Although snow, sleet and every other type of precipitation was pouring down on the streets of East Lansing, that didn’t stop people from coming out to the city’s second-annual Girls’ Day Out event Saturday downtown.
“Peace, social justice, and unity should not stop after one year,” said Lauren Moore, president of Successful Black Women of MSU, or SBWMSU. “This is an opportunity for all people to build knowledge and make connections.”
Using GoSoapBox software, students can indicate when they are confused by the lecture material, instructors can administer quizzes and polls, and the class can provide anonymous feedback to teacher questions.
If the White House has anything to say about it, students soon can look forward to a little extra help when it comes to managing the cost of a college education.
With warmer weather on the way, many organizations have been rolling out the finish line ribbons to host 5K charity events, including the Senior Class Council.
Despite a mixture of snow, hail and rain, runners and volunteers came out in force to support MSU Safe Place on Sunday afternoon at the 19th-annual Race for the Place 5K.
On stage, two men crashed their way through an improvised scene. They were basing the performance on cues written by the audience. Every thirty seconds, the men would pause, read off one of the cues, and the performance would veer in a wildly new direction. The setting: a clock tower. The plot: a fear of worms. And then the revelations: “You’re adopted!” “You’re also adopted!” The scene concluded with the actors embracing and the audience enthusiastically applauding.
Mark Dantonio is weighing all his options in the ongoing search to replace Le’Veon Bell — even looking at players from the opposite side of the ball.
After a weekend that saw the MSU women’s tennis team (10-14 overall, 0-9 Big Ten) lose to Iowa, 4-3, on Saturday, and to No. 12 Nebraska, 6-1, on Sunday at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility, the only thing they could do was suck it up and look forward.
Even with a series victory in hand, the weekend did not come without a significant loss for the MSU baseball team.
A weekend fraught with inclement weather, including long periods of heavy snow, multiple delays and a pair of extra inning games against the Big Ten’s top team wasn’t exactly in the game plan.
Despite some recent competition between some of the black fraternities and sororities on campus to recruit members, Greek Weekend event coordinator and Alpha Phi Alpha member Philip Lewis said it was a success.
For those people who want to do something different after they finish their finals — or for those who aren’t in school and simply want to do something different — the city of Grand Ledge, Mich., presents an event for the Saturday and Sunday immediately following finals week: the Victorian Days.
Just like the decision to have an abortion should be entirely in the hands of the woman, the decision to take the morning-after pill is a choice only one person should be expected to make.
I am standing at the urinal pissing, and I need to whip out my phone to check Twitter. That’s how bad it has gotten. I can’t even drain my body of fluids without stuffing information back into it at the same time.
The light snowfall in East Lansing is expected to continue through the day and taper off this evening around 7-8 p.m., said Evan Webb, meteorologist with the the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
At Friday morning’s Board of Trustees meeting, the trustees unanimously approved a 3.9 percent room and board rate increase, construction of a new Bio Engineering Facility and a 25-megawatt electrical duct bank to help power the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB.
For the next 10 days, visitors to the first MSU Science Festival can expect more than their average field trip.
Supply chain management junior Evan Spreng’s head popped out of the thick brush as his eyes scanned the horizon. Camouflaged among the pine shrubs, hiding was a matter of life or death.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama submitted his Fiscal Year 2014 budget proposal allocating increased funds for higher education.