Kyle Martin was sitting in class — the same as any other day — when he received the news. He sprinted out of the lecture as soon as he got the text message: “What’s going on in Haiti is horrible.”
Billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, donated another $2 million to help the art museum bearing their name reach its funding goal of $40 million, the university announced Wednesday.
After hearing a tapping noise on her ground floor apartment window about two years ago, Kate found a sticky note with an online screen name secured to the glass. Kate, an MSU graduate student, assumed it was a prank until she found the same note attached to her car a few days later.
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, considered the Democratic front-runner for the Michigan attorney general nomination, exited the race Wednesday.
Changes to several Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus routes scheduled to take effect this month will be postponed until fall 2010.
MSU’s Physical Plant Division and the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today in the lunch room at the Physical Plant building.
East Lansing’s 54-B District Court and the East Lansing Police Department Record Bureau will be closed Friday for inventory.
With credit lines in knots and entrepreneurs walking a proverbial tight rope, East Lansing officials are discussing an incubator program to provide steady financial footing for restaurateurs.
Communication senior Allen Kuschell is on the lookout for a job or internship. With the economy the way it is, he said he’ll take whichever comes first.
Don’t call them the fourth line. For now, the forward combination of sophomores Brett Perlini and Trevor Nill, along with freshman Dean Chelios, prefer to be called the “maroon line,” representing the color of the jerseys they wear in practice.
Heading into Big Ten play, the MSU wrestling team hopes more experience will equate to more success.
MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant said her team is looking for its identity and three straight offensively-challenged losses.
The Harlem Globetrotters will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday at Breslin Center, with a portion of proceeds from the game will be donated to benefit UNICEF’s earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
A Statehood Day Celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday at the Michigan Historical Museum, 702 W. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
For William T. Langford IV, the last thing poetry is meant to do is stay on a page. “It’s meant to be read, it’s meant to be spoken and it’s meant to be heard,” Langford said.
When I turned on the 24-hour news stations during winter break, I expected to hear the usual rabble about violence in the Middle East and low holiday sales, but instead I was shocked to stumble across what the military somehow viewed as a good idea — jailing women who become pregnant on duty in Iraq.
Smart politicians know that to reach young voters, their campaigns need to institute Web-based social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube.
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, announced today she is dropping out of the Michigan Attorney General race.
A 19-year-old female MSU student reported a criminal sexual conduct by an 18-year-old male MSU student on Saturday.
Updates to MSU’s Academic Governance bylaws failed to move past Faculty Council for the second time this academic year after members sent the final substantive piece back to the committee-level Tuesday.