East Lansing City Council set to pick new mayor Tuesday

A week after East Lansing residents elected two new members to its city council, both newly-appointed and longtime council members are keeping quiet about who they plan to appoint as mayor. At the newly-elected council’s first meeting, scheduled for Tuesday evening, the main order of business will be swearing in the council and electing a new mayor. Each council member interviewed said they either won’t publicly disclose who they are voting for or have not yet decided.

Money stolen from student's Owen Hall dorm room

A considerable amount of money was stolen from a student’s room between Nov. 4-6 in East Owen Hall, according to police. MSU Police Sgt.

ROTC honors veterans by visiting retirement homes

The MSU Army ROTC Spartan Battalion paid tribute to local veterans Monday by visiting three area retirement homes and giving formal presentations as part of their Veteran’s Day festivities. The presentations, which varied slightly per retirement community, consisted of prayer, a flag folding ceremony and a recitation of St. Crispins Day speech, taken from Shakespeare’s “Henry V.” Afterward, the cadets hung around to talk to the veterans and hand out mini-American flags. The presentations took place at Burcham Hills, Edgewood and Independence Village retirement communities.

International enrollment, study abroad program nationally ranked

When it comes to students studying abroad and international enrollment, the 2013 Open Door Report released by the Institute of International Education on Monday established MSU as a leader in international engagement, at least in plurality. MSU had the fourth most students sent abroad in the 2011-2012 school year, according to the report, with 2,380 students studying abroad. This equates to almost five percent of the university’s total enrollment.

Typhoon Haiyan worries Filipino students, inspires fundraising drive

Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines Friday, taking the lives of thousands and leaving some MSU students in fear of what will come next. With eight students who are on visa from the Philippines, the massive storm that destroyed Tacloban and other neighboring cities led to concerned students and fundraising events in the coming weeks.

Field hockey seniors wanted to give freshman Big Ten title

Accomplishment. Pride. Happiness. Head coach Helen Knull said those three words are among thousands the team could use to describe winning the Big Ten Championship. But for three of the members of the field hockey team, perhaps a different word is more fitting: familiar.

Field hockey seniors wanted to give freshman Big Ten title

Accomplishment. Pride. Happiness. Head coach Helen Knull said those three words are among thousands the team could use to describe winning the Big Ten Championship. But for three of the members of the field hockey team, perhaps a different word is more fitting: familiar.

Trustee spending out of control, unnecessary

Letter: Trustee expenses not unreasonable

Make no mistake, the return to MSU from cultivating relationships and fundraising far outweigh the list of trustee expenses identified by the press.

MSU women's basketball faces No. 6 Notre Dame

As the men prepare to take on top-ranked Kentucky, Suzy Merchant and the No. 20 MSU women’s basketball team will face its own challenge Monday night. The Spartans will open their season against No. 7 Notre Dame at 7 p.m. in South Bend, Ind.

MSU not involved in growing trend of universities "Googling" applicants

Future MSU students won’t need to worry about the potential of university officials prying on their personal lives through Google searching their names or checking their Facebook accounts, a growing trend among other universities that was recently highlighted in a survey. Kaplan Test Prep released a survey late last month revealing that 29 percent of 381 college admissions officers surveyed have Google-searched their applicants, whereas 31 percent have checked the applicants’ Facebook or other social media accounts to get to know more about them.

Online tools to boost study skills

As the intensity of class work continues to increase and finals week looms closer, students might be hunting for ways to maximize their studying and ward off procrastination. Below are a few websites geared to help increase productivity.

The long road back

The fall of 2012 wasn’t kind to the MSU women’s soccer team. Three players suffered anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, tears across a stretch of games, an injury becoming increasingly common in women’s athletics. Then-sophomore Lisa Vogel and then-senior Kelsey Kassabf each tore an ACL. Kassab tore hers just one game prior to teammate Jessica White’s, while Vogel tore hers in a game against Iowa. In only her third soccer match in a Spartan uniform, White suffered her torn ACL, something female athletes face more than men.

Expenses for trustees include plane trips, sports tickets

Several members of the MSU Board of Trustees are under fire for spending university money after a Detroit TV station report revealed lavish travel and event expenses.

Spartans take Big Ten tournament

An imperfect regular season for the field hockey team ended in triumph. For the first time since 2009, the No. 3-seeded Spartans won the Big Ten Championship on Sunday, overcoming a 2-0 halftime deficit to beat No. 5-seeded Iowa, 3-2. Senior midfielder Adelle Lever scored the game-winner with less than eight minutes left, scoring off a rebound. She had three consecutive attempts missed before her fourth found the back of the net.

Art auction raises cancer funding

Two weeks to the day before the annual Art for Charlie, things took a turn for the worse for the Waller family.

Lansing Mitten Mavens host roller derby bout

As the girls circled, the commentator’s mid-ranged drone echoed across the track, his words impossible to decipher from the near-hysterical screams of derby-girls melding with the referee’s periodic whistles. At times, the girls’ voices take on an almost religious, speaking-in-tongues-type fervor; the shrillness piercing fans’ ears with the fury and energy of the Almighty Himself.

Theatre freshmen put on original performance during Freshman Showcase

The Department of Theatre housed its seventh annual Freshman Showcase this weekend with several showings of “Off With Her Head,” a play inspired by the classic children’s tale “Alice in Wonderland.” The cast, consisting of 17 freshman along with a production team, collaborated to devise a storyline, create a set and present an hour-long performance to introduce themselves to the faculty and staff of the MSU Department of Theatre.

Impression 5 event introduces kids to science

About 70 members of the MSU community spent Saturday at the Impression 5 Science Center in Lansing to help cultivate a new generation of potential scientists. Volunteers educated children from preschool through fifth grade about the human body in an event called PhUn Day. MSU undergraduate, graduate and medical students, as well as staff and faculty, were present to help.

Michigan public universities to offer in-state tuition for veterans

Veterans now can receive in-state tuition at Michigan’s public universities, the organization representing the state’s 15 public universities announced Friday. MSU joined the list of colleges offering the benefit of in-state tuition for all veterans about a week ago, said Mike Boulus, executive director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan.