It didn’t take long for public administration and public policy sophomore Chelsea Satkowiak to move up the ranks in the Residence Halls Association, or RHA. After one year as a Shaw Hall representative, she was elected Wednesday to be the next RHA vice president.
Curling irons, cosmetic bags and extra fabric were sprawled across the dressing room. Students ironed wrinkles and discussed the best modeling techniques to accentuate their collections as models finished their makeup.
To friends, Shane Collins was a bright student whose promising future was cut short by his sudden death last week. “He was the smartest kid I knew and still had time to be friends with everyone,” said no-preference sophomore Nick Weaver, a close friend of Collins. “You don’t find that very often.”
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
A bill introduced Tuesday by state Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, seeks to make it possible for citizens to track all of the Michigan government’s spending online. The bill, SB 382, would require the state to post records of all its spending on a free Web site, which would be open for the public to view.
A bill to support a tuition freeze was voted down by ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday, after Chairperson Pro Tempore Brad McDonald voted it down as the tiebreaking vote. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A team of MSU researchers have found a way for businesses to address what matters most to consumers. The study identified four parts of a total experience that consumers look for: benefit, convenience, price and environment, said Bonnie Knutson, a professor of hospitality business who led the study.
The room was instantly silent. The envelopes were about to be distributed, each one containing potentially life-changing content. Family and friends grew quiet, having anticipated this day for a long time.
Police on and off campus reported a relatively simple St. Patrick’s Day, despite the holiday keeping their departments slightly busier compared to last year. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said his department made 20 arrests on Tuesday.
Students could keep some money in their pockets and off their utility bills next winter if East Lansing receives money from the $787 billion stimulus package to improve energy conservation in rental properties.
In the hope of reducing the workload of chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian position Tuesday to take on some of McDonald’s duties.
Starting today in Washington, D.C., MSU will lead a national celebratory conference for Title VI, the federal program that helped shift the university’s mission statement from “land-grant” to “world-grant” university during the past 50 years.
Keeping young, educated workers in Michigan has been touted as a key to getting the state’s economy back on track, and one MSU professor is studying how to make it a possibility.
The cooperative house known as the Beal House, 525 M.A.C. Ave., likely will have a completely new look next year after a vote by the Student Housing Cooperative Inc. to purchase and renovate the house in time for the fall 2009 semester.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian officer position who will assume the duties of the internal vice chairperson Tuesday. The position was created to decrease the workload of assembly chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, who had taken on the duties of chairperson after Christopher Kulesza resigned from the position Feb. 17.
Two female roommates returned from spring break to find their Case Hall room was broken into, apparently so the intruders could smoke marijuana, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Hurling beer cans at police and similar actions during a riot have now been defined as prosecutable acts after the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday night approved an ordinance that clarifies riot conduct.
Along with Wall Street executives and employees, the business schools that trained them are now under fire for their failure to avert a near-collapse of the economy. Instead of feeling burned, however, schools are using the recent meltdown as an example to teach students to avoid similar mistakes in the future.
Following the lifting of a ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research last week, MSU researchers could receive federal funding for their work for the first time in eight years.
East Lansing business owner Richard Hall has seen many businesses come and go during his 30 years in town. Lately, he’s seen a few more going than coming along Grand River Avenue. Hall, a co-owner of Campus Barbers Inc., 621 E. Grand River Ave., said he doesn’t believe the vacancies are caused purely by poor economic conditions.