Penn State’s student newspaper, The Daily Collegian, is reporting police are using mace to subdue riots on and around Penn State’s campus which began late Wednesday night.
Years of fluctuating student participation in the Academic Governance system has prompted administrators and ASMSU to reexamine the student voice in university policymaking. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. ASMSU Provost Zach Taylor said administrators have questioned whether students should continue to be involved, as ASMSU has had difficulties engaging with the governance system in years past, including having difficulty filling student seats and a lack of quality student participation. Students can hold about 50 total seats in Academic Governance, and currently students hold about 40, Taylor said.
The MSU men’s soccer team saw its season come to an end Wednesday with a 2-1 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten Tournament in the quarterfinals. The Spartans fell behind 2-0 in the first 47 minutes before netting a goal in the 81st minute. The Hoosiers netted the first goal in the 38th minute with a shot from about 22 yards out.
Even as the MSU hockey team looks ahead to the Western Michigan series, it has to look back on a tough week of practice. The team lost freshman Branden Carney for the season as he suffered a fracture to his C1 and C2 vertebrae last week.
It would be easy to feel disappointment about the way the season ended for MSU women’s soccer team. Sixty-four teams had their tickets punched for the NCAA Tournament, and even after one of the great seasons in program history, the “Spartans are on the outside looking in.
With the recent child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, the school’s Board of Trustees fired football head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier Wednesday.
A few hours prior to Joe Paterno being fired late Wednesday night, students responded to the scandal.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, met Wednesday night in McDonel Kiva to discuss issues, including its budget and transitional housing.
With November signifying Native American Heritage Month, the North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO, invited Webster to share his experiences both as a Native American and a military veteran during a Veteran’s Feast event in Holmes Hall cafeteria.
At 5 p.m. today on the first floor of Bessey Hall, the Undergraduate University Division, or UUD, is sponsoring the annual Marathon of Majors event for students that have questions about different majors and programs.
The Portage-based Wolverine Pipe Line Company held a simulated oil spill response drill Wednesday morning to prepare the company’s workers in case an oil spill ever occurred in the Red Cedar River.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, still is accepting applications for event funding for graduate student organizations, or GSOs, for the remainder of the semester.
The cherry has been placed on top of head coach Tom Izzo’s recruiting class, following the announcement that five-star Gary Harris recruit will commit to MSU — marking what could be one of the best recruiting classes for Izzo to date. Harris announced he was signing with the men’s basketball team on Wednesday. Harris is the 25th ranked recruit in the nation, and third rated guard according to Rivals.com.
After weeks of speculation, five-star basketball recruit Gary Harris announced he was signing with the MSU men’s basketball team on Wednesday night.
When two groups of hospitality business students in professor Bonnie Knutson’s Applied Marketing Lodging class turned in their capstone projects, they received much more than a passing grade.
SB 137 is now before the Michigan House. I encourage you to contact your State Representative and encourage them to vote against any version of SB 137 that includes the clause introduced by Republicans. Religious or moral conviction should not be a legitimate excuse for bullying, and any legislation that condones it is reprehensible.
A group of at least four people was pulled from the elevator at the Division Street parking ramp Wednesday night by East Lansing fire officials, after being stuck in the elevator for an undetermined period of time.
Unlike its neighbor Libya, Tunisia’s transition from authoritarian rule has been largely peaceful. They were the beginners of this revolutionary wave, and now they are the first winners of this spring going on in the Arab world. The question now becomes “Who will be the next leader replaced in the Arab world?”
There shouldn’t have to be press involved for the truth to come out at MSU. At the beginning of the situation at Penn State, local police were not involved at all. In both cases at MSU, law enforcement was involved from the beginning, but the athletics department refrained from taking immediate action until after widespread media attention.
Economic senior Walter Bivens thinks Eric Thomas is a name that should be better known on campus.