Our campus is home to more than 500 buildings, including a planetarium, golf course, museum and even a preforming arts theater. All those buildings amount to more than 22 million square feet of space on campus. Yet many of us stick to only a few areas.
The year 2003 was a rough one for East Lansing resident Ricard Taylor. He was going through a rough divorce when his older brother, Taro Taylor, convinced him to try street performing with him in Detroit.“He said, ‘Let’s try it for a year. See what we can do, see what we can make of it,’ and we did it on the streets there and we got a lot of love shown to us,” Ricard Taylor said.
MSU officials are looking to encourage creativity and entrepreneurship among students across multiple colleges with the renovation of Wilson Hall room C108 into a creative commons.
Many U-M fans swarmed MSU last Saturday to watch the long-awaited football game between both universities, but not all fans sporting maize and blue were allowed entry into MSU’s student section.
A group of MSU students known as the Nate Woodring Trio jazzed up (SCENE) Metrospace Wednesday night, bringing musical life through the drums and bass East Lansing. The show featured jazz studies senior Nate Woodring on drums, jazz studies sophomore Runere Brooks on bass and jazz studies graduate student Corey Kendrick on piano.
As November settles in, MSU students and faculty members will come together to raise awareness about American Indian Heritage Month. MSU’s North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO, will be hosting a series of events to spread awareness of the culture and key in on issues usually associated with the American Indian culture.
The Energy Transition Plan’s central goal is for campus to have a renewable energy portfolio of 15 percent by 2015, and MSU officials say they’re more than halfway there.
Tuesday, squads of military units were sent out on a tactical mission in Okemos, Mich. Luckily, this only was a training exercise. The MSU Army ROTC held one of their many training exercises on a large woodland area off Dobie Road. While their field exercises can focus on many things, such as navigation, this exercise was a combat mission.
The committee created after English professor’s anti-republican rants to address the best practices on the use of social media and technology in classrooms, has begun its research — with few findings so far. Committee Chairman William Donohue said he’s looked at about 12 universities and none of them have policies on how to use social media in a classroom.
What students don’t know might hurt them when it comes to the critters looking to cuddle under the covers late at night. The MSU College of Law Housing Clinic hosted a free bedbug seminar on Tuesday night at the East Lansing Public Library for local landlords, tenants and the public after concern for the widespread bedbug epidemic arose in students’ own backyard.
Election day for the East Lansing City Council has arrived and MSU faculty, students and community members will be heading to the polls.
MSU students are developing Carbon Cash, a web and smartphone app that will help monitor how much electricity university buildings are using. The hope is for fellow students to download the app and compete with one ?another to save energy. The program will allow them to earn points and redeem rewards for being the most conservative energy users.
As part of their aim to expand MSU students’ music experience, Impact 89FM hosted a live-streaming event of the first YouTube Music Awards on Sunday. The event started with Impact 89FM showing their best YouTube videos, showing local bands and artists, hosting a short trivia and giving out prizes.
Former Michigan State College, now MSU, alumna and Wharton Center founding member Betty Price died Oct. 20.
The job interview process often is nerve-wracking for anyone, but five students experienced something even more stressful this past Friday when they a public interview in front of an audience of students and job recruiters. The event was organized by MSU’s China Entrepreneur Network Organization, or CEN, and was modeled after the Chinese reality show, “Only You”, where contestants compete for jobs in a televised interview where recruiters publicly hire or deny contestants.
Munn field and other intramural fields will be closed for parking before the Spartans face off against the University of Michigan on Saturday because of the heavy rains East Lansing experienced throughout the day Thursday, MSU police announced Thursday.
While it is uncertain whether or not MSU will knock off the Wolverines this weekend on the gridiron, many local businesses are certain they will be winning when it comes to racking in high revenue. Many of the local on- and off-campus businesses will be expecting high numbers throughout the weekend with Halloween and the MSU vs.U-M football game falling on the same weekend.
A new artificial turf field in the southeast corner of Munn Field will be available for use by the Spartan Marching Band and others starting next August. Artificial turf is much more durable than grass and the field will serve the band, classes, intramural sports, club sports and intercollegiate sports.
MSU engineering students are helping to develop a joystick that could make it easier for disabled people to cast votes. The joystick will create a force feedback, giving voters the opportunity to feel the movement as they go through the ballot.
The city of East Lansing is accommodating for the growing trend of moped use by designating free moped parking slots in downtown parking structures. The three parking structures with new moped parking slots include the Division Street Parking Structure on 430 Albert Ave., Grove Street Parking Structure on 330 Grove St.