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 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1955

Found in 77 Collections and/or Records:

Robert B. Brown collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA-17.424
Scope and Contents Note The Robert B. Brown collection contains motion picture film, slides, negatives and color transparencies. The film reels are mostly unidentified but may contain footage of an MSU football game, football practice, Hubbard Hall(?) in winter, Intramural building, labs and offices, children's field trip to a planetarium. Images in the collection include aerial views of Michigan State University, campus buildings, faculty and staff working, students, students in dorm rooms, classroom scenes,...
Dates: 1950-1970, undated
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Spartan Life UA 7 [student handbook]

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Serial-00053
Dates: 1863 - 2020
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

State Board of Agriculture / Board of Trustee records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-1
Scope and Contents The State Board of Agriculture papers include correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, legal records and newspaper clippings of the first governing body of the state agriculture college. The College Lands series includes correspondence, reports, land descriptions, employment records, financial records, minutes, legal documents, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the management of state lands endowed to the college via the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862. ...
Dates: 1850 - 2018
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Stephen Murray papers

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-10.3.208
Scope and Contents The Stephen Murray collection contains most issues of the Phalanstery Review, a student publication in James Madison College. The Phalanstery Review was meant to provide a weekly forum for student and faculty opinions" in James Madison College. Common themes in the issues are the discussion of the proper place of residential colleges within universities, administration/student relationships within James Madison College...
Dates: 1969 - 1971
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Student organizations and publications records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12
Scope and Contents The collection consists of material related to Michigan State University student organizations including brochures, event flyers, event programs, minutes, newsletters, publications, and constitutions. The material was collected from events, bulletin boards and student organization websites. Material is categorized by the name of the organization or by subject including African American groups, fraternity and sorority, international student groups, medical and dental groups, sexual...
Dates: 1957 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Students for a Democratic Society collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 265 large
Scope and Contents

The collection contains leaflets, newspapers clippings, pamphlets, and photographs created by Students for a Democratic Society, Weathermen, and Prairie Fire and pertain to the politics and activities of those groups. Topics include Vietnam War protests, women's rights, anti-imperialism, and other topics. A large proportion of the materials relate specifically to the presence of the SDS at Michigan State University and surrounding Michigan universities.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1966 - 1974; 1966 - 2007
Found in: Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections

Swimming (Sports Information Office) records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-8.1.3.10
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Big Ten Men’s Swimming programs and Michigan State University Men Varsity swimming record times for various meets from 1941 to 1954, and a summary of the 1969 Big Ten Swimming and Diving Relays. There are also programs from 1997 to 2009 for the Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving teams.

Dates: 1959 - 2009
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

Talking Points

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-01156
Dates: 2004 - 2009
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

The Black Sheep

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Serial-01170
Dates: 2009 - 2017
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections

The Spectre publication

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.7.6
Scope and Contents

The collection contains three issues of The Spectre publication which began publishing in November 1957 as an alternative student publication to the State News.

Dates: 1957
Found in: University Archives and Historical Collections