Police are not expected to release any new information regarding the death of MSU senior Don Ausman for “a couple of weeks,” MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said Monday morning.
The trial for Nigel Scarlett, a former high-ranking ASMSU representative, will start March 16 after a separate, ongoing murder trial pushed back the start of Scarlett’s trial, which was originally scheduled for Monday morning.
MSU’s $1.4 billion investment portfolio has declined almost $300 million since the end of June. The portfolio, which mainly consists of endowments, is made up of donations and investments that accumulate interest over time.
Beer, wings, yelling at the TV — Super Bowl Sunday is a day of many traditions. And at $3 million for a 30-second commercial spot, a group of MSU advertising instructors understand the Super Bowl is also big business. While watching the game at the advertising department’s annual Super Bowl party, the group focused on what it knows best — commercials.
Funeral services for MSU student Don Ausman will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Harry J. Will Funeral Home, 37000 6 Mile Road, in Livonia.
Students might soon be able to make their voices heard about ideas for changes to the academic calendar through a survey set to be distributed within the next few weeks.
Students hoping to bring a rock climbing wall to campus got closer to the peak Thursday when ASMSU’s Student Assembly moved to support its construction at MSU. Matt Malkowski, a geological studies graduate student who spearheaded the initiative, said he was glad to see the project pass through ASMSU.
The first two days of February have been a winter heat wave, but last month was the coldest January in recent history. William Marino, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service station in Grand Rapids, said last month was the coldest January in 15 years and snowiest since 2005.
MSU Dance Marathon will host recruitment meetings all week to find dancers willing to spend 12 hours on their feet to raise money for the MSU Children’s Health Initiative.
The nationwide outbreak of salmonella has reached Ingham County, local health officials said Friday. Laboratory tests confirmed that one of two salmonella cases reported in the county Jan. 21 is tied to a nationwide outbreak caused by tainted peanut butter products.
As February began, MSU kicked off a monthlong 200th birthday party for famed biologist Charles Darwin. The university will host events throughout the month to commemorate Darwin’s work involving evolution.
The MSU Museum is hosting a new and ongoing exhibit, Threads of Change: The Transformation of West African Textiles. The exhibit features traditional and contemporary cloths from West African nations such as Mali, Ghana, Nigeria and Guinea.
First-year MSU baseball coach Jake Boss Jr. couldn’t wait for the 2009 season to start. He and his team were so excited, in fact, that they started at the soonest possible moment.
The MSU wrestling team notched its first win in the Big Ten this season in an exciting fashion Friday, upsetting No. 17 Wisconsin 25-17 at Jenison Field House.
For some reason, the MSU men’s basketball team can’t win at home. Blame it on bad defense, young players’ belief in entitlement, or just a rash of bad luck and banked-in 3-pointers, but the No. 9 Spartans (17-4 overall, 7-2 Big Ten) now find themselves in the midst of what no MSU team has had to deal with in more than 10 years — a losing streak at Breslin Center.
For the first time since 1995-96, the MSU hockey team lost twice in a single season to Lake Superior. The 2-0 loss on Friday coupled with the 4-2 loss on Saturday extended the Spartans’ losing streak to five games.
Head coach Kathy Klages always tells her gymnasts if they’re ever worried about the sport jeopardizing their future, it’s time to get out. So when Megan Bergland realized she couldn’t bend down to pick up her younger brother, she knew her career was over.
I take great exception to the vegan proponent in Drew Winter’s column Vegan lifestyle logical decision (SN 1/30). The article was rife with fallacious metaphors and comparisons that left readers at a loss for words.
I am a vegetarian and was glad to see so much coverage of meat-free diets in Friday’s paper. Yet I have some qualms with the column Vegan lifestyle logical decision (SN 1/30).
Over the past few weeks, public chatter about the so-called “stimulus package” has grown louder with each passing day and each minor development as Congress wrestles over the particulars of an enormous federal expenditure. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, as the public has plenty of reason to be paying attention.