Many experiences were shared in the Erickson Hall Kiva on Wednesday night, as performers shared poems, testimonials and musical acts, all geared toward the subject of mental illness.
By Cameron Macko cmacko@statenews.com Is it legal in Indiana to refuse service to gays and lesbians? Some are claiming Indiana's new religious freedom law will allow this, and with MSU heading off to the Final Four this weekend, the universities sending basketball teams to Indianapolis for the tournament have been forced to respond to the controversy.
By Meagan Beck mbeck@statenews.com Step into any residence hall cafeteria and an overwhelming amount of food is present. From tatertots and spaghetti to salads and desserts, MSU does not give its students and staff meals that might be found in a high school cafeteria. Most of these meals are made on the spot, with the exception being items like bagels, which are made daily by MSU Bakers. Utilizing the tools provided on campus to produce food for Spartans and letting students be part of the food cycle is important. Carla Iansiti, Residential and Hospitality Services Sustainability manager, said in an email that MSU has always been a pioneer, but the vision is to be “bolder.” President Lou Anna K.
Triplett believes East Lansing has these two options for future development of the city: to sprawl outward or build up. He’s in favor of more centralized development along Grand River Avenue.
Cakes were being judged by their covers Wednesday at MSU’s annual Edible Book Contest.
Derek Blalock, an advertising senior at MSU, departed his home on Wednesday afternoon on his bicycle with his eyes set on Indianapolis.
The whole beat was built around the drop, the voice of the cross walk sign on Farm Lane.ka
Fatima-Iram Din, biomedical laboratory diagnostics senior, stood confidently at the front of the dark room.
From early Saturday morning to late Sunday night, at least six fires were started in the city, East Lansing police Lt.
Google normally has a creative interactive on their homepage complimenting most holidays — but not today on April Fools' Day.
During the week, PhD candidate Randy Olsen studies computer science in Professor Chris Adami’s lab.
President Barack Obama has recently taken action to make higher education more affordable across the nation. One of the steps Obama took included a Student Aid Bill of Rights that includes four rights for students, which were outlined in a press release
Graduating from MSU in 1998, Carl Winans took what he learned at MSU and applied it.
“(The Act) allows folks to save some money on student loans, that put some money on their pockets, which is good for them, for the family,” U.S Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said. “(It is) also good for the economy because if they are not paying higher interest of student debt they are probably spending it on other things important to their families, which is good for the Michigan economy.”
A lack of funding from the state is pushing universities to raise tuition costs, only adding to the massive debts some students face. A bill introduced by state Sen. Curtis Hertel Jr. might alleviate the burden.
Hope Project, a recent MSU student group founded in November 2014, organized the event to raise money to build a secondary school for HIV-positive orphans being taken care of by HOPE Village Children’s Home, run by its parent group, Hope Endeavors. The organization’s name is sometimes stylized as H.O.P.E., which is an acronym for “Helping Orphans, Prospering Everyone.”
While students tend to believe they can leave a class if a professor is more than 15 minutes late, the MSU ombudsman denies the existence of this policy.
The first individual arrested in relation to the weekend disturbances in Cedar Village after the MSU men's basketball victories in their Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight victories, was arraigned on Tuesday, according to an East Lansing Police Department statement. Dylan Carl Bonell, a 19-year-old from Plymouth, MI, is charged with two misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges and one minor in possession of alcohol charge.
MSU police Cpt. Kelly Roudebush was sitting at home, surfing social media following the Spartan's Elite Eight win, when she noticed something curious: bagels flying through the air at Cedar Village. Seeking to make sense of the absurdity, Roudebush took to the department's Twitter account and posed the question "Guys, what's with the bagels?"
MSU is home to an abundance of religions, ethnicities and cultures. Some students are doing all they can to promote their customs.