For Lisa Figlan, Homecoming is a time for MSU’s present to meet its past. “It’s one week of the year for students and alumni to get together and celebrate being an MSU student and celebrate Spartan pride,” said Figlan, a University Activities Board chairwoman.
After two days of defeating the nation’s top-ranked teams, a pair of MSU students claimed first place in the Henry Clay Debate tournament for the first time in 39 years.
In light of potential cuts to higher education funding and student financial aid, ASMSU is looking to create a need-based scholarship for students that could be available within the next year, group officials said Monday.
The MSU Parking Office will be closed Friday through Oct. 21 while parking operations software and hardware undergoes upgrades.
Students will have one final opportunity to weigh in on campus health services today before recommendations for change will be sent to Provost Kim Wilcox. The meeting runs from 7 p.m.
Michael Jackson, the Backstreet Boys and Beyoncé Knowles never have visited MSU, but a capella groups belted out their star-like skills featuring various artists at Accapalooza this weekend in the Fairchild Theatre.
It might only have been the garden behind Student Services, but to everyone there, it might as well have been Oz. About 30 people gathered in the garden Sunday to celebrate National Coming Out Day with a picnic and games dedicated to “The Wizard of Oz,” which kicks off a week of events at MSU.
Wharton Center patron Joyce Bichoff felt the spotlight shine on her as she walked across the stage in Cobb Great Hall, something she only had watched from her seat in the audience.
One of the many people in the American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, brought the fight for the rights of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender communities to MSU Thursday night at the College of Law Building.
When Fumiko Sakashita received an e-mail about upcoming budget cuts at MSU, she was in Japan searching for a job.
Douglas Roberts is a man with connections that are out of this world.
MSU students might have the opportunity to receive the H1N1 vaccination free of charge at on-campus clinics once it becomes readily available in Ingham County, an MSU official said.
Etienne Charles raised his hand and silence fell inside Room 245 of the Music Building.
MSU College of Law’s Family Law Society will host a guest speaker from MSU Safe Place at 6 p.m. on Oct. 20 in Room 474 of the Law College Building.
A two-day a cappella event is set to begin on campus at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
For the first time ever, MSU is hosting an internationally recognized conference dedicated to advancing feminism through writing and rhetoric.
A meeting of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly Budget and Standards Committee became heated Tuesday during performance reviews of the assembly’s chairpersons when a former member accused the current chairperson of wrongfully receiving money over the summer without doing adequate work. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The seventh biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference begins today at the Kellogg Center.
A review of MSU’s student government election processes was ordered Thursday by the University Committee on Academic Governance, or UCAG, following concerns regarding last spring’s elections. But one group is questioning the committee’s authority to look into the matter.
The streets of East Lansing were enhanced with 37 new trees last week, which were planted to make up for the city’s ash trees that have been destroyed.