Students returning to East Lansing might have noticed that the city seems larger than last year, because it is. Two Public Act 425 agreements, known as land-share deals, allowed the city to bring in more than 1,100 acres.
MSU officials expect the grade-point averages of the incoming freshman class to be even higher than last year. The higher GPA is part of a five-year trend at MSU that some officials don’t expect to end anytime soon.
More than 12-and-a-half acres of gardens on campus provide MSU students and the community with a place to learn and enjoy plants.The Horticultural Demonstration Gardens and the W.J.
The provost’s office still has two vacancies to fill after three of the university’s top academics administrators left.Admissions Director Gordon Stanley, Assistant Provost Barbara Steidle and Don Straney, assistant to the provost, all left MSU this summer.Pamela Horne, formerly University of Michigan’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions assistant director, was appointed in early August to take Stanley’s role.
There’s a place on campus where students can play laser tag, jump on Velcro walls, have bungee races, make wax replicas of their hands and see newly released movies.
This summer people sitting on the banks of the Red Cedar River could have witnessed the fish population electrically shocked and the waters run green with MSU pride.These are all part of MSU-WATER, or Watershed Action Through Education and Research, an ongoing $1.4 million project aiming to clean up the Red Cedar in four years.The initiative is in its second year, but is far from over.Ruth Kline-Robach, water quality coordinator at the Institute of Water Research, said MSU-WATER will hopefully continue to work on the project even after the allotted four-years is up.“We are really pleased with the progress we’ve made so far,” she said.
Three months after a controversial report was issued by the Responsible Hospitality Council, tempers have died down and council business has resumed.The hospitality council is made up of more than a dozen East Lansing bars and restaurant owners and managers that meet once a month to discuss possible ways to curb alcohol abuse.
The switching of beverages from glass to plastic containers might not seem like a big deal to you.
One of our university’s lesser-known sports teams has become one of its most successful, as MSU won the 2001 Big Ten Championship in field hockey. “It was huge winning the Big Ten,” head coach Michele Madison said.
When Republican Larry Ward began his state House campaign against incumbent Rep. Gretchen Whitmer, critics told him he didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell against the Democrat from East Lansing. Political science junior Jason Miller said he hoped to improve Ward’s chances. Miller, Ward’s campaign manager, took the back roads to Hell, Mich., in the dead of winter and had himself photographed holding a snowball next to a sign that read “Welcome to Hell.” “Hell freezes over in Michigan,” Miller said. Until MSU students and recent graduates can begin their own political careers, they pay their dues by doing what it takes to get their elders into office. Ward, a Republican candidate for the 69th District state House seat, found his campaign manager at an MSU College Republicans meeting. “He came up and picked my brain after the meeting,” Ward said of Miller, chairman of the student GOP group.
Students in search of entertainment, a quick bite or just a place to study need look no further than the Union.The six-floor building that opened in 1925 is a mecca for student activity on campus.
Amy Radford wants greeks to take a look in the mirror this year.The interim coordinator of Greek Life is planning a greek system self-study as she settles into her new role.
The Butterfly House closed its wings and was laid to rest in early July because of funding and spatial problems.
Each year students lose thousands of dollars worth of cell phones, textbooks and other personal items because of theft. “It’s often because they’re left unattended,” MSU police Lt.
He belongs on one of those “The Perfect Man” T-shirts that are being sold everywhere these days - he’s tall, he’s funny, he’s quiet and he’s the most popular guy on campus. He also wears a skirt made of car vinyl and a new $13,000 suit.
With the college football season upon us, one thing is certain - it’s never too early to start the Heisman Trophy watch.That simple law of gridiron madness is especially pertinent when your campus has one of the lucky few candidates roaming around.
So, you’re in college. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to learn, expand your mind and go out into the world afterward a better person.
Students are flocking in droves from downtown East Lansing to the northern city limits to settle in two new apartment complexes. Melrose Apartments, 16789 Chandler Road and the Village at Chandler Crossings, 3839 Hunsaker Street, will be the beneficiaries of students seeking a bargain.
A red garage door marks the entrance to an East Lansing business, but instead of cars and motorcycles rolling in and out, it will be cappuccinos and espressos.
Elsie - Doris Hyland only gave birth to two children, but 28 call her mom.Doris, her husband, Jim Hyland, and their dog, Huey, are as much a part of the Lansing Lugnuts as the 26 athletes on the team’s roster.The six-year season-ticket-holders make a 40-mile trip from their home in Elsie each game to provide the Lansing squad with a source of positive influence and an ever-optimistic fan base.The Hylands have assumed the role of surrogate parents to a group of men that are sometimes farther away from home than they’ve ever been.