About 50 students rallied outside the Veterinary Medical Center Friday night to protest Nick Griffin, chairman of the British National Party, at a speaking engagement sponsored by MSU’s Young Americans for Freedom.
Whether he was studying with a group of friends from law school or dishing out friendly trash talk on the basketball court, second-year law graduate student Paulo Michael Pinto constantly displayed a grin that could put anyone at ease.
An army of volunteers roamed the streets of East Lansing Sunday in an effort to help their neighbors.
After a year of paperwork, interviews, inspections and a seven-week trip to Kazakhstan, Oralee Rivet brought her 16-month-old son Aydin home to the United States.
Protesters once again gave MSU Young Americans for Freedom, or YAF, exactly what they wanted Friday when they showed up and angrily tried to drown out the message of the student organization’s speaker — British National Party chairman Nick Griffin.
I agreed with most of Michael Stevenson’s column Blackwater USA actions alarming (SN 10/25), and I’d like to add one of my concerns. He argues that history has shown the fallacy of hiring mercenaries, but these aren’t the mercenaries of Rome — they’re worse. Blackwater represents a privatization of the military, a concept that doesn’t exist prior to capitalism.
Who would have guessed it would take a foreign religion to bring the Democratic-run Legislature and President Bush together? Not me, but it happened in one of the most positive political moves of the Bush administration yet.
Nick Griffin, the controversial British politician, and his speech on our campus Friday are matters of grave concern. While we respect the First Amendment and right to free speech, Mr. Griffin goes against some of the very basic principles that are at the core of MSU.
The MSU Board of Trustees approved final plans and costs Friday for MSU’s Grand Rapids medical school branch, the Secchia Center, providing the university with “authorization to proceed.”
On Senior Day, MSU could only muster six shots at Illinois keeper Lindsey Carstens in a 1-0 loss Sunday at Old College Field.
The MSU field hockey team completed its regular season with a bang this weekend.
IOWA CITY – Saturday’s 34-27 loss to Iowa was comprised of two separate games: an MSU dominated first half and an Iowa dominated second half. It took a third game – overtime – to decide the victor.
The No. 8 MSU hockey team held off a three-goal third period rally to knock off Northern Michigan, 5-4, Friday night at Munn Ice Arena.
After a 9.6 tuition increase for the 2007-08 school year, MSU students can expect to see a portion of that fee returned, the MSU Board of Trustees announced Friday.
Cona Marshall would not have been able to study abroad in Senegal, Africa if not for an MSU scholarship. “Last minute, I heard about it the day it was due,” the interdisciplinary humanities senior said. “I’ve always wanted to go to a French-speaking country, but I was in a lot of debt.”
In an effort to begin preparation for the construction of railroad underpasses on Farm Lane this spring, Service Road west of Farm Lane will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday to 7 a.m. Monday.
Mini princesses, ghouls and other characters flooded East Lansing streets Thursday in the annual Great Pumpkin Walk.
A Lansing District Court judge ruled Thursday that the preliminary examination for Matthew Macon, who is a suspect in a series of Lansing murders dating back to July, will be open to media.
Legislators have little more than a week to get a budget enacted before a Nov. 1 deadline if Michigan is expected solve its budget crisis. Michigan still faces about $440 million in cuts since the last continuation budget was signed Oct. 1. So far, no bills enacting any cuts have been introduced.
The MSU men’s basketball team will host its annual Green vs. White scrimmage at 4 p.m. Sunday at Breslin Center.