The 44th Maple Syrup Festival will take place throughout the weekend in Shepherd.

The three-day festival includes activities for everyone. Each day will highlight a different activity.

On Friday, a garden tractor pull will start at noon in the Little Salt River Park. A variety night also will take place at 7 p.m. and an Emergency Vehicle [...]

Instead of doing a PowerPoint presentation for his MKT 310: Marketing Communications class, David Moliterno used a Ford automobile.

The Mount Pleasant senior wanted to do something different for his class presentation on a Ford case study assignment.

Moliterno’s presentation will take place at 11:30 a.m. today between Smith and Grawn halls.

“I went and talked [...]

A statewide conference today through Friday, titled “Weaving Threads of Colors into Higher Education,” will encourage diversity in higher education.

“It’s dedicated to addressing academic success with minorities,” said Ulana Klymyshyn, Multicultural Education Center director.

The three-day event at the Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort, 6800 Soaring Eagle Blvd., provides diversity training through many sessions and workshops.

Klymyshyn [...]

Mike Dzikowski
Maria Laynes said lupus is a difficult disease because not many people are aware of it.

Laynes, a licensed rheumatologist, spoke in the Bovee University Center Auditorium Tuesday night as part of Lupus Awareness Week, sponsored by the Organization for Black Unity.

Lupus is an auto-immune disease that causes inflammation in the joints and skin rashes.

An [...]

Students will have a chance to find out where their money goes when they go to the movies.

Ron VanTimmeren, Loek’s Theater marketing director, will speak Thursday in two sections of BIS 100: Introduction to Business. The first session will take place at 11 a.m. in the Industrial and Engineering Technology room 216 and the second [...]

Chris McCarty
Former Dow Corning Co. CEO Richard Hazleton kept about 100 students “abreast” of the silicone breast implant controversy Wednesday.

The event, part of the College of Business Administration’s “Executive in the Residence” program, took place in the Bovee University Center Auditorium.

In the 1960s, two scientists approached Dow Corning about the idea of breast implants, Hazleton [...]

Chris McCarty
Nearly 200 prospective students attended CMU’s High School Journalism Career Day Wednesday.

The second-annual event attracted high school students from all over Michigan.

Keynote speaker Rich Perlberg, Michigan Press Association president, spoke to students about the importance of journalism.

Perlberg, vice president and general manager of Hometown newspapers and publisher of the Livingston County Daily Press and [...]

Greg Burghardt
Adam Fortunate Eagle mixed humor with spirituality during his speech in the Bovee University Center Rotunda.

About 130 people listened to American Indian rights activist Fortunate Eagle, an Ojibway sculptor and religious traditionalist, speak Wednesday about his experiences.

“Native Americans still have a long way to go,” he said. “We will always be fighting for our [...]