East Lansing residents might see cuts in public safety services if suggested changes to the city’s budget during the East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday work session are put in place.
For the third time in three weeks, the Spartans are about to find themselves surrounded by Buckeyes. With the Big Ten championship title under its belt, the MSU men’s basketball team will begin its quest for its third National Championship, facing LIU Brooklyn at 9:30 p.m.
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has closed its investigation on an anonymous complaint that called the planned closure of Red Cedar Elementary School a discriminatory act.
City officials have moved forward with refinancing for a portion of the long-running City Center II project, extending its financial commitment to the project as the expiration deadline for its site plan approaches.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill into law Monday that strips graduate student research assistants of the right to unionize.
A bill inspired by MSU’s undergraduate student government for underage drinking is closer to becoming law after passing in a state Senate committee Monday.
With a slew of successful sophomores and freshmen, the MSU Debate Team has a shot at a national title later this month, after earning a top-16 ranking in the country and garnering wins at other national competitions. MSU Director of Debate Casey Harrigan said the team’s successes this year have earned members a spot in the upcoming National Debate Tournament, or NDT, to begin March 29 at Emory University in Atlanta.
Monir Moniruzzaman spent a year overseas searching for people who had sold their kidneys on the black market and what he found left him shocked. In his research on the organ market in Bangladesh, which was recently published by the Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the assistant professor of anthropology and faculty member of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences said organ brokers and the media take advantage of the people in desperate need of money and manipulate them into selling their organs to local or overseas residents.
Fourth of July will have more of a spark this year thanks to a new Michigan law allowing consumers to access more powerful fireworks, and although no stores in the state currently are carrying rockets or firecrackers, police are warning residents about potential noise violations using the explosives could bring with the approaching St. Patrick’s Day weekend and NCAA Tournament.
For international relations sophomore Kanza Khan, Thursday won’t be the first time she has worn a head scarf. But it will be the first time she wears it for an entire day. “I’m kind of nervous to see reactions in classes,” she said. “Obviously, people are going to ask questions. I hope to give them the proper answers.”
Documentary film editor Toby Shimin will be on campus to show a screening of the film “Buck” and host a discussion with students starting at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building as part of the Media Sandbox Visiting Lecture Series.
When Branden Dawson went down with a season-ending knee injury in the MSU men’s basketball team’s regular season finale a week and a half ago, the Spartans didn’t have much time to adjust. Four days later, MSU traveled to Indianapolis for the Big Ten Tournament without the freshman guard — who started all 31 games before tearing his left anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, in a 72-70 loss to Ohio State.
The thought of returning home has crossed Taylor Alton’s mind more than once this season. The senior forward is a Colorado native, and after learning this year’s Final Four will be held in Denver, Alton said her teammates began telling her they would help her find her way home.
As the four CCHA Tournament semifinalists gear up for a chance at the title and an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament this weekend in Detroit, the No. 16 MSU hockey team is forced to wait to know its fate.
In spending the first 17 games of its season on the road, the prospect of making a return to McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field is more than appealing at this point to head coach Jake Boss and the MSU baseball team.
Trading in coats and scarves for shorts and T-shirts, many students in East Lansing were celebrating Tuesday after a spell of potentially record-breaking warm weather hit Michigan, experts said.
The College of Education’s graduate programs in elementary and secondary education rank No. 1 of the best graduate programs by the U.S. News & World Report for yet another year.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon discussed preparations for handling campus celebrations throughout the duration of the men’s basketball team’s NCAA Tournament run at Tuesday’s Steering Committee meeting.
Eight years ago, when Molly Reeser was a sophomore at MSU, she met a girl named Casey Foote while giving horseback riding lessons at a farm in Haslett.
When staring out into his classroom following spring break every year, John Schaubroeck doesn’t see the same students he taught just a week earlier. Fatigued and unmotivated, Schaubroeck’s students — the ones who actually show up to class — stare back at him, and he can tell their desire to work isn’t as strong as it once was. “You can see it in their eyes,” the professor of psychology and management said.