In a few years, Detroit’s urban space might just be the best location to cultivate a green thumb. MSU officials have proposed an initiative to spur urban farming within city limits and turn vacant land back for community use, modeled after similar international programs, said Chris Peterson, director of MSU’s Product Center.
This Tuesday, the East Lansing City Council is set to consider an application from a fraternity to expand its current building location, an issue dating back to last year that continually has clashed with current zoning regulations in the area.
As warmer weather rolls in, student motorcyclists will be able to feel the wind rushing through their hair for the first time. A new law, effective last week, allows motorcyclists to ride without helmets, ending the nearly 50-year-long safety requirement.
A 22-year-old woman from Holt, Mich. reported her purse and its contents were stolen between 4-5 p.m. April 10 from the basement of Kresge Art Center, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Some of the best memories of Raymar Morgan’s life came during his time at MSU. After playing basketball overseas for the past two years, he came back to the campus where he spent four years on the MSU men’s basketball team and speak to Jewish students about his time in Israel. Morgan spoke to students at the RCAH Theatre in Snyder and Phillips halls on Monday night. The Israel on Campus Coalition and MSU Hillel organized the event.
You don’t know John Jakubik. You might not notice the 6-foot-1, 190-pound Jakubik if you sat next to him on the bus, saw him at a party or even worked with him on a group project. But he’s getting noticed somewhere else. As a walk-on sophomore wide receiver, Jakubik quickly has made a name for himself within the MSU football coaching staff.
In recalling the way his season ended a year ago, Justin Scanlon doesn’t want to overlook the importance of midweek games. The then-junior shortstop of the MSU baseball team was part of a group that was on the outside looking in as co-Big Ten champion Illinois nabbed the only Big Ten slot in the NCAA Tournament.
Human biology senior Margaret Love takes a break after swimming laps Monday at IM Sports-West. Love and her sister, second-year law student Elizabeth Love, work out four times a week together and swim every Monday.
Wind advisories on Monday did not stop kinesiology junior Max Golec from strolling through the courtyard and gardens behind the new Molecular Plant Sciences Building, which officially opened Friday.
After taking the Medical College Admission Test three times and applying to seven different medical schools during the past few years, first-year medical student Paul Mulvey found the MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine was his only option.
Each day, about 180 cows produce waste at the MSU Dairy Teaching and Research Center, and in the winter, it is not uncommon for that waste to pile up. Workers at the center try to haul all of the waste out to the fields, but sometimes that trip is difficult to make in the winter months, leaving the center with a mess too big to manage, said Bob Kreft, farm manager at the center.
Law enforcement members throughout East Lansing and MSU are working to keep tradition alive by upping the presence of ceremonial honor guards in their departments. This May, the MSU Police Department and the East Lansing Fire Department will host trainings for officers interested in being a part of an honor guard, a ceremonial unit often used to honor fallen officers or to represent police, fire or military units in public presentations, such as parades.
Remi Hahn isn’t worried about final exams. The interior design sophomore said although he has two exams and a presentation to complete before he can relax for summer break, he isn’t concerned with getting good grades.
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.