FEATURES
Variety of activities around E.L. despite cold weather, heavy snow
Here’s a list of the top 10 winter activities to do near your East Lansing home:
COMMENTARY
Consider facts when discussing Gaza war
Since Israel invaded Gaza three weeks ago there have been many strong opinions in the news and on the street.
COMMENTARY
Lowering energy on campus easier in theory
Here are some steps for decreasing your tuition bill: Turn off your lights, shut down your computers and take shorter showers.
FEATURES
Lupe Fiasco coming to campus Feb. 12
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. and will be sold on a first come first serve basis. Tickets can be bought at whartoncenter.com or at the Wharton Center Box Office. Tickets cost $15 for MSU students and $25 for the general public.
NEWS
Date for MSU football players' pre-trial hearing moved to Feb. 11
The date of pre-trial hearings for MSU football players Glenn Winston and Mitchell White have been moved to Feb. 11, a criminal clerk at East Lansing District Court 54-B said today.
NEWS
Police Brief 01/15/09
A female student was cited for possession of marijuana after she admitted to having the drug in her purse during a traffic stop at about 11:30 Monday night, MSU police officer Anthony Willis said.
NEWS
He dreamt of change
One man told the world his dreams 46 years ago, envisioning an America where everyone is equal, no matter race, religion, gender or age. Martin Luther King Jr. fought for diversity and earned the respect of a nation, marked by Monday’s national holiday in his honor.
NEWS
Pushing the limits
When MSU Cyclotron director Konrad Gelbke was told the university had been selected to be the home of the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, he was speechless.
BASKETBALL
Spartans sneak by Nittany Lions, extend win streak
The lead dwindled from 17, to 10, to four, until the MSU men’s basketball team found themselves in familiar territory — another tightly contested game at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
NEWS
I Have a Dream
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
MSU
ASMSU attempts to keep bill idea for future implementation
The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, looked into getting free textbooks for a few students and making revisions into oversight of its financial operations during a meeting Tuesday.
MSU
Children's choir teams with orchestra
The MSU Children’s Choir will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, or DSO, this weekend for the first time since 2006. Being selected to perform with the DSO is an honor and a challenge in itself, but the Children’s Choir also will have to learn a new language to perform.
MICHIGAN
New store set for downtown E.L.
A new East Lansing-based company, Campus Street Sportswear, has purchased two former Steve & Barry’s locations — one of them in East Lansing — and plans to open retail businesses in the near future.
MSU
Black Panthers co-founder to speak at Kellogg Center today
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on race relations in America at 5 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center. Jennifer White, chairwoman of the Bobby Seale planning committee, worked to get Seale to speak at MSU because of his role in the civil rights movement.
MSU
MSU officials ban circus from Breslin
Concerns over animal cruelty led MSU administrators to disallow the Royal Hanneford Circus to bring animal entertainers to Breslin Center for the first time in 16 years.
NEWS
MSU’s history of honoring MLK began nearly 3 decades ago
When organizers at MSU wanted to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., they did it how he would have done it — they marched. On Jan. 15, 1980, six years before Martin Luther King Jr. Day was nationally observed, MSU students and faculty members marched through campus as a symbolic gesture for King’s birthday.
NEWS
Lesser-known civil rights advocates made impact
After earning his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Alabama State University and becoming a baptist minister, Ralph Abernathy joined Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement. Abernathy was influential in the Montgomery bus boycott with King and Rosa Parks.
NEWS
MLK Day more than simply a day off for some
It’s an extra morning to sleep in, an extra night to go out. It’s a break from academic turmoils, a day off work. It’s a time to socialize with friends, leaving stressful matters banished. This is Martin Luther King Jr. Day — at least for some students.
NEWS
Student-organized conference highlights issues of diversity
Martin Luther King Jr. catapulted himself into history books forever in 1963 by standing up for equality and justice in his “I Have a Dream” speech. On Monday, his memory will be celebrated across the nation, and MSU is no exception.