.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine Student Council is hosting a memorial ceremony to commemorate those who lost their lives last Sept.
The Michigan Supreme Court has refused to hear arguments about where billions of dollars in Michigan’s tobacco lawsuit will go, leaving voters to decide the money’s fate. By refusing to hear the case, Friday’s Michigan Court of Appeals decision to place the Healthy Michigan Initiative on the Nov.
A new office was added to the Michigan Department of Community Health on Tuesday. Gov. John Engler announced the establishment of the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response to Bioterrorism.
The African Studies Center will host a Brown Bag Series discussion titled “Privatizing Agricultural Extension in Africa: Insights from Mozambique,” featuring speaker Carl Eicher. The discussion will be held at noon Thursday in room 252 Erickson Hall. Yacob Fisseha, assistant director at the African Studies Center, said Eicher is an expert on African agriculture. “He is the leading expert on African agriculture,” he said.
Students for State, the ambassador program of the Student Alumni Foundation, is currently seeking members for this year. Students for State is an organization of students from different backgrounds, majors, cultures and ethnicities who represent MSU. Members attend various university events as well as functions hosted by the Alumni Association.
Firefighters who went through special training were honored at the East Lansing council meeting Tuesday night. Ten men completed training from at least one of three programs, the National Fire Academy, the Department of Justice Courses for Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Department of Justice Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings. Councilmember Bill Sharp said with the anniversary of the Sept.
MSU’s undergraduate student government will meet with the East Lansing City Council Tuesday to discuss issues such as police-student relations.The meeting will take place in Gold Rooms A and B of the Union at 7:30 p.m., and is open to the public.ASMSU Director of Community Affairs Kevin Glandon said he will make a number of presentations to the city council, including Toward a Spartan Community, an effort to build a long lasting and healthy relationship between MSU and the city of East Lansing.Glandon said he also will inform the council about the Spartan Community Partnership, a program to bring MSU students into the polling booths election day to help with the process as polling inspectors.
An Asian-Pacific American group on campus hopes to begin an MSU chapter of Lambda Phi Epsilon this semester.Asian Fraternity Interest Group, a 16-student group, began a year ago in hopes to join the fraternity after working on various community service and volunteer activities to establish the group.“You have to start as an interest group before you can join the fraternity,” said physiology junior Ryan Navarra, president of the Asian Fraternity Interest Group.