Weeks ago, ASMSU’s Student Assembly voted unanimously to pass a resolution to switch from burning 250,000 tons of dirty coal annually on campus to 100 percent renewable energy.
The e-communities, such as Facebook and Twitter, have played an integral role in the Egyptian revolution. During the last seven years these websites and others like them, along with the huge Egyptian blogosphere, have strengthened the opposition movement.
In his 2012 budget proposals, Gov. Rick Snyder wants to implement a minimum 15 percent budget cut for university funding. With a cut of more than $240 million to higher education, there only is one thing left to say: This is the last straw.
Annie Rzepecki said she has two specific reasons to be part of “The Vagina Monologues” — two of the closest people in her life have been sexually assaulted. Rzepecki, a public relations graduate student, is one of the directors of “The Vagina Monologues,” which will debut at 8 p.m. Friday in Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. The play is supported through VDAY, an organization globally working to end violence against women.
Christopher Schuster has had a curiosity of the paranormal since he was in high school. Schuster, a criminal justice, microbiology and physiology senior, was a fan of the show “Ghost Hunters” on the Syfy network and wanted to branch out his interests with like-minded people at MSU. During his junior year, Schuster co-founded the MSU Paranormal Society
Gov. Rick Snyder proposed to cut state university funding in 2012 by more than $240 million Thursday morning, a reduction that would cost MSU as much as $61 million in state support.
Gov. Rick Snyder leaked details of his highly anticipated 2012 budget proposals to The Associated Press on Wednesday evening. Among them is a plan to cut funding to state universities and local governments by hundreds of millions of dollars.
When Bernie Malonson was a freshman at Harvard University, he and a group of black peers were asked who among them were thinking of being teachers and professors.
The cause of the fire at apartment 48 Capitol Villa Apartments, 1708 E. Grand River Ave., was confirmed as an accident by East Lansing Fire Inspector Gerald Rodabaugh. Rodabaugh said the electric stove was left on in the apartment, and an unidentified object was left on the stove and caught fire.
“Pain” has been a prominent word in state legislators’ vocabularies since they took office last month.
With the inclusion of a $30 million award from the Department of Energy in President Barack Obama’s budget, the construction of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, moves one step closer to its expected completion in 2020. Although the budget still needs approval from Congress, officials from MSU remain confident that the importance of the facility will be conveyed to legislators. The money was specified in earlier negotiations and was used to shape the project’s budget, said Alex Parsons, FRIB’s Project Communications Manager.
An 18-year-old student reported her bike was stolen between 7:45 a.m. Jan. 25 and 7:45 a.m. Jan. 27, MSU police Sgt.
Opponents of Michigan’s law mandating all retail items be labeled clearly with a price scored a victory after a reform bill passed the state House on Wednesday.
What will directionally challenged freshmen do now? After 63 years towering above MSU’s campus, the 230-foot MSC smokestack might be taken down this summer.
Following the Jan. 30 car crash that killed three teenagers from Holt, Mich., and the felony charges against the three men who hosted the party the teens attended that night, many students and community members have questioned the legal responsibilities of someone hosting a party.
MSU and the Peace Corps are giving students the opportunity to gain peace at heart by helping others across the world.
Next week, students will have the chance to throw away their physical insecurities — literally.
When it comes time to find the right green shirt to wear this St. Patrick’s Day, Patrick Johnson has students covered.
An air of uncertainty clouds the outlook for federally funded research, and some MSU professors involved in multimillion-dollar projects said they are cautiously optimistic for the future.
