Coming to East Lansing was a total culture shock for me. All my life, I had lived in a city where most of the people looked like me. I know that college is supposed to be a place where you meet your new best friends and your soulmate, but that's not what I was looking for.
For students who want to explore housing off campus, the surrounding communities offer a wide variety of places to live. Apartments, houses, co-ops and the Greek system all offer a chance for students to spread out, both in the community and in a larger living space. Apartments For a student who might enjoy the closeness to neighbors that dorm life offers but doesn't like the close quarters of the dorms, apartments offer that selective space.
MSU isn't all about partying. There are several places both on and off campus that you can go to have an alcohol-free good time. "A lot of my time has been spent doing things with friends," said Ron Moss, a general business administration and pre-law junior.
Four home-invading insects could make their presence known in East Lansing this fall by infiltrating homes in search of a warm place to live. In addition to the multicolored Asian lady beetle - an invasive species that migrated from northeastern Asia - boxelder bugs, cluster flies and leaf-footed pine seed bugs are among the warmth-seeking pests, said Howard Russell, an entomologist with MSU Diagnostics Services. The insects usually surface on the first warm day following the first cold day of the year, Russell said, adding that the area has already experienced that first cold day. "We haven't seen large numbers yet, so I think that's a very good sign," he said.
In fluid movements, men and women moved as a deep and resonant voice projected the Zuher prayer throughout the Islamic Center of East Lansing. Although the men and women were divided into two rooms with blinds covering a window partition, their bodies rocked forward and backward together, bending their heads to the floor in prayer at the start of Ramadan. Silence filled the rooms and lips moved, whispering prayers that fell softly on the human ear before the voice, speaking in confident Arabic, began again. About 60 people filled the rooms for the 2 p.m.
With so many choices at hand, it's never easy for MSU students to decide where to settle next year.
I would like to congratulate The State News and staff on their editorial "Classless" (SN 10/18). As a student at MSU, I find it appalling that the student section, a section that should represent all the students of this institution, feels it is necessary to include such an obscenity in a long-standing tradition at MSU football games. The student section members have to realize that the stadium is filled with 70,000 other fans who may find the word "bitch" offensive. Anyone who sees the reaction of the Director John Madden and the Spartan Marching Band can tell that the new addition to this cheer is not appreciated. I find it refreshing to see The State News draw attention to this and hope that the students open their eyes before it is too late.
In the midst of more than 40,000 students drifting around East Lansing every day, many are searching for a way to make campus just a little bit smaller.
By Kristin LongleySpecial to The State News An MSU rivalry was renewed on Sunday when the university's two residential learning programs competed in their second annual Olympic Showdown. Lyman Briggs School and James Madison College students and faculty braved the cold weather at the rock on Farm Lane in an effort to win the coveted green-and-white, Stanley Cup-esque trophy.
On Nov. 2, many students will head into a voting booth and cast their ballots to decide the next U.S.
At his first visit to the U.S. Supreme Court, 12-year-old Michael Brian Cavanaugh watched his father argue a defamation case before the nation's top justices.
Even though the MSU volleyball team (6-10 overall, 1-7 Big Ten) fell to both No. 8 Ohio State and No.
"Maria Full of Grace" teaches that drug trafficking is a lucrative business - if you've got the stomach for it. Maria, a 17-year-old from Columbia, is pregnant, poor and out of work.
When the Spartans walked away from Saturday's homecoming game with a blowout 51-17 win against formerly-ranked Minnesota, a lot of people wondered: "Where did this team come from?" Plain and simple, MSU played well and Minnesota didn't.
Chrissy Gephardt, the daughter of former presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, will visit campus today to promote change for the LBGT community. The director of the National Stonewall Democrats grassroots campaign core, Chrissy Gephardt said her primary goal is to create visibility of lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender issues for college students. "They're just not brought up knowing discrimination, and bigotry and hatred the way older generations have," she said. Gephardt will address the MSU chapter of Stonewall Democrats at 8:30 p.m.
A committee formed last spring to get faculty and administration working together now has its members placed.
"Most people already have their minds made up. Even with the three debates, people had their minds made up weeks or months ago.
Jana Nicol's mom is going to ground her for life. "I really do think so," said Nicol, the owner of Gone 2 the Dogs canine accessory store, 416 S.
Tony and Emmy-award winning choreographer, Twyla Tharp will be the second of three guests for World View: The Lecture Series, 7:30 p.m.
Al Gore won Florida in 2000. A consortium of media outlets spent nearly a million dollars and the better part of a year reexamining every disputed ballot from the 2000 election.