Host Lily Guiney discusses the update of an ongoing case of Phat Nguyen and Pi Alpha Phi, a Turning Point USA meeting and a new ASMSU bill. Guiney and environmental reporter Alex Walters also discuss the cleanup event of the Red Cedar River.
Months after Bevill told her parents her decision to change her career track, her mom would continue sending her resource links meant for pre-med students.
“The lack of representation for Black mental health makes me feel like the school doesn’t really want to help us,” Hughes said in an email. “I definitely feel like it is making others like me feel unheard because of how the school says that they want to help but not really doing anything to actually help.”
MSU's astronomy department is an exciting source of developing research. Their resources such as the campus observatory and SOAR telescope in Chile make them stand out as a program. Above all else, their desire to understand the universe before them connects and motivates them.
Members of the Board of Trustees have reviewed the relevant Title IX reports for the fiscal year 2021, allowing Stanley to re-certify the contested report to the state. Here's what went wrong in the process.
"I know the uncertainty has been frustrating to many, but please know I will share more information when I am able," Stanley said in the email.
The university plans to expand its fleet made up of sedans, minivans and light-duty pickup trucks to 369 electric vehicles by the end of the decade. MSU also increased its number of private charging stations to 50 for the possibility of university electric vehicle expansion.
With so many paths and focuses, what does it mean to be an engineer?
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully impacted a non-threatening asteroid in space this past Monday in the first-ever attempt to deflect an asteroid using kinetic impact. Here's how one MSU professor helped that happen.
“It's been beneficial to me because the concepts that I'm applying in the lab have actually been talked about in my classes,” biochemistry and molecular biology senior Darla Martinez said.
“It's just not the way the board is supposed to behave,” Professor Victor DiRita said.
"I don’t want to be discriminated against because I’m different from the majority of people in the field I’m going into,” animal science sophomore Sophia Yabut said. “I just want to have the same opportunities that a white person would have.”
Director of MSU’s Forensic Anthropology Laboratory Carolyn Isaac digs into the process used to identify human remains. She said forensic anthropologists hold the role of "stewards" to individuals who may have been victims of violent crimes.
In connection with the death of MSU student Phat Nguyen, the Ingham Country Prosecutor’s Office dismissed Hoang John Huu Pham’s charges on Sept. 15. "The pledge that died was 100% hazed to death, I will say that,” a witness said. “I saw it first thing — they obviously wouldn’t do it to themselves, somebody made them do it.”
Host Lily Guiney and guest senior city reporter Wajeeha Kamal discuss the aftermath of the Meijer shooting case of DeAnthony Vanatten and the East Lansing Police Department.
Books that deal with LGBTQ+ topics, as well as ones that speak on race, are very important to read, said gay and lesbian studies special collections librarian Eli Landaverde, and they are often the ones targeted the most.
"This is Native land, we belong here, we're supposed to be here," Neely Bardwell said. "That's one of the biggest things that we're fighting against at the University level, is getting them to recognize that ... through violent processes that this University was able to be built."
“In order to build the trust, transparency, and accountability we can hold our board to, they need to undergo some professional development training and development in general,” Vice President for Academic Affairs Aaron Iturralde said.
A letter sent to Eric Scorsone was dated Sept. 9 and referred to a meeting held the same day, saying Scorsone's duties as board secretary were to end immediately. His departure from the position resulted in a change in his retirement date.
More than just a title, establishing MSU as a sanctuary campus would be "the beginning of what can be accomplished, not only for DACA students, but every single student on campus," Carl Austin Miller Grondin, vice president of DreaMSU said.