Curbside recycling is a luxury not afforded to on-campus students, but a new pilot program soon will offer a similar service to dorm residents.
A person of interest in the shooting of Dominique Nolff has been arrested for a parole violation in Grand Rapids, according to police. Marqua McCoy, 19, was arrested Tuesday night, police said.
Late Saturday evening, MSU student and aspiring musician Dustyn Frolka died after being found partially clothed and in respiratory distress at the side of an entrance ramp on Interstate 69 in Bath Township, authorities said Monday. Bath Township police said his death “is being treated as a homicide until detectives learn otherwise.” He is survived by his daughter Melody Lou, who was born in April 2013. Frolka was featured in a March 2013 State News article highlighting rap and hip-hop artists in the MSU community. “I just grew up listening to the radio as a kid,” Frolka said in an interview at the time.
Frigid weather and a boatload of new snow on the way is leading students to skip classes, flock to bus stations and bundle up to combat the elements. Visibility could remain hindered by drifting snow throughout Tuesday. Further weather woes are predicted for Wednesday and Thursday.
Graduate teaching assistants are set to receive more than $100,000 in back wages that the university hadn’t paid them in two semesters after a dispute between the Graduate Employees Union and MSU was resolved. The union’s successful claim stemmed from a complaint that teaching assistants were not paid during a three-day overlap between the past spring and summer semesters, where more than 300 teaching assistants were essentially working two jobs. Union president Dan Clark said per their contract with MSU, the spring semester appointment period for teaching assistants went from Jan.
A series of power outages and water main breaks have affected hundreds of residents in East Lansing this winter. The power outage on Sunday affecting 200 Lansing Board of Water and Light customers was caused by an underground cable fault completely unrelated to the cold or snow, BWL communications director Stephen Serkaian said. The water main breaks, however, have much to do with the winter weather. “These last few weeks we’ve had extended severe cold weather and that causes an increase in broken pipes,” Serkaian said. There were 19 water main breaks between Jan.
Michigan is a top-producing state for the Peace Corps and apparently that trait has been passed to its universities as well.
As sub-freezing temperatures persist this winter, some parts of the Red Cedar River are icing over for the first time in 10 years.
Bath Township police are investigating the death of an MSU student who they believe was murdered this weekend.
Lansing Board of Water and customers momentarily lost power Sunday. At 11:35 a.m., about 200 customers lost power, according to a statement from BWL communications director Stephen Serkaian. The outages extended west to Kensington Road, east to Abbott Road, north to Grand River Avenue and south to Michigan Avenue. The statement said an underground cable fault was to blame for the outages.
Following claims of intimidation and harassment between Theatre students, many questions remain unanswered. Last week, officials confirmed that harassing messages were written on a white board in Fairchild Theatre.
Pasta is psychology sophomore Taylor Williams’ favorite dish. But it just isn’t worth braving the winding lines at the Shaw Hall cafeteria. Instead, she often uses her meal pass for quick snacks.
Buried within the Agriculture Act of 2014, the farm bill signed into law at MSU by President Barack Obama two weeks ago, there is a provision legalizing the growth of industrial hemp for agricultural or academic research. It is a provision that could easily be applied to MSU, which often touts itself as a premier agricultural research university.
Sex can be an embarrassing, awkward topic that many people don’t want to talk about, but on Valentine’s Day, the LBGT Resource Center collaborated with the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum to overcome the stigma by hosting an event encouraging the MSU community to have a dialogue about sexual issues.
A group of a few dozen individuals marched the streets of East Lansing Friday, yelling, chanting and holding up signs to spread awareness of sexual violence and assault for MSU’s annual V-Day March To End Violence.
Boots, belt buckles, barrels and bull riding filled the MSU Pavilion this weekend, ringing in the 45th annual Spartan Stampede.
The things I do for love. While some students spent their Valentine’s Day out with their significant other or enjoying the single life, I was charged with finding the future Mrs. Preston in three minutes or less.
MSU is considering an alternative tuition structure that might save some students money.
A new volunteering program, Spartans Without Borders, is emerging at MSU and it reaches a wide audience of applicable participants.
University officials and police are investigating harassment claims within the MSU Department of Theatre, according to department chair Kirk Domer.