Students and East Lansing residents shopping for the holiday season can pick up discounts today as stores lower prices in a local spin-off of last weekend’s Black Friday.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is advocating to update the current university attendance policy to add a list of acceptable absences for students to be excused from class.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton met with ASMSU members Thursday night to get feedback about qualities they would like to see in the next police chief.
When Howard Ballein was first hired to work at a bookstore in 1952, he was paid 70 cents per hour. When he opened Student Book Store, or SBS in 1960, books sold for about $6 and the store was 1,800 square feet.
Getting caught while parking in a restricted lot for five minutes to turn in a paper could become a more costly infraction if a bill passed by the state House of Representatives on Thursday is signed into law.
Sarah Tarnowsky was suspicious when she returned to her East Lansing home Sunday afternoon to find the back door open.
No matter where the No. 7 MSU football team winds up — and it’s looking like Orlando, Fla., New Orleans or Miami right now — it will enjoy the warm weather and tradition-rich environment with a highly rated opponent, likely from the SEC, staring it down.
Head coach Tom Minkel has the MSU wrestling team ready to open its Big Ten season on the road this weekend, and while some teams might be worried, Minkel said he’s embracing the conference opener against three-time defending national champion and No. 7 Iowa.
Wednesday night’s game against Duke, which many believe could be a preview of the national championship game, saw MSU turn the ball over 20 times. If there’s one thing the Spartans are looking to improve on when Bowling Green comes to town Saturday, it’s taking better care of the ball.
Sitting near the bottom of the CCHA standings with a 2-6-1 conference record, the MSU hockey team knows it is capable of more. This weekend MSU will play a home-and-home with No. 20 Ferris State.
The Big Ten awarded 706 fall student-athletes for excelling on the field and in the classroom with 2010 Academic All-Conference honors. The conference office announced 83 of the awards went to student-athletes in seven fall sports for MSU, which was second most in the conference behind only Northwestern.
_“Even if not illegal, acts are prohibited under (MSU Anti-Discrimination Policy) if they: Discriminate against any University community member(s) through inappropriate limitation of employment opportunity, access to University residential facilities, or participation in educational, athletic, social, cultural, or other University activities on the basis of age, color, gender, gender identity, disability status, height, marital status, national origin, political persuasion, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or weight.”_ The above is a lengthy excerpt from the Anti-Discrimination Policy in MSU’s Faculty Handbook. It is a policy befitting of our university’s standards, living up to our common belief in equality and tolerance.
The story seems all too familiar: A huge leak of government documents occurs; the leak immediately is demonized and heavily criticized, with sources in the government claiming these intelligence breaches will endanger foreign nationals and U.S. citizens abroad.
We’ve all taken a few tests in our time, but the HIV test is one that strikes fear into the hearts of many, even when negative. Earlier this year, the Michigan House Health Policy Committee voted unanimously to forward a piece of legislation that would change the way HIV testing is conducted in Michigan.
Kim Wren, a music education sophomore, is the bass guitarist and a vocalist in local folk band Doug Mains and the City Folk. She said playing with vocalist and guitarist Doug Mains has allowed her to grow as a musician, and she enjoys being able to do something unique.
From customized iClickers to personalized game consoles and microwaves, a local online company is offering unique possibilities.
In the most anticipated matchup of the 2010 ACC/Big Ten Challenge, the No. 6 MSU men’s basketball team lost to No. 1 Duke, 84-79 Wednesday at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C.
From a local man living in fear of his children discovering his HIV positive status, to a woman in Africa who contracted the disease after being sexually assaulted, East Lansing and MSU remembered those who have been affected by HIV/AIDS on Wednesday, which marked the 22nd annual World AIDS Day.
In unspoken recognition of World AIDS Day, the state Senate unanimously passed legislation Wednesday aiming to destigmatize HIV testing. The bill would amend the Public Health Code to modify the HIV pre-test information given to patients
A growing number of female students are planning to earn a graduate degree in science or engineering. This increase also may be fueling an increase in the number of women earning doctoral degrees.