The Lansing Polar Plunge, which helps send children and adults to the Special Olympics, was a huge success last Sunday and helped raise around $80,000 for the cause.
The International Student Association put on its annual Valentine’s Day Ball last Friday at the East Lansing Marriott Hotel where instead of looking for love, the theme was loving one another’s cultures. “The theme is ‘Love Without Borders’”, said Vice President of the club, Chris Symons.
Political science senior Maisie Rodriguez, an MSU Intercultural Aide and student activist who is Mexican-American, said that President Trump’s reference to Mexican immigrants as “rapists” in his very first campaign speech was enough to permanently color her opinion of the businessman-turned-politician. “When Donald Trump, back in 2015, he started to call Mexican men rapists...that’s when I knew, like, okay, this guy’s a racist...So when he is calling my father a rapist, I knew exactly what he is saying when he is calling Muslims potential terrorists.
New charges have been filed against Brad Cournaya, who is believed to be involved with the disappearance of MSU student Krista Lueth on Nov. 11, 2008.
2018 Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gretchen Whitmer’s visit to MSU is now set for the Feb.
Spartan Sierra Club, an on-campus student run environmental group, is on a mission to stop the ‘dangerous’ flow of crude oil through Enbridge’s Line 5 in Michigan’s Great Lakes.
When the zombies return once more, MSU will become their sandbox. Spartans vs. Zombies, an annual campus game that drew over 300 participants last year, announced Tuesday that they would be teaming up with Media Sandbox in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences for their 2017 game.
Michigan reintroduces bill to remove feminine hygiene product tax
President Trump’s executive orders on immigration and refugees have been halted in the wake of several US judges ordering an emergency stop to the Trump administration’s and Homeland Security’s actions.
The 2017-18 session currently sees several bills introduced to Michigan’s House of Representatives that regard public schools. Some, however, see the number as minimal and symptomatic of a lack of interest in higher education.
A new Chick-fil-A location is set to open on March 30 in front of the Okemos Meijer, off Grand River Ave.
Business-preference freshman Samuel Wei appeared in 54B District Court on Feb. 8 for a pretrial hearing for the possession of prohibited weapons on campus.
Former MSU employee Larry Nassar has been charged with destroying digital images and documents related to an investigation into his alleged sexual abuse of patients and possession of child pornography.
On Jan. 10, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law Senate Bill 72, or SB 72, protecting the rights of apartment managements and landlords to prohibit medical marijuana patients from growing cannabis plants within their rented space, potentially affecting future leasing agreements between students and leasing companies near campus.
When MSU jazz studies alumnus and drummer Jeff Shoup was a young adult during the 1990s, East Lansing had a vibrant live music scene for student performers to participate in and music fans to enjoy.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon sent an email statement to MSU community members on Friday regarding the sexual abuse allegations against former MSU employee Larry Nassar.
MSU business sophomore and East Lansing native Claire Fossum started an online petition calling for the MSU and East Lansing Police Departments to lower parking rates.
The East Lansing City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt a resolution stating their refusal to enforce the Executive Order on immigration recently issued by President Donald J.
Despite the freezing temperature and snow, hundreds of people gathered Tuesday night at the the Rock on Farm Lane for the No Ban, No Wall: Spartans for Sanctuary and Solidarity Rally after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 27 barring citizens of seven countries from traveling to the United States.
