East Lansing City Council discussed prohibiting smoking in three city buildings during its Tuesday work session, which would modify an ordinance requiring smokers to be 50 feet away from municipal buildings.
The debate over the ease of study abroad courses will stay alive for at least another month, despite a presentation Tuesday to the Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, that revealed there is no concise way to compare on- and off-campus grades.
As an elementary school student, Hilary Pehrson used to come home from school and tell her parents how she would set up the classroom differently if she were in charge. Now completing an internship to receive her teaching certificate, Pehrson said she has wanted to be a teacher for as long as she can remember.
MSU’s graduate student government will continue to address cuts to about 20 graduate programs and specializations, as well as health care issues affecting graduate and professional students this semester, officials said.
A trial to determine the constitutionality of California’s same-sex marriage ban began Monday and its repercussions could change marriage laws nationwide, experts said
A new year marks a new look for the East Lansing Police Department. Effective Jan. 1, officers with the department began sporting new uniforms, trading the usual light blue outfits for new dark blue slacks and shirts made from microfibers.
In 2006, Business Week rated the country of Bhutan in southern Asia as the happiest country on the continent. But for Keshar Khatiwada it was anything but, as he and other endured torture and numerous hardships.
Former state Rep. John Freeman announced his exit from Michigan’s 2010 race for governor Tuesday.
Every day — across the entire the world — people die and children are born. But what all the countries of the world don’t share is their beliefs on life and death.
Brother’s Grill, 403 E. Grand River Ave., did not open for business Monday or Tuesday and it is not known when or if the restaurant will resume operation.
African farmers and organizations involved in agriculture soon will be able to share, manage and expand their knowledge because of a team of MSU researchers.
When Scott Westerman arrived to Michigan from New Mexico about two weeks ago, the frigid temperatures made him feel at home. Westerman, who graduated from MSU in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in telecommunication, left New Mexico and a vice president position with Comcast Corp. to become MSU’s new associate vice president for alumni relations and the executive director of the MSU Alumni Association. He replaced the association’s interim executive director, Stella Cash, this semester.
After four different buildings and more than 100 years of business to its name, the Lansing City Market has found a newer, more appropriate home. With 71 years in its building at 333 N. Cedar St., the market has traveled across the parking lot to 325 City Market Drive, in a move that market manager John Hooper said definitely was a necessary one.
As we’re now roughly past the first two weeks of 2010, New Year’s resolutions are in full force. Gyms are packed, cigarettes are being put out and money is being saved.
Many of us have had our families’ wealth looked at in order to determine the financial aid we receive. But imagine an admissions process that takes into account the wealth of a student’s family before allowing him or her to attend a college or university.
Tom Izzo said he was as excited as anybody when his old friend Tubby Smith was hired to revitalize the Minnesota men’s basketball program three years ago. This week, the MSU head coach wish it wasn’t so.
Entering this season, the No. 7 MSU hockey team wanted to throw away everything from last season. And so far, the Spartans have been able to do just that, posing a 15-6-3 record, good for third place in the CCHA. Last season, the Spartans finished with 10 wins and landed in a tie for 10th place.
The 500-block of Spartan Avenue, situated a block south of Burcham Drive and three streets west of Hagadorn Road, isn’t exactly prime real estate for MSU students making a move off-campus.
A 47-year-old woman reported damage to her parked car in Lot 61 after a vehicle backed into her Jan. 5.
With City Center II’s financial status the same in the new year as it was in 2009, East Lansing officials remain optimistic about Strathmore Development Company’s $116.4 million project.