Council looks into city ethics policy
Emphasis will be placed on East Lansing’s Code of Ethics for new board and commission members and their relation to city business partners as part of a recommendation from the City Council.
Emphasis will be placed on East Lansing’s Code of Ethics for new board and commission members and their relation to city business partners as part of a recommendation from the City Council.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday the creation of more than 9,000 new jobs and $468 million of investment in the state during an afternoon press conference.
William Novack sat at a front desk Tuesday afternoon, receiving instructions on how to make triangular folds for an origami design as part of an Earth Day project.
Members of Residence Halls Association will vote to approve the organization’s proposed summer budget during today’s meeting.
The way people interpret passages in the Bible can affect the way they treat the environment, said Joel Geffen, an assistant professor specializing in religion and the environment.
Students in associate horticulture professor Norm Lownds’ “Learning in Museums” class typically spend their semester creating an exhibit geared toward middle school students or younger audiences. But this year, they decided to create something new — a museum exhibit designed for the college crowd.
A fresh new face might be among those seeking votes in this fall’s MSU Board of Trustees election. Human resources sophomore Jasmine Ford is running for a seat.
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 his perspective on his new frontier.
It’s 9 p.m. Thursday, and 32 Spartans form a circle in the parking lot of the Days Inn Suites Hotel, stuffed from the pasta they scarfed down at Olive Garden no more than two hours ago.With discussions of the next day’s schedule out of the way, it’s on to the business of cheers and nicknames. The majority of the group requests their names or classic Spartan chants, while other members of the MSU Triathlon Club laugh at suggestions such as “Weezy,” or sarcastic remarks such as, “Don’t be a Sally!”
In order to spread the word last year about the MSU Meditation Club, chemistry and comparative cultures and politics junior and club president Kaveri Korgavkar took matters into her own hands.
With shaggy-carpeted floors and plenty of full-length mirrors, Talula boutique, 3536 Meridian Crossings, in Okemos, bears much resemblance to an avid shopper’s bedroom.
Making something out of nothing might sound like a daunting task — unless you’re a sound designer. “(Sound design) is taking sound and creating an environment that doesn’t really exist,” said Steve Curran, co-owner of Harvest Music + Sound Design, 1011 N. Washington Ave., in Lansing.
There’s no denying it: Chris Roberts was slumping. Through the MSU baseball team’s first 10 games of the season, the sophomore left fielder was hitting .167 and he wasn’t feeling like himself.
First off, congratulations on attending a fine university. I hope your MSU experience will become as positive an experience in your life as it has been in mine. Now, let me give you a take on the Cedar Fest debacle from someone who graduated a while ago and lives far away from your immediate community.
Public figures are increasingly resorting to unique Internet domains in an effort to relate to the masses. First, it was the pope — with a snazzy Web site that tracks his every move — and now it’s the presidential candidates.
This is the time of year most seniors would choose to eulogize their college experience with a teary farewell. But I somehow doubt the impact of sappy senior goodbyes — especially when they all tend to say the same things.
Police are searching for a man connected to an attempted carjacking on university-owned grounds Monday evening.
With an emphasis on total compensation rather than a 5 percent wage increase, the Graduate Employees Union struck a tentative agreement with MSU on a three-year contract Tuesday.
A second charge of third-degree criminal sexual conduct has been added to the sexual assault case against Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU’s former Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs.
While attending the groundbreaking of the building that will bear his name, Peter Secchia appeared casual, almost like an observer. It was his $10 million lead gift that jump-started the fundraising for MSU’s medical school in Grand Rapids, but he deflected attention to the groundbreaking ceremony for the center on Monday.