Each year, MSU conducts a survey of the graduating class to track where each graduate has found employment six months postgrad. The results for 2014 shed some positive light on what has recently been a tough job market.
It was the morning of June 30 and Derrick Austin stood outside a restaurant on Grand River Avenue, looking up and down the empty summer streets of East Lansing.
While stuck inside during the fall and winter months, many people dream of summer when they can finally go outside and have time for fun. But when summer actually comes people find themselves spending a lot of time bored because they don’t know what there is to do.
Shanna Draheim, a Southern California native, fell in love with East Lansing during her undergrad years at MSU. After bringing her family to live in and be part of the community 11 years ago, Draheim has decided to run for East Lansing City Council.
With NFL training camp approaching at the end of July, eight Spartan rookies from this past season will look to make their mark in the NFL, while two others are currently on CFL rosters.
The MSU campus-wide tobacco ban has come about in an effort to push the university to be a healthier and more progressive campus, and is the result of years of planning by the MSU Anti-Cancer Society.
If you went to high school in the United States and took required English classes, then you read Harper Lee’s classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” After being published in 1960, the novel became a definitive piece of American education.
Seven candidates have filed to run for three vacancies on the East Lansing Council this fall. Only one incumbent is seeking reelection — East Lansing Mayor Nathan Triplett — while council members Kathleen Boyle and Diane Goddeeris will not be seeking reelection. The seven names are as follows.
Steven Price, mechanical engineering senior from Canton, MI, broke the record for most dominoes toppled in the U.S.
Velvet A candy Story, a new family business on Grand River, officially opened Saturday, July 18, 2015, giving residents a slice of Mackinaw Island here in East Lansing.
Crunchy’s is officially MSU’s top game-day restaurant according to a btn.com article by Brent Yarina, a senior editior at Big Ten Network.com.
The vacant former location of The Tanning Company on 423 Albert Avenue has yet to be replaced by a new business, building owner Brad Ballein said Tuesday. The Tanning Company closed its doors for good on June 26 at 6 p.m., according to the company's Facebook page.
MSU Athletic Director Mark Hollis has been selected as the 2015-16 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee vice chair and the 2016-17 chair of the committee, according to a Spartan Athletics new release. “I love college sports.
Every Monday evening from 8 to 10 p.m., Impact 89FM brings a variety of music from all over Asia to MSU's campus. The program, Asian Music Mondays, was called "Asian Invasion" when it was established. Osteopathic medicine student Elise Yoon started working with the program in January, 2010.
Former MSU basketball star Keith Appling has inked a two-year partially guaranteed contract with the Orlando Magic of the NBA, news outlets reported Monday. The 6-foot-1 guard and graduate of Detroit Pershing High School played four years at MSU and finished his career with 1,509 points, 465 assists and 151 steals.
The East Lansing Starbucks located at 401 E. Grand River Ave. will be closed for remodeling until August 9, according to a sign posted on the store's window. Jim Thorington, working on the remodel with Thorington Electric, LLC, said the Starbucks' stores usually remodel every 10 years.
Former MSU and current Alabama head coach Nick Saban recently stated at SEC Media Days that he felt NFL draft feedback for players gauging their standing at the next level is a distraction to said players who are preparing for the final stretch of their season. Saban coached MSU from 1995-99, but he left to become the head coach at Louisiana State before the bowl game in the 1999 season after leading the Spartans to a 9-2 record. Former MSU wide receiver Plaxico Burress who played for the Spartans during Saban's tenure took offense to Saban's remarks. Burress was considering leaving school early for the NFL, but Saban convinced Burress to stay to "finish what he started." The former wide receiver recently took to Twitter to call out his former coach. I recall Nick Saban telling me to stay in school finish what I started, I wasnt 1st round pick and he left for LSU b4 the season was over — Plaxico Burress (@plaxicoburress) July 15, 2015 Now Nick Saban goes on tv saying that kids are distracted by NFL projections.
Six Spartans on the 2015-16 MSU ice hockey roster attended NHL prospect development camps in July, including Travis Walsh at the Detroit Red Wings’ camp, according to a Spartan Athletics news release. The five other Spartans were Jake Hildebrand (Anaheim Ducks), Michael Ferrantino (Carolina Hurricanes), Matt DeBlouw (Calgary Flames), Mackenzie MacEachern (St.
Rusted metal, old car doors, and old fence wire may seem like trash to some people but to others it is a work of art.
Old Town Scrapfest will take place July 17 from from 6-10 p.m.