In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, which began last Saturday, students and community members attended events throughout the week to remember victims of transgender violence.
The MSU Fencing Club will host a scrimmage against the University of Michigan at 10:30 a.m. Sunday at IM Sports-West.
The streets of East Lansing might be significantly darker Friday night as some students and residents plan to turn off unnecessary lighting to raise awareness about light pollution and energy conservation.
On Saturday, the No. 11 Spartan football team will take the field at Spartan Stadium looking to neutralize the Purdue Boilermakers and fight to keep their BCS hopes alive. But outside of the stadium, MSU will be battling a much more sinister opponent: hunger.
Spartan LINKS and Future Leaders in Sports and Entertainment are holding a Career Exposure Series: Sports event from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday from at Breslin Center’s meeting rooms A-D.
Students will sing and rap for the chance to win the “Spartan Idol: Best of Both Worlds” competition at 9 p.m. Saturday in the International Center.
Betsy Bledsoe, a second-year music performance graduate student, is performing in “La Finta Giardiniera,” an opera featuring music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The show opens at 8 p.m. tonight in the Auditorium’s Fairchild Theatre with performances also at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
It’s a well-known fact that Sarah Palin, America’s favorite moose-hunting hockey mom, refers to herself as a feminist. If you’re skeptical of her claim, don’t be. Too many people don’t realize how passionately she’s fought for women’s rights!
MSU is lost in a cloud of smoke when it comes to figuring out how to handle medical marijuana users — and the cloud needs to cleared. According to the MSU Drug and Alcohol Policy, patients in possession of the allowable amount of medical marijuana on campus are subject to disciplinary action at the university level.
More than 100 protesters have gathered at East Lansing High School to stage a counter demonstration in opposition to members of the Westboro Baptist Church.
What began with the story of a boy living in a cupboard has grown into a cultural phenomenon with a fan base of more than 4.6 million Muggles, or non-magical people, on Facebook alone. And after seven books, six movies and more than a decade of magic, the first half of the last Harry Potter movie is premiering in theaters tonight at midnight.
Two weeks after Michigan’s ban on the sale of alcoholic energy drinks, the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, declared the products contain an additive unsafe for consumption.
Members of the MSU community said increased awareness of sexual assault is a possible reason three on-campus sexual assault incidents were reported within the last three weeks.
Next fall, all residence halls will be equipped with a card access system using student ID cards, joining 13 buildings with such systems already installed, an MSU official said.
A student had his backpack returned to him after it was stolen Monday night at the Main Library, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
About 500 small paper pinwheels were mounted on the tops of pencils and scattered in the grass behind Wells Hall and the International Center on Wednesday afternoon.
As East Lansing City Council works toward an ordinance to finalize the city’s stance on medical marijuana, the rules for having medical marijuana on campus have become hazy to some. Despite various media reports that students will be arrested for being in legal possession of the substance on campus, university spokesman Kent Cassella said these reports are untrue. “They’ve got the story wrong,” Cassella said. Although patients in possession of the allowable amount of medical marijuana on campus are subject to disciplinary action under the MSU student judicial process according to the MSU Drug and Alcohol Policy, Cassella said the university won’t have anyone arrested for possession.
When Detroit resident Amy Szczepanski looks for areas of growth in her city, she looks to the ground. A biology and environmental science junior at Wayne State University, Szczepanski said she’s beginning to take note of small, community gardens growing in popularity at the city’s downtown campus. Across Detroit, it appears such activity at the university could spread and fill vacant neighborhoods, she said. “I think it’s a great idea,” Szczepanski said.
“Big Buck’s Marinated Pineapple in Southern Comfort” is part of tailgate tradition for Len Bokuniewicz.
Hang onto your No. 2 pencils — the MSU Testing Office has passed a test of its own by becoming the first four-year institution to receive full certification from the National College Testing Association.