Seven local properties are now licensed rental properties and a request to add additional properties to an overlay district was deferred at the East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday night meeting at the 54-B District Court.
Detroit native and rapper Saffal Tall is getting the chance to bring together two things he loves this Thursday — his music and his university.
MSU students might have a reputation for being partiers, but less than half of the 280 people arrested this past week were MSU students, according to a report from the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD.
Perhaps the most competitive position battle for the MSU football team heading into this season was between sophomore running backs Edwin Baker and Larry Caper. Just one game into the Spartans’ 2010 campaign, another name can be thrown into the mix.
Having played in last season’s NCAA Tournament and already faced tough opponents this season, the MSU volleyball team is ready to take those experiences and turn them into wins.
Research at MSU and other universities across the nation will carry on with less restriction after President Barack Obama’s administration announced changes in national export controls last week.
Students and fans attending MSU football games can now report crime via text message through a new program offered by MSU Police.
Advocating for increased higher education funding will be one of the ASMSU Academic Assembly’s main focuses as the group heads into the fall semester.
The MSU Department of Theatre, MSU College of Music and MSU Community Music School recently received more than $10,000 in grants from the Arts Council of Greater Lansing.
A free Fulbright Fellowship Opportunities workshop will be held 6-8 p.m. Wednesday in Room 201 of the International Center.
Mallory Hines, an MSU alumna and Lowell, Mich., native is working at a local café until her Sept. 24 departure to Santiago, Chile, where she will spend the next five months participating in outreach events and earthquake-relief work through Youth With A Mission, or YWAM.
Along with six other students in a documentary film class, Nicholas Baker, a media arts and technology senior, created “Publicly Defended,” a documentary chronicling the legal trevails of Eddie Joe Lloyd, who was released from jail in 2002 after a DNA test proved him innocent in the alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl from Detroit in 1985.
I was dismayed at the arrogance displayed in the editorial “Punishment for pie-thrower should be tempered (SN 9/01).” Not only did The State News editorial board members demonstrate their ignorance towards the specifics of (anthropology senior Ahlam) Mohsen’s case, but additionally demonstrated their ignorance toward social justice movements and activism more broadly.
In high school, I remember health class teaching sex education with a specific set of phrases such as, “Say no,” “You could die before the age of 25” and “Children are forever.” Safe sex was promoted to cover all the bases, but abstinence was the main push in a classroom full of hormonal teenagers who recently discovered themselves.
The traditional five-day Welcome Week is gone and has been replaced by a three-day Fall Welcome. In short, it’s now meetings, events, a college colloquium, programs, an open house and a convocation one after the other.
Throughout the past year, MSU’s Alumni Association has been working nationally and regionally to refocus on engaging young alumni by aiding in career searches, providing interview tips and facilitating networking between young alumni and older graduates.
Athletic officials have yet to comment on how junior guard Korie Lucious’ pleading guilty to one count of reckless driving will affect his standing on the MSU men’s basketball team. Lucious pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving on Thursday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court. The charge was reduced from one count of operating while intoxicated, or drunken driving. Both are misdemeanor charges.
Demolition for a multimillion dollar development in East Lansing is now projected to begin at the end of this year or beginning of the next, following a finance meeting between city officials and the developer.
Recent developments with the forthcoming multimillion dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, bring the project’s researchers closer to answering science’s many unknown and unanswered questions. The U.S. Department of Energy, or DOE, Office of Science, gave the project critical decision 1 approval Wednesday, which establishes the design of the building to house the facility and the next phase’s cost.