The city of East Lansing now is accepting applications for the Community Development Block Grant, or CDBG, and the General Fund Human Service Activities budget.
In a local episcopal church, students and community members listened to readings from religious holy books, including the Torah, the Bhagavad Gita and the Quran. Despite religious differences, people from many faiths celebrated Thanksgiving together on Monday evening at All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road.
It’s a long drive to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, but Katie Nelson thinks it’s worth it. Nelson, a medical technology senior, will make the four and a half to five hour drive to Newberry, Mich., this Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holiday. “It’s a big holiday for us,” Nelson said.
After seven years in East Lansing, OZ Gallery and Hand-Blown Glass, 551 E. Grand River Ave., is moving to Lansing to expand its Pizza Pi restaurant.
MSU could see an influx of students from the Lansing area with the help of a new high school scholarship program. Lansing’s plan to develop a scholarship program — the Lansing Promise Zone Scholarship — was approved by the Michigan Department of Treasury on Oct.
Campus Barbers Inc., 612 E. Grand River Ave., has been in East Lansing for more than 40 years, and is the only shop of its kind in the city.
Applying for jobs and internships now is more accessible for MSU students thanks to a new mobile application, or app, launched by the MSU Career Services Network, said internship developer Paul Jaques, one of the co-creators of the app.
MSU Computing officials will flip the “on” switch on an enhanced MSUnet Wireless network, should all go as planned early today.
Although the sky was overcast with sporadic thunderstorms, Monday’s low 60s temperature was just right for Genevieve Beaulieu.
Brian Middleton decided to join Spectrum, the LBGT caucus for the East Neighborhood, as a way to meet other people in the LBGT community. In his hometown, there weren’t the type of resources and groups for LBGT people he’s seen so far at MSU.
Representatives from the Coalition Against Sexual Violence will meet with university administrators in the next few weeks after about 40 members rallied in President Lou Anna K. Simon’s office Friday.
About 40 MSU students munched on hummus and pita bread before Saturday’s football game at Sparty’s Middle Eastern Tailgate, an event sponsored by the Jewish Student Union and Arab Cultural Society in an effort to highlight Middle Eastern culture at MSU. “We wanted to collaborate and incorporate all of the Middle Eastern culture that we know and love,” Jewish Student Union President Sam Appel said.
For Kathy Davis, the sorrow she felt after her brother committed suicide has never left her. “It’s a sadness that’s just part of my life,” Davis said.
Michigan agriculture will see new muscle in Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., who announced Friday she will chair the U.S.
According to Brett Nantau, there are some things in college you learn only through experience. His website, rulesofcollege.com, founded by Nantau and his friends, chronicles these unofficial rules and guidelines to surviving the undergraduate experience. Nantau, a packaging junior, said the website is a place where users can submit guidelines for college not learned in class or at orientation.
Foils, épées and sabres clashed Sunday afternoon as the MSU Fencing Club took on members of the University of Michigan Fencing Club in a series of duels to attain fencing glory and to involve new members of the club.
As the drums echoed throughout the ballroom of the Union, biochemistry sophomore Aakif Mdjalil took the stage along with a group Malaysian international students to perform a dance that once used to be performed in front of kings. Mdjalil and his friends were performing a traditional Malaysian dance called Dikir Barat at the Global Festival on Sunday at the Union.
E. Victor Helb Jr. left his home in Liberia in 1991. Nineteen years later, he’s working to improve basic literacy in his native country and he’s hoping to use books donated by MSU students to benefit his mission.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly unanimously passed a bill Thursday night to condemn the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church’s presence in Michigan, including the group’s protest at East Lansing High School on Thursday afternoon.
Posters decorated with locations in and outside the country filled the Erickson Hall Kiva for the Alternative Spring Break party on Thursday evening.