Students and survivors gathered to protest the MSU Board of Trustees meeting. Though the meeting was online, they were joined by trustee Dennis Denno and trustee Rema Vassar.
Hundreds of graduates and their loved ones gathered at the Breslin Center to celebrate for fall commencement to celebrate their accomplishments. Keynote speaker John Hildebrand, the international secretary for the National Academy of Sciences was among them, receiving an honorary Doctor of Science Degree.
“It's clear that (our voices have) had an impact,” Elizabeth Maurer, a sister survivor, said. “Hearing the ‘yes’ was still just so surreal.”
Several students at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting demanded that Berkey Hall— one of the sites of the February campus mass shooting—remain closed despite the university’s plans to open the building for the spring 2024 semester.
Michigan State University will publicly release the findings of an outside investigation into who at the university may have leaked the identity of Brenda Tracy, the rape survivor and advocate who the university found to have been sexually harassed by fired football coach Mel Tucker.
The pledges — which were endorsed by Guskiewicz and passed by the board — say the trustees are committed to “building trust” through a clarified role in running the university.
Alcohol will be available at the Breslin Center and Munn Ice Arena starting in January 2024, Associate Athletic Director Matt Larson announced Thursday.
With winter break approaching, most of the campus will shut down and schedules will change, meaning MSU students will have to decide if they want to travel back to their hometown or stick out the three weeks on campus. Students staying on campus will have resources available to them during the break.
If students, faculty and staff experience discrimination at Michigan State University, reporting their experience to the Office of Civil Rights is a click away. But misinformation and a lack of education on the university’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, or ADP, can prevent community members – often students – from doing so.
“I guarantee you and promise you that we will work with the community with the highest level of integrity and honesty, with hopefully an appreciation and understanding that we can't always be as transparent until a certain point, especially around personnel matters," Guskiewicz said. “But, I believe in transparency.”
After being raped by a football player, this MSU student's search for accountability ended in her deemed not credible
The Associated Students of MSU debated impeaching the vice president of student allocations at its last general assembly meeting of the semester. The Dec. 7 meeting also included bills that supported a Big Ten movement to stop campus hazing and the Equality Act.
With the appointment of Michigan State University president-elect Kevin Guskiewicz, students say they hope for a new administration marked by stability and open communication with the student body.
MSU faculty members of Residence Education and Housing Service and student groups acknowledge an incident occurred on Dec. 2.
Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees appointed Kevin Guskiewicz to the university’s vacated presidency, the university announced at a special meeting held Friday morning.
The Harmful Language Remediation Working Group at MSU is a group dedicated to eradicating harmful language and vocabulary within MSU library catalogs.
The Roost, which was the most popular restaurant in the MSU Union food court prior to its closing in February 2023, will be moving to the International Center and opening in early January 2024, according to Associate Director of Retail Dining Gina Keilen.
Michigan State University has settled a lawsuit with Christie Poitra, the former director of the university’s Native American Institute, for $150,000.
Finals week is traditionally one of the most stressful times of the year for college students. Lack of sleep from all nighters spent studying and troubles with time management result in unhealthy study habits that only increase stress levels.