As an alumnus of MSU, I have to wonder if the academic quality has lessened since I’ve graduated after reading the Justin Covington guest column “Naming new decade proves difficult task” (SN 1/12).
Once again an election is around the corner, and this time Michigan will be choosing a new person to lead the state.
MSU students in a multitude of academic disciplines are continuing to come to terms with tight budgets.
Few expected the MSU women’s basketball team to start the Big Ten season 2-3. ****
Looking back at the 2009 football season Wednesday, Mark Dantonio said he wasn’t pleased with the team’s record, but the MSU head football coach was proud of how his team handled adversity.
MSU head football coach Mark Dantonio announced Wednesday that the 12 suspended players involved in the Nov. 22 assault at Rather Hall have been reinstated, while four of them have decided to leave the program.
Greg Jones will return for his senior season on the MSU football team, the junior linebacker announced Wednesday at MSU head coach Mark Dantonio’s year-end press conference.
After a traffic incident, a pizza delivery driver was assaulted by two suspects outside West Shaw Hall at about 11 p.m. Tuesday, leaving him unconscious.
Two vehicles were robbed between 6 and 10 p.m. on Jan. 8 at Ramp 4, near the Kellogg Center, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Former MSU running backs coach Dan Enos was named the head football coach at Central Michigan on Tuesday. Enos, who served as the running backs coach under MSU head coach Mark Dantonio for the past three seasons, was introduced in a press conference.
No further funding cuts will be needed this fiscal year for universities, public schools or city governments, but next year’s projected state budget shortfall likely will be detrimental to higher education funding, economists said.
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.