A 19-year-old female MSU student reported a jar of coins missing from her dorm in the 10 minutes she left the room to get a key for the newly installed lock, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A construction project MSU hopes will advance the university’s standing in the field of plant sciences and attract related grants for research is on track for completion, officials said.
The colorful camouflage patterns featured on cans of Four, as well as packaging on other alcoholic energy drinks, will face new scrutiny because of a motion from the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.
After being released from six years of service in the Navy this June, going back to college wasn’t on the top of Patrick Powers’ to-do list.
A one-on-one coffee meeting in Lansing on Wednesday between the gubernatorial candidates secured what five weeks of meetings between their lawyers could not — an agreement to a debate. Republican gubernatorial candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder and Democratic candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero will debate at 7 p.m.
Hundreds of students gathered at Spartan Stadium to take part in the largest law school fair ever at MSU, Thursday evening. The fair welcomed 94 law schools from across the country and was open to all students in all majors and colleges.
Gordon Jensen had a plan — to graduate with a degree in computer science, spend a few years in the workplace and return to MSU for a master’s degree in business administration. Not all students take Jensen’s approach.
Sparty and the green splash screen will no longer welcome users to the World Wide Web — both will instead take a backseat to Microsoft Windows’ shade of blue. Employees at MSU Academic Technology Services, or ATS, implemented a new login system to 2,000 public university computers for the fall semester, creating a reduced system startup time, said Matt Kolb, assistant director of ATS. During a summer pilot program to compare the new and old systems, ATS employees noticed a 30 percent power reduction between the “green screen” and the new Windows login as energy-conserving settings could be enabled, he said. “The previous system was based on multiple-generations-ago technology,” Kolb said.
Changes to campus bus routes around East Neighborhood have been met by mixed reviews from students, while MSU officials said they’ve had few complaints. The changes, which took effect Aug.
A student-athlete usually only gets four years to leave a mark on a program. Halfway through her junior season, goalkeeper Jill Flietstra is inching closer to becoming one of the best goalies in MSU women’s soccer history and leaving her own mark.
After enduring a wide range of emotions this week, the No. 25 MSU football team will hope to rely on its concentration when the Spartans hit the field Saturday against Northern Colorado at Spartan Stadium (noon, Big Ten Network).
With two of its starting defenders injured and unable to participate in recent matches, members of the MSU volleyball have been moved into unfamiliar positions.
Geoffrey Habron, a professor in the departments of both Sociology and Fisheries and Wildlife, was one of the pioneers as well as the program director for MSU’s sustainability specialization, which officially launched this fall, includes a branch of social equity.
No speech, especially speech deemed offensive, should be silenced through coercion or intimidation. Its message must be allowed to succeed or fail based on its own merits. If that kind of speech legally can be silenced, then there is risk of a universal silence.
What does 25 feet mean? Is it how far we’ve walked to the cafeteria before remembering the ID left behind in our room? Is it the distance when we realize we’re higher off the ground than we originally thought? Or is it the length of the mythical sea creature haunting our dreams?
Ann Arbor businessman and Republican gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder seems to have charmed potential voters with his outsider appeal. In the latest poll released by Lansing-based polling firm EPIC-MRA, Snyder has 53 percent of the vote and the Democratic candidate, Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero, has 29 percent. The reasons for the separation stemmed in part from Snyder’s business experience.
A new federal financial aid policy will require students to enter a university-conducted appeal process to maintain their financial aid benefits if their GPA drops below a 2.0. Several hundred MSU students are expected to be affected by this change, said Rick Shipman, Director of the Office of Financial Aid.
Republican gubernatorial candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder and Democratic candidate Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero will participate in a debate at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 in Wixom, a city northwest of Detroit, according to their campaigns.
ASMSU chairs expressed their excitement for the group’s upcoming fall higher education rally at Academic Assembly’s Tuesday night meeting.
A report listing MSU as one of the top 25 schools with “big gaps” between retention rates of white students and non-white students, has led MSU officials and student groups to look into ways to create change. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon stressed reducing the gap as one of her main priorities at the start of the semester.