On Saturday, MSU ROTC held a parent orientation at Demonstration hall. The event provided the new cadets and their families with the opportunity to learn about the ROTC program at Michigan State.
Two years after a pilot program to phase night receptionists out of Brody and North neighborhoods, Residence Education and Housing Services will still not move forward with expanding the program to East and South.
For the freshman moving into the dorms, Sunday marked the beginning of a new life.
Here are the top stories for August 14. MSU Football held its media day earlier this week, where its goals for the season were discussed. Despite their recent success, including being ranked No.
MSU police ran the evacuation, allowing most of the boy scouts on campus for the 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference into the stadium and, after a brief exercise, ordered them out in a simulated weather emergency.
A new legal research center at MSU could provide a hopeful future for those entering the law profession, which has stagnated and faced tough times since the last recession, the research center's director claims.
Here are the top stories for the week of Aug. 7. The 2015 National Order of the Arrow Conference used MSU as a venue this week, with 15,000 boy scouts foraging onto campus just a week after the scouts voted to allow openly gay leaders. Beginning on Monday and lasting until Saturday, the major events included a ribbon cutting where the Goodman Edson Observatory, a museum to the last 100 years of the Order of the Arrow, was opened.
If you've been on MSU's campus this week, you have most likely noticed the presence of the Boy Scouts of America and the Order of the Arrow for their centennial exhibition.
Although the Boy Scouts of America recently ended their ban on openly gay leaders, problems facing the LGBT community in the scouts still require work, Joe Getto, a chapter head of Scouts for Equality, said.
Those walking around campus trying to get to lunch in a cafeteria might be surprised to see a huge line filled with young boys and men in very specific scouting attire, or shirts with a city from halfway across the country, represented in force.
Looking up at the sky at night you can see a lot of stars but not everything you see is what you think it is.
One way universities have tried to help the underprivileged is through what is commonly called affirmative action, which in higher education means allowing an applicant’s race or ethnicity to be taken into account during the admissions process to offset structural disadvantages that might come from attendance at lower-performing high schools.
MSU police announced Wednesday that eight new public address speaker towers are now operational across campus.
The new trailer for the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie featured a brief shot of the exterior of Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum during the 2:34 to 2:36 minute marks.
Each year, MSU conducts a survey of the graduating class to track where each graduate has found employment six months postgrad. The results for 2014 shed some positive light on what has recently been a tough job market.
Although not a single MSU sporting event took place Friday night, people in Cedar Village evidently found some reason to burn a couch.
If you've never seen the glorious piece of art that is the film "God's Not Dead" then you, my friend, need to. But not if you are looking for any sort of realistic depiction of religion on campus or a reasoned defense of God in front of a largely secular higher education system. If you don't know anything about the movie, it's premise is that an atheist college professor threatens to fail a Christian student for not writing "God is Dead" on a sheet of paper for a philosophy course, unless he proves God's existence in front of the entire class.
Construction begun for a new nexus of innovation on June 18, 2015, with the groundbreaking of the new MSU Grand Rapids Research Center.
By Cameron Macko cmacko@statenews.com Lou Anna K. Simon University President Lou Anna K.