Over the last few years, I have noticed an overwhelming decline in the use of printed books. While at MSU, I began to use my iPad as a way to buy a cheaper version of my school books. I’m completely torn about how I feel watching my favorite thing, reading a printed book, slowly fade.
Life could not have gotten any better than it was this past weekend. The red, white and blue fireworks on the Fourth of July were followed by gold, sweat and tears of joy on the fifth.
At their July 7 meeting, the East Lansing City Council approved site plans and special-use permits for a six-story mixed-use building on the corner of Grand River and Spartan avenues and a Lake Trust Credit Union on West Lake Lansing Road, near Meijer.
Sights and sounds from the opening night of Common Ground Music Festival 2015.
In more award watch list news, senior defensive end Shilique Calhoun and senior linebacker Ed Davis have been named to the 2015 Bednarik Award Watch List.
East Lansing City Council voted to approve the authorization for the city manager to sign the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s consent order regarding a mercury spill that occurred at the East Lansing Wastewater Treatment Plant.
The New York City band Misterwives rounds out the first night of the Common Ground Music Festival in Lansing, July 7, 2015, on the Auto Value Stage in front of a crowd of screaming fans.
MSU is celebrating its fight song's 100th anniversary in 2015 by inviting those in the MSU community to send videos of themselves singing the song to create the first-ever Spartan Virtual Choir. A video published on July 1 asked viewers to record a video of themselves singing along to the song and upload the recording to www.msu.edu/fightsong. MSU's fight song was composed by cheerleader and civil engineering major Francis Irving Lankey at Michigan Agricultural College in 1915 and most of the words were written by Lankey's friend and fellow MAC student Arthur L.
MSU junior guard Eron Harris has been suspended indefinitely from the MSU basketball team following a drunk driving arrest early July 1, according to the Lansing State Journal.
This year, Michigan State fans were treated to a Cotton Bowl victory in football and a Final Four appearance in basketball – last year, a Rose Bowl and three weeks at No.1 on ESPN’s 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Rankings. The Spartans’ success has created a buzzing culture in the city of East Lansing.
Every neighborhood on campus has different things to offer. Before you move in this fall, make sure you know about the places you and your friends will be living.
MSU basketball announced via a press release that the Spartans will play a home-and-home against Florida. The series will begin this season at the Breslin Center on Dec. 12, 2015. MSU will travel to Gainesville, Florida, at a date yet to be determined in the 2017-18 season.
Muslim students are fasting during the holy month of the Islamic calendar, which is called Ramadan. For some international students, the difference of observing the holy month in the U.S. presents a challenge.
The Abrams Planetarium is bringing the constellations to life this weekend. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the planetarium is offering a free, special show called 'Star Safari' that pairs learning about the constellations with meeting their small animal counterparts brought from the Potter Park Zoo.
The Common Ground Music Festival 2015 is set to kickoff today, after a last minute hiccup in the lineup.
Meghan Trainor, scheduled as the opening headliner for Common Ground Music Festival on Tuesday July 7, will not perform due to continued treatment of hemorrhaging on her vocal chords. Joshua Davis (The Voice finalist and MSU alumnus) has been added to the lineup, which also includes Misterwives, Be a Miller, Skizzy Mars, Life of Dillion, and more.
Denzel Valentine has accepted his invitation to the 2015 U.S. Pan American Men’s Basketball Team training camp, according to a news release by Spartan Athletics. Twenty-two players were invited and 12 will be selected to represent the USA in Toronto from July 21-25. The training camp will take place at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from July 7-12, according to the release. If Valentine is selected, he will be the fifth MSU player to represent the USA since 1991.
On the Fourth of July, many people from Lansing, East Lansing and the surrounding areas gathered near the State Capitol Building to watch the annual parade.
East Lansing City Council will likely take action on a major construction project at its July 7 meeting at city hall, which begins at 7 p.m.
The Douglas J Companies salon in the East Lansing Marriott will be relocating to the Eastwood Towne Center before the year's end, according to a company statement.