When Christina Steyer heard Michigan musicians were banding together to give a benefit concert that could aid international causes, she knew she had to be a part of it. The music education junior said she plans to attend the “Local Music, Global Change” concert hosted by the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, Theatre on Wednesday.
Cyro Baptista, a Brazilian percussion recording artist, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre.
The University Activities Board, or UAB, will sponsor KeyChain Craft Night from 7-9 p.m Wednesday at the Union.
Opening the Big Ten season at 1-3, the MSU softball team said it is working to find unity on and off the field to get on the winning track for conference games.
Recently, The State News had a chance to talk with MSU baseball senior first baseman Jeff Holm about his time in East Lansing, his superstitious side and a variety of other topics.
Channeling the musical grace of Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis, Carlot Dorvé closes his eyes, takes a breath and serenades the room with a passionate concerto on the trumpet. Whenever Dorvé plays the trumpet, there often is the presence of a memory from a vacation he took along the Haitian countryside — his native country — when he was 5 years old with his grandmother.
Students and residents will weigh in on proposed changes to a party litter ordinance during a public hearing at the East Lansing City Council’s 7:30 p.m.
Ted O’Dell wants to see more jobs in the Lansing area, and he thinks the best way to bring them here is by creating a casino owned by an American Indian tribe in Lansing. A Lansing resident and chairman of the Lansing Jobs Coalition — a nonprofit, grassroots coalition established in November 2010 — O’Dell is attempting to collect more than 4,000 signatures to get the prospect of an American Indian casino on the Aug.
As the federal spending battle rages in Congress, lawmakers and one MSU administrator say there might yet be relief in areas the university had been keeping an eye on. Despite cuts to government spending, officials said Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, might be out of the woods. The federal government will shut down Friday should Congress fail to pass some sort of funding mechanism, be it a short-term measure to avoid a shutdown or budget bills for the remaining fiscal year set to end in September. And as lawmakers break out their paring knives to compromise on spending cuts and abate a $1.4 trillion budget shortfall, some things important to the university and its students, such as financial aid and research dollars, could end up being left out. The Associated Press last week published a story that pegged FRIB as a possibly at-risk project in terms of continued funding.
A 22-year-old man reported an alleged malicious destruction of property toward his car April 2 while it was parked on Akers Road, MSU police Sgt.
Some campus groups are teaming up with Sparty’s Convenience Stores and students to raise money through the month of April for victims of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
Now that ASMSU’s funding freeze has been lifted by university officials, registered student organizations across campus are breathing a sigh of relief.
Nutritional sciences junior Dan Bator was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes 12 years ago, and although his medical history was not the sole reason for choosing his major — he said it was a “little push” toward studying nutrition.
Although many recent college graduates are brushing up on interview skills and fine tuning their résumés, there’s only one skill that matters to Jason Dargo: #winning. Dargo, a 2010 MSU alumnus and East Lansing resident, currently is vying to be Charlie Sheen’s social media intern for the summer.
The funding for 35 Libyan professionals enrolled in MSU’s Visiting International Professionals Program, or VIPP, was ended by the Libyan government late last week — leaving the students and university officials searching for strategies to avoid returning the scholars to their conflict-torn country.
President Barack Obama announced his candidacy for re-election Monday morning, kicking off what some reports pegged as possibly the most expensive campaign in history.
In light of chaotic worldwide events and an unstable economy, President Barack Obama has seen increased support among college-age Americans.
Members of the Graduate Employees Union are working to wrap up negotiations of benefits in their new contract as soon as possible.
The Spartans (17-7 overall, 2-1 Big Ten) take on the Lansing Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium in the fifth annual Crosstown Showdown.
The competition between sophomores Jairus Jones and Isaiah Lewis has been tight through early spring practices, with both players pushing each other for the starting strong safety job.