Residence Halls Association President Mark Dobson was named President of the Year this weekend at the Michigan Organization of Residence Hall Associations, or MORHA, conference at Western Michigan University. MORHA is comprised of 11 Residence Hall Associations.
The East Lansing Farmer’s Market is seeking applicants for harvesters and producers to sell their wares. This market debuts this summer at Valley Court Park. It will be open 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays from July 12 to Oct. 25.
An MSU professor hopes to teach students to do just that — teach. Diane Ebert-May, professor of plant biology, received a $2 million grant via MSU from the National Science Foundation to host workshops that will help postdoctoral students learn effective methods for teaching science.
For the University Activities Board, comedy is another way for students to get into campus happenings. Last Tuesday, UAB held auditions for Last Spartan Standing, a comedy competition for aspiring campus comedians.
MSU malaria prevention group Students Taking on Malaria Prevention, or STOMP, entered an international competition Thursday to secure a $25,000 donation to equip about 135 homes in Kenya with mosquito netting.
Good old-fashioned grit. That’s how the MSU women’s basketball team has made its way to the top of the Big Ten standings the last month.
With a contingent of family and friends in attendance, Kelsey Morley couldn’t deny feeling something special going into Saturday’s meet.
The MSU men’s tennis team saw its perfect regular season fade into thin air Saturday, but not all was lost at the MSU Indoor Tennis Facility.
It’s not that senior guard Travis Walton needed reminding, but he watched film from the last time the MSU men’s basketball team traveled to Purdue anyway. Then he watched it again.
With what MSU wrestling coach Tom Minkel calls “the youngest team in the history of college wrestling,” there are likely to be a number of shortfalls — especially wrestling against ranked opponents in nearly every competition.
As the losses have piled up this season, the MSU hockey team has become accustomed to returning to the locker room after a game in poor spirits. But after Saturday’s 2-1 win and Friday’s 1-1 tie and shootout victory against No. 16 Ohio State, the Spartans had a reason to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
In an age when information can be shared in the blink of an eye and the world is becoming more interconnected thanks to technology and travel, it’s not surprising computer viruses aren’t the only thing college students can catch and share.
With last week’s news that Compuware CEO Peter Karmanos, Jr. hired former Detroit mayor and recently released prisoner Kwame Kilpatrick as a salesman for his Texas-based health care software subsidiary Covisint, perhaps now is an appropriate time to look at what faces those leaving prison who don’t have billionaire friends.
The editorial Be specific when giving sex activity statistics (SN 2/12) appears to be completely unsubstantiated. I can only imagine the marks it would receive if this were turned in as a paper for class.
If the state of Michigan were a business, the people running it would have sold the place by now. The state would proudly display signs reading “Under New Ownership” across its borders. Recently foreclosed homes would present big savings to bargain-hunting buyers.
Although I greatly appreciated the Page One coverage given to the College of Human Medicine expansion in Construction of Secchia Center may finish under $90M budget (SN 2/12), I wanted to gently remind you that MSU also educates physicians in the College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM).
On Saturday I was walking from my house north of campus to eat at Shaw Hall. It snowed the previous night and as a result was very slippery outside. I embarrassingly slipped and fell, and unknown to me, both my iPod and my house/car keys fell out of my pocket of my jacket.
The MSU Athletics Department announced Sunday that season ticket prices for MSU home football games will increase for the 2009 season.
The MSU hockey found some love this Valentine’s Day. With Saturday’s 2-1 victory over No. 16 Ohio State, the Spartans earned a four point weekend for the first time since Nov. 1.
With the final minute of the game slowly creeping by, it seemed like freshman forward Brett Perlini was going to be the hero of the night for the MSU hockey team. But a win wasn’t going to be that easy for the Spartans. Not today – not on Friday the 13th.