East Lansing residents voted against a controversial $53 million bond proposal on Tuesday night after months of at times heated debate between community members.
To this day, Clinton Township, Mich., resident Monica Hajek claims her doctor rigged the delivery of her daughter, communication junior Taylor Hajek, 20 years ago in order to have a baby born on leap year.
Bloomington, Ind. — On Dec. 28, 2011, the Indiana men’s basketball team came to Breslin Center and lost a back-and-forth game to MSU, 80-65.
When marketing freshman Mia Jefferson came to MSU in fall 2011, she heard rumors from students that the laundry room in her building would damage her clothes, and she did not look forward to spending hours doing laundry.
On the surface, senior wrestlers Curran Jacobs and Anthony Jones Jr. couldn’t be more different. As expressive as they come, Jacobs speaks with confidence and never shies away from the spotlight. When he came to MSU five years ago, he didn’t have a flashy wrestling résumé, but that didn’t stop him from working his way up to the No. 18 ranked wrestler in the nation at 174 pounds.
Ultra-high-speed broadband Internet service is coming to the mid-Michigan area with the launch of the Greater Lansing University Community Next Innovation Project, or Gig.U.
When Suzy Merchant was asked last week if it was important to secure a bye in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament, she paused. The question would have been laughable a month earlier when the MSU women’s basketball team (19-10 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) had lost four straight games for the first time in four years and was fighting itself more than its opponents.
“From the banks of the Nile to the banks of the Red Cedar.” That’s how Todd Fenton, an associate professor of anthropology at MSU, describes his current project, in which he and students working in his Giltner Hall lab are observing medieval Nubian skeletons, which four MSU graduate students helped excavate from Africa, on loan from the British Museum.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed the importance of reducing students’ time to graduate at Tuesday’s University Council meeting.
In 2002, East Lansing resident Kevin Epling dealt with a tragedy few can dream of: his son’s choice to take his own life. Epling discussed bullying, which led to his son Matt’s mental distress and eventual suicide, in a panel discussion Monday evening in the Engineering Building. The event was hosted by the national coed honors fraternity Phi Sigma Pi.
After spending a week relaxing and lying on a Florida beach during her spring break two years ago, Erica Swoish felt like she got nothing out of her vacation. So last year, when the communication junior heard about a program that would help her explore a number of businesses in her future career field, she jumped at the chance.
Hoping to lock up an outright Big Ten Championship, the No. 6 MSU men’s basketball team trails No.
Endless sunshine, resort towns and sandy beaches — that’s what many students will see during their spring break. But for those who aren’t traveling anywhere for the weeklong vacation, their view might be somewhat less exciting, filled with familiar campus buildings, the businesses that line Grand River Avenue and East Lansing locals.
The recent efforts to ban smoking on campus have been focused on moralizing about students’ personal choices rather than improving health.
Recently, I was thinking about what has become of modern patriotism. Hollywood, the window the world uses to look into the lives of Americans, has fallen victim to xenocentrism — the desire to be like another culture — and the pressures of foreign producers.
A speedy bill passed by the state Senate last week could take away the rights of graduate student employees across the state. The bill might not have as big of an effect on MSU as other universities, but it could create problems for the university in the future.
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With less than four hours left before polls in 17 voting precincts across East Lansing are scheduled to close, voter turnout has been mixed, with campus locations seeing smaller numbers compared to residential polls with higher turnouts.
Last summer, when medical student Danielle Harik attended a conference on osteopathic medicine, she was struck when member groups passed a resolution asking colleges to go smoke free.
GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul made a final pitch to the MSU community the day before polls opened in a rally on campus yesterday, giving a broad overview of his platform that includes scaling back America’s presence overseas.