Wharton Center’s Great Hall will look like an episode of “This Is Your Life” for MSU, when former presidents and alumni will descend to East Lansing to kick off the Campaign for MSU - a massive fund-raiser.Former MSU Presidents Clifton R.
The Michigan House of Representatives is debating a bill that would regulate the way sports agents deal with college athletes.
A trio of police squads are investigating the disappearance of pig-vaccine research materials that were allegedly stolen from a secured lab in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building last week. The research materials included notebooks, computer disks and laboratory samples.
From a colorful imitation of a famous Manet painting to what appears to be an inflatable beach ball hanging from the ceiling, Kresge Art Museum’s new exhibit “Art in the ’Toon Age” gives visitors a glimpse at modern art inspired by Disney. “I tend to like the bright ones right away,” anthropology senior Stacie Ludwig said.
When Khomotso Modise set her eyes on her new East Lansing home, she stared in bewilderment at the wood-frame house and felt homesick for her native South Africa. “I was kind of sad, and I was thinking we were going to be cold in the house because it was made out of wood,” she said while tugging on her USA T-shirt.
The Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs is losing one of its four coordinators.Marcelina Treviño-Savala, coordinator of the Chicano/Latino Student Affairs, is leaving the office to be the program coordinator at the High School Equivalency Program.
The Academic Assembly of ASMSU has formally denounced a proposal that will take money away from life sciences at MSU and the Michigan Merit Award, and give it to health-care programs.
Friday • The University Activities Board presents movies at Wells Hall. “About a Boy” is showing at 7:15 p.m.
The women’s soccer team opens its Big Ten season this weekend, facing off against Illinois and Iowa at home, and MSU head coach Tom Saxton couldn’t be happier. “Last weekend was good for us.
Jessie Young, lead singer of East Lansing’s Pushing 33 will perform from 12-1 p.m. today in the Union’s main lounge.
Every semester, writers here at The State News are allowed two days off. So when I announced that I wouldn’t be working this past Sunday, my co-workers wondered why I was using one of my days so early in the semester. They asked me questions such as, “Are you going to a concert?” “Is your family having a reunion?” “Isn’t it too early for a test to study for?” “Did your dog die?” “No,” I told them.
I am writing in response the letter to the editor “Christian society should change name” (SN 9/12) about Campus Crusade for Christ. From the perspective of someone not knowing all of the meanings of the word crusade, I can understand how concerns of past “religious” wars might be aroused. But please look at the definition of the word in a dictionary.
Irish eyes will be looking at East Lansing this weekend for the annual battle between the Spartans and Notre Dame. The Spartans will be looking for their sixth consecutive win in this series.
The wounds left open in the medical world by a decreasing number of nurses have been bandaged in the past, but the current shortage won’t be remedied as easily, an MSU report said. A shortage in nurses has become a national health problem, according to a report by MSU College of Nursing Dean Marilyn Rothert. The report, “Nursing Workforce Requirement for the Needs of Michigan Citizens,” is one in a series of seven written to help Michigan lawmakers deal with health policies. “The issue is a very real one,” Rothert said. In the report, Rothert, along with nursing Associate Professor Teresa Wehrwein and ethics and humanities center Professor Judith Andre, addressed the issue of the nursing shortage aggressively and identified ways to correct the problem. “We need more nurses than we have right now, and what we’re finding is we’re going to have fewer,” Wehrwein said.
MSU jazz faculty members will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. today in the Music Building Auditorium. The first half of the concert will feature a quartet with Rodney Whitaker, director of MSU Jazz Studies, Diego Rivera, Rick Roe and Randy Gelispie.
The best part of writing for a student paper - or really any paper - is hearing back from readers and learning that your work angered or inspired someone so much that they had to let you know.
Live albums are always a gamble for artists. It is such a difficult task to capture the same energy on stage and squeeze it onto a small disc.
Eastwood Towne Center customers are advised to be patient as road construction on Lake Lansing Road continues. John Midgley, Ingham County Road Commission managing director, said in a statement Monday that motorists should expect increased traffic caused by the opening of the center on Lake Lansing Road near U.S.
The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students is holding its first meeting of the year at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Erickson Hall Kiva. General membership meetings will continue every other Thursday. The group is hoping to expand the current community of more than 300 members, said Arun Prasad, the group’s publicity chairman. “It’s an Indian organization, but we want more American students and students of other cultures to come out,” he said. The group also wants to keep the public informed about Indian culture, he said. “Our goal as an organization is to enlighten students,” Prasad said.