The South Complex minority aides are offering an opportunity for students to express their opinions about racial issues through an open forum today.The event, “Aftermath of Blame: Risks for Communities of Color,” will be held from 7:30 p.m.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks in Washington and New York, concerns of potential bioterrorist threats have grown, but representatives from the Michigan Department of Community Health say they have been preparing to respond.Dr. David Johnson, the department’s chief medical executive, said the expertise of heath-care providers and professionals would play a critical role in the event of a biological or chemical attack.
Walk a mile in someone else’s shoes. The AIDS Walk Michigan twisted this familiar saying and asked volunteers to “walk a while to pay for someone else’s shoes.”Six hundred people from around Michigan gathered to participate in AIDS Walk Michigan at Valley Court Park in East Lansing on Sunday.
Lansing - A giant inflatable green dinosaur greeted both runners and visitors to the reopening of the Impression 5 Science Center on Sunday.The ninth annual Capital City River Run began at 10 a.m.
The Office of Study Abroad has something new to offer the MSU community this year, and it’s not in a different country.Its new director, Kathleen Fairfax, plans to use her experience to keep the program strong.“I really love my job and the fact that I am personally enthused about study abroad makes me good at what I do,” Fairfax said.
Asmaa Abdel-Azim ate an entire plateful of pancakes early Sunday morning during East Lansing’s Breakfast for America. The 12-year-old came to East Lansing High School, 509 Burcham Drive, with her father, Amr Abdel-Azim, a 1986 MSU graduate.
MSU students may soon be able to set their sights on a country that once laid beyond the iron curtain - Lithuania.Robert Huggett, MSU vice president of research and graduate studies, joined a group of three faculty members in a tour of the country’s universities last month.He said he hopes to establish opportunities for students to study abroad in the nation, which was formerly under Communist influence.“We discovered what appears to be a great interest in collaborating with MSU,” he said.
The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students took the opportunity to honor Mahatma Gandhi on Saturday by facilitating its second day-long volunteer effort.The event was designed to coincide with Gandhi Day, celebrated on Oct.
Lansing - More than 100 peace promoters trekked from the Union to the Capitol on Saturday afternoon to show solidarity for a nonviolent response to the Sept.
Anyone looking to donate some time and caring effort may find an opportunity through the Lansing Area AIDS Network. The network is looking for volunteers for its buddy program and for this Sunday’s AIDS walk. “Being a buddy can change your life,” said David Bialski, a buddy program volunteer.
Living alone in her Yakeley Hall dorm room, Lindsay Kroon knows she can just go to her room and close the door when she is fed up with her neighbors.
Red Cross to sponsor disaster relief trainingA student chapter of the nationwide group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, is sponsoring a Red Cross Disaster Relief Training session from 9 a.m.
Although several universities, including MSU, declined to participate or failed to make the deadline in Yahoo!
Hands of MSU students popped up to ask U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow about her experience and plans in dealing with the Sept.
Lansing - Frogville, Mich.? That could have been the name of the city now known as Lansing without the help of the city’s pioneers.
The city of East Lansing may be miles away from New York, Washington and Pennsylvania but like many Americans, area residents are searching for ways to help in the wake of the Sept.
Of the more than 34,000 undergraduate students enrolled at MSU, 6.5 percent are enrolled in the Honors College. The college has 2,300 students, including 480 incoming students - a 14 percent increase from last year. These preliminary enrollment statistics for the 2001-02 school year, showed the Honors Colleges reached the second highest enrollment since 1971. At the Academic Council meeting Tuesday, Provost Lou Anna Simon said MSU has an ethnically and academically diverse group of students - and the Honors College numbers enhance that. “1971 was a banner year for the Honors College enrollment, and this is almost near that record,” she said. Director Ron Fisher said enrollment has consistently gotten larger over the last seven years, but he hopes it will stay around this level for a while. “My hope for the future is to stabilize somewhere between 2,100 and 2,300 each year,” he said. While the Honors College’s enrollment has increased in size, the new students in the college have increased in academic talent as well - along with the rest of MSU’s incoming freshmen this year. “The university in the last six or seven years has expanded its research of the high academic talent in Michigan and other states,” Fisher said. Gordon Stanley, director of admissions, said this was one of the strongest incoming classes. “Going by the preliminary numbers, yes, this is the best academic class to come through MSU,” he said.
Lansing - There was plenty of traffic at the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave. And most of it was from feet. The 14th annual Lansing Business Expo was held Tuesday.
Lansing - A survey conducted by The Education Policy Center at MSU shows most Michigan residents give their public schools high marks. The center released results of a survey Wednesday that asked nearly 1,000 residents to grade their local schools.