My friend Mark is waging war against our former school district. He isn’t asking much – just two little words – but the school board refuses to budge. Mark is fighting to make sure gay students are protected by the district’s discrimination policy.
Images of a Hoosier sea of red flooding the Assembly Hall court after MSU’s Jan. 7 loss are still vivid in the minds of head coach Tom Izzo and his fifth-ranked Spartans.
Matthew Droz had just begun to look for a job. After six years at MSU, the advertising senior was ready to receive his degree in May. “He was so excited to be graduating and so excited to be done,” said Amy Weinberger, Droz’s girlfriend of three and a half years. But he won’t get the chance to walk across the stage at graduation.
Hiking, visiting landmarks and making new friends are all things students say someone can expect to find on a trip to Israel.
A storm of social unrest is stirring and is threatening to roll back the historical civil rights gains that this country obtained during the 20th century.
MSU student Ken Washburn has experienced the splendors of Buckingham Palace firsthand.Last November Washburn and two of his research colleagues received the Duke of Edinburgh’s prize for the British Sub Aqua Club at Buckingham Palace in London.
Some MSU scientists are looking to make a breakthrough in the fight against high blood pressure.Dr. Donna Wang, professor of medicine, has been researching blood pressure and its effects on cardiovascular diseases like hypertension - commonly known as high blood pressure - for more than 14 years.“Hypertension has been studied for a long, long time but we still can’t define the cause of the disease,” Wang said.
Protecting East Lansing’s wetlands is a top priority for East Lansing’s Commission on the Environment.More than a year ago the East Lansing Planning Commission asked the environment commission to write up a wetlands ordinance for the city.
Sunny skies and near-40 degree temperatures Monday had Tiffani Patterson thinking of spring, but high teens forecasted for Wednesday will have her bundling up.“It was nice to wake up to the sun,” the engineering freshman said.
We’ve learned a lot from reality television during the years.Like, appearing on MTV’s “Say What?
“I want everybody to look for the vowels,” Phil Johnson told the seven guys standing around him Sunday evening. They began again, each guy’s face showing intense concentration on his task. But it wasn’t an exercise in second-grade grammar - it was rehearsal. “I’m not getting enough first tenor.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly wants MSU students to have a say in what the Michigan quarter will look like when it’s released in three years.The assembly passed a measure Tuesday that will create a contest for students to design the coin.
FLINT - A warrant was issued Monday charging one suspect in the fatal drive-by shooting of Herbert Cleaves, the brother of Detroit Pistons rookie and former MSU star Mateen Cleaves. Jaroy L.
Not requiring SAT I scores to get into college would increase the diversity of students entering college.The University of California system president, Richard Atkinson, recommended the schools drop SAT I scores from admission requirements.
When Joe Goodenow separated his right shoulder against Alaska-Anchorage in MSU’s very first game of the season Oct.
Michigan bridges are considered less sound than the national average, according to a national study released Monday. Almost one-third of Michigan bridges are less than adequate, compared to the national rate of 29 percent, according to data from the U.S.
Students living on south campus will no longer have to trek to East Grand River Avenue for a cup o’ joe.The Barista Cafe, located on the ground floor of South Case Hall, opened Feb.
It’s a strange world back here on the MS&U desk: My fingers are fumbling on this ergonomical keyboard, my computer wallpaper displays a magnificent city I don’t even know the name of and when I sit in my chair I face west, which feels very different than the east or south I’m used to.
Just two weeks after assuming the post of MSU football defensive secondary coach, Kevin Ramsey opted to leave the program for the opportunity to coach at the same position with the Arizona Cardinals.Ramsey, 39, was hired on Jan.
When the city of East Lansing was acquired in 1907, its borders - near Gunson Street and Harrison Avenue - were covered with farmland, orchards and swampland.Today, each street is lined by businesses, single-family homes and student housing.A presentation by Richard Wright, former East Lansing Historic District Commission member and architect, sought to help residents understand the development and architecture in the city.The event, which was held Saturday at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, was sponsored by the East Lansing Historical Society, is the first of a few programs the society holds each year to help inform residents about different aspects of the city’s past and how it will affect the future.“Everybody knows we have a diverse group of people in East Lansing, both attitudes and taste, not to mention that everything was developed at different times,” Wright said.