After a brutal 9.6 percent increase in this year’s tuition, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday they’ll be giving each student about $60 back. That’s great, but in the grand scheme of things, will it really make that much of a difference? It seems like just a drop in the bucket when looking at the bigger picture.
It has claimed 200,000-400,000 lives. It has displaced millions. It has tortured countless millions more. And it continues to this very day — with no end in sight.
I am writing in regard to the article Dalai Lama honor brings problem to light (SN 10/28) by Liz Kersjes.
In June, the U.S. Senate passed an energy legislation package requiring the first significant upgrade to the nation’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE efficiency standards for cars since 1975.
Fireworks producing loud booms that echoed through Berkey Hall forced the evacuation of more than 100 students and faculty Tuesday afternoon.
The last time an MSU football team played in a Rose Bowl game was under coach George Perles.
In a meeting held at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, Monday evening, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon addressed a wide range of issues facing the East Lansing and MSU community. Here are a few of Simon’s responses to concerns from audience members.
The Michigan Supreme Court will hear arguments next week involving whether public employers can legally offer domestic partner benefits.
City officials will announce next week their latest plan to help foster economic growth in downtown East Lansing.
Six people involved with the MSU Young Americans for Freedom’s speaking engagement Friday were chased by two suspects wielding sticks, bats and canes following the event, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
When Knoll Larkin was coming out, he said he thought everyone smoked. Smoking seemed to be accepted as a part of the bar culture that historically provided the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community with a safe haven, said Larkin, health services coordinator for Affirmations, an LGBT community center in Ferndale, Mich.
As construction projects make progress across campus, volunteer students and faculty are working to protect the campus’s historic and prehistoric artifacts before they are destroyed.
For the past three years, English freshman Nicole Taylor has spent the month of November typing up more than the occasional paper for her classes. Taylor participates in National Novel Writing Month, an international novel-writing program that takes place each November.
With dry weather and cold temperatures, your skin is likely to soon start looking like the crumpled leaves on the sidewalks. Avoid this dusty situation by slathering on a lotion or two, without spending an arm and a leg.
When doctors diagnosed Craig Oster with Lou Gehrig’s Disease, or ALS, at the age of 30, he was told he would be lucky to celebrate his 36th birthday.
Before the cute kids in costumes and the happy trick-or-treaters, cities such as Detroit have to get through Oct. 30 — a night associated with arson, egg throwing and vandalism.
When cold season comes around, MSU is like a giant pre-school – crawling with germs and people that carry them. The advent of the cold and flu season is almost here, and knowing how to avoid getting and giving a bug can keep you from skipping class or your social life.
With flu season just picking up, students who want to avoid several bedridden days may find relief in the flu shot.
Last year, I seemed to have a cold from the beginning of November until spring break. I am really sick of it.