Every semester Sustainable Spartans hosts a trash pick-up competition where club members spend an hour picking up litter around campus for the chance to win a free scoop of ice cream from the Dairy Store. Sustainable Spartans is a project-based student led organization with the goal of making MSU more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
Trustees Dennis Denno, Rema Vassar and Mike Balow broke with the board, voting against a proposed increase in room and board rates for the upcoming academic year.
President Kevin Guskiewicz said that while those funds won't replace federal funding — and "could not fully do so" — it demonstrates the institution's "deep commitment" to its research mission.
Two grants supporting stewardship efforts and accessibility improvements at the Michigan State University Museum were terminated within the last 24 hours, the museum director said.
The push-back represents further discord between MSU and the Trump administration.
Recently, Eat at State announced operational changes for Thrive at Owen and The Vista at Shaw, located inside Shaw Hall in the River Trail Neighborhood, that will be put into effect during the Fall 2025 semester. As part of these changes, Thrive will be closed on weekends and The Vista at Shaw will open on weekends.
Chef Suree "Mai" Richardson moved to the U.S. in 2015 after growing up poor in Thailand. She met her husband Mark online, and together they started their own food truck, Eato Chef. After five successful years at Horrocks Farm Market, Chef Mai has decided to move the Eato Chef food truck to Florida and continue her business there. The truck was hand built, the food is made fresh daily and the advertising is minimal – but that hasn't stopped her from having lines around the parking lot.
Finance sophomore Alina Morse started Zolli Candy, a candy brand that prioritizes healthy options, at 7 years old. Now, studying at MSU, Alina Morse's company employs student interns, takes philanthropic action through the Million Smiles Initiative and works to make people happy through candy.
The Michigan State University Roial Players Just a College Sketch Show (Roial JACSS) held its annual Sketch Show on April 4-6 at the RCAH Theater. The show, titled “A Matter of Life and Sketch,” revolved around six comedy actors trapped in a theater who must put on an impromptu sketch show for their live audience.
Redlining and its direct correlation with environmental discrimination continue to infest Lansing neighborhoods. The aftermath of I-496’s construction demolishing Black neighborhoods are still being repaired, and studies highlight Lansing as being more prone to environmental injustice. Organizations in the community are working together to combat the effects of redlining.
At least some international students at MSU have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a university spokesperson confirmed Monday.
An MSU college is providing donor funding for student organizations' projects that support diversity, equity and inclusion — although it's being careful to stay in compliance with federal anti-discrimination laws.
Plans to proceed with a "transformational" development in South Neighborhood, including retail shops, restaurants, a hotel and a 6,000-seat Olympic sports venue will be voted on at the Board of Trustees' upcoming meeting.
From April 8 to April 13, “Chicago,” the longest-running American musical in Broadway history, will arrive at Michigan State University’s Wharton Center for Performing Arts. Directed by David Hyslop, with choreography by Gregory Butler, based on the original direction of Tony Award-winning Walter Bobbie and original choreography by Tony Award-winning Ann Reinking, the musical will be shown at the Cobb Great Hall.
Last year, Michigan State University’s undergraduate student body voted to popularly elect its president. This year, the undergraduate student government is trying to overturn that decision.
MSU Turning Point USA's earnest desire to engage in political discussion is often paired — and sometimes rivaled — by an inability to resist a good joke.
At MSU’s Broad College of Business, taking the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) 102 course was a requirement to apply to the college. Throughout the years, the course garnered a negative reputation among business students for being extremely difficult. However, starting in the Fall 2025 application cycle, CSE 102 will no longer be required to apply to Broad.
"Home away from home" was a theme established at the beginning of the school year’s homecoming parade for Michigan State University’s International Student Association (ISA). This theme was carried through to the ISA Ball on April 4 at the Kellogg Center.
Reffing basketball can be hard, but it can also be very rewarding. So, as the MSU intramural Division I semi-final basketball games rolled around, I thought it would be a good idea to throw on my striped reffing shirt and officiate the game. With some good fouls called, odd situations and high tensions — this is my experience officiating an intramural basketball game.
The video showing the burning of the Islamic holy text was reported to MSU’s Office of Civil Rights, according to a university spokesperson, though they declined to say whether it was investigated.