In recent years, the Day of the Dead, or El Día de los Muertos, has become much more than just a Mexican celebration of the lives of deceased loved ones.
At Tuesday’s Steering Committee Meeting, university officials and MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon discussed issues surrounding the alleged sexual assault Saturday night that occurred in Armstrong Hall as well as the string of racial incidents that have taken place throughout this semester.
Dozens of pumpkins laid smashed on a black tarp on Mayo Hall’s basketball court as about 40 members of the MSU community gathered Tuesday to “smash” racism.
The MSU College of Engineering has taken another step toward improving its Engineering Residential Experience, or ERE, program with the opening of the Transportation Commons, sponsored by General Electric Co., on the third floor of East Wilson Hall.
Even before the season began, Tom Saxton and the MSU women’s soccer team were eyeing the Big Ten Tournament.
MSU’s emotions were running high in the month’s first three games, but at his weekly press conference Tuesday, head coach Mark Dantonio said emotion appeared to be a missing ingredient Saturday
By combining a variety of local talent, generous community members and tea, Jared Berman hopes to help make a difference in the lives of local children.
This letter is in response to “Agreement not needed; just listen” (SN 11/1). I am an agnostic, which means my life has been spent questioning the nature of God(s), death, justice and morality.
The Big Ten conference announced its 2011 women’s soccer All-Big Ten teams and award-winners on Tuesday, and several Spartans found their names on the list.
Many of today’s artists — whether their passion is painting, photography, music or another medium — utilize cutting-edge technology in their work. But when anyone with minimum skills using a software program such as Adobe Photoshop can make a piece in a few hours that, at least to unschooled eyes, looks as professional and impressive as a gallery piece, is it art or technology?
MSU should adopt the Common Application: an online, established application high school students can send college applications to more than 450 universities across the nation.
The MSU men’s soccer team heads to Akron, Ohio, to take on the defending national champions No.
A hashtag symbol — now synonymous with the Twitter revolution and a new, digital form of grassroots organization — is painted on a banner at Lansing’s Reutter Park, set against the primitive tent city of the Occupy Lansing protestors.
Despite multiple intentional fires set at Theta Chi fraternity house and an alleged sexual assault in Armstrong Hall, Halloween weekend brought typical weekend crimes to the city.
With more than 450 higher education institutions already using the Common Application for undergraduate admission, many colleges across the country are considering the switch from an individualized process to more universally accepted applications.
After receiving campuswide support last year for a proposed gender-neutral housing policy, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, hopes to pick up on efforts in turning the bill into policy. RHA President Sarah Pomeroy said moving the effort forward is a matter of clearly defining a feasible method to implement the policy and discussing it with administrators. Several student groups spearheaded the effort last year to implement gender-neutral housing — which would allow students in residence halls to live with members of the opposite sex — and RHA hopes to continue progress by picking up where other groups left off. Both RHA and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed bills in the spring supporting the effort. Pomeroy said she is unsure of the route the effort will take this year, but the next step is meeting with President Lou Anna K.
The MSU men’s basketball team released photos of its special camouflage uniforms for the Nov. 11 Quicken Loans Carrier Classic.
A 24-year-old Brighton, Mich., man was hit by a vehicle Friday at about 2:30 a.m. at the corner of Abbot Road and Saginaw Avenue, according to an East Lansing Police report.
The East Lansing City Council is slated to hear a presentation on the Ingham County Veterans’ Treatment Court at its 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
When Eric Starke was considering going to MSU for college, he wasn’t sure if he could give up his habit of snowboarding six days a week.