MSU men’s basketball assistant coach Dwayne Stephens has been elevated to the role of associate head coach, the athletics department announced on Tuesday.
Several Democratic legislators are proposing an increase to state and federal minimum wages, in an effort they have called “catching up” to the current economy and inflation rates.
The risks and benefits of City Center II will be subject for debate at the East Lansing City Council biweekly work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, on Tuesday.
As the mid-Michigan August primary inches closer, two MSU alumni vying for the title of Lansing’s 30th Circuit Court judge received endorsements from friends in high places. Last week, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, a former NBA player who attended MSU in 1978, endorsed local attorney Wanda Stokes for the position.
When MSU law professor Mae Kuykendall found out she was being published in The New York Times, she knew it was a race against the clock. Kuykendall wrote an Op-Ed piece entitled “A Way Out of the Same-Sex Marriage Mess” that was published on May 23.
When Steve Hershfield was looking for a fun way to blog last year, he never expected companies would be sending him clothing for his friends to model and review on his website, stateofproper.com.
Although just one Spartan finished “in the money” — meaning a top-eight placing — at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships last week, solid showings by MSU athletes has coach Walt Drenth hoping the experience pays dividends in the future.
MSU announced Monday that former basketball forward Draymond Green was chosen as the 2011-12 George Alderton Male Athlete of the Year, while women’s soccer forward Laura Heyboer and golfer Caroline Powers shared the George Alderton Female Co-Athlete of the Year honors.
While many students are out ordering their favorite drinks at one of East Lansing’s various bars, Diana Henry is stuck behind the counter serving them.
I’ve always found religion … interesting. I had it shoved in my face a bit last semester. First, when I was sent to take pictures of the Wells Hall preacher on a random Monday and spent 20 minutes trying not to listen to him telling anyone who would listen — and of course, everyone who wouldn’t — that we were all going to hell.
An email is a type of communication college graduates utilize to approach possible employers and to remain in contact with college associates. For alumni who still use their MSU accounts, this form of communication could be truncated, leaving many angered and confused about how to handle transferring their information and alerting their associates of this change in contact information.
Surrounded by piles of metal stacked several feet high, 16 groups of artists, welders and sculptors gathered to collect recycled material to be used in the fourth annual Old Town Scrapfest. The event, which is hosted by the Old Town Commercial Association, or OTCA, took place at 1 p.m.
Woody’s Oasis on Trowbridge Road is one step closer to serving alcohol with its Mediterranean cuisine, thanks to the East Lansing City Council.
For Jay Martello, selling textbooks back to bookstores at the end of each semester isn’t worth the hassle when he considered how much he’d actually get paid back. The graduate student said he prefers to buy his books and save them to hopefully sell to another student in his graduate program.
The MSU baseball team will have a new look in the infield in 2013, as it is tasked with replacing three players who started all 60 games this season.
After leaving his job with Afghanistan’s government and fighting for his home country of Afghanistan, losing one of his legs to an exploding land mine and spending time in a refugee camp in Moscow, Mohamad Nurzayee came to the U.S. in 2003 with goals and dreams he is now fulfilling.
Several Michigan legislators are working to repair crop damage caused by an early thaw by seeking financial relief for fruit farmers who have suffered crop losses.
When MSU women’s basketball coach Suzy Merchant was flipping pancakes Sunday morning, she knew she was doing it for the right reasons.
Despite displeasure from the state Legislature, fellow students and parents, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon seems bent on keeping the new health care mandate in place.
