Lambda Chi Alpha posted a party on Facebook called the “Freshman ‘Fifth’teen.” As members of the greek community have suffered grievous injury and death due to binge drinking, they do lip service to the idea of responsible drinking with no change.
The first days of classes are a blur for everyone. One of the major reasons for this is the disastrous combination of speeds ranging from “Fast and Furious” to “Driving Miss Daisy” on campus and Grand River Avenue.
In a recent college ranking study published by U.S. News & World Report, MSU was ranked last out of all the colleges currently in the Big Ten Conference. When it’s phrased that way, it sounds pretty awful, and kind of demeaning. But in most cases, the MSU experience is not one that can be captured by a number.
MSU alumnus Roman Stotland, communication and economics senior Ajay Arumugam and MSU alumnus Justin Rappaport met as student employees at MSU’s College of Education. But since July 2009, they have been business founders of SocialTab Inc., a company that will offer products and services related to social media and public relations.
Brianna Gardner, who is a senior double majoring in both finance and telecommunication, information studies and media, spent the summer working in the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship Program in Los Angeles, California.
Policemen on horseback, parties that spilled into the streets and the rush to find her way around campus are just a few of the images Viktoria Taube recalls from her freshman year Welcome Week two years ago. For biochemical engineering freshman Matt Peyser, things were a bit different.
One of the final pieces to the expansion puzzle was put into place Wednesday when the Big Ten Conference officially announced how the conference will be divided beginning in 2011. And if there is one conference school that should have no complaints with the new look of the Big Ten, it is MSU.
Three universities in the United Arab Emirates are providing several scholarship packages to former MSU Dubai students in an attempt to better facilitate credit transfers and possible travel accommodations.
MSU graduate student Lance Enderle has been selected to run against Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, in Michigan’s 8th congressional district, the Michigan Democratic Party announced Wednesday.
Two cars sustained minor damage after crashing into each other while backing out of parking spaces in Lot 62, Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When Capt. Bryan Miller is involved in a police chase, he begins not by flooring the gas of a cop car, but by urging his horse into a gallop. Miller is one of 18 members of the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office Mounted Unit.
Finance sophomore Shelley Karlins chose where she would spend the next four years of her undergraduate education, the sprawling campus and a solid business program trumped college rankings in her decision to study at MSU.
A drug that many MSU students use as a legal alternative to marijuana could become illegal if a bill passed unanimously by the state Senate on Aug. 24 becomes law.
MSU’s chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity has downsized to a smaller house in East Lansing to rebuild a stronger membership.
Faculty from across campus are coming together in an effort to solve some of the world’s most “wicked” problems with the help of the newly established MSU Office of International Research Collaboration.
MSU will work to cure the digital gap in Michigan’s urban areas through a $6 million federal grant. The grant will be used to create more public computer centers in Michigan’s urban areas, including Detroit, Flint, Pontiac and Saginaw, as well as some rural communities.
Although sophomore running backs Larry Caper and Edwin Baker were successful freshmen last season, there is one goal neither of them was able to achieve, which still bothers them as they prepare for 2010.
fter three consecutive NCAA tournament appearances, the No. 24 MSU men’s soccer team looks to improve and make an even deeper push into the postseason in 2010.
For the MSU volleyball team, it’s beautiful blue skies, the Pacific Ocean’s calming breeze, warm, sandy beaches and an overall soothing atmosphere. The team is traveling to one of the most ideal locations for its first away matches this weekend.
It’s the beginning of the semester, so that must mean I’m writing a column about becoming a guest columnist for The State News. The gist is simple — so simple, in fact, I am going to paraphrase it from the column I wrote in the summer.