Some students have run for public office in the past, but little success has been claimed by the younger generation when it comes to winning elections. But the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, a nonpartisan public policy network at MSU, is trying to help young politicians get elected.
Forty people from several on- and off-campus groups met in the basement of the MSU Union on Tuesday night to discuss their plan to protest National Security Adviser and MSU commencement speaker Condoleezza Rice. Rice, who has been the national security adviser since early 2001, will speak at 1 p.m.
Lansing - The man accused of killing an MSU professor will not face jail time following a ruling made in Ingham County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Instead, Bramlett Hamilton, 36, was declared not guilty by reason of insanity and will spend at least 60 days in a hospital to have his mental health evaluated.
At the foot of the state Capitol steps, Mason resident Gary Donn listened as speakers declared the inequality of health care during a rally Tuesday afternoon. "The interest of health care brought me here," Donn said.
Thursday's Academic Senate meeting will focus on the possible move of the College of Human Medicine, as well as liberal arts reconstruction and faculty input, as decided by the Faculty Council on Tuesday. Academic Senate will convene Thursday for the first time in eight years.
The Wisconsin-Green Bay men's basketball team will set foot in Breslin Center next season for the first time since December 1981. The Phoenix agreed to a four-game contract spread out over the next five seasons.
Alarm clocks will buzz later in the bedrooms of Duke University students when the school eliminates 8 a.m.
MSU women's golf captured the Lady Boilermaker Invitational tournament title over the weekend with a total team score of 918 (299-303-316). The tournament, held in West Lafayette, Ind., featured Big Ten opponents Indiana, Northwestern, Purdue and Iowa, who rounded out the top five. Redshirt freshman Rachel Meikle and freshman Heather Rose each shot a 230 to tie for sixth and lead the Spartans.
The Department of Family and Child Ecology is accepting applications for a number of programs taking place at its Child Development Laboratory in the summer and fall.
A festival celebrating Earth Day will take place at 10 a.m. Thursday on the Capitol lawn in Lansing. More than 25 local environmental and farmland protection groups are expected to attend the event.
Who's at the top of your NFL Draft board? With the NFL Draft only four days away, professional football fans finally have something worth talking about.
At a Friday board meeting where several members of the public spoke heatedly about substantial changes within the university, most comments were geared toward the MSU College of Human Medicine's possible move to Grand Rapids. College of Human Medicine Dean Glenn Davis, as well as faculty and students, presented statements to the MSU Board of Trustees.
One man was arrested and two remain at large following two robberies in the city early Monday morning. At about 1:45 a.m., police were called to the area where Orchard Street and Grand River Avenue intersect after a person reported being approached by three men demanding his cell phone and wallet. East Lansing police Capt.
Class time for end-of-the-semester reviews and tying up loose ends might no longer be taken up with course and instructor evaluations if experimental online versions currently being tested are deemed successful. The two rating systems - Student Instructional Rating System and the Student Opinion of Courses and Teaching - are being completed online as part of a pilot trial this semester by three academic departments. SIRS rates instructional practices in the classroom, and SOCT collects feedback on undergraduate courses.
The MSU women's basketball team recognized its top players with the annual awards banquet Friday at the Kellogg Center. Sophomore guard Lindsay Bowen took home the Player of the Year award, leading the team with a 13.5 scoring average.
It took only one semester for Daniel Bouk to choose associate history Professor David Bailey as his mentor. "I'd follow him back to his office like a lost puppy," said Bouk, a 2002 graduate. So when Bouk received one of the 2004 Andrew W.
Norton Shores - It has been almost a year since a man, outfitted in full military garb, came knocking on Dr. Maureen Reynolds Street's door early one morning in May. Like a scene in a movie, the Army reservist came to deliver the bad news, but he never had to utter a word. "I didn't answer the door and went back to bed because I knew what it was," Reynolds Street said.
The State News' discouragement of Eco's power plant forum was disturbing, and the editorial had many statements that were just plain incorrect ("Relax, Eco" SN 3/15). We decided to hold a forum to get our questions answered and engage the community in the dialogue.
With elaborate costumes in brilliant shades of purple, red and gold flowing around them, women of the Habibi Dancers swirled and shimmied across the stage. Their movements told the story of "The Resurrection of Osiris," the lover of the goddess Isis.
On average, the Residence Halls Association passes about six bills per weekly meeting. Generally, at least one of those bills proposes a change to the constitution or bylaws, but officials in the organization say they are unconcerned with the revisions. So far this semester, RHA's General Assembly has passed 11 bills amending the organization's bylaws.