RHA passed a revision to its bylaws Wednesday to fix a discrepancy regarding hiring practices. On April 8, RHA’s committee on internal affairs was asked to review bylaws because it was unclear if Chief of Staff David Averill had followed them in recent hiring.
A collaborative grant awarded Tuesday to MSU will give the university $50,000 to research development in Africa. The university is one of 20 U.S. colleges and universities to receive funds to address Africa’s environmental and developmental challenges.
The sequins on the dancers’ long skirts gleamed from the stage as they twirled and bounced to the beat that echoed through the Auditorium at Wednesday’s dress rehearsal for Satrang.
As the nation celebrates planting trees for Arbor Day, East Lansing crews work to reforest areas of the city stricken by a tree-killing insect, and await the day when increased blight and inadequate funding make it impossible to continue replacing the trees.
Hundreds of students and other concerned citizens gathered Thursday at the Capitol steps to lobby for legislation to ban smoking in Michigan workplaces. The health care rally was organized by the American Medical Student Association, or AMSA, Student Osteopathic Medical Association and the MSU College of Human Medicine.
I’ve been interested in doing a vegan recipe for a while now, but was afraid of all the ways that I could mess it up. Thanks to contributing confectioner, vegan extraordinaire and psychology junior Irida Mance, I was able to not only face my fear but learn some fun vegan cooking tips along the way.
Mastering the serve is one of the most important aspects of tennis. Whether your serve features blistering speed or pinpoint accuracy, it’s important to put your opponent on their heels right away.
Once upon a time, junior A.J. Jimmerson was the heir apparent to Javon Ringer’s throne as the MSU football team’s star running back. Some, including then-head coach John L. Smith, even predicted Jimmerson would become a better player than Ringer, who finished his career second in school history with 4,329 rushing yards.
In 2007, the MSU men’s golf team won the Fossum/Spartan Invitational. MSU head coach Sam Puryear is expecting the same results this year. In fact, he’s not going to be satisfied with anything but a victory.
We were delighted to read Kate Jacobson’s column Women’s rights a worldwide issue (SN 4/21). It was an insightful and passionate account of the situation for some Afghani women struggling to stay free of violence in their streets and homes. We also appreciated Jacobson’s reflection on the relationship between our rights at home and the rights of women in other countries. Too often citizens in the U.S.
Before leaving MSU’s main campus for my clinical rotations as a third year medical student, I feel compelled to express an ongoing problem.
“R-E-C-Y-C-L-E, recycle! C-O-N-S-E-R-V-E, conserve! Don’t you P-O-L-L-U-T-E pollute the water, sky or sea, or else we’re gonna get, what we deserve!” Do you remember that song from the Nickelodeon TV show “Rocko’s Modern Life?”
It’s something everyone has thought or felt at one point in their college career — they’re being robbed blind by buying books.
The State News caught up with former MSU running back Javon Ringer during Tuesday’s football practice to talk about this weekend’s NFL draft. Most draft experts project Ringer, who rushed for 1,637 yards and 22 touchdowns last season, as a middle-round pick.
Wade Korpi doesn’t remember the ball that nearly killed him. Last April, the then-Notre Dame pitcher threw a two-strike fastball to Rutgers shortstop Dan Betteridge, who hit a line drive back at Korpi at more than 100 mph. The ball caromed off the left side of Korpi’s forehead and landed by first base.
Fifteen of MSU’s graduate programs made top-10 lists in U.S. News & World Report’s 2010 edition of America’s Best Graduate Schools.
MSU students are expected to have access to $7 million in new scholarship funds and financial aid after the university received an anonymous $10 million donation, the largest anonymous donation for student scholarships in MSU history, the university announced Thursday.
The 18th session of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly elected its chairpersons Tuesday, filling leadership roles that will represent the student voice for the 2009-10 school year. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A 28-year-old female student reported her $31 purse stolen and a $235.51 purchase made on her stolen Visa debit card on Tuesday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The student left the purse on a table in her Morrill Hall office.