Heidi Wenger is sick of paying high fees to get her money out of the bank.“Banks usually charge outrageous fees,” said the finance graduate student, who withdraws money using ATMs nearly every day.
March is generally not known as the season for giving. That’s the reason members of Rather Hall Residence Life chose to sleep out for the homeless from 11 p.m.
Visitors to a Lansing art show today will see more than just a few pieces of art. Dozens of nude drawings will be on display and for sale from 6 p.m.
The MSU men’s basketball and hockey teams are not the only groups on campus earning high honors these days. The MSU Peace Corps ranks in the top 25 among colleges and universities nationwide who have the highest number of volunteers currently serving overseas.
With natural gas prices soaring, universities across the state are scrambling to pay high heating bills. “We have a budget shortfall of about $1.4 million,” said Rick Duffett, vice president for administration and finance at Ferris State University.
The ASMSU Academic Assembly’s ninth session ended with a 20-minute meeting full of laughter Tuesday, but Academic Assembly Chairperson Charles McHugh said the assembly’s laid-back demeanor did not always exist.“We had always been looked at as the dry, pin-drop assembly,” McHugh said.
Former Michigan Gov. James Blanchard told public relations students at the Union about the value of a good pair of walking shoes.Blanchard talked to about 150 students, faculty and community members Thursday about how public relations benefited him in government, starting with his first run at the U.S.
The public is asked to enjoy a night of ice skating and help wipe out illiteracy in the community.The Annual Skate for Literacy event will be held from 7:30 p.m.
ANN ARBOR - Two days after a federal judge ordered the University of Michigan law school to stop using race in its admissions policies, the Rev.
LANSING - With the November election debacle still a not-so-distant memory, Michigan election officials are thinking of ways to improve the state’s voting process.Voting equipment vendors from across the nation gathered to show their systems to lawmakers and clerks at the Michigan Department of State Voting Technology Fair on Wednesday at the Lansing Center, 333 E.
Victor Davis Hanson, a renowned author and professor, will address agricultural issues during a special visit to MSU today.His speech, “The Legacy of Family Farming from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America,” is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
The public has a chance to visit MSU’s very own animal house.The College of Veterinary Medicine is holding its 38th annual Vet-A-Visit, an open house in the College of Veterinary Medicine on Saturday.Jodi Hewett, Vet-A-Visit co-chairwoman and third-year veterinary medicine student, said it’s the nation’s largest college open house.
MSU police are gearing up for a battle on Munn field.But this conflict isn’t expected to result in any arrests.
Michigan’s population is growing slower than the national average, according to census numbers released Wednesday by the U.S.
John Johnson, president of Shaw Hall Black caucus, said the Tomi-Terre Hollingshed Memorial Scholarship gives remembrance to a woman who touched many lives.“It really keeps Tomi’s spirit alive and it gives us time to reflect on her life and everything for Shaw Black Caucus,” the advertising junior said.The $1,000 scholarship, named for an MSU student who was murdered in Detroit in 1997, will be presented for the third year at 4 p.m.
MSU’s Jewish Studies Program will remember the deaths of more than 6 million Jews by holding its annual Commemoration of the Holocaust.The international memorial has been supported by MSU for the past eight years, Director of Jewish Studies, Steve Weiland said.The commemoration includes lectures, a workshop for teachers and a newly adapted version of “The Diary of Anne Frank” by the MSU Theatre Department.“It will help students learn about this particular time in history and the many dimensions of these events,” Weiland said.Today David Roskies will give the 2001 David and Sarah Rabin Memorial Lecture at the Union.
Threats to MSU’s state funding increases may have been previewed Wednesday, when the state House narrowly voted down an amendment that would have redistributed much of the university’s $22.5 million increase to other universities.The House passed the Higher Education Appropriation’s bill without changing the 7 percent increase slated for the university.
After a two-hour meeting Tuesday between university officials and representatives from Students for Economic Justice, Ethan Smith said he would have stayed much longer to push MSU to join the Worker Rights Consortium.“I would have stayed all night if I had to,” said Smith, a forestry senior.
Students and legislators are joining efforts to repeal a ban on federal financial aid to students with drug convictions.The law, which went into effect July 1, denies students federal financial aid who have been convicted of drug possession for one year from the date of the conviction, and two years from the second offense.
Americans are not getting enough sleep and going through life being drowsy, according to the results of a study released this week by the National Sleep Foundation.As part of National Sleep Awareness Week, which continues through Friday, the foundation released the poll reporting 63 percent of Americans do not get the recommended eight hours of sleep needed for good health, safety and optimum performance.Marsha Stein, spokeswoman for the National Sleep Foundation, said people are not making the connection between sleep and health.“The proper amount of sleep is needed to get the health benefits people are looking for,” she said.