As doctoral student Behnaz Ghaffari patiently waited for the route 31 Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus to Brody Complex Neighborhood to arrive, she couldn’t help but feel thankful — the bus stop she stood at in front of Olin Health Center included several improvements from last year.
For MSU Bikes Service Center manager Tim Potter, his commute to work can be a difficult one if there isn’t a bike lane. Between sharing the road with motorists, who often yell at him for riding on the shoulder, to a couple of close calls with CATA buses, biking without a proper lane isn’t ideal. “Bicyclists do venture out into riding in the road; it’s pretty scary,” Potter said.
On Thursday night, as President Barack Obama officially was accepting his party’s nomination for another term in the White House at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., I was holed up in a hotel lobby three blocks away scrounging for public Wi-Fi to watch the speech — sadly, on C-SPAN, because a student journalist is last on the VIP list for exclusive presidential access. For the past three days, I had been running all over the city covering events that are pivotal to the Democratic Party platform and the President’s re-election efforts, including caucuses targeting a specific demographic of voters and rah-rah gatherings by legislators who have devoted themselves to Obama.
Students who walked past the former Barnes and Noble, 333 E. Grand River Ave., did not see an empty building on Saturday, but rather a room filled with families bonding through art.
With the terms of current MSU Trustees Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster set to expire in 2013, the Republican and Democratic parties each selected two candidates for the upcoming November election at each party’s convention this past weekend.
Five new members of the Faculty Liaison Group to the MSU Board of Trustees and the University Committee on Academic Governance chosen by the Faculty Senate were announced Wednesday.
A spokesperson from the MSU athletics department said they are deferring all calls about the alleged involvement of the MSU hockey team in the assault of Brandon Carmack to the East Lansing Police Department and MSU University Relations.
On Thursday, the Community Relations Coalition served MSU Dairy Store ice cream at the Bailey neighborhood for local residents and MSU students.
Resident assistants, or RAs, and community coordinators will have more of a voice on campus thanks to the development of a Residence Education Staff Council.
Numerous topics were discussed at ASMU’s meeting Thursday evening, including a lack of iClickers, new access to the New York Times and international student fees.
Loud music, laughing and dancing made up the scene of the fifth annual Spartan Remix on Thursday evening at Auditorium Field.
Students and community members who have an idea for a new business but lack the funds get it started now have the opportunity to build dreams into a reality. Entrepreneurs looking for a way to start up a business can enter to win up to $25,000 by joining the MSU Federal Credit Union, or MSUFCU, startUP Challenge. April Clobes, MSUFCU executive vice president and chief operating officer, said there have been no submitted applications as of Thursday afternoon, but she has received interest from campus organizations promoting entrepreneurship. “We could not help everyone, so we thought the best solution was to do a competition,” Clobes said.
Former colleagues and friends remember Linda Lou Smith, a former communicative sciences and disorders professor, for her dedication to the university and her students.
This summer, the Main Library reduced graduate and professional student study space from three designated rooms to one.
Both on- and off-campus job opportunities — with companies ranging from MSU Federal Credit Union to Meijer — were abundant for the more than 1,000 students who attended the MSU Career Services event.
For history sophomore Connor Thompson, cheating just isn’t worth the consequences.
Curtis Audette and Joyce Lalonde are about 45 years apart in age. In terms of experience at a Democratic National Conventio, which they both are attending this week, that’s a huge difference; Audette, a social relations and policy sophomore, is attending his first convention this week in Charlotte, N.C., while Lalonde, an MSU alumna, is attending her seventh convention in about the past 30 years.
In separate opinions, the court also upheld three other ballot proposals: requiring a two-thirds vote in the state Legislature to raise taxes; voter approval for new bridges to Canada; and protecting collective bargaining rights from possible right-to-work legislation.
MSU did not make it onto the Princeton Review’s top party school list for the second-consecutive year, leaving some students pleased and others disappointed.
After reading an investigative report on the allegations against former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon has taken measures to prevent sexual abuse at MSU.