MSU students living in the East Lansing community can now find information regarding transportation, city laws and other resources at the Community Relations Coalition’s, or CRC’s, new Spartan Big List website.
Leading state lawmakers and the governor reached a tentative agreement on aspects of the 2010-11 fiscal year budget, which needs to be passed by Oct.
Windpower might be the key to opening a number of learning and energy opportunities for residents and students of Michigan’s northern lower peninsula.
All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road, will host a reading of the Quran from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. The reading is in response to a planned Quran burning at a Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., also slated for Saturday.
The University Committee on Academic Governance elected four new members and one incumbent member to serve two year terms on the committee. Naveen Khanna, professor of business; Harold Hughes, professor of agriculture and natural science; Mark Reckase, professor of education and Stephanie Watts, professor of osteopathic medicine are new additions to the committee. Haddish Melakeberhan, professor of agriculture and natural science has been chosen to serve on the committee for another term.
Maurice Ager began playing around with the idea of making music when he was 15 years old, and back then, he saw it as just something for him to do in his free time. But after creating his own music company in April, what began as producing just a few tracks for a website turned into a much larger project.
Coming into a pair of games this weekend, the MSU women’s soccer team is looking for a quick start and a full effort in each game, something the Spartans did not show in their previous game, a 3-2 loss to Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Sunday.
The Spartans will look to take last weekend’s lessons forward as they welcome Providence (1-0-1) for the team’s home opener, which is set for 5 p.m. Thursday at DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field.
Fall Open House for MSU’s Community Music School, or CMS, will take place from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the CMS building, 841-B Timberlane St.
The International Health Project Volleyball Fundraiser will take place all day Saturday at Lake Lansing Park South.
The string group Trio Terzetto, which includes Okemos native, Tanya Ell, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
The MSU Center for Poetry, which is within the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, held its annual “Walk. Chalk. Poetry.” event, which gave students the opportunity to create their own poetry, or rewrite another piece on the side-walks around the Red Cedar River.
This Sept. 11, a church in Florida is looking to commemorate the attacks on the U.S. in a unique way: by burning thousands of Qurans.
We are deeply concerned about the lack of support shown for the Spartan football team in the season opener against Western Michigan when almost the entire student section disappeared before the end of the game.
I’m pretty sure everyone has heard of The Rev. Terry Jones “International Burn-a-Quran Day.” The event — by all indications more local than international — is scheduled for this Saturday to mark the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
A new program offered by the MSU police gives students attending Spartan football games the opportunity to alert the department of crimes with an anonymous text message. Though the idea of communication between police and public should be encouraged, it’s hard to think of a situation in which texting the police station would be more appropriate than a call.
With devices such as the Amazon Kindle and the Apple iPad securing a large market share, researchers at MSU are studying how feasible implementing eBook technology could be not only within the classroom, but along the banks of the Red Cedar River during homework sessions.
Almost six months after he was found dead in his Lansing home, finance freshman Darren Brown’s case remains under investigation.
Faculty and student health care, academic year goals and a proposed amendment to MSU’s anti-discriminatory policy topped the Executive Committee of Academic Council’s, or ECAC’s, agenda Tuesday as the committee reconvened for the fall semester.
A man initially pulled over on for speeding was arrested for a weapons violation Monday after he was found carrying a double-edged switchblade knife, MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek said.