ASMSU President Evan Martinak announced on Friday that he will be resigning from his position as president of ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, because he will be graduating in December.
After a week off, the MSU hockey team returns to action with a home-and-home series with Western Michigan this weekend. The Spartans (3-5 overall) and Broncos (3-5-2, 2-2 NCHC) will face off at 7:05 p.m. at Munn Ice Arena on Friday night before heading to Kalamazoo, Mich., for a matchup at 7:05 p.m. Saturday at Lawson Ice Arena.
When Health Education Services Coordinator Dennis Martell was first hired at MSU twenty years ago, the MSU Food Bank needed a place to go. “It became a natural conversation, to have the bank here at Olin,” Martell said. “The dining room and kitchen here weren’t being utilized all the time. And to be honest, space is one of the most sought-after commodities sought after on this campus.”
College athletics are big business. From the growing facades of athletic venues to the expanding salaries of the coaches and staffs on the sidelines to the varying cost of tickets, concessions and merchandise along the concourse, athletic budgets have become as much as a topic for discussion as the teams and players that the program represents. For athletics director Mark Hollis and MSU’s athletics department, the discussion heated up this summer following a June 21 Board of Trustees meeting, where a 4.7 percent increase — a little more than $4 million — to the athletic budget was reported for the 2013-14 fiscal year. Multiple outlets, including The State News, reported the $4 million increase was expected to be allocated exclusively to the football program.
Starting in 2016, new motorcoaches will be required to have seat belts, according to a statement from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Officials said shoulder and lap belts would help reduce the risk of death or injury in a head-on collision and also reduce the risk of occupant ejection from the vehicle in rollover accidents.
East Lansing has high marks in LGBT equality, according to a national advocacy group. Human Rights Campaign, widely regarded as a premier advocacy group for LGBT rights and equality, released a report measuring LGBT equality in the U.S. and scored cities for factors such as non-discrimination in city employment.
Success after graduation is all any recent college graduate could hope for. After getting her advertising degree in 2012, MSU alumna Megan Barry found just that with Leahy-IFP Space Saver juices, teas and lemonades. In Beverage Industry magazine’s Top Beverage Package of 2013 competition, which will debut in the December issue, Barry’s design placed third, with 17 percent of the 1,489 online votes rounding out the top five contestants.
Nov. 22, 1963 started off as an ordinary day on MSU’s campus. Light rain pattered over the grounds as a November chill settled in, and students were finishing up their last classes for the week and preparing for a highly-anticipated football game against Illinois. No one was prepared for the news that came later. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who had stopped to speak at MSU on his campaign trail before he was elected, was assassinated in Dallas on that Friday afternoon.
Crop and soil sciences senior Pat Owens is one of three students that resides on the MSU Sheep and Teaching Research Facility and has been for two years. “It’s a lot of fun, you get to meet a lot more people living here and we get along really well with the boss,” Owens said.
Child abuse is rare at MSU but when it does occur the university now has a policy in place to help address the situation. The policy first was adopted in January. An updated in August, with the update allows for an in-house decision on whether to report prior incidents of child abuse that adult students disclose to MSU faculty or staff, usually verbally or through academic assignments.
Thursday evening, MSU’s Sankofa Graduate Association and other various student organizations came together to discuss the recent death of Renisha McBride and other acts of debated racial profiling. McBride was a 19-year-old woman who was shot to death on a porch in metro Detroit after seeking help after a car accident.
For the first time ever, No. 1 Michigan State will be tipping off against Virginia Tech tonight at the Coaches vs. Cancer semifinals in Brooklyn, N.Y. (9:30 p.m., TruTV) Head coach Tom Izzo said after practice Wednesday that, even after looking at tape, there still are surprises within the Hokies’ team.
The volleyball senior class has seen steady, season-by-season progression since joining the program. Coming in as freshmen, middle blocker Alexis Mathews, setter Kristen Kelsay and outside hitter Kelsey Kuipers entered a program that hadn’t seen a great amount of national success.
MSU head coach Mark Dantonio knows how dangerous a desperate team can be. That was his team a year ago — backed into a corner, needing a win on the final day of the season on Minnesota’s frozen field to secure bowl eligibility.
It’s ironic that students do not believe their own student government is in touch with them. ASMSU considers itself an entity whose goal is to “establish a collective student voice.”
Politicians, parents and even friends will tell you to stay in Michigan after graduation. I’ve heard about the brain drain more times than I can count, and I understand keeping grads in the state will help its recovery from the Great Recession.
As Angie Anderson hung up wreaths and lights around the Red Cedar Cafe, her gentle care for the restaurant and its patrons shined. “It puts people in a good mood,” Anderson, the owner and operator of Red Cedar Cafe, said of the decorations.
As a kid, Rachel York dreamt of having multiple careers. As she transitioned into adulthood she channeled her childhood dreams to became a multifaceted performer working as a actress, comedienne, singer and dancer.
The dean of MSU’s College of Communication Arts & Sciences announced that she accepted a top administrative position at the University of Georgia Thursday afternoon in a letter to college faculty and staff. Dean Pamela Whitten’s position as the vice president for academic affairs and provost for the University of Georgia will begin on Feb.
MSU’s Sankofa Graduate Association, along with various other student organizations, will be addressing the recent tragic death of Renisha McBride through a discussion event at 4 p.m. today in the Union’s Multicultural Center. The event, Justice For Renisha McBride: A discussion of race, gender and violence, will serve as a conversation, addressing the issue and teaching students ways to take action and protect themselves, said Janelle Edwards, program coordinator for the Sankofa Graduate Association.