Members of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity have good reason to celebrate this weekend - three years after losing their national charter they will have it reinstated Saturday. The fraternity had their charter revoked three years ago by the national chapter because of lack of members and finances.
A rally and march from the rock on Farm Lane will highlight a weekend full of activities for Asian and Pacific American students today at 4 p.m.This is the ninth year the Asian Pacific American Student Organization will host its fall conference.
East Lansing police are looking for three suspects who robbed a bank in East Lansing on Thursday morning. At approximately 10:15 a.m.
A rally and march from the rock on Farm Lane will highlight a weekend full of activities for Asian and Pacific American students today at 4 p.m. This is the ninth year the Asian Pacific American Student Organization will host its fall conference.
A rally and march from the rock on Farm Lane will highlight a weekend full of activities for Asian and Pacific American students today at 4 p.m. This is the ninth year the Asian Pacific American Student Organization will host its fall conference.
LANSING - Students who like to eat roasted garlic greens can relish their taste buds at a new restaurant opening in the Frandor Shopping Center. The Better Health Café, located within The Better Health Store, 305 N.
Jonathan Kermiet says students need to be much more aware about the dangers of tobacco use. Lucky for the Olin Health Center health educator, Monday kicks off Tobacco Awareness Week.
Noam Zissman is a second lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Force Infantry, and he says he’s currently fighting not one, but two wars while he serves his country in the battle with Palestine. One war, he says, is in the field while the other one is against the media that many feel says Israel has already lost the battle. Zissman and Moran Kalinsky, both 20-year-old military officers, were at the Union on Wednesday night to answer questions from the MSU community and other guests about what life is like in the midst of a bloody battle. Kalinsky is a first lieutenant and a deputy commander of a basic training base.
Even mild temperatures didn’t keep a mammoth polar bear from making an appearance behind Wells Hall on Thursday afternoon. In an effort to inform students about the threats of global warming and the United States’ position on the Kyoto Protocol, ECO members stood with a 17-foot inflatable polar bear to attract attention. “We’re out here trying to get signatures on a petition to encourage President Clinton to take a stronger stance on global warming,” said Gabriel Sanchez, a sociology sophomore and member of ECO, an MSU student environmental group. The Kyoto Protocol is a climate-change treaty that requires a worldwide reduction in carbon dioxide.
Misled members of the new Powerhouse Gym are now guided in the right direction under new management.The gym, 435 E.
The fate of ASMSU’s campaign to help fund renovations to the university’s intramural sports facilities will be in its own hands tonight.A proposal to further the project is up for consideration by the undergraduate student government’s Student Assembly.“We are at the end result of phase one,” said Kendall Sykes, ASMSU Student Assembly chairperson.The second phase of the plan would enable ASMSU to consult with architects, seek different methods of funding and perform student surveys to get a better idea of renovation cost estimates.Rick McNeil, assistant director for Intramural Sports and Recreative Services, said one method of funding used throughout the country is the implementing of student fees.
Last year, hospitality business graduate student Jona Houghtaling needed a summer internship. But instead of scouring the classifieds for a minimum wage job, she attended the School of Hospitality Business Career Expo where she landed eight interviews with companies she was interested in, and was able to pick the one she liked best. “It absolutely helped me,” Houghtaling said.
MSU students and area volunteers are doing their part to better the community in school classrooms as part of the Junior Achievement program. In operation since 1919, the program reaches more than 2.7 million elementary, middle and high school students all over the country and almost 100 countries worldwide. Yen Pham, Junior Achievement program manager and an MSU alumna, said she got involved in order to have a bigger impact on the community and the children. “It’s a really great nonprofit organization that does a lot as far as teaching kids about businesses and free enterprise,” Pham said.
The lights inside IM Sports-West will stay lit all night Saturday in an effort to ignite hope for children with illnesses. Many MSU students will spend the night for Up ’Til Dawn 2000, a 12-hour fund-raising event for St.
LANSING - Although state and federal government are frequent topics in high school government classes, topics closest to the students are often not discussed. City government issues like how city councils work aren’t covered in government classes, so it’s up to the Student Government Days program to fill the void. The program was started four years ago by Lansing Councilmember Sandy Allen as a way to teach high school students about the inner workings of city government. “City government impacts people so directly,” Allen said.
The issues of vouchers and school choice are hot topics on Tuesday’s ballot, and MSU’s newly founded Education Policy Center has attempted to detail the debate.A report released Oct.
The MSU-Detroit College of Law has a dilemma.It’s involved in a situation the assistant dean for student affairs calls a catch-22.
The Commodores, the U.S. Navy’s jazz ensemble, will be coming to Lansing later this month. The ensemble, which is part of the U.S.