Three computer hardware devices allegedly were stolen from North Case Hall between 2:30 p.m. Jan. 15 and 8 a.m. Jan. 16, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Heading into West Lafayette, Ind. to face the Big Ten’s top defensive team, the Spartans knew points would be tough to come by, but it quickly proved to be more of a challenge than MSU could handle. The MSU women’s basketball team (12-8 overall, 4-3 Big Ten) struggled to score for most of the night, losing to Purdue (17-3, 7-0) 67-49.
As the elimination of the Michigan Business Tax, or MBT — one of the most touted items by Republicans in this last budget cycle — goes into effect in time for tax season, small businesses in East Lansing are seeing mixed impacts.
About 13 local citizens criticized a bond proposal that would close down a local elementary school during a public meeting held Monday night at the East Lansing Public Library. Some attendees worried about the expense of the bond proposal, which would renovate and reconfigure five of the city’s six elementary schools and put the current site of Red Cedar Elementary School, 1110 Narcissus Drive, to another use.
Xiao-huang Yin wishes he was born in the Chinese calendar’s Year of the Dragon. “Anyone born in the year of the dragon is considered the best,” said Yin, director of Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities in the Asian Studies Center. “They’re good in marriage, life or basically anything.”
What lies beneath campus, the steam tunnels in particular, give life to everything across MSU — as long as they don’t collapse.
A recent study released by Deloitte and a professor from MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business shows Generation Y prefers hybrid and electric cars to traditional gasoline-only vehicles. The survey was given to 1,500 Generation Y, Generation X and Baby Boomer consumers in the U.S., 250 Gen Y consumers in China and 300 Gen Y consumers in Western Europe.
Although there might be an increasing demand for cadavers in Michigan’s medical schools, MSU’s supply of donated bodies is alive and well.
The moment Rebecca Jacobs listens to a song on her computer, all of her Facebook friends know. The chemical engineering freshman uses a free application called Spotify, which links to its users’ Facebook profiles and enables their friends to see what they are listening to.
Out of the four seasons, winter seems to bring the most pain to my wallet. With the combination of after-New Year’s sales, the high price of outerwear and the sheer fact that there is nothing else to do in the cold, the resulting credit card bills are enough to give anyone an aneurysm.
When Tom Izzo opened his weekly press conference yesterday, it sounded as if he wished he woke up coaching in a different conference.
_Although his hockey career is over, former Spartan and professional hockey player Anson Carter is busier than he’s ever been.
As one of the few cities in Michigan with a nondiscrimination ordinance protecting gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation, East Lansing is a front-runner in our state in the fight against hate.
This week, I am writing in response to a comment collected from an MSU student in The State News article, “NCAA rejects scholarship cuts to student-athletes.” (SN 1/18) The comment suggested that NCAA student-athletes receive enough publicity already for their athletic participation, and the amount of money they save from their athletic aid in the form of tuition, book stipends and/or room and board should be enough. As a member of an Olympic sport team, I find this comment to be laughable.
The university’s transition to 100 percent renewable energy is becoming a realistic possibility rather than just talk, which is an encouraging step forward for MSU.
MSU’s chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity has lost its charter, according to a statement from the fraternity’s National Board of Directors.
President Barack Obama will speak at the University of Michigan on Friday, just three days after the president delivers his State of the Union Address, a U-M spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
Lansing’s entertainment district is set to be expanded to attract Michigan residents, once a new casino is built to draw visitors to the downtown area and raise revenue for local scholarships.
A glimpse of the Spartan basketball future was seen late in MSU’s 83-58 blowout win against Purdue. With 2:48 left in the game, Travis Trice softly lobbed a pass to Branden Dawson for a cheer-inducing, authoritative slam. The connection between the freshmen guards ended a 10-point, five-minute stretch from Dawson.
A political godsend for Republicans came last Wednesday in time for Gov. Rick Snyder’s State of the State speech: new numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing Michigan’s unemployment rate had dropped to 9.3 percent — the lowest since September 2008.