Acknowledging that LGBTQ issues are worth learning about is a stride toward spreading awareness and acceptance on campus. Later, it could inspire students to take that tolerance out into the workplace.
Let’s cross our fingers and hope this bill passes for the sake of curbing student loan debt and for the sake of Michigan’s future.
Don’t like that big ugly building across from Rick’s American Cafe? Now is the time to speak up.
For another year in a row, MSU has taken in too many students than it can house, resulting in the crowded, cramped transitional housing that is affecting so many students. Last year, hundreds of students were affected by a shortage of on-campus housing. As of last week, 545 are packed in dorms meant for only two people.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to vote on whether to recognize same-sex couples via a domestic partnership registry on Oct. 15. The registry, proposed by Mayor Pro Tem Nathan Triplett in August, is a largely symbolic measure and would not impact benefits given to same-sex couples. Although creating such a registry might have a positive impact on acceptance and the recognition felt by same-sex couples, the benefits of having the list are dwarfed by the potential negative repercussions.
A new independent union called MSU Students United is advocating on the behalf of student demands to organize petitions and contest policies. Is it possible that this student group will be the new face of our student government in the future?
Thousands of 20-pound metal bicycles barreling down the streets of Farm Lane and Auditorium Road around noon is an unnerving sight to see while walking to class. It’s absurd how fast some bikes zoom their way through crowded sidewalks. But with an enrollment of more than 40,000 students, everyone has to commute to class somehow — and in the warmer seasons, bikes seem to cause the most problems.
No one ever expects to be sexually assaulted or to have someone they love be sexually assaulted. Sometimes, it’s easier to dismiss the headlines in the paper as far-removed stories than it is to accept them as reality. But after 26-year-old Oswald Scott Wilder, of Vernon, Mich., confessed to committing four sexual assaults this summer in East Lansing, the MSU community can’t afford to ignore reality.
Under Michigan’s medical amnesty law, if a student or others need some kind of medical attention, they will not receive legal punishment. Yet mistrust in police, lack of awareness of legal protections and potential medical bills might thwart the effectiveness of the law.
On Sept. 17, the Graduate Employees Union (GEU) filed for arbitration against MSU on the behalf of about 330 teaching assistant’s (TA’s) who believe they were shorted a sum of $66,000. The GEU stated that the TA’s had been inadequately paid for their time working between May 13 and May 15 of this year.
Facing a record enrollment of 49,300 students this year, MSU officials are discussing plans to curtail total enrollment in the future. So far, officials posed a possible solution of putting a cap on the total amount of students at around 48,000. The solution poses some questions about how the university will reach this number.
A city proposal that would set a patron cap on downtown establishments serving alcohol past midnight and prevent any new businesses of a similar type from opening was unanimously deferred from consideration Wednesday night. The East Lansing Planning Commission, which deferred the vote until an unspecified date, cited concerns about the enormity of change the proposal would usher. Current establishments closing and stifling new businesses from opening were among those concerns voiced, and for good reason.
Students have a right to be offended by English professor William Penn’s comments against Republicans.
During the hectic first day of classes, bells rang across the nation to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march to Washington, D.C., where he thundered, “I have a dream” across the Reflecting Pool and into our country’s conscious.
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved a timeline and cost for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at MSU, a show of confidence in what the project ultimately will yield for the campus and the state of Michigan.
The city of East Lansing forever will be tied to the students that inhabit it. But in the foreseeable future, City Hall will be aiming toward a new crowd to engulf the city. And that’s for the best.
A competitive athletic program is a commodity valued by colleges and universities across the board.
Controversial court cases often generate severe public reactions, which jolt the way the original problem is handled and remembered.
The upcoming November election will be shaped by many factors, whether voters concentrate on the economy, illegal immigration or social issues.
Beginning this fall, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, started a “flexible housing” policy, which gave students the option to live with a member of the opposite sex.