Although he still is pushing for eight debates, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has agreed to at least three debates across the state leading up to the Nov. 2 general elections.
For East Lansing resident Nancy Joseph, volunteering at festivals the community hosts has become an important tradition for her and her family.
Three of MSU’s five international education centers will receive nearly $6 million in federal grants this month to support foreign language classes, scholarships, community outreach and other various programs.
A 56-year-old male MSU employee reported his wallet and cell phone stolen after his car was broken into between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. Aug. 9 at the Candlewood Suites, 3545 Forest Road, in Lansing, MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek said.
With more than 50 different entries flaunting floats down North Capitol Avenue, in Lansing, hundreds of spectators from the community watched the different exhibitions Saturday during the 11th annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Festival. The parade took place in downtown Lansing with a celebration following at Ferris Park in Lansing.
The two-day X-Factor Archery Tournament and Open Shoot, hosted at the MSU Demmer Shooting Sports, Education and Training Center, kicked off Saturday, with contestants trying to strike several moving targets and win various prizes. Arrows flew Saturday and Sunday as children and adults lined up to try shooting at moving, 3-D animal targets. The highest score won a Mathews Mission Bow — a $500 value — and second place took home a Parker Crossbow — a $300 value.
Although MSU e-mail has become one of the most popular forms of electronic communication for many students and professors on campus, it always has been a service susceptible to junk. Each day, MSU’s Academic Technology Services, or ATS, mail system blocks about 400,000 junk mail — or spam — messages from reaching users’ mailboxes.
What has been dubbed quite incorrectly by conservatives across the U.S. as the “Ground Zero Mosque,” finally has, amid protests, been approved. As soon as those three words are combined, they create an immediate inflammatory reaction in the average American.
Two recent reports released by Washington, D.C.-based organization The Education Trust place MSU in the top 25 of public universities with the greatest differences between the graduation rates of white and Hispanic or black students.
The MSU volleyball team added another match to be played at Breslin Center, closing out its home season with a rivalry match against Michigan on Nov. 24.
A 24-year-old female from Minneapolis crashed her car Monday night in Lot 63, MSU police Sgt. Paul Kuchek said.
Accounting graduate student Matt Sanders took a detour from his usual eateries Thursday afternoon to be one of the first customers at Pizza Pi, 551 1/2 E. Grand River Ave.
A warmer than average summer increases the chances of an above average snowfall this upcoming winter, said John Kowaleski, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids. Through the end of July, Lansing recorded temperatures were about 4.3 degrees higher the average of 82, and in June, temperatures were 2.5 degrees above normal — numbers not seen in the past few years, Kowaleski said.
As state funding to public universities is cut and tuition increases, students are leaving college with more debt, according to new released Monday by the Michigan League for Human Services, or MLHS. Titled “Pulling the Plug on Michigan’s Future,” the reported was conducted by the MLHS, which is a nonprofit advocacy group for low-income residents.
Every year, more than 100,000 kittens and puppies are euthanized in Michigan shelters because of overcrowding and limits on how long an animal can stay. To help limit the number of animals without homes, the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine is going to the source of the problem — the dogs and cats who have the litters.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The sentence has become a cliché over time, but when it comes to the MSU football team, there is no better way to describe the Spartans’ attitude as they enter the 2010 season.
The former Democratic nominee for Michigan’s 8th congressional district who twice entered and retreated from the race has registered to vote in another state, allowing the Michigan Democratic Party to nominate a new candidate for the November general election.
Ultrinsic, a service that will be offered at 36 colleges and universities including MSU in the fall, allows students to wager money on what grade they will get in a class, a semester or their final college GPA.
Michigan’s gubernatorial candidates will have plenty to argue about when they meet for debates in the coming months, but how many will be held appears to be one of the first points of contention between the two.
A 20-year-old female MSU student reported her bicycle stolen Aug. 4 at the Spartan Village Community Center, 1460 Middlevale Road, MSU police Sgt. Shaun Mills said.