This is the second in a five-part series profiling the contestants of the Mr. Black MSU pageant. DeJuan Lever originally had no plans of running for the title of Mr. Black MSU on Saturday.
As high-rise buildings spring up on college campuses across the state, concerns about fire safety and funding for fire protection are growing just as high.“When you have a high-rise, it can be a problem,” East Lansing firefighter Troy Brya said.
LANSING - Melanie Olmsted believes with March being National Women’s History Month, every woman should take time to reflect on her accomplishments. “A lot of times women are put at the bottom of the totem pole in society,” the international studies and political science junior said.
In response to concerns voiced by Students for Economic Justice and other MSU students, ASMSU is considering a measure this week asking the MSU Board of Trustees to cut ties with the Fair Labor Association, and join the Worker Rights Consortium.“The fact of the matter is that students want Michigan State to join the WRC,” said Matt Weingarden, the Council of Students With Disabilities representative for the ASMSU Student Assembly.
While MSU students were away, the grounds crew definitely did not play.Gary Parrott, MSU Grounds Maintenance manager, said although the absence of students did not increase workloads, grounds crews had their hands full during spring break week.“The crews do have work to do,” he said.
Angela Massingill knows there is a common perception that most college students use the drug ecstasy; but she’s working to change that.“Media exposure given to the drug has led to a popular misperception that everyone is doing it,” the human biology senior said.
Gov. John Engler declared March as GHB awareness month in Michigan last week. The move is aided by the Michigan Department of Community Health, The Michigan Women’s Commission and the Samantha Reid Foundation.
This is the first in a five-part series profiling the contestants of the Mr. Black MSU pageant. Jason McGhee said Mr. Black MSU has an important function in the black student community. “He’s a leader and a role model to the black community - someone people look up to and respect,” the studio art junior said. McGhee, a minority aide in Holmes Hall, said he hopes to take on those duties by gaining the title Saturday. The Mr. Black MSU pageant, sponsored by Black Student Alliance, profiles black male undergraduates who stand out academically, through their student leadership on and off campus. Marketing senior DeAndre Carter, founder and president of DCI Motivational Services, a motivational speaking business, was crowned the first Mr. Black MSU last year. BSA President Tonya Upthegrove said the event recognizes students making a difference in MSU’s black community. “We want to dispel the myth of this being a beauty pageant,” the communication senior said.
Michigan legislators are beginning to look at redrafting the state’s political boundaries when Michigan’s new census figures are released next month.According to Michigan law, after every census is completed, the political districts must be examined by state lawmakers and adjusted to meet the needs of the population.
Cory Curtisis hoping once again his sumo wrestler clocks will pull their weight in sales.The owner of Cool Creations, 209 M.A.C Ave., said the novelty items, which are sumo wrestler figurines with working clocks attached on the front, are among some of the items that are selling.And according to The Michigan Retailers Association’s Michigan Retail Index released this week, getting that kind of weight off the shelves can be expected.The report predicted sales during the next three months will increase, which will be a pleasant change from the sales slump experienced in January.“I’m being optimistic,” Curtis said.
David McCreery was cheering in silence when he noticed the judges looking at his photograph. “I was rooting like a mime,” the computer science seniorsaid.
Despite a disappointing campaign to recruit candidates, ASMSU is attempting to increase student voter turnout.
Don’t ask Deborah Sudduth about cold sores - she’s suffered from them, off and on, for the last 10 years. Two months ago, Sudduth, an executive assistant to the dean in the College of Nursing, participated in a MSU study that cured her cold sores in less than two days. “I’ve never had an experience like that before,” Sudduth said.
LANSING - Motorists will have a new glimpse of Michigan, just by looking at the bumper in front of them. Secretary of State Candice S.
The next dose of reality television will be prescribed by MSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine.MSU’s campus will be the setting for “Vet School Confidential,” a brand new program for the Animal Planet cable network.The lives of several MSU veterinary students will be documented in the 13-episode series, to air next fall.“You aren’t going to watch it and learn how to be a vet,” said Chris Oldroyd, a producer with Rocket Pictures, which is creating the show for Animal Planet.
LANSING - Gail Harvey and Vicky McAree said they have always wanted to own their own business but never knew whether their dream would become reality.But this week, when the two former Olin Health Center nurses opened the doors of the Travel Wellness Clinic, 416 Frandor Ave.
MSU students, faculty and alumni now have a chance to win a 2002 Porsche Boxster for only $100. The Eli Broad College of Business, along with Porsche Cars North America Inc., are raffling off a Porsche in order to benefit the new Executive Development Center under construction on the southwest side of campus. Michael Rishell, senior director of development at Eli Broad College of Business, said the new center will greatly benefit MSU. “It’s really an extension of the land-grant mission,” Rishell said.
It has been said there are two things in this world that are absolutely certain: death and taxes. While it’s impossible to do anything about the first, the MSU-Detroit College of Law Tax Clinic, 541 E.
MSU police Officer Lorrie Bates traded in her department-issued blue cap for a cardboard party hat Wednesday.Police and Brody Complex officials surprised the community police officer with a farewell party.