A new school year means new classes. So once again, students have to pull out their wallets and pay for expensive textbooks.
Going to a predominantly white institution can be challenging for African American females. Believe it or not one of their biggest challenges is finding someone on campus that can actually do their hair.
It’s that time of year again. Time to pack up all your stuff and move back to school. Leaving your home and your childhood friends behind can be hard, but going back to a place where you have the freedom to do whatever you want makes the transition a little bit easier.
Googly eyes, painting with flowers, and yarn art are just some of the activities at Camp Monet, an art camp put on by the MSU Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.
Michigan State's W.J. Beal Botanical Garden hosted its third concert of the summer on Friday, Aug 7, when Oleg and Natalia Bezuglova performed a their duet at lunchtime. The Bezuglova's are both graduate students here at MSU and their performance is exactly what organizers of the event had in mind when setting up the Music in the Garden program. "This is exactly what we were shooting for on this sort of event," Botanical Technician Pete Murray said.
Rusted metal, old car doors, and old fence wire may seem like trash to some people but to others it is a work of art.
Rotating carousels, maneuvering forklifts, boxes stacked to the ceiling—this is the scenery of MSU’s University Stores, located at 166 Service Rd. Aside from the large warehouse, University stores also has a small shop in front where apparel, office supplies, batteries, etc. is sold.
Launched May 11 by MSU alumnus Skye Durrant and Brandon Bertrang, LawnGuru focuses on providing a new way to order lawn care services. What makes it similar to Uber is that LawnGuru is an app that allows customers to sign up to get their lawn cut and also offers different functions that improve customer’s lawn care experience.
Common Ground Music Festival finished on Sunday with headliners Empire Of The Sun, The Flaming Lips and Man Man. The bands each played rock music with their own creative twist.
MSU’s campus is packed throughout the academic year with more than 40,000 students, but during the summer MSU is host to a younger generation of possible Spartans. This summer alone more than 200 groups and 50,000 people will participate in programs ranging from fashion design to video game design, MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said via email. With thousands of children participating in MSU’s camps, the campus can still seem just as crowded as students see it during the academic year.
Sights and sounds from the opening night of Common Ground Music Festival 2015.
Muslim students are fasting during the holy month of the Islamic calendar, which is called Ramadan. For some international students, the difference of observing the holy month in the U.S. presents a challenge.
On the Fourth of July, many people from Lansing, East Lansing and the surrounding areas gathered near the State Capitol Building to watch the annual parade.
MSU has been around since 1855 and has had a long and rich history. A lot of that history is buried beneath us.
Jessica Steeley jsteeley@statenews.com MSU alumna Emily Kieliszewski recently won the 2015 Miss Michigan Pageant, winning the title of Miss Michigan as well as scholarship money to further her education.
This week numerous Michigan craft beers are taking over the Lansing bar scene in celebration of the Fourth Annual Lansing Beer Week (LBW). LBW is a week-long event promoting locally made beers and celebrating craft beer events in the Lansing area, organizer Paul Starr said.
The summer event, 3rd Wednesday Open Mic Night, began Wednesday night at the Ann Street Plaza in Downtown East Lansing.
It started off as just a regular day for friends HallieJo Battisfore and Giselle Schneider.
“Surviving the Coming Zombie Apocalypse – Disasters, Catastrophes, and Human Behavior” is an award-winning class taught online every summer at MSU. Human geography junior Richard Wetzel said the course discusses disasters and catastrophes and how well people respond and retain their humanity in these situations.
Cap City Athletic 1847, the first-year youth soccer club of Lansing, is primed to begin its inaugural season. Cap City held tryouts this past weekend at the East Lansing Soccer Complex, for which club president Dan Jury said more kids showed up than expected. The club’s new members celebrated their registration Tuesday night with a World Cup watch-party at the Spartan Hall of Fame Cafe in East Lansing.