Despite a slight decrease in enrollment from last fall, the MSU graduate school has seen an increase of about 11 percent from where the school stood a decade ago — about 8 percent more than the average graduate-school enrollment, according to a recent report from the Council of Graduate Schools.
President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney squared off in their first debate Wednesday evening, hoping to persuade undecided voters on education and tax issues and highlighting college costs within the first few minutes of the debate.
For the first time in MSU history, enrollment has reached the 48,000 mark, according to statistics recently released by the Office of the Registrar.
More than six months since MSU freshman Olivia Pryor was found dead in her South Hubbard Hall dorm room, two men still face charges in what likely will be an immensely complicated case.
When mathematics professor Clifford Weil entered his new classroom and stood in the same place where, just three days ago, his predecessor reportedly had a mental breakdown in front of his students, Weil was lighthearted as if nothing had happened.
As headlines of a broken job market and a lack of hiring opportunities fill the news, hundreds of companies came to campus Wednesday to prove they still are on the hunt for strong candidates for employment.
MSU police currently are investigating a reported larceny that occurred in the Music Practice Building between 7:30 p.m.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, will provide students with an opportunity to pre-emptively handle the calories from Halloween candy at the end of October.
With the way the receiving game has struggled through five weeks of the season, it wasn’t a huge surprise when MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio bumped junior wideout Bennie Fowler to second string in favor of true freshman Aaron Burbridge.
On Monday, MSU professor John McCarthy suffered from what apparently was a nervous breakdown, stripping off his clothes and shouting at students until MSU police escorted him from the Engineering Building to hospital care.
As we all know, Michigan State is an extremely large place. Our campus is filled with more than 45,000 students, and many of those students are involved in extracurricular activities or one of the more than 500 student organizations on campus.
Some people only need three weeks in order to achieve what most people would in three months. That is exactly what MSU field hockey sophomore midfielder Becky Stiles did as she played for the Spartans. She traveled to Mexico with Team USA for the Junior Pan American Games and went to school all within three weeks of time.
With a 3-6-1 overall record, the MSU men’s soccer team might not be exactly where it wanted to be, but it is far from giving up.
More than 20 years of coaching only has produced one win for MSU women’s soccer head coach Tom Saxton against Illinois when the Spartans travel to Champaign, Ill., but he and this year’s team (8-3-2, 2-2-1 Big Ten) will have the chance to add to that at 7 p.m. on Thursday.
Just after celebrating its 50th anniversary, the MSU College of Arts and Letters, or CAL, started the I am CAL contest, an opportunity for its students to display another side of themselves in creative way. “We’re encouraging students to make a video that’s less than two minutes that tells their story,” professional writing and communication junior Kathryn Palczewski said.
On Monday afternoon, the typical hustle and bustle of the International Center at lunchtime briefly was interrupted when Lansing Area Ukulele Group, or L.A.U.G.H., took center stage and held a flash mob performance.
In a chamber packed with residents, the East Lansing City Council fielded a multitude of concerns regarding DTN’s request to allow rezoning for their Garten Haus property, located at the intersection of Gunson and Beech streets, which was unanimously denied by council at Tuesday night’s lengthy council meeting.
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After a brief encounter, a Facebook conversation and months of casual dating, Ra’Nia Hawkins is happily content walking around campus hand in hand with her significant other this fall — something she said anyone involved in an intimate relationship would be pleased about.
The MSU professor who screamed at students in the Engineering Building and stripped, walking up and down the ground floor hallway, has struggled with apparent depression for more than a decade, a source told The State News on Tuesday.