Taylor was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and had a history of mental breakdowns with homicidal intentions, resulting in his being hospitalized several times, a state psychiatrist revealed in court Monday.
Most of the breakdowns — allegedly including the one that lead to the murders — were the culminations of Taylor's conspiratorial delusions centered around acquaintances and loved ones attempting to poison him, humans morphing into malevolent supernatural entities.
U.S. Senator Gary Peters introduced legislation Monday which might help college students across Michigan who have defaulted on their private student loans.
The Spartan baseball team (31-19 overall, 13-8 Big Ten) took two of three game against Penn State (18-28 overall, 6-14 Big Ten) over the weekend for the teams fifth straight Big Ten series win.
Recently graduated students express their sentiments on leaving MSU and share their favorite college memories.
Tuesday night, the East Lansing City Council voted in favor of consideration of a resolution to adopt the Amended Brownfield Plan #4 for the project at 300 W.
Although during the post-arrest interview Taylor made no mention of his being a vampire and the victims morphing into werewolves — a motive for the killings Taylor revealed to a psychiatrist reviewing his mental health, according to the LSJ — Lansing detective Brad St. Aubin said his non-expert opinion after interviewing Taylor was that he suffered from a mental illness other than the ADD that Taylor said he had.
At the bargaining table, MSUs Office of Employee Relations told us that helping students with emotional ‘first aid’ was not a part of our job as TAs. I strongly disagree.
The GEU staged a sit-in on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during finals week to show solidarity with the bargaining team, a group of GEU members negotiating a contract with the administration.
The exploitation of graduate students for cheap labor has become the norm at the public university, and while you all on the board are expressly committed to keeping Michigan State University competitive and exceptional, in this category we are certainly no exception.
When I woke up I was confused, the room was spinning and I didn’t know where I was. I didn’t even feel like I was in my own body. I was terrified walking home from his room and I called my mom, panicked. I didn’t know what happened.
Tuesday night the East Lansing City Council unanimously voted in approval of a Site Plan and Special Use Permit that was submitted by Gateway of East Lansing, LLC.
Tuesday night, voters said yes to both local Proposals 1 and 2. Proposal 1 decriminalized marijuana in East Lansing, but under Michigan state law marijuana possession is still a misdemeanor.
Graduate TAs provide a valuable and essential service to the university—teaching. The fundamental purpose of higher education—a service that students pay for in tuition dollars—is being met with indifference and disrespect.
According to the Graduate Employees’ Union blog, the university bargaining team “suggested we make hard decisions, adult decisions, about whether we choose to have children, and whether or not we choose to come to MSU if we already have families.”
After the last ballot was counted Tuesday night, voters had struck down one state proposal and voted yes to two local ones. State Proposal 15-1, which would have increased sales tax and others to fix roads, was defeated by Michigan voters. Local Proposals 1 and 2 were both accepted by voters. Prop 1 will decriminalize marijuana possession in East Lansing. Prop 2 will allow to City Council to sell property with a simple majority vote from citizens as opposed to the current 60 percent super majority requirement.
Votes for the state of Michigan's Proposal 15-1, which would raise taxes to fund road repairs and more, are coming in and it's headed toward a defeat.
We, as a state, must recognize the challenges our universities are facing in addressing sexual assault. The Governor, in his FY 2015-16 budget proposal, did a great service to students across the state, by allocating $500,000 in State Police resources to partner with campuses on ending sexual assault.
On a rainy Tuesday, some precincts are noticing abnormally low voter turnout, even for a local election. The reasons for this range from everything from finals week taking up the bulk of student concerns, to the weather discouraging East Lansing residents from voting or even a general apathy towards the issues on the ballot.