When Knoll Larkin was coming out, he said he thought everyone smoked. Smoking seemed to be accepted as a part of the bar culture that historically provided the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community with a safe haven, said Larkin, health services coordinator for Affirmations, an LGBT community center in Ferndale, Mich.
City officials will announce next week their latest plan to help foster economic growth in downtown East Lansing.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments next week involving whether public employers can legally offer domestic partner benefits.
As construction projects make progress across campus, volunteer students and faculty are working to protect the campus’s historic and prehistoric artifacts before they are destroyed.
According to a team of researchers in MSU’s telecommunication, information studies and media department, those students without pages of Facebook friends might be at a disadvantage compared to those who have them.
ASMSU’s Director of Government Affairs Matt Patton said one of the undergraduate student government’s top priorities this year is registering students to vote. ASMSU will be working to register students on a rolling basis.
After receiving a blood transfusion that helped save her life in 2006, Katie Welch knew she wanted to give back. Welch suffered a congenital defect for which the cure involved a series of surgeries where she received blood from donors.
MSU police are looking into two reported assaults of the same victim over an almost eight-hour span Sunday, one of which involved a handgun.
While many MSU students will likely be compensated in their spring tuition bill from a fall increase, graduating students may not see a portion of that refund.
It may not be escaping from a straightjacket while underwater, but the Magicians Guild of Lansing, Ring 54, had some tricks up its sleeve for Michigan Magic Day on Saturday.
In an effort to cure diseases and grow Michigan’s economy, some state lawmakers are pushing legislation that would ease stem cell research laws.
Lisa Dietlin has made a career of giving.
After a year of paperwork, interviews, inspections and a seven-week trip to Kazakhstan, Oralee Rivet brought her 16-month-old son Aydin home to the United States.
An army of volunteers roamed the streets of East Lansing Sunday in an effort to help their neighbors.
Whether he was studying with a group of friends from law school or dishing out friendly trash talk on the basketball court, second-year law graduate student Paulo Michael Pinto constantly displayed a grin that could put anyone at ease.
About 50 students rallied outside the Veterinary Medical Center Friday night to protest Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party, at a speaking engagement sponsored by MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom.
The MSU Board of Trustees approved final plans and costs Friday for MSU’s Grand Rapids medical school branch, the Secchia Center, providing the university with “authorization to proceed.”
After a 9.6 tuition increase for the 2007-08 school year, MSU students can expect to see a portion of that fee returned, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday.
Cona Marshall would not have been able to study abroad in Senegal, Africa if not for an MSU scholarship. “Last minute, I heard about it the day it was due,” the interdisciplinary humanities senior said. “I’ve always wanted to go to a French-speaking country, but I was in a lot of debt.”
For the third time this week, police are investigating a robbery involving a suspect wearing a mask from the movie “Scream.” Lansing police Lt. Bruce Ferguson said a suspect entered the Deja Vu nightclub, 1000 W. Jolly Road, in Lansing, at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday and robbed the club at gunpoint, making off with an undisclosed amount of money.