A 20-year-old male resident mentor in Armstrong Hall reported an assault on an 18-year-old male student between 2:45-3:30 a.m. Jan. 29, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Long before Richard Cordray began working with President Barack Obama, he escaped from everything deep in the bowels of South Neighborhood dorms.
Valentines cards and decorations won’t be the only places to find hearts this February. Throughout the month, MSU Bakers is making more than 300 dozen heart-shaped cookies not only for residence halls, but also as part of a fundraiser for the American Heart Association, or AHA.
Before supply chain management junior Hashim Alsadah arrived in East Lansing from Saudi Arabia, he signed a contract with oil company Saudi Aramco guaranteeing him a job after graduation. In exchange, the company is paying for his tuition and fees at MSU.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, continues to work toward fixing the campus movie offices, and new computers will be available next week to aid the group with movie rentals.
When biosystems and agricultural engineering professor Evangelyn Alocilja began research in 2000 to create nanoparticle-based biosensors that could detect diseases, she never imagined she would one day become the founder of a company.
About 17 residents and city officials gathered Wednesday evening to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Hannah Community Center, reflecting on the building’s past and looking forward to its future. East Lansing Mayor Diane Goddeeris and other officials said the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, has strengthened East Lansing as a community — she said more than 100,000 people visited the center last year.
Instead of partying in tropical destinations this spring break, some students are opting to serve communities and engage in self-reflection as a participant of an alternative spring break program. MSU has several different programs aiming to provide opportunities for students to travel, nationally and internationally, during the course of the spring break holiday.
When chemical engineering junior Crystal Alton travels to Brunswick, Ga., for the High Tide Ultimate Frisbee Tournament in March, she’s going to look good. “You gotta be cute for all the men ultimate frisbee players,” Alton said.
Study Abroad programs are popular for MSU students, but for some who can’t spare a summer, there is another option. MSU offers programs during spring break, both domestically and internationally, which range in popularity among students, according to course organizers.
As students depart for spring break vacations, crime at on- and off-campus housing remains active. Though students are gone, the MSU and East Lansing police departments receive calls and complaints of break-ins and theft during the holiday.
As a travel expert for STA Travel, 207 E. Grand River Ave., Tamara Hewlett can predict when large amounts of students will come in to plan a spring break vacation. “When it would start snowing, I would say, ‘Okay, I know we’re going to get spring break bookings today,’ and we would,” Hewlett said. STA Travel employee and MSU alumna Hewlett said despite the recent economy, spring break bookings have actually increased.
Kathleen Webb has been a loyal customer at her favorite tanning salon for six years. A regular at Bronze Bay Tanning Salon, 109 E. Grand River Ave., — the only tanning salon she’s ever been to in East Lansing — the physiology senior said this spring break season, she’s looking forward to hitting the salon before she hits the beach.
A 19-year-old male student reported his bike stolen at the Erickson Hall bike racks between noon Jan. 23, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The whipped cream was flying Tuesday at the rock on Farm Lane, where ONE MSU and the University of Michigan’s chapter of ONE — a national organization that campaigns to end poverty in countries across the globe — joined forces for a cause.
Frederick D. Haynes believes Black History Month, which begins today, helps Americans appreciate the beauty of diversity.
After the loss of five members and a vice chair position on ASMSU’s programming board, ASMSU is looking for replacements while transferring duties to the group’s finance committee to ensure student events and groups can get funded. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
This week has marked the last few days of business for two downtown East Lansing secondhand clothing stores. Scavenger Hunt, 503 E. Grand River Ave., closed down business Jan. 31, and ReThreads, 543 E. Grand River Ave., plans to close down Feb. 4., leaving two vacant spaces among a stretch of stores and restaurants.
A man affiliated with the New Year’s Eve 1999 arson at Agriculture Hall was sentenced to six months in prison Friday in the U.S.
Since supposed spirits appeared in her photographs and she was overcome with psychic premonitions during her childhood, MSU alumna Samantha Harris has been hooked on the paranormal. Harris is the founder and director of the Michigan Paranormal Research Association, MPRA, which held a lecture at the East Lansing Public Library on Monday night to share their best evidence, experiences and theories to prove paranormal activities and spirits exist.