A railing was bent and detached from a West Holden Hall stairwell sometime between 10 a.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Monday, causing $800 worth of damage, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. A 46-year-old male employee reported the railing was detached and part of the stairs crumbled at the site as a result, McGlothian-Taylor said. There are no suspects in the incident, she said.
In an area of the world marred by conflict, Dubai is attempting to establish itself in the United Arab Emirates as the “stabilized factor.” MSU will be the first and only American university to have a presence in the city, after finalizing a partnership with TECOM Investments and the Dubai International Academic City on Tuesday morning.
The state’s legislators have until Thursday night to finalize a budget that would go into effect Oct. 1 — the start of the new fiscal year.
Three weeks before her 21st birthday, Lauren Ramsey found out she was pregnant — and she said she almost ran screaming from Olin Health Center. Ramsey said she thought her life was over, and she could never raise a child alone, but two years changed that outlook.
For Keali Chambers, learning how to control and manage certain invasive species drew her to a job in entomology. The fisheries and wildlife junior has been working with emerald ash borer beetles that kill millions of ash trees in Michigan alone.
MSU assistant professor of vocal jazz Sunny Wilkinson is one musician who has been “Saved By the Bell” numerous times.
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 their perspective on their new frontier.
It’s safe to say Jessica Elrod isn’t afraid of heights. Besides being tossed in the air by fellow MSU cheerleaders and cruising the skies with her private pilot’s license, the studio art and premedical senior also climbed one of the Seven Summits of the world this summer. The Seven Summits consist of the tallest mountain on each of the seven continents.
Whether singing with her gospel group or walking the runway as a model, psychology junior Loretta Morman is used to standing in the spotlight – which is why participating in her first pageant this weekend wasn’t a completely new experience.
Leadership, service, scholarship and character. The four pillars of the Tower Guard, MSU’s oldest student organization, stand as a pledge of dedication to the students they serve. Comprised of sophomores from the top 5 percent of their freshmen class, the student volunteers help visually impaired students with everything from taking a test, to navigating campus grounds.
When Paula Richardson began playing the Beaumont Tower carillon, an organ-like instrument with batons and foot pedals, it took a lot of practice and a little wishing upon a star in order for her to learn her first song.
Josef Magsig, a medical technology junior, remembers the day his good friend Steve Lobdell called to tell him he had Hodgkin’s disease. When Lobdell passed away on Sept. 4, 2006, he lost his friend of five years. Now, he has a chance to pay tribute to him.
Local investigators have reopened the 1970 murder case of a 19-year-old Lansing woman found dead on the outskirts of campus. Marie Ann Jackson disappeared from the Lansing area on November 13, 1970. Her body was discovered in a pine grove eight days later by a man looking for a hunting site.
Because the state Legislature has struggled to reach a budget agreement, an issue important to many MSU students is falling through the cracks — health insurance. Proposals that would allow students and others to remain covered under their parents’ health insurance plan until the age of 26 have sat idle since May.
A continuous battle cry from students for a quieter library persuaded MSU Main Library officials to reserve the entire east wing for quiet study only. The change in policy — effective at the beginning of this semester — asked cell phone users to take their calls to the stairwells and for study groups to use the west wing for their projects and discussions.
MSU head coach Rick Comley is not a fan of the way the CCHA schedules its games.
While the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. continue to search for an agreement to end the strike, Jelissa Hardy will be staying within the safe confines of her East Shaw Hall dorm room.
I started as an MSU freshman in the fall of 1999, right after the fabled Duke Final Four riots. I remember the insane police presence on campus. We had National Guard tanks in Cedar Village during the Michigan game. I got tear gassed trying to cross the street near my apartment my junior year (I was sober, for the record). Along with most students, I found the police efforts to curb drinking insulting and barbaric. It’s good to see that not much has changed since I graduated in 2003.
Michigan lost 16,000 workers in August alone. While the unemployment rate in the rest of the nation decreased in August, Michigan’s jobless rate increased from 7 to 7.4 percent. Whether by preference or force, students are racing across state borders as soon as they get a diploma in their hands, and the decaying automobile industry – once the bread-and-butter of the state’s economy – continues to haunt us.
The conduct at the football games this year is abysmal. I don’t see how threading a curse word into every chant gives our team leverage, or anything, for that matter, besides a bad reputation. Tom Izzo and Mark Dantonio, two of the most esteemed figures at this university, have asked us to show respect and class, yet our chants grow more vulgar and disrepectful every year. Even the band, who prelude our first down chant, is changing up the music just to keep our mouths shut.