A taste of Middle Eastern culture will grace Club Rush’s dance floor on Thursday night during the 9th Annual Hafla, an event hosted by MSU’s Arab Cultural Society.
What if we could talk about our challenges and diagnosis with a mental disorder publicly like we do with breast cancer, and lung cancer, and leukemia, and ovarian cancer? Everybody knows somebody that has struggled with their mental health; they just don’t know it yet.
Late Saturday evening, MSU student and aspiring musician Dustyn Frolka died after being found partially clothed and in respiratory distress at the side of an entrance ramp on Interstate 69 in Bath Township, authorities said Monday. Bath Township police said his death “is being treated as a homicide until detectives learn otherwise.” He is survived by his daughter Melody Lou, who was born in April 2013. Frolka was featured in a March 2013 State News article highlighting rap and hip-hop artists in the MSU community. “I just grew up listening to the radio as a kid,” Frolka said in an interview at the time.
Frigid weather and a boatload of new snow on the way is leading students to skip classes, flock to bus stations and bundle up to combat the elements. Visibility could remain hindered by drifting snow throughout Tuesday. Further weather woes are predicted for Wednesday and Thursday.
Graduate teaching assistants are set to receive more than $100,000 in back wages that the university hadn’t paid them in two semesters after a dispute between the Graduate Employees Union and MSU was resolved. The union’s successful claim stemmed from a complaint that teaching assistants were not paid during a three-day overlap between the past spring and summer semesters, where more than 300 teaching assistants were essentially working two jobs. Union president Dan Clark said per their contract with MSU, the spring semester appointment period for teaching assistants went from Jan.
The red, white and blue of the U.S. men’s hockey team has been soaring in the 2014 Winter Olympics, with a sprinkle of green and white contributing to the success. Former Spartan and current U.S.
A series of power outages and water main breaks have affected hundreds of residents in East Lansing this winter. The power outage on Sunday affecting 200 Lansing Board of Water and Light customers was caused by an underground cable fault completely unrelated to the cold or snow, BWL communications director Stephen Serkaian said. The water main breaks, however, have much to do with the winter weather. “These last few weeks we’ve had extended severe cold weather and that causes an increase in broken pipes,” Serkaian said. There were 19 water main breaks between Jan.
Michigan is a top-producing state for the Peace Corps and apparently that trait has been passed to its universities as well.
As sub-freezing temperatures persist this winter, some parts of the Red Cedar River are icing over for the first time in 10 years.
With the soft melodies of a ukulele filling the room, students, faculty and community members were given a chance to escape their worries beneath a blanket of stars on Monday afternoon. Once a month, Health4U, an MSU health promotion program, holds a “Rest With Music” event in Abrams Planetarium.
Gary Harris hasn’t been himself for the last six games.
With just four games remaining in the regular season, it’s unquestionably “crunch time” for the No. 23 women’s basketball team.
I knew I was exactly where I needed to be when Stephanie looked up at me after finishing her math exam and said, “I did it.”
In a general sense, many more students currently are experiencing psychological stress that impacts their lives as students. In a clinical sense, more students are seeking mental health treatment, and their presenting concerns are more severe.
When I was a little tike shooting hoops in my driveway, I always pictured myself as one person — a starting guard for the Michigan State Spartans.
Less than 24 hours after seeing his then-No. 9 Spartans fall to Nebraska, head coach Tom Izzo was back at the podium fielding questions.
Bath Township police are investigating the death of an MSU student who they believe was murdered this weekend.
Lansing Board of Water and customers momentarily lost power Sunday. At 11:35 a.m., about 200 customers lost power, according to a statement from BWL communications director Stephen Serkaian. The outages extended west to Kensington Road, east to Abbott Road, north to Grand River Avenue and south to Michigan Avenue. The statement said an underground cable fault was to blame for the outages.
Following claims of intimidation and harassment between Theatre students, many questions remain unanswered. Last week, officials confirmed that harassing messages were written on a white board in Fairchild Theatre.