Two current MSU students and a 2009 MSU alumna were selected as student ambassadors for China’s Expo 2010 in Shanghai this summer. International relations senior Charles Eveslage, international relations and Chinese senior Dan Redford and MSU alumna Rachel Smith will serve as student ambassadors for the Expo 2010 to guide visitors through the U.S. pavilion and act as ambassadors of the U.S.
During his freshman year at MSU, Patrick McAlvey was in the process of trying to cure his sexual orientation. More than five years later, he is back to embrace it. McAlvey, an MSU alumnus, discussed his experience with reparative therapy — the attempt to change the sexual orientation of individuals who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual through various methods — as part of Pride Week 2010 on Monday evening.
The East Lansing City Council will continue reviewing the proposed 2010-11 fiscal year budget when it views presentations on utility, street and solid waste funds during its 7 p.m. Tuesday work session at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
The Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, was honored last week for its efforts to increase MSU students’ knowledge of recycling, reuse and energy efficiency opportunities in the East Lansing community.
Research by MSU undergraduate students on various topics ranging from tropical diseases to the life of an 18th century violin maker will be on display Friday. The display of student work is part of the annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum that will be held from 9 a.m.
The Red Cedar Review, an MSU literary digest, is celebrating the release of its latest volume with the Red Cedar Review Issue Release Party at 7:30 p.m. April 22 at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St.
David Drolshagen, a missing East Lansing man, was found dead Sunday in Meridian Township by a person walking in the Eyde Parkway off of South Hagadorn Road. Drolshagen, 50, was reported missing on March 30.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective of her new frontier.
Looking at the MSU softball team’s roster, there’s one thing that sticks out: There only is one senior on the 17-member team.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant was surprised when senior center Allyssa DeHaan wasn’t selected in the 2010 WNBA Draft last week.
Last season, the MSU football team often lacked the strong running game typically needed for Big Ten success. This spring, head coach Mark Dantonio said a duo of talented sophomores are working on solving that problem.
The open nature of the Internet has allowed it to become the most important development in collective human knowledge since the invention of the printing press. The Internet has changed how we consume content and allowed ideas to spread much faster than any point earlier in human history. A ruling by a federal appeals court significantly could change the way in which the Internet works in the future.
The T.B. Simon Power Plant burns 250,000 tons of coal each year, providing heat and electricity to the university. However, the plant produces harmful greenhouse gases — much to the dismay of many on-campus student groups and other local environmentalists. There has been a flurry of protests and campaigns to raise awareness of this fact and convince the university to switch to alternative, less harmful energy sources.
From 11:20 a.m. Saturday until 12:37 a.m. Sunday, 152 players participated at Spartan Village in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the most players in a soccer exhibition match. Providing all criteria are met, the previous record of 50 players has been shattered.
13 percent of undergraduate students voted in this year’s spring ASMSU elections, representing the second highest voter turnout in five years. In last year’s elections, 7 percent, or 2,611, undergraduate students voted in the spring elections.
Experts say Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is an unlikely candidate to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Her lack of judicial exprience makes her nomination improbable, some say. Others say her gubernatorial experience might help.
An Illinois man’s preliminary hearing Friday for charges of criminal sexual conduct with an MSU student was postponed until April 30.
The Mad Hatter, Lady Liberty, Revolutionary War heroes and taxing pirates were just a few of more than 1,500 people who filled the Capitol lawn Saturday to exhibit one central idea: discontent with their government’s recent actions. Tea partiers from across the state gathered to protest federal and state tax policies, the recent passage of the health care bill and to welcome the Tea Party Express, a national bus tour that began traveling March 27, making its way from Nevada to Washington, D.C., where the tour will conclude Thursday, tax day.
Four days after receiving the assignment, Audrey Sibiski stood in front of a president and CEO and board members, presenting her group’s idea for an advertising campaign. Sibiski, an advertising senior, was one of 22 students who spent April 5 through last Thursday designing a potential strategy for a national organization — Prevent Child Abuse America — as part of a weeklong internship.
Rubber ducks floated down the Red Cedar River on Friday afternoon as part of Camp Kesem’s annual rubber duck derby. The event raised nearly $1,500, which will be used to provide free summer camp to kids with parents who have had or currently have cancer. Camp Kesem, which is run by college students, is a weeklong summer camp for kids ages 6-13 and is located in more than 10 states.