At Tuesday’s rescheduled Planning Commission meeting at City Hall, an update to the city’s Comprehensive Plan, as well as Ordinance No.
MSU police are investigating after two roommates alleged a third roommate damaged thousands of dollars of their belongings.
John Kirsh loves bass. It’s the kind of music he can hear, he can feel. Kirsh, who lost his hearing because of a fever while he was an infant, only can hear the sounds of thunder or a jet passing overhead. With his hearing aid, however, he can hear the voices of his students, his friends, his family.
When lightning flashed at 5 p.m. Wednesday, it would have been easy for MSU Running Club President Jeff Girbach to pull the plug on Spartans Run For Boston.
At the first Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting of the 44th session Wednesday night, the organization discussed renewing cable service in the residence halls for the upcoming academic year.
0After a completely revamped menu and interior design, the establishment formerly known as Stateside Deli reopened as Spencer’s Kitchen at 313 E. Grand River Ave., on Wednesday.
The statistics and variables don’t favor college campuses. With a common mix of binge-drinking and large masses of young people celebrating, many campuses can be unintended cesspools for incidences of sexual assault.
With the threat of student interest rates nearly doubling looming overhead, the president’s latest proposal to keep increasing payments at bay this summer is up for national debate.
The life of best-selling author Richard Ford reads more like a love story than a list of lifetime achievements. Ford tells people he’s only done two things in his life — written books and been married to his wife, Kristina — both “extravagantly wonderful,” he said. When the MSU alumnus returns to MSU in May to speak at the 3:30 p.m.
Three proposals for the Park District Area will be sent to a subcommittee for financial review by the Park District Planning Area Review Team after a meeting at City Hall.
Athletes have access to a resources most homeless people do not — shoes.
It didn’t take long for graduate student Jon Derhammer to answer what he would do for a Klondike bar. “I would play Mad Bounce for 24 hours this weekend,” Derhammer jokingly said. Derhammer is referring to one of the two app games he and three others created to go with the week-long Klondike Challenge, which pits MSU and University of Michigan students and alumni against each other, with an ice cream social on the line. “Klondike Challenge is a local app tournament,” Derhammer said.
When Laura Swanson hears others claim a rape isn’t real, she has a choice to make — speak or remain silent.
Although police have yet to find the faces behind the Boston tragedy heard around the world, MSU experts say based on their research, those responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing are likely to be identified soon, thanks to a duffle bag.
The burden of low carnival attendance and the Ne-Yo concert cancellation turned out to play a small role in ASMSU’s election turnout — about the same percentage of students voted this year as last year. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, had 2,636 voters out of 28,628 eligible students, which equals a 9.2 percent voter turnout in this year’s elections, ASMSU Director of Public Relations Haley Dunnigan said. This year’s turnout was fewer then last year’s 2,988 voters, but Dunnigan pointed out there were multiple organizations that had their tax renewal on the ballot last year that drew additional attention to the elections. “Considering during last year’s election there were tax questions for the Residence Halls Association, MSU Radio Board and James Madison (College), those kind of issues tend to bring in a lot more attention,” Dunnigan said.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, will continue to receive the student tax after graduate and professional students voted in favor to renew the tax for another three years, COGS President Stefan Fletcher confirmed. COGS received about a 6 percent voter turnout amongst the graduate and professional student body with 490 electing to continuing the tax of $9.25 per student per semester during the fall and spring semester and $4.75 during the summer semester, Fletcher said.
A new apartment complex was unanimously approved by the East Lansing’s City Council to be built at the site of a BP gas station on Michigan Avenue at the council’s Tuesday meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
Computer science sophomore Jordyn Castor has been fighting for everything she has since she was born.
At Tuesday afternoon’s Faculty Senate meeting, members recommended to waive the search process for the vice president for student affairs and advise MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to promote Denise Maybank from interim vice president to permanent vice president of student affairs.
Making MSU a more welcoming place for international students is something Peter Briggs, director of the Office of International Students and Scholars, or OISS, strives for every day. With assistance from the MSU community, Briggs recognized those who share that goal by thanking them with Globie Awards.