To an outsider, the MSU Crew Club’s practice facility is no different than any other team’s. It has a collection of exercise machines, upbeat music playing on the overhead speakers and a bit of a musty smell. But to the about 40 members of the team, the practice space is more because after years of searching, they’ve finally found a place they can call their own — in an old meat locker.
The elaborate sets seen by audiences during MSU’s many theater productions no longer will be built at the Fairchild Theatre by the start of the next academic year after upcoming renovations.
Some details are emerging in future plans for renovations at Landon Hall cafeteria, which could see improvements in three to five years if proposed plans are fully developed, Associate Director of Residential Dining Bruce Haskell said.
MSU is one of the first schools to offer students the opportunity to take a recently developed aptitude test for students interested in careers in finance.
With presidential elections two weeks away, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, spent part of its Wednesday night meeting opening up the nomination period.
An informational meeting for the newly-created MSU Club Golf team will take place 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Spartan Stadium Tower in Room W239.
The MSU Neuroscience Program is holding its second annual Neuroscience Fair at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
When Emettra Nelson enters the classroom, the construction management freshman notices a lot more men in the classroom than women.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, of a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
The American Red Cross is pitting green and white against maize and blue to see who can collect the most red during its annual MSU/U-M Blood Challenge. The three-week competition began Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 24.
In case you missed it … A student government group has passed a bill to address what some members feel is a cleanliness problem with campus cafeterias.
When accounting sophomore Kate Good does laundry in her Shaw Hall residence, it doesn’t involve searching for spare change under the couch or fumbling around for coins in her pocket. Instead, Good pays to do her laundry with a swipe of her ID card, loaded with Spartan Cash. “It’s really helpful and convenient,” said Good, who uses her Spartan Cash at MSU vending and laundry machines, as well as the food court at the International Center.
Three MSU business fraternities — Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Chi Theta — held their inaugural business networking mixer from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Union.
With a warmer winter than in past years, hospitality business junior Alex Mlynarek has had to travel outside of the Lansing area in search of snowy slopes.
The MSU Steering Committee pushed ahead plans to finalize the discontinuing of two academic programs yesterday.
The cost of a college internship — and how MSU measures internship credits — is under examination by an ASMSU committee after some representatives noted a disconnect in the amount students were paying in tuition for credit and the instructional time they received. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
MSU researchers are taking note of revisions to the criteria for those diagnosed with autism disorders as an American Psychiatric Association panel updates the definition for the first time in 17 years.
The MSU College of Law is holding its 18th annual Diversity Week, which runs until Friday, with a variety of events catered to spreading awareness throughout not only the law community, but campus-wide audiences, said Mary Ferguson, director of Diversity Services for the college.
Recently published MSU research shows U.S. math teachers are lagging behind their international counterparts when it comes to preparation.
Despite two losses, members of the MSU Women’s Club Water Polo team were all smiles after the Spartan Invite last weekend where they competed in the pool with 12 teams from across the nation.