With the end of the semester and final exams approaching for many students, the MSU libraries likely will see an increase of people hitting the books. But for some ASMSU representatives, the existing weekend study hours in the Main Library don’t provide students enough time to study.
Sir Ken Robinson still can remember a time he was sitting in a restaurant when he noticed a couple obviously on a date. As he watched them, he said they weren’t staring longingly into each other’s eyes, as you might expect a couple to do. Instead, they were looking at their cell phones, texting. Robinson said this is one of the many dangers of the tools of technology. But despite the drawback of technology sometimes distracting us from forming stronger relationships, Robinson told students when he visited MSU yesterday that such devices actually can be used for good when it comes to creativity.
Since he was born, expensive medical treatment has helped keep Mikhail Filipovitch’s heart beating. The history junior — who attended a roundtable discussion hosted by national nonprofit organization Young Invincibles on Wednesday in the Union’s Multicultural Center — said he doesn’t have health insurance, and because of the pre-existing heart condition he has, health insurance companies won’t give him coverage.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, invited MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to its weekly meeting Wednesday night to discuss a number of university issues, including increases to tuition and the continued effort to address smoking on campus.
Even without walls, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is a functioning facility at MSU — at least in the virtual sense. Officials recently launched the Virtual Broad Art Museum, designed to give users the opportunity not only to tour the interior and exterior of the building but interact with several online art projects, museum director Michael Rush said. “Ever since I got here, this is something that I’ve wanted to do,” Rush said.
While some students might spend this summer lounging by a beach, working a summer job or taking classes, third-year veterinary student Erica Ward is going to be scrubbing down and bandaging up elephants in Thailand.
As the MSU men’s basketball team has stepped up on the hardwood this postseason, advancing to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, this year’s squad also has stepped up in the classroom.
When the summer construction season heats up, city officials intend to use a new ordinance to guide the creation of bike lanes and other accessibility measures as they upgrade city roads.
Thanks to a bit of faith and encouragement from his brother, Craig Palm’s music career has blossomed.
With the premiere of the movie rendition of “The Hunger Games,” which was first a book by Suzanne Collins, quickly approaching, it’s interesting for me to see the chaos that has ensued on MSU’s campus.
After falling to No. 31 in the regional qualifying score, or RQS, rankings, the MSU gymnasts should be on their heels as they head into the Big Ten Championship in Iowa City, Iowa on Saturday. The Spartans (7-3-1) are coming off a tough 196.025-192.700 road loss to No. 21 Michigan, and their score of 192.700 allowed a couple of teams to jump ahead of them in the rankings, dropping three spots from No. 28 and potentially putting them in the hot seat to be one of the teams left out of the top 36 that qualify for regionals.
Brett Perlini and Tanner Sorenson are at the opposite ends of their career at MSU. Both forwards for the Spartan hockey program, one’s a senior, one’s a freshman. One is headed to the NHL after this season, the other more than likely back to his dorm room. One represents the wave of the past, one is a major part of the arc of the future.
About a year ago at this time, the MSU baseball team returned home to a frozen baseball field and the bitter chill of March. This year has been a much different story. Having won six of their last seven games to cap a 17-game road trip, the Spartans (10-7) return home to host Oakland in the first series of the year at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field.
After years of being at the end of jokes, Detroit finally is looking at some serious restructuring. The emergency manager law has come to its ultimate test, starting in Benton Harbor, then to Flint and finally to Detroit.
A couple weeks ago, many MSU students got a jump on the recent warm weather by traveling south for spring break to catch some waves and sun. Others, however, left their bathing suits at home and instead packed up old sweatshirts, blue jeans and ratty tennis shoes.
Just a month after Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero unexpectedly announced his unlikely plans for a city casino, he is moving forward with plans that are still unlikely to come to fruition. Few expected the first announcement for the project, and even fewer expected him to move forward before receiving the necessary approvals.
An East Lansing man has been charged in federal court on charges of distribution and possession of child pornography, according to U.S. District Court records.
When MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon was a little girl, she wanted to play catcher for the New York Yankees. Someday being the face of a university with more than 45,000 students was far from her mind.
The East Lansing City Council approved an ordinance at its Tuesday night meeting to amend the city’s current conditional rezoning process. The process allows landowners to submit new requests to lift or limit their property’s restrictions.
It was a typical Monday morning for prenursing freshman Quishanna Coleman until she was slammed with a devastating reality. Her roommate and longtime best friend Olivia Pryor, with whom she had eaten dinner with the night before, was lying unresponsive in her bed.