When he was 1 year old, Abraham Deng was orphaned and exiled from his southern Sudanese village in the same day. It was 1987, and North and South Sudan were in the midst of a civil war that would span 21 years and end the lives of some 1.9 million people. "It was not safe to be in Sudan," said Deng, a Central Michigan University graduate student.
Global warming is a reality, and there is nothing Philip Cooney or the rest of the blundering executive branch can do to keep it quiet any longer. It turns out that Cooney, the former chief of staff of the Council on Environmental Quality and a one-time oil industry lobbyist, got a little too red-pen happy with some of the federal government's official documents about climate change, including 294 separate edits to one governmental strategic climate change plan. And as Rep.
It's a common assumption that water going down your drain won't end up coming out your kitchen faucet. In some cases, that belief might not be true. East Lansing officials announced an initiative Tuesday to help prevent contamination of the city's water supply.
An MSU junior who embezzled more than $35,000 from the Okemos Best Buy was sentenced Wednesday to five years probation and 12 days in jail. Katy Gozalka, 20, also was ordered to pay back the money she pocketed while working at the 2020 Grand River Ave.
I struggle to find the words necessary to fully communicate the knots felt in my heart as I was an unfortunate witness to the anti-war protest Tuesday afternoon on Grand River Avenue.
After a record-breaking performance Sunday, Spartans gymnast Kristen Coleman was named Big Ten gymnast of the week on Wednesday. The senior from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada broke her own all-around performance record against Western Michigan with a 39.625 tally, a full point higher than her previously set school record. Coleman set a personal high on floor exercise Sunday with a 9.950, her highest individual apparatus score of the night.
By the end of his sophomore year at East Lansing High School, Charlie Kroom had run out of math classes to take, so he kept moving to the next level — MSU. Last semester, Kroom enrolled in a 200-level multivariable calculus class.
People under the age of 25 spent 50 percent more money on health care in 2005 than they did a decade earlier, according to a U.S Department of Labor report released last month. The 2005 Consumer Expenditures survey reported that the average household headed by someone 25 or younger spent about $704 in 2005, the most recent year for which data was gathered. In 1995, that number was $466. The survey defines health care spending as prescription and nonprescription drugs, vitamins, health insurance and medical supplies. The national sample is taken from about 8.5 million consumers under 25 from the U.S.
Last week, Rep. Phil LaJoy introduced a bill that would decrease the state cigarette tax by 50 cents in hopes of generating revenue.
As a senior about to graduate and be in the job market, I am acutely aware of the severe economic crisis the state of Michigan is currently facing. Recently, we all have heard the news that Comerica is moving its corporate headquarters from Detroit to Texas, most of the Jackson prison complex will be closed and unemployment has increased again.
Years of cuts to higher education funding have caused generations of MSU students to reach deeper in their pockets to pay for tuition. Now, as legislators deliberate ways to solve Michigan's budget crisis, the state's three largest research universities maintain they should receive special consideration in those talks. Gov.
MSU College of Human Medicine's expansion into Grand Rapids is becoming more evident as university officials hired a former state representative as spokesman. Jerry Kooiman, a Republican who represented Grand Rapids from 2004-06, began working on an interim basis as The Secchia Center's director for community affairs in February. His position was cemented in the college earlier this month. Denise Holmes, associate dean for the college, said Kooiman's extensive connections in Grand Rapids made him the prime candidate for the job, which will involve briefing community leaders about the status of the project and representing MSU in West Michigan. "We thought he'd be an effective spokesperson for the medical school," Holmes said.
State News basketball reporter Tom Keller covered MSU's postseason run last week in Winston-Salem, N.C., and was reminded why this is his favorite — and most fattening — time of year. If you don't like the NCAA Tournament, I'm not sure we can be friends.
A proposal to add gender identity to the university's anti-discrimination policy was unanimously approved by Academic Council Tuesday.
If you read The State News, you're probably familiar with the name John Bice. The freelance writer and MSU alumnus writes columns for The State News that often provoke a mix of praise and criticism from his readers.
Once again, the MSU women's basketball team couldn't find an answer for Kia Vaughn. After a dominating 14-rebound performance when the two teams met in January, Vaughn struck again Tuesday night. The Rutgers sophomore center was all over the floor, scoring 16 points with eight rebounds, six blocks and four steals as the No.
By Alex Altman The State News and Isaac DeVille For The State News Lansing — A large puppet resembling U.S.
Eleven MSU players earned team honors at the annual hockey banquet on Monday. Sophomore goaltender Jeff Lerg earned the 2007 Spartan Hockey Most Valuable Player Award.
Jessica Byrom's column "An indefinite truth" (SN 3/15), is a spit in the face of scientists across the globe.