Doris Parks loved old books. More than anything, she loved searching for books. There was rarely a dusty, ornamented hardback she couldn’t find for an MSU student or professor in need.
Following five months in the Capital Area Humane Society in Lansing, Mich., and an additional month in a foster home, Woody, a pit bull mix, finally found a permanent home Saturday.
It’s a familiar scene for the city of East Lansing. The summer rolls along, MSU students leave the city, and with them, they take their business to other locales.
MSU announced, after a delay, an opening date for the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum of Nov. 9, when it will host an opening ceremony.
For any students still hoping to get their hands on football season tickets this year — too late. The MSU athletics department confirmed Sunday that the ticket packages are sold out for the 2012 season. “I would say the demand is at an all-time high, and when we get the final numbers, I’m confident that we’ll break the season ticket record,” Associate Athletics Director John Lewandowski said. There were fewer than 200 tickets remaining on Thursday, and the last of them were sold over the course of the weekend.
The seven-day long event featured more than 40 musical acts on two stages, and this weekend’s headliners included rock groups The Wallflowers and Three Days Grace, as well as ska-punk group Sublime with Rome.
Spartans appear to be taking over the world. In my two months abroad so far, I have not only been inundated with countless Facebook photo albums and blog posts connecting me with friends everywhere from Spain to Azerbaijan, but I have also crossed paths with many MSU students and alumni.
Following a setback from the original opening date, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum has now set a date for opening: Nov.
Several Spartan football players have been named to preseason watch lists for various honors and awards for the 2012 season.
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum will open Nov. 9 with an outdoor public ceremony, MSU announced today.
Through the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U, MSU and Greater Lansing are on track to having a one-gigabit-per-second Internet connection available to all students and community members. The local Gig.U initiative is part of the national University Community Next Generation Innovation Project, working to connect communities around universities with the students and school. The project was first introduced in February by the Greater Lansing Gig.U coalition, which includes the Lansing Economic Area Partnership, the Prima Civitas Foundation, or PCF, 325 E.
However they chose to enjoy it, fans from all walks of life were having a good time Wednesday evening at Common Ground Music Festival, whether they were kicked back in the shade, standing in front of the main stage or indulging in a variety of food and beverages.
A second man involved in the death of MSU freshman Olivia Pryor was arraigned Wednesday in East Lansing’s 54B District Court, 101 Linden St., according to MSU police. Detroit resident Dishon Tyran Ambrose, 19, faces a felony charge of selling or furnishing to a minor causing death. Pryor was discovered dead in her room in South Hubbard Hall on the morning of March 19 by roommate, Quishanna Coleman.
East Lansing citizens will have the chance to get their meals from some nontraditional avenues in the near future. A policy resolution passed with a 4-0 vote by East Lansing City Council Tuesday evening, allowing for the addition of two food trucks to operate in the downtown area.
Significant cuts to the federal food stamps program are likely to be decided on in a U.S. House of Representatives bill that modifies authorization for food and farm programs across the country. The bill, a sweeping renewal of farming, nutrition and agriculture programs and a big point of contention, is a $1.6 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as food stamps. U.S.
Tuesday morning, Campus Archeologist and graduate student Katy Meyers shoveled the West Circle construction site, searching for clues about a discovered wall belonging to a structure lost in time. A week earlier, MSU Physical Plant Geographic Information Systems analyst Nick Voss found a wall below the ground next to Morrill Hall, and archeologists were called to check the scene.
When Faramarz Vafaee heard his friend was leaving to go back to Iran to visit his ailing mother, he never thought his friend wouldn’t be able to make it back to MSU. After spending more than two years at MSU working on his doctorate in mechanical engineering, Saleh Rezaei Ravesh was denied re-entrance into the U.S. But his friends at MSU are fighting back.
Brody Square has found a way to put some of its food waste to good use. With renovations taking place in Brody Complex Neighborhood, food waste from Brody Square has been turned into compost used in a new hoop house, a rounded greenhouse where plants are grown in the ground, that’s being built on the south side of Bailey Hall.
Dressed in a dog-patterned zip-up shirt, groomer Denise Culham removed her scissors from her waistband, and wisps of poodle hair fell to the floor. It was time for Cookie’s haircut.
The third time was the charm for Seth Mitchell. Or rather, the third sport was the charm.