The NCAA released the student-athlete graduation success rate for all NCAA Division I institutions Wednesday. For MSU, the overall graduation success rate across all sports was 80 percent.
These are the first words of an advertisement posted in July by a 31-year-old Grand Rapids nursing student at her church: “I am looking for a Christian.”
MSU law student Kyle Haubrich said he thinks people need a choice in this year’s state Senate race in the 23rd District, which includes MSU and East Lansing. He’s right, but in the contest between Haubrich, a Republican, and state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, going with the hometown girl is the best bet.
In his Oct. 26 column “Terror speech is not free speech” (SN 10/26), Craig Gunn expresses some opinions that I find, quite frankly, rather alarming. But that is his right. Our First Amendment rights give everyone the opportunity to state their opinions on any number of subjects — including the opinion that others should not have this right.
A pressing issue in the scientific world many people are unaware of is the overuse of antibiotics in feed animals. Approximately 80 percent of antibiotics produced in the U.S. each year are used for preventative measures to keep livestock from becoming ill, according to a study published in 2002 by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
General Motors Corp. CEO Dan Akerson, United Auto Workers President Bob King and several state and local elected officials will gather tomorrow morning at the corporation’s Lansing Grand River assembly plant, to make a positive news announcement for the community and the plant, said General Motors, or GM, spokeswoman Kim Carpenter.
With less than a week until the Nov. 2 general election, MSU law student Kyle Haubrich and state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, are knocking on doors furiously and attempting to recruit voters. Both want the same job — to represent the 23rd district, which includes MSU and East Lansing, in the Michigan Senate. And both cite education as one of their most important concerns.
East Lansing Police Department Deputy Chief Juli Liebler will assume command of the East Lansing Police Department while the city seeks to hire a new police chief, City Manager Ted Staton announced Tuesday.
Now, more than two weeks after the accident, MSU freshman Humphrey Petersen-Jones is still in the hospital and expected to make a full recovery. He can’t remember the accident or the day it happened, but he remembers the friends he lost.
East Lansing City Council members expressed disinterest in limiting future taxicab licensing after reviewing a quarterly report on the city’s taxi market at its Tuesday night work session. Council also addressed a letter from five taxi companies requesting a moratorium on the issuance of new taxicab licenses.
A 25 year-old female MSU student reported a bottle of pills stolen from her car, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Candles brightened the room and music filled the air Tuesday evening at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Greater Lansing, 855 Grove St., as community members remembered victims of domestic violence. The vigil was held in memory of victims of domestic violence and to support surviving victims of abuse, said Jillian Pastoor, the End Violent Encounters community relations coordinator.
A first-generation college student and mother of a 2-year-old son, Lupe Dominguez is looking to graduate with two degrees this spring, and she did it all without the help of either of her parents.
Pam Clark can’t imagine giving up on Michigan. When Clark lost her job as a graphic designer in 2006, she decided to turn her hobby of making skin care products into a business.
When MSU doctoral student Raymund Narag noticed that Super Typhoon Megi would be hitting the Philippines — his home country — he immediately called his parents.
If there were any doubts Mother Nature didn’t have any other tricks up her sleeves, today’s storm system should prove otherwise, meteorologists said. Students and residents are bracing for the next slap in the face after Tuesday’s stormy weather as wind gusts are expected to reach 60 mph during much of the day.
Comcast and NBC Universal are hosting Green is Universal eCycling from 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Comcast’s Lansing headquarters, 1401 E.
Joining other residence halls across campus, door security systems will be installed during the next two months in Shaw Hall, according to an e-mail sent to residents. Next Monday, work to place external and internal card-reader access systems will begin to be built next to each building door. Construction workers might be noticed between 6 a.m.
ASMSU is considering making a university-wide “lip dub,” a single-shot lip synch music video that has become a recent fad on YouTube.