Nikolina Antonacopoulos, a psychology graduate student at Carleton University in Ottawa, in Canada, conducted a study in March to discover the psychological health benefits of owning a pet for individuals who live alone.
From protests about MSU professors being paid to conduct undercover work for the CIA in Vietnam to protests against “hours” required of female students, the popularity of rallies, marches and sit-ins was growing rapidly in the late 1960s, said Bert Garskof, an American Thought and Language, or ATL, professor dismissed from MSU in 1966.
The 1960s was the era of the Vietnam War, the draft and the environment movement. With the recent successes of the Civil Rights Movement, Michigan students were returning from activism trips in the south to rile up students back home, Garskof said. Now, years later, student activism hasn’t gone anywhere — it’s just changed.
Michigan citizens will be seeing a lot of red for the next two years.
Some MSU students were turned away from the polls Tuesday because they unknowingly were not registered to vote in East Lansing.
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.