For some, asking for help produces the most demeaning and vulnerable feeling possible. It’s difficult to admit we might not know everything, that we aren’t experts in all subjects and to admit fully and publicly that sometimes we simply do not know.
Last week, The State News published a letter written by Dan Schmidt in which he criticized the protestors at the Izzone Campout for “ignor(ing) facts in the attempt to prove a point” (“Protestors at Friday’s Izzone Campout were in the wrong,” SN 10/26).
With dozens of election campaign signs and a pig roasting in the front yard of her East Lansing home, interior design senior Brandi Dunkel explained why she spent the day on campus persuading students to look beyond their lives at MSU.
A self-labeled “nerd” and political outsider, Republican Rick Snyder overwhelmingly defeated Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero on Tuesday to become Michigan’s next governor.
Republicans Brian Breslin and Mitch Lyons defeated their Democratic opponents by close margins in the race to secure two seats on the MSU Board of Trustees.
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, secured his third term as state representative for Michigan’s 69th district, which includes MSU, on Tuesday evening.
After about 10 years of legislative service, state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, is set to serve another four years after being projected to defeat Republican opponent and MSU law student Kyle Haubrich in Tuesday’s election.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, is will build his record to six terms of serving Michigan’s eighth congressional district after defeating Democratic candidate and MSU graduate student Lance Enderle on Tuesday.
Republican Bill Schuette was projected to win the Attorney General race over Democrat David Leyton as of Wednesday morning with 86 percent of precincts reporting.
Benches in the W.J. Beal Botanical Gardens alledgedly sustained more than $2,000 in damage between Friday night and late Saturday morning, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Michigan voters are slated to keep the state constitution untouched, as of press time Tuesday. As of press time, 31 percent of precincts showed 68 percent of voters turned down Proposal 10-1, which would allow a constitutional convention to write the fifth constitution in Michigan’s history.
A state proposal to prohibit certain felons from holding elective office and other public employment positions was projected to pass by a four to one margin as of press time Tuesday night.
The Ingham County proposal to renew a millage to fund Potter Park Zoo and Potter Park was passing with about 22 percent of votes representing Ingham County as of press time Tuesday night.
Senior guard Kalin Lucas scored a game-high 13 points and dished out three assists in his first game since rupturing his Achilles’, as the No. 2 MSU men’s basketball team beat Saginaw Valley State, 88-44, on Tuesday at Breslin Center.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder will be Michigan’s next governor, The Associated Press has projected.
MSU Trustee Faylene Owen and her husband, Larry, are in Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital following a car accident Monday afternoon near Williamston, Mich.
The East Lansing City Council is expected to continue discussion about a research study looking at plans for transportation routes along Grand River and Michigan avenues at its meeting tonight.
An update on the SIRS summer pilot study and a follow-up on a proposal for the merger of language departments was discussed by the Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, on Tuesday.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio said Tuesday he wouldn’t have changed anything about the timing of his reinstatement of senior cornerback Chris L. Rucker.
After opening the season with three series in the friendly confines of Munn Ice Arena, the No. 12 MSU hockey team travels to Western Michigan for the first road trip of the year this weekend.