As thousands of people walk into the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympic Games, they will be greeted with 100-foot banners with the signatures of people from around the world — one sporting the John Hancock of MSU students.
On the 40th anniversary of his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his dream and contributions to the American civil rights movement.
MSU’s official job listing Web site, MySpartanCareer.com, will now be open to students and members of the MSU Alumni Association, according to a news release.
College students might as well not lose sleep over a stalled bill that would allow bars and restaurants to extend hours until 4 a.m. by paying a $2,500 annual fee, local officials said.
Students will celebrate the Central Asian New Year with speakers, music and tradition at 5 p.m. Saturday in the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
The Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, or MRULE, is hosting a 2008 campus celebrity basketball game at 4 p.m. Sunday at IM Sports-West.
Following a late meeting of the membership, the Graduate Employees Union approved a strike platform Wednesday to establish a list of the bedrock issues to be included in a new contract with the university. With more than 210 members in attendance, the union voted to include a 5 percent wage increase, increased medical coverage and parking rights in the platform.
Peter McCubbin said there are few things he enjoys more than an afternoon walk around campus. During such a walk, the psychology sophomore, who has low-partial blindness, listens to the flow of traffic and crosswalk countdowns while using his cane to feel for warning strips at the edge of the sidewalks.
Consistency and fairness — qualities some MSU representatives say seem to be lacking for MSU in Dubai in the details of religious observance, student governance and student tax-taking bodies.
Several members of MSU’s national honorary band fraternity won’t make the trip to a convention in Indianapolis this weekend after the group was turned away from MSU’s undergraduate student government funding.
From East Lansing to Puerto Rico, MSU’s Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement has been bettering communities for four decades.
After six years of declining state aid, local government leaders are telling Michigan legislators that enough is enough.
More than 800 MSU labor employees without computer access on campus will be online and computer-literate in three years, MSU officials said.
An East Lansing man is recovering from numerous facial lacerations, missing teeth and a shattered jaw after being brutally beaten in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, early Saturday morning by two college basketball players.
Former sophomore cornerback-wide receiver T.J. Williams waived his right to an arraignment Wednesday at the Ingham County Circuit Court on charges of aggravated assault and larceny from person.
Cornerstone Coffee, 515 W. Grand River Ave., will reopen as Grand River Coffee Cafe as early as Friday.
Citing concerns about student safety and health, MSU administrators are looking to cut Welcome Week down to two days and push back the academic year start date beginning in 2009.
Sarah Lewis spends her Saturday afternoons splitting and gouging cane wood. She soaks it in water, takes a razor blade to it and makes sure it’s perfectly measured. Lewis, a music performance junior who specializes in oboe, isn’t building a house with that wood. She’s building a reed — and she has to get it right. Her pitch and sound quality depend on it.
Investigators from the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department are seeking the perpetrator in an armed robbery at a Lansing Burger King on Monday night.
Three residents of Knob Hill Apartments were robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning — the second local armed robbery in a five-hour span.