MSU Trustee Mitch Lyons faced some criticism Friday evening when he turned to his personal Twitter account to express his disgust by recommending punishments for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, which included removing “his limbs without anesthesia so he can rot in prison.”
Eleven professional drag kings and queens strutted their stuff down Bourbon Street at the Official MSU Drag Show on Friday in the International Center. With a Mardi Gras theme, the Crossroads Food Court was transformed with green, purple and yellow decorations, such as feather boas hanging from the ceiling, spotlights and a stage.
For Department of Psychiatry professor James Hillard, it was obvious how important events such as Friday night’s Relay For Life of Michigan State University were in his battle against cancer.
Though best known as the reason MSU will be home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to friends and family, Henry Blosser was a gardener.
Media and information junior Elliot Zirulnik could have let his disorders define him. Instead, he has embraced his autism and essential tremor by making the best of it.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, faces the risk of losing student tax funding after deciding to decline passing a bill to turn the group into an official university department and transfer funds to the university financial system at the general assembly meeting Thursday night.
To the dismay of the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Arab American News, Osama Siblani will be inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame on Sunday.
The alternative career fair, RECESS, and electronic music show, featuring Kaskade, originally scheduled to take place Friday will be postponed because of inclement weather.
Graduates with degrees in agriculture always have been able to find work — people need to eat no matter what. Recently, however, the field has seen an increase in demand for jobs.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, faces the risk of losing student tax funding after deciding to decline passing a bill to turn the group into an official university department and transfer funds to the university financial system at the general assembly meeting Thursday night.
When lightning flashed at 5 p.m. Wednesday, it would have been easy for MSU Running Club President Jeff Girbach to pull the plug on Spartans Run For Boston.
At the first Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting of the 44th session Wednesday night, the organization discussed renewing cable service in the residence halls for the upcoming academic year.
The statistics and variables don’t favor college campuses. With a common mix of binge-drinking and large masses of young people celebrating, many campuses can be unintended cesspools for incidences of sexual assault.
The life of best-selling author Richard Ford reads more like a love story than a list of lifetime achievements. Ford tells people he’s only done two things in his life — written books and been married to his wife, Kristina — both “extravagantly wonderful,” he said. When the MSU alumnus returns to MSU in May to speak at the 3:30 p.m.
Athletes have access to a resources most homeless people do not — shoes.
It didn’t take long for graduate student Jon Derhammer to answer what he would do for a Klondike bar. “I would play Mad Bounce for 24 hours this weekend,” Derhammer jokingly said. Derhammer is referring to one of the two app games he and three others created to go with the week-long Klondike Challenge, which pits MSU and University of Michigan students and alumni against each other, with an ice cream social on the line. “Klondike Challenge is a local app tournament,” Derhammer said.
The burden of low carnival attendance and the Ne-Yo concert cancellation turned out to play a small role in ASMSU’s election turnout — about the same percentage of students voted this year as last year. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, had 2,636 voters out of 28,628 eligible students, which equals a 9.2 percent voter turnout in this year’s elections, ASMSU Director of Public Relations Haley Dunnigan said. This year’s turnout was fewer then last year’s 2,988 voters, but Dunnigan pointed out there were multiple organizations that had their tax renewal on the ballot last year that drew additional attention to the elections. “Considering during last year’s election there were tax questions for the Residence Halls Association, MSU Radio Board and James Madison (College), those kind of issues tend to bring in a lot more attention,” Dunnigan said.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, will continue to receive the student tax after graduate and professional students voted in favor to renew the tax for another three years, COGS President Stefan Fletcher confirmed. COGS received about a 6 percent voter turnout amongst the graduate and professional student body with 490 electing to continuing the tax of $9.25 per student per semester during the fall and spring semester and $4.75 during the summer semester, Fletcher said.
Computer science sophomore Jordyn Castor has been fighting for everything she has since she was born.
At Tuesday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting, members recommended to waive the search process for the vice president for student affairs and advise MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to promote Denise Maybank from interim vice president to permanent vice president of student affairs.