I love this school, and I consider it my new home. And it’s for that reason I feel a responsibility to pressure the university to make the choices that it needs to make in order to make this campus healthier and stronger in the future.
A teen in Alabama recently was suspended for having too “skimpy” of a prom dress. Initially, this seems like a typical story and a common occurrence in the springtime when eager high school students cast away their pants and coats for shorter, more season-savvy choices. Yet the striking thing in this story is the punishment offered for the crime.
Once composed of mostly men, veterinary education now is nationally dominated by women. However, this reversal of gender dominance in the field is a general trend. Before the 1980s, veterinary classes at MSU were composed of mostly male students.
Today’s Crosstown Showdown between the MSU baseball team and Lansing Lugnuts has been canceled due to weather. The game has been rescheduled for Monday, April 26 at 7:05 p.m. at Cooley Law School Stadium.
East Lansing City Council approved an amended site plan and special use permit for the City Center II project during its Tuesday meeting, providing the first substantive progress for the development since December 2009. A five-story building in the 5.25 acre, $116.4 million project that is bounded by Grand River Avenue, Abbot Road and Valley Court Park is now zoned for office use in addition to residential and retail space
The first year of online-only voting for MSU’s various student governments’ spring elections hit a snag Monday when a missing zero caused polls to close early. When the closing time was entered, it was inadvertently given the wrong number of zeroes. The time read 08:00.000 instead of 08:00:00.000 which caused polls to close at 12:08 a.m. instead of 8 a.m.
An MSU researcher and Academic Governance representative has retracted an article published in 2008 because she plagiarized. The retraction comes after a year-long investigation by a university committee. The article appeared in the February 2010 issue of Plant Science.
A proposed Institutional Data Policy could help the MSU community understand practices for handling sensitive data. It could begin circulating through Academic Governance this fall. The policy would lay out requirements for working with university data and records held for the administration, operation or governance of the university or its units.
A 21-year-old male MSU student reported his bicycle stolen March 30, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Some students, such as human biology and psychology freshman Jessica Jary, missed class Tuesday because of a tornado warning, which lasted from 11:23 a.m. to noon Tuesday according to the National Weather Service.
Suzan-Lori Parks, author of various plays, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Topdog/Underdog,” came to MSU on Tuesday to discuss her works and career before a crowd of about 300. In 2002, Parks became the first African-American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize in drama for her play.
Elizabeth Berens, an advertising junior, received an honorable mention in the University Language Services, or ULS, 2010 scholarship photo contest.
The Spartans will make the short journey down Michigan Avenue to Cooley Law School Stadium to take on the Lansing Lugnuts in the fourth annual Crosstown Showdown. First pitch is slated for 7:05 p.m.
From the No. 9 spot in the batting order, sophomore catcher Andy Johnson went 3-for-4 with three RBIs to help propel the Spartans past Bowling Green, 5-2, Tuesday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
Courtney Hilden spends about four hours of her week with the likes of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Ann Plato and Frances Harper — a lost generation of female poets of whom most in the world of academia have never heard. Hilden, however, thinks these women still have a story to tell and a part to play. The English senior will give a presentation on her senior thesis this month — a study of 19th century politically active women poets — as a part of the Center for Poetry’s Spring Poetry Festival.
It is similar to a haunted house, except the realities students will face inside the Tunnel of Oppression are far scarier than monsters and ghosts. The Tunnel of Oppression, a performance meant to address various types of oppression found throughout the world, will be performed at 6, 7 and 8 p.m.
When Mohamed Shetiah moved to East Lansing from his home in Egypt 21 years ago, he didn’t know English, the American culture, or exactly what to expect in the United States. Despite this, on Tuesday, Shetiah opened his 20th Biggby Coffee shop at 4480 Hagadorn Road, in Okemos, giving him more than twice as many stores as any other Biggby franchise owner — which he said was another step in his journey to fulfill his dreams.
Amanda Grace Sikarskie was one of more than 10 students that entered this year’s Student Book Collection Competition through the Main Library. The annual competition, now in its 13th year, allows student book collectors to submit an annotated bibliography of up to 50 titles from their collection. Any genre or topic of collection is considered, so long as there is a prominent theme to the works.
The iPad is one of the coolest things I’ve looked at and played with in the past couple of years. The new Apple gadget is so much fun to toy with, it makes me want to run out and buy one. But the iPad has to be one of the most useless new pieces of technology in a long time.
As the numbers of unpaid internships have grown, so have the concerns about whether employers are abiding by labor laws. The future of those internships rests on the need for new legal limitations on what is right and wrong in the unpaid workplace.