About 25 East Lansing residents broke out clapping at Wednesday’s planning commission meeting after Ann Nichols, president of the Oakwood Historical District Neighborhood Association, criticized building heights in the new City Center II proposal. A new plan for a $117 million downtown development was discussed at the meeting.
Members of ASMSU have planned for spring elections since last semester, and officials from MSU’s undergraduate student government said they are hoping to increase the number of voters this year.
Campus officials are working on a plan to install key card systems in all residence halls, which could allow dorms to be locked during an emergency.
Traffic deaths involving drivers aged 16 to 20 increased about 20 percent in 2007 when compared to 2006, according to information released Wednesday by the Office of Highway Safety Planning.
Police set down their uniforms Wednesday in favor of jeans, T-shirts and light-up vests when the Community Relations Coalition challenged them to a laser tag duel as part of an effort to combat negative stereotypes about police.
For Kaustav Mukherjee, the most exciting thing about MSU is the rush of learning with people who live 9,000 miles away from each other.
Interior design students at MSU are teaming with interior designers statewide to get a package of bills passed in the Michigan Senate that would regulate and license their trade.
Michael Baumgarten knew he wanted to live off campus, but he struggled to find roommates in time to sign a lease for renting an East Lansing house.
The Michigan Senate passed a bill Tuesday to increase higher education funding for all state universities by 3 percent, a slight increase from Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposal to boost MSU’s budget by 2.7 percent.
The East Lansing Police Department recommended the East Lansing City Council renew liquor licenses for the 31 businesses that hold them at its Tuesday meeting.
As a U.S. Army veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Justin McClean is eligible for $1,100 per month in federal aid via the GI Bill.
Standing above the busy backdrop of men toning their muscles and building upper body strength at IM Sports-West, Katie Toskey said the weight room can be an uncomfortable environment. “I would never go down there,” said Toskey, an international relations sophomore. “I try to work out every day, but it can be intimidating.”
Stirring nervously in a cavernous, anonymous lecture hall and tapping a pencil against a desk, an MSU student waits to take a final exam — but it never comes. Because without teaching assistants to proctor for larger classes, some exams can’t be administered.
With memories of being bullied tucked away in the back of his mind, Uri Donnett held a flameless candle in honor of a boy who didn’t overcome similar treatment.
Protestors swarmed the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Abbot Road on Tuesday as more than 40 people gathered for a vigil to honor U.S. soldiers who have been killed in the Iraq war.
The East Lansing Planning Commission will discuss revamped plans for City Center II, a $117 million project that could affect rental housing on the 300 block of Evergreen Avenue, at its meeting today.
Spartan Gyros, 565 E. Grand River Ave., which experienced difficulties before it even opened because of inspection issues, closed its doors Friday.
When Laura Hall was flipping through a dictionary and came across the word “agog” — an adjective meaning full of intense interest or excitement — she knew the word would be appropriate for a title of an art-related business.
Groundbreaking on the Secchia Center, MSU’s $90 million medical school in Grand Rapids, will take place at 5 p.m. April 21, the university announced Tuesday.
It fills coursepacks, is printed on handouts and makes up many documents posted online — copyrighted material within the university is something most students and professors come across every day in their academic lives.