East Lansing city attorneys will continue representing the city in a lawsuit alleging the East Lansing City Council violated the Open Meetings Act and made key decisions in secret.
On a spring evening in 2006 outside Landon Hall, Matthew Milia and Zachary Nichols sat on a bench playing the musical saw and singing together for one of the very first times. The two soon were joined by fellow student Anna Burch, who was walking by, knew the song the pair was playing and jumped in, spurring an impromptu gig that would become the basis of the folk group Frontier Ruckus’ rustic sound.
A 20-year-old female student reported her wallet was stolen at about 2:45 p.m. Feb. 27 from the Sparty’s Convenience Store in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Jason Warner has referred to resident mentors as RAs since he first arrived at MSU simply because he was more familiar with the term. Soon, however, the sophomore in the landscape and nursery management program who lives on campus won’t have to worry about this accidental misnaming — resident mentors officially will be renamed resident assistants in the near future.
Five students have been nominated for the vice presidential position for next year’s session of the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, following a period of nominations at RHA’s Wednesday night meeting.
Hitting the road for the Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, the MSU women’s basketball team (19-10 overall, 11-5 Big Ten) is out to do one thing: make magic. The Spartans will open the tournament against No. 12-seed Indiana (6-23, 1-15) on Thursday (approximately 8:25 p.m., Big Ten Network), and senior forward Lykendra Johnson said her team is confident after winning seven of the past eight games.
When race car drivers crash on the track, such as at Monday’s Daytona 500, a neck device innovated by MSU researchers is helping some stay safe from harm. The HANS neck device is one of many examples showing MSU’s success at bringing bright ideas to fruition, business professor Roger Calantone said.
At long last, a much-needed break for the No. 15 MSU hockey team. Following a weekend split on the road at Notre Dame, the Spartans (19-13-4 overall, 14-11-3-2 CCHA) have a bye week to catch their breath before meeting Miami (Ohio) in a best-of-three series in the quarterfinal round of the CCHA Tournament.
It might be early in the season, but Justin Scanlon still hasn’t forgotten the way the last one ended. The senior shortstop and captain of the MSU baseball team walked off the field at Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, at the end of May 2011 with his head down and his dreams dashed, as Illinois beat the Spartans in the Big Ten Tournament championship game by a final score of 9-1.
After winning seven out of their nine games this season, the women’s tennis team heads to Orlando, Fla., this week for the season’s first away competition.
When Shreya Singh decided she wanted to run for president of the Central Student Government at the University of Michigan, she realized she had different ideas than the two main political parties.
Recently, a column was posted in The State News criticizing the treatment of America in Hollywood (“America not what media makes it,” SN 2/29). The author suggested that the American media should present family values, strong morals and the ideals America was founded on.
When I read the opinion piece entitled “Don’t ignore Israel’s wrongdoings,” written by guest columnist Mitch Goldsmith, which ran in this publication on Feb. 22, I immediately was taken aback.
Tuesday night’s election brought out members of the East Lansing community to vote on the controversial $53 million public school bond proposal, resulting in a slight victory for those against the proposal — 52.64 percent to 47.36 percent.
MSU alumna Karen Nielsen, who runs her own practice in osteopathic manipulative medicine in New York City, spends her days working with patients to find ways to relieve their pain. But when she heads for home at the end of the day, the best relief she finds comes through music.
With the opening of their latest exhibit, employees of the Lansing Art Gallery, 119 N. Washington Square, in Lansing, hope to make Michigan art more accessible to the community.
Michigan ended up being a sigh of relief for Mitt Romney and his supporters. After a tense race with polls showing a dead heat all the way up to election day, the GOP presidential candidate narrowly beat former Pennsylvania Sen.
Bloomington, Ind. — Every last player on the No. 5 MSU men’s basketball team’s roster knew what to expect Tuesday night against No. 18 Indiana.
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.