The consensus among East Lansing City Council members was clear during discussions last Friday: the best candidate for the city manager position worked right down the hallway.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine is continuing its expansion in Grand Rapids with the $12 million purchase of the Grand Rapids Press headquarters and surrounding parking lots.
Gov. Rick Snyder and MSU administrators both showed support for President Barack Obama’s call to suppress the rising cost of college, which he outlined in a speech at the University of Michigan last Friday.
The first phase of construction for the multimillion dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees at their meeting last Friday, along with several other campus construction projects.
A 43-year-old female MSU employee reported a wooden step stool stolen from the Main Library between 10 p.m. Jan 14, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
In MSU athletics lore, Kirk Gibson and Earl Morrall stand head and shoulders above most for their time in East Lansing and beyond. Nearly 600 people came out to honor Morrall and Gibson at the 2012 MSU Baseball First Pitch Dinner Saturday at the Kellogg Center.
Last year, Derrick Nix and Garrick Sherman made for a unique friendship. This season, with Sherman now at Notre Dame, Nix — a junior center for the No. 10 men’s basketball team — has paired with sophomore center Adreian Payne to make up a new age Bash Brother combination. Nix and Payne have utilized their vastly different styles of play to help the Spartans (17-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) stay atop the conference standings.
In its first true road series since December 9th, the No. 16 hockey team was swept in two games this weekend by Ferris State.
A group of traveling performers from Jilin University in China traveled 6,000 miles to bring a little bit of home to the Lansing community. On Sunday afternoon, MSU’s Confucius Institute held the Chinese New Year Spring Festival to honor the Year of the Dragon at Dart Auditorium at Lansing Community College.
On Friday night, students gathered to watch an enraged Liam Neeson hunt for sex trafficking criminals that captured his daughter in the 2008 movie “Taken.” But for most of those caught in the snares of human trafficking, there isn’t an ex-CIA agent father there to help them escape, members of the MSU chapter of International Justice Mission said at the event.
The off-color websites — without any X-rated content on them — include spartansagas.xxx, spartanswill.xxx and two other similar variations.
On Saturday, 12 comedians took the stage to compete to be the Last Spartan Standing, although they left some students dissatisfied by what they felt were inappropriate jokes.
The MSU Comics Forum will take place this Friday and Saturday to celebrate comics and graphic storytelling.
With a few moments of silence, students plan to remember the 64th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of peaceful protests and nonviolent resistance in India. The MSU Indian Students Organization, ISO, plan to pay homage in remembrance of his life and ideologies at about 6 p.m. tonight in the Spartan Village Community Center, graduate student Sivaram Murthy, ISO’s web coordinator, said.
MSU Information Technology Resources released a revised Acceptable Use Policy, or AUP, on Friday. The AUP, which was last revised in 1992, governs the use of MSU’s IT resources.
The Michigan Paranormal Research Association, or MPRA, will host a presentation today from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road.
MSU alumna Ariadna Ginez, a Spanish teacher for Teach for America, or TFA, spoke to more than 200 people Saturday afternoon in Wells Hall at the Now More Than Ever Rally for Educational Equity, presented by TFA and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Andrew Blumberg brought the sights and sounds of the Las Vegas Strip to East Lansing on Saturday. The hospitality business senior was one of many students in the School of Hospitality Business who helped host Vegas Night 2012.
Genomics and molecular genetics sophomore Bryndan Arnold is passionate about two things: MSU and music.
Whenever I start to get a grasp of the MSU hockey team, it makes a quantum leap in a different direction. Like a schizophrenic uncle or a cranky girlfriend, the team shifts personalities on a dime and leaves spectators and media wondering which version is the real one. So, which one is it?