College is about finding something you love to do, then capitalizing on it. Even if that something is beer pong. University of Michigan senior Joe Eastman and Grand Valley State University junior Dane Ellis are testing that theory with their new Web site, Michpong.com.
In a world where environmental consciousness is growing, creating an earth-friendly cancer drug should be a priority, MSU experts said. That’s why chemistry and biochemistry and molecular biology assistant professor Kevin Walker has created a more efficient process to manufacture a leading cancer drug, known as paclitaxel, or Taxol.
Often shot put gets classified as simply big guys throwing heavy things. But this assumption couldn’t be further from the truth. To throw the shot put takes precise footwork, extreme strength and phenomenal balance.
As a child, every day you go into the cafeteria, open your puppy-covered lunch pail and hope you will see a delicious Hostess CupCake. The little chocolate cupcake with the signature white squiggle atop a melted chocolate topping.
Like columnist Zack Colman, my younger brother also was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Colman’s column brought a tear to my eye because I know when my brother walks across that stage and receives his diploma it will be the happiest day of my life.
I was very glad to participate in last Thursday’s discussion with Bruce Friedrich from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. This meeting of different views showed passion that fills both sides.
If the U.S federal government wants to make progress in the war on drugs, it should abandon its policy of prohibition in favor of a policy of legalization. Legalization has become, as the Economist puts it, the “least bad” option.
This week, the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender, or LBGT, community put on Pride Week at MSU to further the exposure of LBGT students on campus. But is one week enough to end discrimination?
An electrical malfunction caused the Tuesday morning fire in a fourth-floor room of Owen Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said Wednesday. The room’s occupant, a female student, was in her bed when a power strip beneath her began to smoke, McGlothian-Taylor said.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly recommended this week that its vice chairpersons double their summer work hours to match a pay raise due to take effect in May. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Signs painted “Taxed Enough Already!” and “Stop Reckless Spending!” were scattered throughout a crowd of about 5,000 gathering on the Capitol lawn in Lansing, where Samuel Joseph “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher hosted a rally in honor of tax day.
A male student reported his backpack stolen Monday night from the Main Library after he left it unattended on the second floor of the west wing, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Despite racking up 18,500 flights-worth of miles last year alone, MSU doesn’t track frequent flier miles on flights for university business. MSU officials said they continue to evaluate this policy as the university weighs a possible tuition increase, program cuts and layoffs to address shortfalls in a budget plagued by rising costs and decreased state funding.
The MSU softball team snapped its seven-game slide with a late-inning flurry, beating Central Michigan 7-6 in extra innings. Although the Spartans took six innings to score their first run, they only needed three batters to take the game in the bottom of the eighth.
The case of the man arrested last month in connection with two sexual assaults has been sent to circuit court.
Eric Poinski has seen many people walk in and out of his smoke shop since it opened three weeks ago, including a couple of elderly women who inquired about using a water pipe as a vase.
Author and poet Stephen Haven will speak at 7:30 p.m. April 21 in the RCAH Theatre in Snyder-Phillips Hall as part of the Center for Poetry’s Poetry in the Spring series.
MSU undergraduates will present research projects today at the University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum in the Union. The forum, which runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., features the projects of more than 600 MSU undergraduates that range from genetic mapping to creative writing.
The search for a new children’s choir director for the MSU Community Music School is over. University officials sought applicants from as far away as Italy and Australia, but the search concluded with one of MSU’s own.
A Lyman Briggs College alumnus will speak at the first commencement held by the college since the decision to reinstate it in 2006. Capt. Kenneth Earhart is commander of the Cairo, Egypt-based infectious disease research facility U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, or NAMRU-3.