A bill to support a tuition freeze was voted down by ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday, after Chairperson Pro Tempore Brad McDonald voted it down as the tiebreaking vote. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A team of MSU researchers have found a way for businesses to address what matters most to consumers. The study identified four parts of a total experience that consumers look for: benefit, convenience, price and environment, said Bonnie Knutson, a professor of hospitality business who led the study.
The room was instantly silent. The envelopes were about to be distributed, each one containing potentially life-changing content. Family and friends grew quiet, having anticipated this day for a long time.
In the letter Wasteful spending builds bridges to nowhere for MSU (SN 3/17), Emme Miller made an observation about wasteful spending at MSU.
This week, ASMSU — MSU’s undergraduate student government — voted down a bill in support of tuition freezes by a vote of 7-8 in a disgraceful display of the neglect of their constituents.
After illegally occupying territory for more than 40 years, killing thousands of civilians in its frequent military offensives, ignoring constant resolutions from the United Nations, and habitually imprisoning and starving an entire population, Israel has finally admitted it has a problem. But not a policy problem — an image problem.
It’s a common sight in many MSU residence halls — large, open space lounge areas that look even larger with no people using them. There are tables and couches and sometimes even a TV, but rarely people. Even in the recently renovated Snyder and Phillips halls, often there are no bodies to fill the new leather couches and chairs.
A 20-inch plasma-screen TV worth about $500 was reported stolen Tuesday night from the Natural Science Building, MSU police Sgt.
Police on and off campus reported a relatively simple St. Patrick’s Day, despite the holiday keeping their departments slightly busier compared to last year. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said his department made 20 arrests on Tuesday.
The annual Council of Graduate Students election dissolved into a heated debate during the questioning of presidential candidates Wednesday. Allegations of misconduct — which were not discussed publicly — were voiced during the questioning of incumbent candidate for president Manish Madan and challenger Rachel Naegele.
Students could keep some money in their pockets and off their utility bills next winter if East Lansing receives money from the $787 billion stimulus package to improve energy conservation in rental properties.
Josh Parks may have provided the best summary of his life when he painted an exclamation point on his chest for a MSU football game last fall. Friends said Parks, a 19-year-old kinesiology sophomore from Marshall, was an eccentric person with as much enthusiasm as one could muster.
For 17 years of MSU basketball games, Barry Greer has directed the Spartan Brass, jeered opponents with the Izzone, given high fives to players before games and offered coaching tips in the locker room after the buzzer. And he does it all with Down syndrome, a genetic condition that causes a mental disability.
In the hope of reducing the workload of chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian position Tuesday to take on some of McDonald’s duties.
Starting today in Washington, D.C., MSU will lead a national celebratory conference for Title VI, the federal program that helped shift the university’s mission statement from “land-grant” to “world-grant” university during the past 50 years.
Keeping young, educated workers in Michigan has been touted as a key to getting the state’s economy back on track, and one MSU professor is studying how to make it a possibility.
The cooperative house known as the Beal House, 525 M.A.C. Ave., likely will have a completely new look next year after a vote by the Student Housing Cooperative Inc. to purchase and renovate the house in time for the fall 2009 semester.
Last week, an unarmed student at Grand Valley State University named Derek Copp was shot by police during an unannounced drug raid at his apartment. Copp was a normal college student just like you and me. If you think the war on drugs doesn’t affect you, think again.
And I thought that our student-run community newspaper’s forthcoming 40th anniversary was a big deal. Seriously, congratulations to The State News on a century of publication.
At 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, the East Lansing City Council decided on changes to its riot ordinance that make it easier to arrest and convict more students. The city’s basic anti-riot strategy is to outlaw street celebrations like Cedar Fest.