Something is rotten on the campus of MSU. The “ASMSU/MSU” saga regarding the organization’s unconstitutional March election needs to end — and soon.
After opening the Big Ten season with two losses to Illinois last weekend, the MSU softball team is looking to “get back on track” this weekend when it hosts Wisconsin at 1 p.m.
The MSU gymnastics team heads to Oregon for NCAA regionals.
The MSU opens up its Big Ten season against Iowa.
Spring football is a time for position changes, and the MSU football team is working on some key switches as spring football continues. One of those is senior Todd Anderson’s move from the defensive line to fullback, where he’s listed as No.
Many kids grow up with a love of gazing at the stars, having posters of spaceships plastered on their bedroom walls and hope one day to be able to work at NASA. Daniel Alexander II wasn’t one of those kids. Alexander, a computer science senior, spent the past fall semester in California working as an intern for NASA, but it was a unique opportunity he originally hadn’t considered.
When Ruslan Mursalzade arrived at MSU his freshman year, he had some shopping to do. An international student from Azerbaijan, he traveled more than 6,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to get to the front steps of his dorm in East Lansing.
Although communication continues between university administrators and ASMSU officials, confusion regarding the freezing of ASMSU’s accounts — and what that could mean for the organization and student groups next year — remains. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. According to ASMSU officials, if the university has not unfrozen their accounts by Friday, the organization might not be allowed to collect a student tax — through which ASMSU funds its operations — for the 2012-13 academic year.
Following its second sweep against Michigan in program history, the MSU baseball team had all sorts of momentum heading into Wednesday’s game against Central Michigan. But the Spartans came out flat, eventually losing to the Chippewas, 3-1, at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs field, and head coach Jake Boss Jr.
Though the East Lansing City Council spent nearly a year working toward an ordinance regulating commercial distribution of medical marijuana in the city, some believe the work should continue. Some East Lansing residents formally have requested council reconsider its vote on a recently passed ordinance, which allows for the presence of medical marijuana dispensaries in primarily office districts within the city limits, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said. “I don’t know what will come of it, but there are people out there encouraging council to think again,” Staton said. The ordinance was passed at the council’s March 15 meeting in a 4-1 vote. East Lansing resident Ralph Monsma, one citizen championing the move to reconsider the ordinance, said many properties potentially could be available to medical marijuana dispensaries, but from the restrictions given in the ordinance, it was hard to understand what properties were eligible. “It’s very difficult to figure out how they could pick which one of those things could be approved — a lot of the guidelines aren’t figured out yet,” Monsma said. Monsma said he and the other concerned citizens involved — most of whom reside in the Pinecrest neighborhood north of MSU campus, near B4 districts affected by the ordinance — believe the document was difficult to understand for everyone involved and should be worked on before more action is taken. “It just has to be clearer and it has to be more workable,” Monsma said.
Singer Mike Posner will be performing at the MSU Auditorium April 13, sponsored by ASMSU as part of their spring concert. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. Posner said he’s familiar with MSU’s student body and is excited to perform. “College crowds are rowdier!
A 20-year-old male student reported his bike allegedly was stolen from the bike storage room in his dormitory, MSU police Sgt.
An MSU cultural organization held a fundraiser for 150 people Wednesday to help fund an event supporting cancer victims and survivors.
An MSU group put a twist on its annual business etiquette dinner by informing students of international cultural manners at the Taste of the World Etiquette event on Wednesday at Kellogg Center.
After serving about 4,000 students in a day, Brody Square only has one 40-gallon bag of trash to its name. About 11 percent of the waste made at Brody Square is sent to a landfill, said Robbia Pipper, marketplace dining services manager in Brody Neighborhood Culinary Services.
To many, the pink ribbons pinned to students’ shirts Thursday weren’t just a fashion coincidence.
Students will have the opportunity today to donate blood and simultaneously protest a ban preventing homosexuals from doing the same.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant spoke on Wednesday about this season and the prospects of next.
It might be difficult to transform a wood-paneled stage into a grueling dust storm, but music performance freshman David Moul said he did his homework to help make it possible. Moul will play Grampa Joad in the College of Music’s opera, “The Grapes of Wrath,” which will debut at 8 p.m. Friday in the MSU Concert Auditorium and run throughout the weekend.
Although a recent article (Examining Experimentation, SN 3/28) presents MSU as a moderate and thoughtful institution regarding the use of animals in laboratories, in reality, it is a nightmare for animals, and at times, the university fails to adhere to even the meager guidelines governing the practice.