A Michigan public policy think tank has set its sights on MSU and two other state universities in what some say could be a showdown between free speech, academic freedom and partisan politics.
Student entrepreneurs, community members, city officials and university representatives gathered on Thursday to celebrate the Hatching, an event to commemorate the opening of a student business incubator in East Lansing.
For a normal town, East Lansing is pretty smart. For a college town, it’s even smarter.
Students and residents who are fans of Mexican fast food might have to look elsewhere in East Lansing because of the recent closure of Señor Georgio’s.
It can be difficult to stay abreast of a conflict unfolding thousands of miles away in one’s homeland, but for Libyan MSU students with families near the front lines, it is life.
When microbiology junior Megan Hofmeister renews her driver’s license in the coming weeks in anticipation of her 21st birthday, she might notice something different about her new ID.
Human biology junior Steve Hanrahan is a craft beer drinker and a fan of the brand Flying Dog. But Hanrahan won’t get to taste the company’s newest beer at any East Lansing bar — it’s been banned in Michigan because of a potentially offensive label and product name.
The Michigan Legislature is on recess for the next two weeks.
When the elementary students of Sheridan Road Elementary School walk into their classrooms today, they’ll have new murals, bookshelves and brightly colored walls awaiting them — thanks to the work of about 150 volunteers Saturday from MSU and the Lansing community.
Last Friday, art history and visual culture junior Ellen Meeuwsen recited a poem for an audience of about 60 people.
Students representing public universities from across Michigan gathered to voice their frustration with the state of higher education funding Thursday at the Capitol building, 100 N. Capitol Ave., in Lansing.
Police officers, firefighters, city officials and members of the East Lansing and MSU communities filled the seats and lined the walls of Courtroom 2 in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court Thursday afternoon to witness the formal swearing-in of Juli Liebler as East Lansing’s new police chief.
Wednesday’s cold and rainy weather notwithstanding, the newly opened restaurant What Up Dawg?, 317 M.A.C. Ave., served as the host to Sigma Chi’s Pre-Derby Days Coney Contest.
Heather Frarey began dreaming of owning her own record store in high school. After three and a half years of business, her dream will be realized fully as she makes plans to move her store, The Record Lounge, to a main-level location in downtown East Lansing.
Brightly colored camouflage cans are back on Michigan stores’ shelves after a state entity OK’d the restocking of Four Loko and other controversial malt beverages.
The entrepreneurial cogs started turning in Allison Manchel’s brain when she and her roommate were driving in East Lansing’s infamous Feb. 2 “snowpocalypse” and was having trouble seeing out her front windshield.
A request for a grant to use state money to clear up chemicals on a future redevelopment site is scheduled to be discussed by the East Lansing City Council at its work session at 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Census data for Michigan municipalities is expected to be released this afternoon, state officials announced via e-mail Monday.
St. Patrick’s Day isn’t a holiday traditionally known for service, but Subway restaurants in the Mid-Michigan area attempted to collect more than 40,000 cans of food for local food banks.
Originally created to celebrate the patron saint of Ireland, St. Patrick’s Day has become synonymous with a different type of celebration, often involving excessive drinking. But this St. Patrick’s Day has a different significance for the East Lansing Police Department — it is holding its annual All Hands on Deck, or AHOD, day.