As the midpoint for ASMSU’s election week approaches, the 20 ballot candidates running for positions in ASMSU’s General Assembly next year have been launching campaigns to encourage students to vote. But despite ASMSU’s efforts to increase voter turnout, not all of MSU’s 13 undergraduate colleges have student candidates on the ballot.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed the importance of not increasing the cost of higher education while also protecting the health of students during her remarks at Tuesday’s Steering Committee meeting. During the meeting, Simon said the policy implemented this academic year that requires new students to carry health care insurance or be enrolled in a university health care plan affects a relatively small number of students at MSU, with 86 percent of students entering the university with their own health care.
To help graduate students find their place and feel appreciated at MSU, local organizations are teaming up to celebrate the university’s first Graduate & Professional Student Appreciation Week. The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, Graduate Student Life and Wellness and various sponsors in the Lansing area are hoping to show graduate and professional students that they matter to the MSU community through the events.
The Roial Players will be performing “Red: An Evening of One Acts” from Thursday to Saturday in the RCAH Theatre in the basement of Snyder and Phillips halls. The show will begin at 9 p.m. Thursday and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
The traffic circle at Bogue Street and Farm Lane has served its purpose for several years and tentatively has been green-lighted to be replaced with a traditional intersection next summer because of safety concerns, officials said. The estimated cost of the project is $4 million and construction is aimed to occur during summer 2013, university engineer Bob Nestle said in an email.
East Lansing officials were among a handful of people who joined at the Lansing City Council Chambers on Tuesday morning announcing their support of legislation guaranteeing nondiscrimination of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community. The Local Electeds Against Discrimination statement, or LEAD, calls for protection for LGBT against discrimination.
Alexandra Pew, an 18-year-old high school senior from Ann Arbor who fell from the sixth floor of North Case Hall last week, has been released from Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed.
A major development project in the city is at a crossroads. After years of varying levels of activity, the East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss and vote on a predevelopment agreement for the controversial City Center II project.
Religious studies senior Sara Lone believes religious literacy is important for every person. “Religion is a part of everything (and) every field,” she said. “If you’re in marketing and you go to Saudi Arabia, you need to know you can’t put half-naked women on a billboard.”
Accounting senior Matthew Kravutske took his potential employability into consideration when picking a school, and like many students at MSU, employability still is one of his concerns. But a new study from the Lumina Foundation shows the demand for degreeholders might be higher than the number colleges are actually producing.
MSU students, faculty and community members of all ages gathered Tuesday in Snyder and Phillips halls to digest some of their favorite stories during the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, fifth annual edible book contest.
On Monday afternoon, four members of MSU Greenpeace hung a 20 by 20 foot sign that read, “SPARTAN GREEN? I WISH! We need 100% clean energy,” off the side of Ramp 2, a parking garage near Bessey Hall.
A 21-year-old female student reported some contents of her backpack were stolen March 27 between 1 and 1:30 p.m. from Anthony Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Talyor said.
Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs and scrappy dogs joined to help fellow canines get medical treatment Saturday morning in the second annual IRONDOG 5K Run/Walk. More than 500 participants, some of which ran alongside their furry friends, accompanied hundreds of dogs to help raise money for the IRONDOG fund.
A few years ago, when Constantinos Coursaris visited Japan with a group of study abroad students, they got lost in a subway station looking for a train. Insisting on helping out, a local man showed them in the right direction, missing his own train in the process, said Coursaris, an assistant professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.
MSU’s undergraduate student governments, ASMSU and the Residence Halls Association, are holding elections this week for initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year. ASMSU’s elections take place from 8 a.m. today until 8 a.m. April 9 and serve to elect each college’s representatives to the group’s General Assembly for the next academic year.
With models in cages and money raining on the audience, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. 10th annual Hair and Fashion Show on Saturday was nothing short of wild.
For the fifth-consecutive year, MSU has received a record number of freshman applications — topping the 30,000 mark for the first time in school history.
Saturday night fever came a day early last weekend. Students took to the roller skating rink in Demonstration Hall on Friday evening, all infected with the same peculiar disease: funkadellic fever.
Longtime East Lansing City Attorney Dennis McGinty has stepped down from the post to take a different position with the city.