If you’re reading this, the world didn’t end this morning. And that means scientists — including several MSU faculty — halfway across the globe successfully initiated one of the biggest science experiments in history that some feared could obliterate the planet.
Moti Goldring and Jared Rapp are giving a new meaning to Spartans spirit. The pair graduated from their days of cheap alcohol and moved on to top-shelf vodka promotion. The partners found the three-grain vodka Dragon Bleu while on a 2005 trip to France, and decided to bring it to the states, Goldring said.
Buildings and houses being developed in East Lansing might soon have more requirements placed on them as the City Council began discussing a citywide building code at its meeting Tuesday.
MSU researchers might have a greater chance of getting their projects into the marketplace after a bill passed Tuesday in the state Senate.
After two weeks of nagging injuries, the MSU football team’s defensive line is back to full health and ready to take on another stout opposing offensive line this week.
Simone Jardim has been hired as the new head coach of the MSU women’s tennis team.
Books, leash, wallet, dog treats. Sarrah Gani quietly recites this checklist to herself every time she leaves the house. In the morning, she walks to the bus stop, flanked by Mango, a 4-month-old yellow lab who is a service dog in training.
Social relations and policy sophomore Matt Mamo could give Legolas, Rambo and Robin Hood a run for their money.
After a year of correspondence, international relations senior Alex Hill was able to meet his penpal: 7-year-old Lungisani of Zonkizizwe, South Africa, a “spunky” boy who likes soccer and bananas.
After about three months of construction on the first sustainable mud-and-straw-bale mosque in southern Israel, a demolition notice appeared — courtesy of the Israeli government.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and her perspective on her new frontier.
The Michigan Supreme Court voted Monday to uphold a Court of Appeals decision to keep the Reform Michigan Government Now proposal off the November ballot.
MSU’s Academic Governance system is abandoning the familiar pen-and-paper ballot format to venture into uncharted territory — online voting.
A new radio program is broadcasting sustainability issues across the airwaves. “Greening of the Great Lakes” is a collaboration between MSU and WJR (760-AM) in Detroit and focuses on sustainability issues, said Russ White, communications manager for University Relations.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly and Academic Assembly will meet together at 7 p.m. tonight at 328 Student Services.
Alcohol, cigarettes and disabled smoke detectors are a recipe for disaster, East Lansing Fire Marshall Bob Pratt said. The East Lansing Fire Department is working to spread fire safety during September, which it has designated as Campus Fire Safety Month.
The issue of campus security is consistently on the minds of university administrators, bringing up the question of how to most efficiently alert students. Last year, MSU initiated a system that would alert students of emergencies via text message. Now they are looking for additional ways to bring emergencies to the immediate attention of students.
I think I’m already sick of this presidential election. Turning on the TV two months before election day, I’m already finding the airwaves swamped with political ads. Newspaper headlines are dominated by what the campaigns are doing — with The State News as guilty as the rest.
The topic of Republican presidential nominee John McCain came up in my American studies class today. I found it amazing that in a class with absolutely no political background my teacher still found it appropriate to reserve the last half-hour to explain to us why McCain’s vice presidential pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was racist, and why her supporters were chasing a dream of white, 1950s America.
Jacob Atem and his cousin were tending to cattle the evening their village was attacked in Sudan. As they went about their chores, Atem saw his village engulfed in flames. He and his cousin ran into the desert.