MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon testified Wednesday before the state House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee to push for funding increases for public universities.
A woman traveling northbound on Harrison Avenue near Trowbridge Road sustained minor injuries after colliding with a freight train at about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday, East Lansing police Sgt. Carl Nowak said.
Students of the Latino community gathered Wednesday at the bridge between Wells Hall and the Computer Center to simulate border control between the United States and Mexico.
Members of the MSU yearbook staff hope a presentation informing student government representatives about its production process will result in more funding when ASMSU approves its 2008-09 budget today.
For many students, religion has joined “bad breath” and “no sense of style” on a mental list of relationship deal breakers. Marisa Saltzman, a social work graduate student, polled 100 Jewish students this semester to sample how interfaith dating is viewed by the MSU community.
The man who pleaded guilty last month to charges stemming from a July shooting at Carriage Hill East Apartments was sentenced to up to 30 years in prison Wednesday.
The Graduate Employees Union and university administrators are taking the next step to finalize contract negotiations following Tuesday’s tentative agreement on a new three-year contract.
Balloon swords, seltzer guns and throwing flowers aren’t typical elements of a comic book. But in a quest to create something new, two MSU students and a group of comic book fans have been meeting weekly to create a comic book group that brings these elements to the page.
The first three innings of the MSU baseball team’s game against Toledo on Wednesday at Kobs Field looked like the makings of an offensive slugfest.
With the Big Ten title from last year and three tournament wins this season, the No. 16 MSU women’s golf team heads to Penn State this weekend for the Big Ten Championships with high hopes.
When the Lansing Lugnuts and the MSU baseball team peer across the field at each other in their respective dugouts, they’ll see players of a different level and a different age.
Despite sweeping Oakland in Wednesday’s doubleheader that lasted four hours, it was a rough victory for the MSU softball team.
I was somewhat disappointed at your coverage of the MSU Relay for Life. I was the event development chair, and the entire committee and myself worked extremely hard to put together a successful event.
In the column, New state energy plan is sketchy (SN 4/21), Eric Gregory makes some good points about the energy plan passed by the Michigan House of Representatives last week, but ultimately his focus on consumer choice is misguided.
For the past two weeks, the attention of American media has been largely focused on religion, spirituality and philosophy as the country hosted two of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders: the pope and the Dalai Lama. I think their experiences here illustrate how great of a distance exists between their worlds.
The U.S. military branches have had their fair share of scandals in the last few years. But now for the latest shocker: felons in the military.
The state of Michigan has temporarily withdrawn from a federal student loan program, citing the nation’s credit crisis as its reason.
Early Wednesday morning, Yahoo Sports posted a story indicating that MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo was a potential candidate for the Chicago Bulls coaching job, behind prime candidate Rick Carlisle.
An Under Armour backpack and its contents, valued at more than $500, were stolen sometime between 8-10 a.m. Monday from Demonstration Field, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Perry Costello says umpiring baseball games is like any other job — it’s nice to get noticed. So when Costello received a call from the International Baseball Federation, or IBAF, in November 2007 telling him he was selected as one of only two American umpires to work at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, it was only natural that the DeWitt resident felt a chill go up his spine. “I’ve worked a lot of big events,” said Costello, who has lived in the Lansing area his entire life. “But after (IBAF director of umpires Dick Runchey) talked to me and offered it to me, it made my neck hairs stand up and I said, ‘OK, that’s pretty cool.’