Although the make-up of the MSU Board of Trustees will appear different come January 2011, members said they always expected unity no matter who emerged victorious after Tuesday’s elections.
Gas reportedly was stolen from a student’s car Sunday while it was parked in Lot 83, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Global and area studies senior Kristina Adair, who is the Magoma Project leader, is working with the non-governmental, nonprofit 2Seeds Network, which focuses on food security and community development, specifically in Tanzania.
Voter turnout in East Lansing was slightly less than projected, East Lansing City Clerk Nicole Evans said.
Pythons, frogs and turtles crawled and slithered around their enclosures at an MSU Herp Club educational event Wednesday in the Natural Science Building.
Social work junior Martie Callow doesn’t appreciate the differences society expects in terms of men’s and women’s appearances.
When she gets pricked by a needle before donating blood, dietetics junior Sarah Mroczek said she thinks about children with cancer who need blood donations to survive.
Lansing residents David Marion Jr. and Benjamin French, the two men charged with the alleged homicide of finance freshman Darren Brown, are being tested for legal insanity at the state’s Center for Forensic Psychiatry, halting their trials. Both French and Marion have been charged with two counts of open murder in the March deaths of Brown and 23-year-old St.
A meeting of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, hit a theatrical note Wednesday night.
The East Lansing City Council received an update on a study about a potential project to increase mass transit facilities along Michigan and Grand River avenues at its meeting Tuesday. Transportation alternatives were evaluated for cost, efficiency and feasibility from the Capitol in Lansing through East Lansing to Marsh Road in Meridian Township, said Lori Mullins, community and economic development administrator for East Lansing, who presented information to the council.
Lyman Briggs freshman Humphrey Petersen-Jones was released from the University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor on Wednesday, according to hospital officials.
MSU Trustee Faylene Owen remains listed in fair condition at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital while her husband, Larry, has been upgraded from serious to fair condition as of Wednesday evening, according to a representative at Sparrow.
The MSU men’s soccer team was unable to take advantage of a No. 2 Akron team fresh off its first defeat, falling, 1-0 Wednesday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
One week after No. 16 MSU’s 37-6 loss to No. 15 Iowa, the Spartans have a chance to get back on the winning track Saturday when they welcome Minnesota to Spartan Stadium (noon, Big Ten Network).
Entering as defending Big Ten Champions, the No. 10 MSU field hockey team will play its first game of the Big Ten Tournament at 11 a.m. Thursday against Northwestern, the tournament’s host.
After leading the No. 16 MSU women’s cross country team to its third Big Ten Championship this weekend, senior Emily MacLeod was named Big Ten Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year, the conference announced Tuesday. It was the team’s first Big Ten Championship since 2001.
Tuesday’s results should come as a surprise to no one. Republicans firmly are in the driver’s seat in Michigan. If one is a Democrat, Tuesday’s result probably stung more than a little, but really it should be an anger tempered by inevitability. The bad economy had “backlash” written all over it.
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.