The addition of a fitness fee to student tuition was one of the many policies on deck at Thursday evening’s ASMSU committee meeting.
Psychology junior Thomas Bond has been dancing his whole life. After experimenting in many different forms of art, including painting and sculpture, Bond said the only thing that makes him “feel embodied in art is dance.”
As businesses grow and develop in Detroit, students searching for a place to live, work and have fun after graduation are looking to the city. Since 2000, the number of young people with bachelor’s degrees living in downtown Detroit has grown by 59 percent, according to the Detroit Regional Chamber.
Xiaobo Tan, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, created a robotic fish, or robofish, named Grace that can glide long distances and collect data for research.
MSU police are investigating a death after an incident at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education on Tuesday.
As Greater Lansing stores sold out of assault weapons in the aftermath of the December elementary school massacre, President Barack Obama announced his plans to intensify gun regulations Wednesday.
Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital opened the doors of the East Lansing Urgent Care clinic Wednesday, providing students and East Lansing residents access to another health care site within blocks of campus.
Advertising junior Brandon Carmack likely will be headed to trial within the coming months, Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III said.
Packed udder to udder in the MSU Dairy Teaching and Research Center’s milking parlor stood some of MSU’s finest — 14 Holstein cows — in place and ready to be milked.
On Wednesday, the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, officially welcomed in its newest animals — Seba’s short-tailed bats. Seba’s short-tailed bats are small, fruit-eating bats native to South and Central America, said Melissa Lincoln, one of the two primary caregivers for the bats.
From the knit German flag pillow lying on Kate Freiberger’s sofa to her excited talk of trips to Mexico, Costa Rica and Germany, Freiberger’s craving for diversity is shown in every aspect of her life.
Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, announced the discounted MSU vs. University of Michigan hockey game at Joe Louis arena deal sold out earlier this week. The package included transportation and ticket to the Feb. 2 rivalry game for $7. At the meeting, COGS also announced it will be a co-sponsor for the next Taste of East Lansing at its monthly full-council meeting Wednesday.
Warm weather might have been a factor in the high number of assaults and underage drinking arrests last weekend. East Lansing police arrested six minors for carrying alcohol, wrote nine minor in possession citations, and answered calls for three assaults, seven fights, nine thefts and one stolen vehicle, according to the weekend report. “For a winter month, coming back after break … it is a little higher than normal,” East Lansing police Capt.
For MSU Union Operations Supervisor Jeff Gooch, the Union has been a comforting home away from home for the past 32 years.
In 2011, almost 30 percent of the cigarettes smoked in Michigan were smuggled from other states, according to research from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which factored information from 47 of 48 states. Michael LaFaive, director of Morey Fiscal Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said the high smuggling rate is partly because Michigan currently has the 10th highest tax rate at $2 per pack, according to statistics from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Well into Tuesday night, the East Lansing City Council discussed before a crowd of residents the future of the formerly proposed City Center II property, an ordinance that would allow those looking to sell their homes to rent them for a short period of time and approved the contract of East Lansing and Lansing Fire Department Chief Randy Talifarro. The council decided to send the proposition back to the planning commission for review and recomendations for the future of the site as well as attempt to solve the parking issue.
On Tuesday morning, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., visited Lansing to speak about the future of agriculture, statewide and nationally, at a breakfast hosted by the Michigan Agri-Businesses Association. Stabenow said part of this comes from the support for Michigan’s universities and research institutions, such as MSU.
Most college students take out loans, earn scholarships or borrow money from family members to cover the cost of tuition. But according to recent studies, numerous MSU students also have turned to websites in search of “sugar daddies” to help pay for college. In 2012, MSU was ranked as the 16th fastest growing university for students to find sugar daddies — older men who pay to date younger women — on www.seekingarrangement.com. In 2011, MSU was ranked No. 9.
At the Tuesday Steering Committee meeting, some faculty voiced their opinions and objections to a requirement for all staff to provide documents verifying dependents on university health plans. Since the “Jan.
Economics senior Adam Mitchell said hasn’t been serious about quitting smoking before, but this time he quitcold turkey.