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.
English senior Brian Jones said one of the reasons he never purchased a membership to any of the intramural facilities at MSU was because of the cost.
MSU officials and students have said proposed federal changes to human subject research regulations could impact university research in both positive and negative ways.
When Serhat Bucak heard about the 7.2-magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Turkey’s Van province on Oct.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and for most students, wearing a warm and heavy coat is becoming a necessity.
The State News recently published an article on the Avian Science Club’s annual Thanksgiving turkey sale (SN 9/27). As a MSU Avian Science Club e-board member, someone who spends time at the MSU Poultry Research and Teaching Center and an employee of the MSU Meat Laboratory, I can say I am thoroughly unimpressed with how the turkey sale and the club as a whole were represented.
A group of MSU professors will work with Michigan State Police officials to expand on strategies to respond to and prevent crime.
For the next month, men are encouraged to put away their razors and let their facial hair grow freely in celebration of No Shave November.
From 9-11 p.m. this Friday and Saturday, the MSU Observatory, located at the corner of Forest and College roads, will open its doors to the public for a free viewing of MSU’s 0.6 meter telescope.
At 7 p.m. today in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building auditorium, members of the Migrations of Islam project will show “The Taqwacores,” a film chronicling a Muslim punk-rock scene. The film examines being young and Muslim in the U.S.
Usually, I start my look back at the weekend with something that signified the No. 15 MSU football team’s previous game.
While many questions race through my mind during the average school week, one in particular bombarded me from many angles this week. Do I agree with Kirk? My response: I’m not sure; I will know on Thursday. I know I am a strong supporter of the Constitution and the corresponding Bill of Rights, and I believe in Jesus Christ.
They’ve done it again. One year after winning MSU’s first women’s cross country Big Ten title since 2001, the Spartans claimed their second straight conference championship Sunday in Urbana, Ill. Walt Drenth, director of MSU cross country and track and field, said the team was aiming to add another championship win to its résumé prior to this season. “As a group, they sat down together before the season started and talked about what they would like to accomplish,” Drenth said.
There was a time and a place for the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, to be indignant; that time was in the days immediately following the writing of racial slurs on students’ doors. The organization should have stifled that demeanor when speaking to MSU’s administration.
MSU men’s soccer team senior goalie Jeremy Clark was named Big Ten Defensive Co-Player of the Week by the conference. Ohio State goalie Matt Lampson shares the award with Clark. Clark made three saves in a 2-1 victory against Western Michigan on Wednesday in preparation for Sunday’s matchup with Michigan. The goalie made nine saves for the shutout against the Wolverines, including a five-shot flurry in the final five minutes of the game. Clark is second in the Big Ten with a .804 save percentage on the season.