After State Rep. Bob Genetski, R-Saugatuck, was arrested for drunken driving on MSU’s campus, most people would assume he would want to stay as far away as possible from the university to avoid an appearance of bias, but that isn’t the case.
Students and other East Lansing residents were greeted with a different kind of April shower Tuesday as a sprinkling of snow fell from the skies. The snow likely is a result of a strong low pressure area in New England, which brought colder air into the state from central Canada and inviting lake effect snow showers to Michigan, said Mark Sekelsky, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
Ireland’s first female president, Mary Robinson, and the director of the National Science Foundation, Subra Suresh, are slated to speak at MSU’s spring commencement, according to an MSU release. Robinson served as president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and currently serves as president of the Mary Robinson Foundation — Climate Justice.
After years of sitting silent, a low buzz has been building in recent weeks around a multimillion-dollar redevelopment effort that has been hampered by various city government considerations and financial difficulties.
A 20-year-old student reported her Vera Bradley wristlet and black iPhone 3G were stolen between 11:40 and 11:50 a.m. April 5 from a women’s bathroom in South Wonders Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU basketball player Derrick Nix admitted to smoking a marijuana joint prior to a traffic stop at 12:20 a.m. April 3, according to an incident report obtained from the East Lansing Police Department by The State News.
On Monday evening, members of Campus Living Services and Residence Life held a town hall meeting for students in light of recent concerns regarding resident mentors being assigned roommates next year, although they said the policy is unlikely to change.
In an effort to improve the quality and convenience of children’s health care in mid-Michigan, MSU and Sparrow Health System announced a partnership to consolidate the majority of their pediatric specialty services into a single still-to-be-determined location.
When Dan Snyder woke up Monday morning, he got ready for class with rolled up socks, a few Nerf guns and an orange bandana in tow. These are his essentials as a human hoping to make it through this week’s zombie apocalypse on campus.
Voter turnout for ASMSU’s representative elections increased significantly from last year, with 9.4 percent of eligible undergraduate students showing up to the vote, according to ASMSU officials.
When biology junior Christine Sattler had a bad day her freshman year, she dealt with it differently than most students. Instead of listening to music or exercising, all Sattler needed was to come home to her pet hedgehog, Honey. “If I had a bad day, I could always come back (to my dorm) and pick her up,” Sattler said. “She would play with me, and it was really nice. Pets always provide unconditional love.”
For the approximately 150 students who came to MSU from foster care, adjusting to college life without the support of a family can be difficult, but with help from a new state program, things might get easier. The new Young Adult Voluntary Foster Care program, which changed the age young adults can stay under foster care from 18 to 21, went into effect April 2.
When Winta Gebrezgher first enrolled in Geography of Environment and Development, she had no idea half of the class would be taught in Portuguese, half of her classmates would be Brazilian students and her professors would be teaching her from almost 3,800 miles away at a university in Brazil.
When students arrive back on campus next fall for a fresh semester, they will find many changes to MSU’s campus, including new engagement centers in the neighborhoods, said Kelley Bishop, assistant vice president in the Division of Student Affairs and Services. With renovations being made to several residence halls, MSU has decided to install two more engagement centers.
When Katie Pastor begins her work day, she doesn’t do so in a cubicle or other traditional-looking office space.
The recent trouble Derrick Nix got himself into with a traffic stop and drugs in the car could have a lot of people wondering what’s at stake for the MSU men’s basketball team’s future. Although the issue will affect the junior center and his future, I’m not sure his legal troubles will change the outlook of the team too much next season.
For the MSU baseball team, last weekend was a disappointing one. Not only did the Spartans (19-10 overall, 3-3 Big Ten) drop two of three games, they did so against rival Michigan. MSU’s one win in the series came Sunday in a 10-8 thriller that lasted 13 innings, and junior Tony Wieber, who was the winning pitcher against the Wolverines, said he hopes that springboards the Spartans forward as they prepare for a 3:05 p.m. matchup with Notre Dame on Tuesday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
If you watch the news, particularly news about foreign countries, you could easily believe that natural disasters are followed by looting, crime and individualistic behavior to survive.
Here we are: the final weeks of the academic year and, consequently, my final column. As I brainstormed for a topic for this week, I decided that my last column should be a culmination of the things that brought me to this point, something I really wanted to put out there while I had the opportunity and the platform.
We’ve all hit that 3 p.m. moment of hunger. It’s that awkward time between lunch and dinner when you’re hungry enough to snack but don’t want a full meal. And some of us are in between classes and don’t have the time to stop at a cafeteria — if we even have a meal plan — or can’t make the trek to Grand River Avenue.