Volunteering at Haven House, which provides emergency housing and support for families in need in the Lansing area, has become a routine for some members of MSU Fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon.
With a revamped edition of a typical 5k, Spartans Rebuilding Michigan, a volunteer organization at MSU, hosted an obstacle-filled race last Saturday.
Retired MSU physics staff member Eugene Kales is trying to rekindle student interest in the MSU Bridge Club. Kales, who has been teaching Bridge, a trick-taking card game, for around 30 years, used to be the faculty advisor for the club. However, the last member of the organization graduated this past year and there’s a new need for interested students, Kales said.
During her sophomore year at MSU, political science senior Greta Carlson was taken to Sparrow Hospital for three days on suicide watch. Carlson was suffering from depression and anxiety that stemmed from being sexually assaulted twice and having people doubt her when she told her story, she said. Although she had just started counseling in the sexual assault program, it wasn’t enough to escape how she felt.
“From Flint: Voices of a Poisoned City,” a Student Academy Award-winning documentary, will be featured at this years East Lansing Film Festival, according to the film's Facebook page.
In 2007, the city of East Lansing celebrated its 100th birthday. Now 109 years old, there are still parts of the city that hold onto its rustic roots through various homes. Not far from updated Grand River Avenue, Grove Street still sits in a time warp.
On Thursday night, the Starz show “Ash Vs. Evil Dead” premiered its first episode of the second season in Wells Hall.
With a goal to spread laughter and help those in need, former MSU student Sam Silverstein and Berkley, Mich. resident Nick Tenaglia, the founders of Laughter is the Cure to Life, have revamped their performance for a one night event. “Laughter is the cure is a non-profit that we set up that allows us to do what we love by putting on comedy shows, making weekly videos and trying to make people smile any way we can while raising money for childhood cancer,” Silverstein said.
Former MSU women’s basketball center Lauren Aitch is now the founder and CEO of two companies — Lady Aitch Designs, which creates suits for women, and Our Own, which creates undershirts for public service workers such as police officers, fire fighters and military personnel.
MSU experts discussed potential student outlooks in years to come on Tuesday at the Brave New Workplace: The Next Careers? panel. BA The event was a part of a series of panels called Sharper Focus/Wider Lens, said human resources and labor relations associate professor John Beck, the Honors College professor in charge of the events. He said panels are a way to get people from different areas of study together to discuss important issues.
There was a little something for everybody to do at the University Activities Board (UAB) Poké Pizza Party held at the International Center Sept. 23. Both avid Pokémon Go players and those who just remember the show from their childhood attended, like friends Meghan Patero and Dhatri Nandyala.
Taking their voices from the stage to the big screen, the Accafellas, an all-male a capella group at MSU, performed on Morning Express with Robin Meade on Sept. 23. Though the group was founded in 1996, this is the first time they’ve sung for a popular TV program.
MSUnicyclers: a new MSU club that’s taking over campus one wheel at a time. That’s the legacy environmental studies and sustainability junior Evan Fischer said he hopes to create with the club he helped cofound in the spring of 2016. Although he and current Lansing Community College emergency medical technician student Miranda Lieblein, had the idea in fall last year, it took them a while to get the ball rolling he said. Both students participated in the MSU Outdoors Club at the time, after those meetings they would go in the basement of IM West and practice their unicycling skills.
Despite the pitch-black sky, discouraging 5:45 a.m. flashing on nearby clocks and the 35-pound backpacks tugging on their shoulders, each cadet proudly and without hesitation went to attention as soon as the flag was raised. MSU’s Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or ROTC, meets three times a week to practice road marches, a three-mile march around campus. Sept. 21 was the first time many of the newest recruits would perform a road march. Mastering this skill is crucial to one’s success in the program and in the military as well.
Stargardt’s disease: “The most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration. The progressive vision loss associated with Stargardt disease is caused by the death of photoreceptor cells in the central portion of the retina called the macula,” according to blindness.org. In short, Stargardt’s disease decreases the sight of the carrier and makes their central vision progressively more blurry and distorted.
When Arturo Santa Cruz came to East Lansing in 1976, he had a dream of starting a restaurant unlike any other in the area--Mexican cuisine.
MSU alumna and 2016 gold medal Olympian, Emily Regan, is back in East Lansing to be recognized at Saturday's football game against the Wisconsin Badgers.
MSU has resources throughout campus to fit different student needs. However, there is always room for improvement, some MSU students said.
After leaving MSU 20 years ago without a degree to begin her career and now facing a deadly autoimmune disease, journalism senior Erin Kotecki re-enrolled at MSU online to finish what she started..
Vivid flashing lights and the cast of light through a prism are taken for granite each day. However, for doctoral student Henry Busby, those colors might as well be the dark side of the moon. Visually impaired because of a disease called achromatopsia, Busby's field of vision is subdued more than the average person.