From the moment Chelsea DePoole and Emma Eisenstein met their freshman year of high school, they were best friends. New to the school district, neither knew many other students.
MSU professor Sharif Shakrani has been released from university affiliation after a campus investigative committee found he engaged in research misconduct, university spokesman Kent Cassella said last week in a statement. An investigation led by two separate committees of university officials found Shakrani guilty of plagiarism and announced their findings in April after nearly eight months of investigation. As a fixed-term faculty member who worked in MSU’s Education Policy Center, Shakrani used unattributed material during a 2010 report examining the consequences of school district consolidation. Senior associate provost June Youatt made the decision to release him from the university and suspend him without pay beginning April 27.
There will be another convenient banking option for students when they return to campus this fall after Chase Bank opens its new branch in downtown East Lansing. The bank is expected to open in mid-August and will be located at 639 E.
A 31-year-old female jewelry vendor from Ypsilanti, Mich., allegedly was robbed at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday at the MSU Arts and Crafts Show, MSU police Sgt.
Why aren’t tax increases more commonly mentioned as a possible solution to America’s debt? I understand no one wants to give up anything; we’re conditioned not to. It’s the American way of life to hold on to everything you have so tightly they have to bury you with it. But we’ve been cutting and hacking and slashing at government spending for the last six months. Has it gotten us anywhere? It doesn’t look like it.
The Women’s Lounge inside the Union is an outdated ideal that (kind of) divides men and women. That’s no reason for it to go anywhere. The Women’s Lounge shouldn’t be eliminated because it is a piece of MSU tradition that still is in use — although those uses have evolved as times change. In addition, the options for replacing it don’t service students effectively.
The MSU baseball team (34-19 overall, 15-9 Big Ten), which clinched a share of the Big Ten championship with Illinois last week, heads to Huntington Park in Columbus, Ohio, Thursday to face Purdue (37-18, 15-10) at 3:35 p.m. The tournament berth marks MSU’s ninth appearance in the Big Ten Tournament and second in the last three years.
Joe Miller’s frustration with printing led him to develop his start-up company, Print a Forest. As the founder and president, his company developed an application to record the number of pages a user prints, and for every 100 pages printed, one tree is planted.
The East Lansing City Council discussed the city’s role in two redevelopment projects that will renovate the heart of downtown East Lansing.
Two students were involved in a car accident at 12:30 p.m. May 23 at Red Cedar and Chestnut roads, MSU police Sgt.
There are very few places on MSU’s campus that aren’t open to everyone, but one of them is the Women’s Lounge inside the Union.
Advertising senior and East Lansing resident Emma Eisenstein died of a ruptured spleen at about 8 a.m.
Many professors prohibit students from using Wikipedia for class assignments, considering it to be an unreliable source, but a nationwide initiative is working toward increasing the site’s credibility through student involvement. This past academic year, MSU teamed up with the Wikimedia Foundation to participate in the Wikipedia Public Policy Initiative, a program that enables students to edit, contribute to and write their own public policy-related Wikipedia articles. The initiative started with 14 classes in fall 2010 and grew to 33 by spring 2011.
For the recently hired MSU hockey head coach and former CCHA commissioner Tom Anastos, restoring the glory of the program to compete as it had under Ron Mason while transitioning into a new role is among the top goals in his first year at the helm of Spartan hockey.
The Graduate Employees Union, or GEU, has recognized an MSU professor, along with the Department of English, for her work with graduate students during this past school year. Stephanie Nawyn, an assistant professor of sociology, was named Outstanding Supervisor by the union, and the Department of English received the nod for Outstanding Department. The GEU looked for departments and professors that support teaching assistants with balancing both schoolwork and research, said Sam Otten, president of the GEU.
With the hiring of former CCHA Commissioner Tom Anastos as MSU hockey’s head coach comes a new direction for the program. The recently hired Anastos and his staff met with members of the local and regional media Tuesday to discuss the direction of the program in an informal meet-and-greet session.
Emmons, Rather, Bailey and Wells halls are just a few of the ongoing construction projects helping project MSU into a new look.
Cherry Lane Apartments and the neighboring Faculty Bricks complex will be demolished in July, university officials confirmed last week. The apartment complexes will be taken down by the E.T.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss two redevelopment projects that will change the face of downtown East Lansing. Two mixed-use projects, both located near the Ann Street Plaza — the iconic center of downtown East Lansing — will commence this summer if all goes as planned, Mayor Vic Loomis said. The council will discuss the details of the development agreement at their work session tonight at 7 p.m.
For the first time in years, Michigan’s budget, which would include a 15 percent funding cut to state universities, among other spending decreases, likely will be approved by the state Legislature by May 31. Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the State Budget Office, said one of Gov.