Matthew Clark said it was difficult to use the bathrooms in Wells Hall while he was in a wheelchair.Clark, a landscape architecture senior, participated in a simulation, one of the many events planned for Accessibility Awareness Week.
MSU and three research institutions were awarded a shared $5 million grant this week to study the way environmental factors can predispose women to breast cancer. The four institutions - University of California at San Francisco, Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, the University of Cincinnati and MSU - will meet in November at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina to discuss hypotheses, coordinate research and set goals.
The MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy will present a lecture titled "Black Holes, Quasars and the Birth of Galaxies," at 7:30 p.m.
A candlelight vigil will be held tonight in remembrance of victims and survivors of domestic violence for Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Several galleries in the area will open at 5 p.m.
After living in an off-campus apartment, English senior Kiel Phegley was left with plenty of experiences that will make good stories 10 years down the road.
An online football recruiting database has reported that Garfield Heights (Ohio) High School running back/cornerback Tony Howard has orally committed to MSU.Howard, a 6-foot, 190-pound senior, reportedly told SpartanMag.com that he was committed to joining the Spartans' 2004 recruiting class.
I live in Spartan Village and I pay my $536 a month for a one-bedroom apartment. My rent includes all utilities just, like the dorms, except I don't get cable.
Michigan economists plan to announce today that the state's budget could be more than $800 million short.Top state economists will compare projections and present a forecast to lawmakers and Gov.
Thrown in among the endless residence halls, apartments and off-campus residences, there exist a few alternative choices that a small percentage of students call home.Co-ops, greek houses and the Evans Scholars house are just some ways students live a life a little less ordinary.Robert Haag is the president at FarmHouse, a fraternity located at 151 Bogue St.
So, you're a freshman here, and you have to live in the dorms. Don't despair, it isn't such a bad thing.
If the old adage "You're only as good as your last game" is true, then the Spartans look like one of the top teams in the Big Ten. The only problem - they're not. In each of the MSU volleyball team's two-match, nonconference weekends, the Spartans went on the road and swept both games.
I can't tell you how wonderful it was to see a full-blown article about depression ("Looking Forward" SN 10/9). There are so many of us on campus, both girls and guys, who suffer from it in silence.
If some Michigan lawmakers have their way, students might want to save their drinking money for court fees and bail.
Instead of sharing stories about the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria, MSU English Professor Gordon Henry talked about Rose Cree of the Turtle Mountain Reservation in North Dakota. Henry talked about how Cree and other indigenous peoples have a different tradition than Christopher Columbus - one of hospitality, respect and unity rather than conquest and imperialism. "Our legacy is not one of conquest or oppressing other people," he said, standing in front of the rock on Farm Lane painted with "Columbus Day: Celebrating 511 years of terrorism.
As an atheist, I feel compelled to clarify something that Eva Bohler seems to misunderstand ("Columnist wrong in religious debate" SN 10/6): The United States was founded with a secular government and the presence of the Ten Commandments in a government building is illegal - period.
Each year, the fall semester brings many new things.New classes, new books and new living situations.So, where do you want to live next year?
The third video in the Students for Peace and Justice Film Series will be shown Wednesday night in Wells Hall."Mumia: A case for reasonable doubt?" will begin at 8 p.m.
Every music fan has a soft spot and a guilty pleasure.Whether it be a Metallica fan who can't get enough Wham!
Steve Wesley had no idea his path to the bathroom one morning last August would be blocked by an East Lansing housing inspector.
A book with no words might not be the first piece of reading material most people will pick up.But such books, often called graphic novels, are growing increasingly popular, shifting from subculture to mainstream.Graphic novels are sometimes a comic book series made into book form, whereas others are written and drawn with the novel form in mind.