In celebration of summer and spirits, the 10th annual Festival of the Sun will take place from 2-10 p.m. Saturday at the park and parking lot located at the corner of Turner Street and Grand River Avenue, in Old Town Lansing.
When I got my first cell phone in the fall of my freshman year of high school, it didn’t have texting and it was for ‘emergency purposes’ only. My little sister’s first phone, which she got just four years later, played music and had an LED light-up screen. That’s not to mention it had unlimited text messaging, which is a good thing considering that in one month last year she sent and received more than 14,400 text messages.
A conflict between state law and public university power might lead to an increase in the presence of guns on MSU’s campus. The MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to allow concealed weapons on campus, assuming the owner has the proper permits. Any person with a concealed weapons permit might bring a gun on campus, but not into any buildings, such as the dorms.
Two diamond rings presumed stolen between April 25 and 26 from a room in the Kellogg Center remain missing, MSU police Sgt.
Although guns remain prohibited from MSU campus buildings, those with concealed weapons permits now can carry a firearm through campus, following a MSU Board of Trustees vote Friday.
MSU students could see as much as a 10.1 percent tuition increase during the next two years, the MSU Board of Trustees decided Friday when it approved the 2009-10 university budget guidelines.
For MSU alumnus Robert Dozier, writing hip-hop songs isn’t all about the rhythm or the beat — it frees his mind from oppression.
Whenever Carl Cafagna hits a note on the sax, clarinet or another instruments he’s mastered, he is carrying on his father’s passion for jazz. “My son became what I always wanted to be,” said Al Cafagna, Carl’s father and a retired MSU philosophy professor.
Eighteen little faces crowded around a hive where hundreds of bees swarmed Saturday. “This is bee rush hour,” 8-year-old Patrick Meehan shouted as the insects scrambled to leave the hive through a tube leading out of the building.
With the purpose of highlighting the importance of recycling and the concept of making art out of trash, 12 teams of varying sizes hastily sorted through a scrap yard Saturday at Friedland Industries, 405 E. Maple St., in Lansing’s Old Town, to collect up to 500 pounds of scrap metal each for the first-ever Scrapfest event.
After a week of research, 50 forensic science hopefuls were given the chance to apply their skills Friday at the mock murder scene of Bad Choice, a dummy with two X’s for eyes drawn on his Styrofoam head.
Some lawmakers are challenging the Michigan State Police Department’s plan to move its headquarters from MSU’s campus to a new Lansing location by blocking multimillion dollar funding they say is economically irresponsible.
I know very little about the television industry. In fact, to say I know anything at all would be a lie. Give me a video camera and I’ll give you shots of people’s feet after I leave it recording. Tell me to build a stage and you might be lucky enough to get a birdhouse.
A wrongly convicted criminal serving time might not get access to all the evidence he or she needs thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. The court decided Thursday that access to DNA testing for convicted prisoners isn’t a constitutional right, despite at least 232 cases having been overturned by DNA evidence in the U.S.
During the next two years, tuition for in-state undergraduates will increase by a total of 10.1 percent. For 2009-10, the increase will be 5.2 percent and for 2010-11 it will be 4.9 percent, according to the Budget Development Overview.
Iranian citizens protesting presidential election results in their country are hoping they will be heard by a government thousands of miles away and inspire change in Iran. Local Iranians and Iranian graduate students from universities — including MSU — met Thursday at the Capitol to fight for their voting rights and protest what they call “election fraud” in Iran. On June 12, Iranians cast their ballots, and the next day, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected as president to the country, defeating opponent Mir Hossein Mousavi.
The free Concerts in the Park series had its second concert of the summer Wednesday in Durant Park. Although the gloomy weather might have deterred a larger crowd, of the 30 people who attended, most seemed to have an enjoyable evening.
If you are wondering where your unregistered Huffy disappeared to after hibernating on campus all winter, the MSU Surplus Store might be able to help.
An MSU professor received more than $100,000 in federal stimulus money to hire summer researchers. Chemistry associate professor Dana Spence said his lab is still looking for an undergraduate student and a high school teacher to work as researchers this summer.
Officials at MSU Dubai announced on Friday the creation of the MSU Dubai Distinguished Scholarship Program, which will provide financial assistance to 10 students for the fall semester.