A Historic Academic Year
Dear MSU Community,
Spring is here, Bobcats, and we are at the conclusion of an academic year like no
other in the last hundred springs.
We inaugurated this year in early August, treading into the new and ever-changing
territory of a pandemic where innovation and adaptation were daily necessities. It
was a time of uncertainty and anxiety for all of us.
And yet, on the morning of the first day of classes, I heard the roar of our heating
plant's steam whistle and knew then that everything was going to be well.
The tradition of blowing the campus whistle at the start and the end of each semester