Faculty weighed in on what qualities the next MSU provost should have at an open forum on Tuesday, saying that the provost should have strong ties to the university while balancing diversity and inclusion.
The MSU community celebrated United States Constitution Day on Tuesday with activities that honored the nation’s founding document in both serious and light-hearted ways. Constitution Day, originally known as Citizenship Day, commemorates the day the Constitution originally was signed. It was named a federal holiday in 2004.
For more than 60 years, the MSU Evening College has served as a way for alumni to stay engaged with the university through courses and instruction. With the new Alumni Lifelong Enrichment for Spartans program, or LENS, the MSU Alumni Association looks to “re-envision” what the former evening college should be.
With the intent to improve student and community relations and establish communication between the two, a University Student Commission, or USC, is appointed each year. At Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council meeting, new members of the USC were appointed, representing the Residence Hall Association, Inter-fraternity Council, Nation Panhellenic Council, ASMSU, Olin Health Center, Community Relations Coalition and the council of Graduate Students.
Greek letters and signs are everywhere around campus with Rush week kicking off, but not all the pledges will be flocking to the major fraternities and sororities. Special education junior Manisha Manchanda is one student who elected to steer away from the stereotypical “sorority girl” image and join a multicultural sorority. “What I like best is that everyone respects … that we all grew up in different parts of the world,” said Manchanda, who is a member of Sigma Sigma Rho, a traditional Southern Asian sorority.
A few days after the Navy Yard shootings, a presentation on how to handle a gunman in a classroom might have brought up more questions than answers at a Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday.od The presentation focused on the resources available to faculty that would help them prepare for situations involving violence in classrooms. “It’s a suspect using a weapon in an ongoing assault, this would not be a barricaded gunman as we more commonly know from news and media,” MSU police Capt.
MSU football fans who attended last weekend’s home game may have noticed, and were perhaps infuriated by, the “GO BLUE” message written across the sky. But hundreds of Spartans are responding to the skywriting in a surprising way — donating thousands of dollars to ovarian cancer research. The idea came from MSU Alumni Association Executive Director Scott Westerman, who he had a sense of what skywriting costs based on his experience as a private pilot.
The man found unresponsive in Patriarche Park this weekend was a student in the MSU College of Law, officials confirmed Tuesday. MSU officials said 31-year-old Noah Cooper, a law student at MSU, was the man who reportedly died after being found unresponsive in the park, located at 1100 Alton St.
A spring and summer of struggle on parts of MSU’s undergraduate student government, ASMSU, still did not manage to gain enough student attention. Very few students know what their student government has been going through, let alone that they do have a student government.
Redshirt freshman cornerback Ezra Robinson, who pleaded guilty to underage drinking and driving last month, now faces court-ordered classes and fines.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light, or BWL, will begin producing wind energy-generated electricity for customers in the Lansing area by fall 2014.
A record number of students at MSU has put a strain on the university, but the plan is to reduce the total in the future.
Campus police are investigating an assault that occurred at 1 a.m. Sept. 14 near Lot 29 at the intersection of Shaw Lane and Akers Road. The victim, an 18-year-old female student, told police she was returning to her residence hall when an unidentified man attacked her from behind, according to a statement from MSU police.
After several decades of existence, the neighborhood-run Orchard Street Pump House community center could soon acquire an official contract with the city of East Lansing. Positioned in the heart of the Bailey Neighborhood, the pump house serves as a center for community events, including exercise classes, ice cream socials, concerts, celebrations and several other neighborhood activities.
For some, America is known for big cities, flashy celebrities and well-known universities and for many international college students, MSU opens a new way of life.
MSU has received a $10 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to improve food policy in developing countries. The grant is part of the federal government’s global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future. Co-director of MSU Food Security Group and project leader Duncan Boughton said in a statement that he hoped the funds could reduce poverty and improve nutritional outcomes across the globe. “We will work with governments, researchers and private sector stakeholders in Africa, Asia and Latin America to increase agricultural productivity, improve dietary diversity and build greater resilience to challenges, like climate change, that affect livelihoods,” he said.
A man found unresponsive at East Lansing’s Patriarche Park earlier this week has been pronounced dead, the East Lansing Police Department confirmed Monday evening. The man was found in the park, located at 1100 Alton St., early Sunday afternoon and has since died.
After pleading guilty to an underage drinking and driving charge earlier this summer, redshirt freshman cornerback Ezra Robinson now faces fines and court-ordered classes. The Sarasota, Fla., native was sentenced to attend a victim impact panel and an alcohol highway safety class before 54-B District Court Judge Richard Ball early Monday morning. He also is required to pay $758 in fees by Nov. 15 or he will risk jail time.
Jerred Pender walked to the closets on the right side of his bedroom. One holds his civilian clothes. The other has some military uniforms, a camouflaged helmet and two pairs of cowboy boots on the shelf above. A stuffed camouflage backpack lay on the ground, the top flap hanging open.
A host of topics were addressed at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting on Friday, but the most controversial issue brought up was one the trustees didn’t say a word about.