Convicted murderer Matthew Macon will not be prosecuted in the deaths of five women killed in Lansing since 2004 that he is believed to be tied to, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III announced Monday at a press conference. Macon currently is serving a life sentence on two murder convictions from 2008.
A 44-year-old female MSU student said her cell phone was stolen after she forgot it in one of her classes, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The phone was a white Samsung phone valued at $250, McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU played a tough, hard-nosed game to beat the Boilermakers on Sunday. For the first time maybe this entire season, the Spartans exhibited coinciding flashes of toughness, grit, heart and, well, good ol’ fashioned MSU basketball.
In response to last month’s devastating earthquake in Haiti, students at MSU Dubai have raised more than $6,500 for donation to the United Nations World Food Program. The students raised more than $1,600 alone in one day.
Consolidation of the East Lansing Secretary of State and the Lansing Secretary of State could come to a halt if a bill passed in the Michigan House makes it through the state Senate. A merger of the East Lansing and downtown Lansing Secretary of State branches announced in November would combine the branches, but the House’s bill that passed last week would stop it until the Secretary of State develops specific and written criteria to select branches for closure.
On Sunday, the McDonel Hall Black Caucus ended Black History Month by performing a play celebrating the achievements of historical black figures.
Following the MSU hockey team’s disappointing four-point weekend, hockey reporter Alex Difilippo analyzes the series’ impact on the Spartans’ NCAA Tournament chances and the upcoming CCHA Tournament.
MSU head coach Suzy Merchant called her four seniors — center Lauren Aitch, center Allyssa DeHaan, forward Aisha Jefferson and guard Mandy Piechowski — in for a meeting Friday, offering them the chance to start together for their final game at Breslin Center on Sunday.
The MSU women’s basketball team’s 70-50 win against Minnesota on Sunday at Breslin Center served three purposes: It sent the team’s four seniors out as winners, clinched the No. 2 seed in the Big Ten Tournament and also gave the team 10 wins in its last 11 games, the second best regular season finish in program history, trailing only the 2004-05 national runner-up team that won 13 of its last 14.
ASMSU officials unveiled plans at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting to bring former late-night host Conan O’Brien to Breslin Center. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government. Organization officials put in a $150,000 bid to entice O’Brien to perform a one-night only concert on campus.
Michigan House Speaker Andy Dillon, D-Redford Township, added his name to a growing list of Democratic gubernatorial candidates Sunday.
MSU Senior Class Council’s Annual Etiquette Dinner on Sunday at Kellogg Center aimed to give MSU students the opportunity to learn proper etiquette for interviews, dining and other business situations during a three-course meal.
Students in MSU’s Master of Science in Accounting program partnered with the Special Olympics of Michigan to host the organization’s annual basketball tournament Friday. More than 1,400 athletes, parents and student volunteers came to IM Sports-West for the all-day basketball tournament.
It’s been nearly seven weeks since an earthquake rocked Haiti, leaving close to 300,000 people dead and more than three million others in need of emergency aid. In an effort to raise money and awareness for the ongoing Haitian struggle, the Caribbean Student Association, or CSA, and the International Students Association hosted Help Haiti Heal on Friday at the Auditorium, a night celebrating Caribbean music.
Officials from ASMSU — MSU’s undergraduate student government — have selected a date for its spring elections, which will feature two ballot issues. The tentative date for polls to open for ASMSU’s spring elections is March 29. ASMSU’s Readership Program referendum and a proposed change to ASMSU’s constitution will appear on the ballot.
West Lafayette, Ind. — Assist-to-turnover ratio usually is a useful stat to judge offensive efficiency. But when the ratio being looked at is field goals-to-turnovers, you know you had a tough day offensively.
Kurt Vonnegut’s classic novel “Slaughterhouse-Five” was the main attraction Saturday as the James Madison College hosted its seventh annual Marathon Book Reading. Students and faculty read the book cover-to-cover Saturday.
While ASMSU has made available $225,000 to pay O’Brien for a couple of hours of entertainment, MSU is struggling with cuts that not only challenge faculty and administrators but are felt most profoundly by students who have to keep up with increasing tuition rates.
The East Lansing City Council and East Lansing Planning Commission should do what they can to stall the development. The city cannot stop a sale outright, but the planning commission will look at how the development would comply with city codes, a process that can take months and give the local fraternity time to find another buyer or solidify its tentative deal with the alumnus. Too much tampering would be illegal, but for once, bureaucracy and drawing things out would look good on the city of East Lansing.
In February, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute released a study that assessed how well American college graduates understand crucial components of American civics, even things that would be asked on a citizenship test. The results from the survey surprisingly show that college actually fails to sufficiently produce civic knowledge in college graduates. Yet, for some strange reason I find it pretty hard to easily accept that. What I don’t find hard to believe is that the study also shows that college can actually influence students’ opinions to lean toward the liberal end of the spectrum.