Jacqueline WayneGuite Special for The State News Presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be visiting MSU Monday evening, less than two weeks after his name was added to the Michigan ballot as an independent candidate. Nader will stop at the University of Michigan before traveling to East Lansing.
MSU's College of Law will expand its community outreach with a $100,000 grant awarded over two years to create and support a new clinic. The college was awarded the grant to begin the Small Business/Nonprofit/Entrepreneurial Law Clinic, designed to assist and counsel law entities throughout the state.
Everybody gets sick from time to time. A cough here or a sneeze there will send most people on a trip to the doctor's office.
A University of Michigan sophomore and daughter of an MSU professor was found dead in her dorm room Monday. Kristi Sprecher, 21, of Okemos, was found dead at 8:15 p.m.
The future of a controversial development on E. Grand River Avenue is still undecided, after the matter was deferred at Tuesday night's East Lansing City Council meeting. Consideration for a special-use permit to tear down and redevelop a portion of the Stonehouse Village complex on the corner of Bailey Street and Grand River Avenue was sent back to the planning commission.
Green and white flags, flyers and banners surrounded Beaumont Tower on Tuesday, when MSU officials kicked off the 150th anniversary of the university. President M.
At the semester's onset, 744 dorm rooms at MSU were overbooked. That means 2,232 students were inconvenienced - some for a day, some still, all while the university tries to figure out what to do with these extra students. Part of the problem of overbooked dorm rooms can be contributed to a significantly larger amount of students attending MSU this year than anticipated.
Detroit artist Tyree Guyton's works will be featured in "An American Show," an exhibit sponsored by the MSU College of Law on Thursday, with a reception at 4:30 p.m. Guyton's work represents real-life inner-city issues he encountered firsthand living in Detroit.
Low-carbohydrate diets are everywhere. Pick up a bag of Doritos, your favorite brand of yogurt or even a can of pop and you're bound to run into it.
Although the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2003 that using race in the college admissions process is acceptable, it seems to have done little to silence the debate that continues to swirl around the issue.
Members of ASMSU's Student Assembly were boisterous Thursday night in their denouncement of the City of East Lansing's plans to demolish houses on Virginia Avenue. The city is waiting to hear approval for a $2.3 million loan from the U.S.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced the creation of a Commission on Arab and Chaldean American Affairs last week. The new commission will inform the governor about important issues concerning the Arab-American and Chaldean-American communities, and it will also help showcase their achievements and contributions to society. The new commission is set to be signed into executive order after Granholm and commission members make finishing touches. "The governor thought it was really important with so many Arab-Americans and Chaldean-Americans residing in Michigan that they would be able to provide guidance and advice on a variety of issues," Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said. Michigan has the largest population of people of Arab and Chaldean descent outside of the Middle East.
Visiting loved ones in the hospital during emergencies, inheriting money or property after the death of a spouse and retaining custody of children are inherent rights that no law-abiding citizen of our state should be without.
Cadillac Club Restaurant & Night Club will have its grand opening ribbon-cutting ceremony at 4 p.m.
Cool temperatures coupled with unseasonable rain put a damper on Michigan's summer this year. The state's tourism industry, as well as local businesses that rely on warm weather, slowed this season. "Travel in Michigan was down," said Steve Yencich, president and CEO of the Michigan Hotel, Motel & Resort Association.
The MSU College of Nursing will hold its first-ever women's health day on Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The day will start at the James B.
As the second week of classes begin and students adjust to life at MSU, University Housing officials say, despite their best efforts, there are still hundreds of students living in overbooked dorm rooms. Housing officials found out Thursday that 744 rooms were overbooked when students moved in, with 200 of those rooms still crowded.
As a multiple business owner in the Okemos community for 22 years, Will Tyler White has lived his life by one basic rule: "Treat others the way you want to be treated." "A business is an extension of who you are," White said.
To those local residents upset over student sentiment such as "Unwelcome" (SN 9/1), I must ask: What did you expect?