Police Brief 03/18/08
About $580 worth of textbooks and padlocks were stolen from MSU-Detroit College of Law Building sometime between 6:30 p.m. March 4 and 7:30 a.m. March 10, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
About $580 worth of textbooks and padlocks were stolen from MSU-Detroit College of Law Building sometime between 6:30 p.m. March 4 and 7:30 a.m. March 10, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Even if the MSU men’s basketball team doesn’t make it to San Antonio for this year’s Final Four, one Spartan will be representing the Green and White April 5-7. Steven Book was chosen last week as one of four winners of the Coke Zero Ultimate Dream Job contest, which means he’ll be spending the next three weeks watching every NCAA Tournament game and writing a blog on his experiences from San Antonio.
MSU Trustee Faylene Owen doesn’t remember every “get well” phone call she’s received, but she said one in particular stood out. Owen had hurt her ankle while attending a fundraising event for former President Bill Clinton’s 1996 presidential campaign, she said. It was serious enough that she was taken to the hospital.
With a surfboard-sized slab of wood in her lap, strumming chords with a bamboo stick in one hand and patting strings with the other, Jin Hi Kim used an ancient instrument to teach students about Korean culture Monday.
With a May 15 contract expiration date looming, the Graduate Employees Union and MSU began the bargaining process last week for their next three-year contract. Having started negotiations last week and entering another round Monday, the union has presented the university with a list of items they would like to see addressed or added to the contract.
The rock band Anberlin will headline a concert kicking off ASMSU elections week at 8 p.m. March 31 at Breslin Center.
The sound of mandolins, pianos and playground equipment filled the East Lansing MSU Child Development Laboratory on Saturday as more than 300 current and former students and staff celebrated the school’s 80th anniversary.
When Charles Roman learned his video game beat competitors from 50 other colleges in a game design contest for Mountain Dew, he was shocked.
Charles Hindsley traveled farther than 400 miles to compete in the 25th annual Pow-Wow of Love Saturday and Sunday at Jenison Field House.
Although the word count will be cut, MSU will include two new priorities in its mission statement, which is in the process of being revamped for the first time in almost 26 years.
An ASMSU official who was charged with third-degree sexual assault Wednesday could continue planning a quarter-million-dollar concert if a bill is approved by Student Assembly. ASMSU’s policy committee passed a bill Thursday that would allow Nigel Scarlett, Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, to continue planning the iVote concert, which has been re-scheduled for next fall.
Every day in the U.S., more than 6,000 patients who need a bone marrow transplant cannot find a potential donor. For patients who suffer from diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma, finding a donor can mean the difference between life and death.
MSU Tower Guard will host its annual Shamrock 5K Run at 10 a.m. Saturday which will begin at Conrad Hall.
Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, or MRULE, is co-sponsoring a fundraiser to fight hunger, poverty and HIV/AIDS 5 p.m. Sunday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
An MSU student who died of cancer about a year ago would have wanted laughs and good times to be the tone of an event in her honor, her friends said.
In a professional setting, the smallest slipup can make the difference between getting or losing a job.
When a Vatican official listed what he considered to be the sins of the modern age, he mentioned drugs, social and economic injustice and a subject some found unexpected — pollution.
MSU’s Model United Nations will host high school students from around the world during its three-day, eighth annual conference this weekend in Lansing.
More than 10 years ago, a burning sensation spread down Jason Woolley’s leg during a routine practice with the Washington Capitals more than 10 years ago. Woolley, a former MSU hockey player, was in his second year with the professional hockey team and hadn’t skated in three months, so he looked for answers where he felt most comfortable — MSU.
The American Indian Studies Program will co-sponsor its Returning the Gift: Native Writers Conference today through Saturday at the Union.