Construction across the university will be a top discussion item at today’s MSU Board of Trustees meeting, as trustees will examine proposals to renovate the first floor dining area of Case Hall and install state-of-the-art teaching laboratories in The School of Hospitality Business’ facilities.
As students prepare for possible snow this weekend, campus and city officials are working to ensure safe roads and sidewalks throughout East Lansing.
In the letter, “Overuse of antibiotics might compromise human being’s health,” (SN 12/7), Margaret Marciniak makes some biased claims and raises unnecessary fear about the use of antibiotics in production animals.
This is a reply to the letter “MSU’s Women’s Lounge a relic of past discrimination” (SN 12/3). Thirty years ago as an undergraduate at MSU, I valued the Women’s Lounge as the quietest place in the Union. It was a place where I could do some serious work on a paper or even catch a much-needed nap.
The four-person suite style of Akers Hall might receive a makeover next summer if MSU administrators approve tentative enhancements to the residence hall sometime mid-spring.
MSU’s African American and African Studies program, or AAAS, will debate Kwanzaa’s controversial state and its original meaning during Kwanzaa Intellectual Fest today.
Usually, the end of the semester column is about carrying on and enjoying the break. However, this time, I want it to be about what comes next. In the most basic sense, this page is about news analysis, which is crucial in a 24-hour news cycle where things are event — and not issue — oriented. In that world, the editorial page becomes a place to parse and analyze the events covered in the paper.
It’s 3 a.m. the night before your must-pass final. A sea of Red Bull cans, candy wrappers and note cards pile up and barricade you into a frenzied hole of hopeless PowerPoint slides.
The International Cat Association will host the Ho Ho Ho-liday Cat Show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday at the Lansing Center, 333 E. Michigan Ave.
The Capitol Area Performers will present an encore presentation of the play “Fences” at 7 p.m. today and 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Starlight Dinner Theatre will perform “A (Greater) Tuna Christmas” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday at Waverly East Intermediate School, 3131 W. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Leon Gregorian, the director of orchestras in the College of Music, is directing Home for the Holidays, which will light up the stage at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall. The annual music celebration will combine the talent of MSU’s Symphony Orchestra, the State Singers, Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs and the MSU Children’s Choir.
The U.S. Senate today voted not to bring up the DREAM Act for discussion. A staffer in a Michigan senator’s office said Senate leaders also might try to pass legislation that would repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Jamie Burns has been a Spartan his whole life, going to MSU sporting events since childhood. Burns, now a biosystems engineering freshman, went to every home football game this year and made trips to Ann Arbor University Park, Pa., and Evanston, Ill., to watch games. Now, he and his family have one final destination and one final game in one of the best seasons in MSU football history — Orlando, Fla., for the Capital One Bowl.
A bill supporting the implementation of gender-neutral housing was passed unanimously by the Residence Halls Association during a meeting Wednesday evening.
Improved stipends, health benefits and working conditions will top the list of priorities for members of the Graduate Employees Union as they meet today to prepare for bargaining negotiations with university officials.
Plans to construct additional student housing in downtown East Lansing were furthered Wednesday as the East Lansing Planning Commission recommended the East Lansing City Council approve modifications to an existing downtown apartment building.
A 25-year-old Lansing man had a green pouch with $1,032 in cash allegedly stolen from him Sunday at Breslin Center, MSU police Sgt.
Despite extending its winning streak to six games, head coach Suzy Merchant was “disappointed” in the No. 15 MSU women’s basketball team’s 55-48 win over Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Before seniors walk off into the real world, many MSU students are preparing for fall semester 2010 commencement, which takes place at 10 a.m. on Dec. 11 at Breslin Center.