Some might look at sophomore Kaity Sinke’s transcripts and have no idea what she is planning to do with her career.
University administrators are wary of potentially deep cuts to student financial aid and research funding after a House committee last week introduced a plan to cut federal spending by tens of billions of dollars. The plan, introduced by the House Committee on Appropriations, outlined a measure that, if passed, could mean drastic reductions in federal support students and the university have expected through the fiscal year set to end in September. The committee’s recommendations — partially produced in light of Congress’ inability to enact a budget for the current fiscal year — take aim at President Barack Obama’s budget proposals from a year ago.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss proposed ordinances regarding the regulation of the distribution of medical marijuana for the last time before a public hearing scheduled for next Tuesday at its 7 p.m.
April Zeoli understands that most women in abusive relationships are given the same advice — to leave.
A 19-year-old female student reported her laptop allegedly was stolen from her dorm room in Hubbard Hall, between 11 a.m.
A quiz website has students at MSU playing games in an effort to both assist and resist the education they are here to receive.
Lansing resident Richard Aikin has been homeless for three years, walking the streets of Lansing during the day and sleeping at an overnight homeless shelter for men.
In an effort to advocate environmentalism not only on campus but throughout the U.S., MSU is competing to be the campus that recycles the most. From Sunday until April 2, MSU will vie for a winning title in the 2011 RecycleMania Tournament against more than 600 colleges and universities across the country.
Recent MSU graduates will be encouraged to permanently live in East Lansing after ASMSU representatives seek to create an endowment fund.
College newspapers exist for one purpose: to connect all 45,000 singular dots on an expansive campus and make them a community, not only a college. That is why The State News is missing out on a potentially game-changing opportunity with its poorly executed Best of MSU Awards.
When Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” a novel highlighting the ups and downs of Chinese-American motherhood, was excerpted in the Wall Street Journal last month, it created quite a stir across the country.
MSU students paying thousands for an education should be able to call an occasional “mulligan” for less-than-spectacular grades. University administrators should move forward with changing MSU’s current retake policy to allow for students to repeat classes regardless of first-try grades.
Normally students don’t get lunch with a show when they dine at the International Center’s food court, but Monday wasn’t a typical day. A few minutes past noon, a clearing formed near the first row of tables as nine dancers sporting ogre ears erupted into a choreographed dance to Smash Mouth’s “All Star.” The group of students, participating in what commonly is referred to as a flash mob, was promoting “Shrek the Musical,” which will debut at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall and run until Sunday.
The MSU and Central Michigan baseball teams will renew their in-state rivalry this spring by playing the first ever college baseball game at Detroit’s Comerica Park on April 20, CMU said in a press release Monday. A press conference officially announcing the game with representatives from both schools will be held at 10:30 a.m.
Tom Izzo’s version of the MSU men’s basketball program was built on defense. After back-to-back 20-point losses and five losses in six games, the defense is the biggest culprit.
The No. 11 MSU women’s basketball team is excelling in almost all aspects of the game this season. It hold the highest national ranking in the Big Ten, id second place in the conference standings and among the top five in the league in most of the statistical categories.
Every day as students walk to class at MSU, they will pass by more than 40,000 fellow Spartans. Each person has a story that sets him or her apart.
The titles “leading scorer” and “record breaker” usually aren’t connected to senior guard Brittney Thomas.
The amount of donations to MSU decreased in 2010 from 2009 levels, and by the steepest decline percentagewise in the Big Ten. Nationwide, the amount of donations to U.S.
A 22-year-old male student allegedly was assaulted by an unidentified man in West Holden Hall on Feb.