One academic program has been discontinued and further discontinuation proposals are expected to go through MSU’s academic governance system this semester, university officials said.
MSU football players B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of assault and battery stemming from a dormitory brawl in November 2009.
After President Barack Obama proposed a plan Wednesday night in his State of Union Address to cap student loan payments, members of the MSU community expressed mixed emotions toward the plan. Obama’s plan would cut loan payments to 10 percent of a borrower’s income after graduation and forgive student loan debt after 20 years.
Students filling up their gas tanks might have to empty their wallets as soon as March 1 if measures in the Michigan House to increas gas taxes passes.
Area residents soon will have to pay about $8 more per month for their water and electricity, as the Lansing Board of Water and Light, or LBWL, approved rate increases Tuesday, effective March 1.
The inboxes of university administrators could soon be filled with thousands of e-mails containing one sentence, “Please keep MSU’s Deaf Education Program for our deaf children who use ASL in Michigan.”
Campus Living Services will hold an event from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Sunday for students to learn more about the campus dorm neighborhoods.
Although the number of freshman business majors might be decreasing across the country, the demand for business education at MSU is increasing, school officials said.
A new MSU student group hopes to fuel a university commitment to move away from coal energy.
The founder of Doctors United for Haiti, Sidney Coupet, will speak at noon on Friday at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Room E4 of Fee Hall.
The Kellogg Center is slated to hold the Choices Conference on March 10 and 11.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm calls it the green economy. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon calls it bioeconomy. David Skole calls it the future.
As MSU seeks to update its academic governance bylaws, ASMSU officials are expressing concern about potential changes that could limit student input in the governance process.
MSU football players B.J. Cunningham and Mark Dell pleaded guilty Wednesday to assault and battery stemming from a Nov. 22, 2009, fight in Rather Hall, according to court records. A single charge of conspiracy to commit assault and battery was dropped for both players as part of the plea deal.
The MSU Rotaract Club is sponsoring Hold ’em for Hunger, a free poker tournament, from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at the Union.
The University Activities Board, in partnership with the Lansing Community College Signers and Others for Deaf Awareness, will present Star Search at 8 p.m. tonight in the Union’s Main Lounge.
The University Activities Board will host a Rockin’ Retro Rollerpalooza from 9 p.m. to midnight Saturday at Demonstration Hall.
“The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein” will be performed next Tuesday through Feb. 7 at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Students hoping for a night in Sin City need look no further than Spartan Stadium as the School of Hospitality Business kicks off its annual Vegas Night at 5 p.m. Friday.
A clamor of dog barks erupts from the pit orchestra as the spotted curtain rises, revealing a topsy-turvy world where dogs own humans as pets.