East Lansing police Sgt. Mark Vande Wouwer has rescued children from burning buildings and pursued criminals on foot, and now he’s being recognized for his work.
When it comes to her daily walk through campus, studio art and music performance senior Maria Navedo looks to art around campus to break up the monotony.
Use every child’s favorite artistic medium — crayons — to create your own home embellishment to decorate your living space. Supplies A box of crayons Glue Canvas or another type of display board Hair dryer Newspaper Directions 1.
You would think that after more than two centuries of practice, we’d know all about running accurate and efficient elections
As I race through campus on my way to class each day, far too often I realize my stomach’s demands have gone unnoticed. So I find myself queued up at Sparty’s alongside many other students, pondering the same old choices. But imagine a world where our campus maximized its culinary potential: a world where private food trucks were allowed on campus.
The MSU Board of Trustees is taking steps toward making MSU a “greener,” more environmentally friendly place, but once again, some students still think the university isn’t doing enough.
For political science and pre-law sophomore Jacob Santangelo, who makes a more than 20-hour drive to visit his family in New Mexico each summer, the increasing price of gas is on his mind.
MSU’s campus is projected to be powered by 40 percent renewable energy by fiscal year 2030, according to the Energy Transition Plan unanimously passed by the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday.
Construction work continues at a nearby development project on the site of Eastwood Towne Center, with officials hopeful that the new attraction will draw in MSU students.
Frank Ambrose, one of the environmental activists convicted for participation in the Agriculture Hall arson New Year’s Eve in 1999, had his sentence reduced by about three years on April 9 in the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, a court spokeswoman said.
Three up, three down. The MSU softball team remains the lone Big Ten team without a conference win as it was swept by No. 20 Michigan in a three-game weekend series in which the Spartans (11-30 overall, 0-12 Big Ten) were unable to score a single run.
Looking to keep pace in the Big Ten race, the MSU baseball team took both games of a doubleheader Sunday against Indiana 6-0 and 20-10, in Bloomington, Ind. Although head coach Jake Boss Jr. was pleased with the Spartans for registering a big day at the plate with 26 combined runs and 38 hits, he was most excited his team won two of three games in its first series spent entirely away from East Lansing.
MSU women’s basketball associate head coach Shane Clipfell was named Western Michigan’s head coach, the Broncos’ athletics department announced Friday.
To Samuel Atangana, running a 5K while being sprayed with paint sounded like a silly idea at first. But as he got sprayed at the first paint station on Sunday afternoon, the run turned out to be a lot more fun. The physiology junior was one of more than 350 people to participate in the first Spartan Splatter on Sunday to help raise money for the MSU chapter of the international organization Engineers Without Borders — a group that does a variety of engineering projects to help a community in El Salvador with sanitation problems.
Six years ago, graduate student Rachel Battaglia wanted to celebrate coming out during Pride Week, so she attended The Official MSU Drag Show to experience something new.
The East Lansing Public Library was packed Friday night as residents and city leaders gathered at a fundraiser to offer vocal and financial support for the center, stressing the institution’s importance to the community. More than 200 people attended the library’s Books, Bites and Bids silent auction at the library, 950 Abbot Road, the topper on a week of events that ran in conjunction with National Library Week.
Multicolored lanterns strung across the ceiling and the smell of steaming Asian food set the scene of the fourth annual 2012 Island Bazaar on Saturday afternoon.
Jogging or walking through 5 kilometers of campus Sunday afternoon, hundreds of students and community members took part in the 18th annual Race for the Place, an event meant to raise funds for MSU Safe Place. The race raised at least $18,000 in sponsorship dollars alone, not counting money coming in from participant fees, said Jonathan Kermiet, a health educator at Olin Health Center and one of the event coordinators.
More than 200 members of the greek community laughed and smiled as volleyballs flew through the air during Sigma Pi’s annual volleyball tournament Saturday afternoon to raise money for the Wounded Warrior Project, a charity that provides aid to servicemen, servicewomen and their families. The event raised about $1000 from entrance fees, donations and sunglasses the fraternity was selling.
With DJ Kap Slap rocking at Sparty’s Spring Party, horticulture sophomore Colin Dick wasn’t afraid to bust it loose on the dance floor alongside dozens of fellow Spartans.