Michigan is getting its own terror squad.Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced Thursday that Michigan will be one of five states awarded a Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team.
As part of International Education Week, Peter Briggs, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, will lead a discussion about changing immigration policies in the aftermath of the Sept.
Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, will be celebrated with traditional Indian drinking, dining and dancing at the Graduate Employees Union office Saturday. Diwali Daze 2001 will offer snacks from Sindhu Indian Cuisine, 4790 S.
The pick-up and drop-off point for the men’s basketball game shuttle is located at Ramp 5, south of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building this year. Lot 92, which is near Service Road, is no longer a pick-up point. MSU police Sgt.
Since she began volunteering one year ago, Erica Benson’s eyes were opened to a world she had never known - a world without welcome mats, milk and cookies after school and steady paychecks. The linguistics graduate student volunteers at Haven House, 121 Whitehills Drive in Lansing, a shelter for homeless families. Gov.
Sand may still be dropping through nature’s hourglass atop Lake Michigan’s dunes that stretch from Indiana to Muskegon, an MSU researcher determined.Associate geography Professor Alan Arbogast presented his research, which disputes claims that the dunes stopped forming 5,000 years ago, to the Geological Society of America last week in Boston.
Colorful beach balls, pineapples, palm trees and leis surrounded bachelors dressed in Hawaiian shorts as they answered the question, “What’s the cutest thing you have ever done for a girl?”Tuesday evening, Gamma Phi Beta held its seventh annual bachelor auction to support the chapter’s international philanthropy, Camp Gamma Phi Beta in Vancouver, Canada.
One of the 11 new appointees for the U.S. Department of Agriculture advisory board is from MSU. Jeffrey Armstrong, dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, was appointed by Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman on Oct.
Buttons with big white letters that read, “I quit for the Great American Smokeout” will be at some local restaurants to support a day of smoke-free dining.Today, the American Cancer Society is asking smokers to give up their cigarettes for its 25th anniversary of the Great American Smokeout.“We would like to see smokers to go smoke-free to protect their community against the harmful effects of secondhand smoke,” said Kim Hoffman, community development director for the American Cancer Society’s Great Lakes Division, 1755 Abbey Road.More than 3,000 people will die from secondhand smoke this year, she said.
House Democrats are set to elect a new leader Dec. 12.Current House Minority Leader Kwame Kilpatrick will become the next mayor of Detroit on Jan.
The high-tech hierarchy is changing at MSU.Paul Hunt will become the associate vice president for research, while David Gift will fill the vice provost for libraries, computing and technology position vacated by Hunt.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly selected its new leader for the Council of Racial and Ethnic Students and the Council of Progressive Students on Friday. Melanie Olmsted was approved Tuesday by Academic Assembly and will most likely be approved by Student Assembly tonight as the director of racial ethnic and progressive student affairs, replacing former director Pia Love. The position’s title was changed from director of minority and progressive student affairs by MSU’s undergraduate government earlier this year. Olmsted, who has served on Student Assembly for two years, will step down as a representative for the College of Social Science to concentrate on her new priorities. “I felt it was the right time to do it, so I did,” Olmsted said. She said she looks forward to working with members from CORES and COPS groups because they are very active on campus. “I would like to motivate them, but they’re already extremely motivated themselves,” the interdisciplinary studies in social science senior said.
StateWalk is currently on hold, but will be better than ever when it comes back, Residence Halls Association officials say. The service was started 10 years ago to provide a safe environment for members of the MSU community while walking alone on campus.
Michigan lawmakers sent a message to Toronto saying “Michigan doesn’t want your trash.”The letter addressed to the Canadian neighbors asked Toronto city officials to reconsider solving the city’s trash problem at the expense of Michigan’s environment, economy, public health and safety.About 180 Canadian trucks carry trash across Michigan-Canada border crossings each day, said Matt Resch, a spokesman for Lt.
Although unity has become a common thread among Americans since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, white supremacist groups in Michigan and other Midwestern states are using the incident to recruit new members, a recent study found.The Center for New Community, a faith-based organization in Chicago, released a report, “State of Hate: White Nationalism in the Midwest 2000-2001.”In the study, the group found 338 white nationalist groups in 10 Midwestern states, including Michigan.
Max Boortz isn’t just thinking about profits in his business.He’s also thinking about the environment.Boortz, owner of Gramma Bea’s, 323 E.
Lansing - The sounds of native Cuban music mixed with the smells of rice and pork will be permeating Old Town. Cafe Cubano, 311 E.
The Theatre Department is seeking students to usher at Wharton Center for “Hamlet,” beginning tonight.