Sam Kilberg and 1,700 other MSU students are back from traveling the world. The political theory and constitutional democracy and international relations senior participated in the largest study abroad program in the nation, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager in the Office of Study Abroad.
Because of a high number of nonconforming student rental properties in East Lansing designated for single families, the city staff is working on plans during the next four months to possibly alter the zoning in these areas to find a balance between student-rental housing and owner-occupied housing.
Although the beginning of the school year can mean chaos and many adjustments, Stefan Fletcher has enough experience under his belt to lead the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, into a new school year with a fair amount of ease.
Lauren Wicinski wants to terminate people. And after three games this season, her new head coach Cathy George knows this much is true.
With just one day before the season opener, the No. 13 MSU football team’s highly hyped defense still has a few questions left to answer.
As the 2011 MSU men’s soccer season took off last year, a pair of its main competitors dropped like flies, leaving the front and back lines with gaping holes. Senior forward Domenic Barone and junior defender Kevin Cope both got struck with season-ending injuries before or just after the season began.
For the first time since Oct. 10, 2009, someone not named Kirk Cousins will take the first snap of the game for MSU’s season opener against Boise State on Friday night. After waiting in the reserves for three seasons, junior quarterback Andrew Maxwell is ready to take the reins and continue the success of his predecessor.
For Residential College in the Arts and Humanities freshman Cale Coduti, it all started with a pair of white shoes.
When clinical laboratory sciences junior Maggie Stach walks into class, she is met by curious stares and sideways glances directed at the four-legged companion at her side: her dog Albus, whom she currently is training to become a leader dog.
Ever since late July, when a terrible massacre occurred at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., police and media outlets have been looking for clues that could signify why James Holmes became an alleged murderer.
One of the touchiest things to even whisper to yourself in the confines of a locked bathroom involves those little blue placards that hang from the rearview mirror of a number of cars on campus and a myriad of cars across the nation.
A statement from the East Lansing Police Department today indicates it has identified many witnesses and a suspect related to the Sunday morning assault of journalism sophomore Zachary Tennen.
Before Nick Kowalski was a Spartan, he was a Mitt Romney supporter. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior started campaigning for Romney in 2008, when the Massachusetts governor was among a lineup of many trying to secure the GOP nomination.
Tension regarding an assault on journalism sophomore Zachary Tennen continues to build as the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, released a statement that the assault likely was not an anti-Semitic hate crime, despite claims from the Tennen family asserting otherwise.
The East Lansing City Council must select a replacement for departing council member Don Power by Sept. 21 following a unanimous vote at a council meeting Tuesday night.
Today marks the first day of the 2012-13 school year, bringing with it a new set of students, professors and administrators for the MSU college experience. About 7,800 incoming freshmen moved into the dorms Saturday and Sunday and received a surprise from MSU President Lou Anna K.
When Justin Lee, a first-generation Korean-American, came to MSU as a freshman this year, he was glad to no longer be one of a few minorities at his school. Now attending MSU, he enjoys spending time in the same environment as people from all across the world.
The 2012 presidential election season is the most negative campaign in recent years, with almost three-quarters of news content about President Barack Obama and presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney being negative, according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
From the minute she arrived Sunday morning at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Ingham County delegate at large Linda Lee Tarver has confidently displayed a button pinned to her shirt bearing one clear message: “Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud.”
The ASMSU 49th Session Kickoff meeting left Chairman Evan Martinak drenched with excitement for the new school year — and just plain drenched. The first meeting of the year for ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, included some of the typical business, as well as food, a beanbag toss and a dunk tank.