On Wednesday night, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, elected social work junior and current RHA Vice President Kelcey Gapske as the new president for the 2012-13 year. Gapske will spend the next several weeks transitioning into her new role before officially taking office April 11.
Hope Sovran, whose older sisters Annie and MaryKate Sovran attend MSU, was born with spina bifida and recently diagnosed with aplastic anemia — a disease that causes the body to stop producing enough blood cells. Treatment for the disease requires Hope Sovran to undergo a bone marrow transplant. She recently began chemotherapy at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and will stay there for at least the next month after undergoing the transplant, Nancy Sovran said.
From the minute Peggy Blackford arrived in Africa more than 10 years ago, she began to see the influence MSU had on the continent. “I met many people there … who had studied (at MSU), and I began to understand the prestige of the program here in African studies,” she said.
Apparel and textile design senior Amber Bembnister has been busy this month. The peer-elected student director of the second annual ATD Fashion Show has been working closely with fellow students and faculty advisers to make sure the production goes off without a hitch.
A blog created last year by MSU graduate students about the ups and downs of graduate student life recently has partnered with news publication Inside Higher Education. The blog, GradHacker.org, officially began publishing on the Inside Higher Education website in December 2011 and now averages between 3,000-4,000 unique hits per day, said graduate student and GradHacker co-editor Katy Meyers.
Red, green and black decorations, jazz music and the smell of soul food greeted members of the MSU community during East Neighborhood’s Soul Food Extravaganza! on Thursday evening. The event, hosted by East Neighborhood and Culinary Services, was held at Akers Hall cafeteria and helped celebrate Black History Month.
Nearly four years after fighting the university to address policy issues that landed her in front of the Student-Faculty Judiciary Board, former ASMSU Association Director Kara Spencer once again discussed MSU policy issues on campus, along with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE.
A 21-year-old female student reported fraudulent charges were made from her credit card, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
This year, instead of giving up the usual temptations for Lent — candy, sweets and pop — interior design junior Amanda Devera is striving for more. “They’re my weakness,” she said. “But I think this year, I decided to not give something up … and (instead) go to church more.”
For the past three weeks, a younger group of patrons have been flocking to The Landshark, 101 E. Grand River Ave. The bar and grill adopted a new policy three weeks ago allowing people 18 and up to attend nonalcoholic events at the bar and grill on Wednesday nights.
From severe weather to disease outbreaks, MSU’s emergency operations plan is an evolving set of procedures officials are using to react to life-threatening situations.
For the past three weeks, finance freshman Erin Lasenby has spent about three to five hours a day with her friends.
State senators quickly pushed through a bill Wednesday that would strip some graduate student employees of the right to bargain for pay and other benefits through labor unions. The bill, which first was introduced in the Senate last week, would prohibit graduate research assistants from forming unions, which are designed to protect the rights of student workers.
Today, Steve Coffman, 64, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from MSU in 1969 and 1976 respectively, has run in 73 marathons and is preparing for his 74th in April, this year’s Boston Marathon. It will be Coffman’s 35th consecutive Boston Marathon.
A 22-year-old female student reported her wallet was stolen between 12-5 p.m. Feb. 17 from the first floor of the Chemistry Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
During its Tuesday night meeting, the East Lansing City Council unanimously approved an application from local hot dog restaurant What Up Dawg? to extend its hours of operation and its beer sales, a move that could impact the rest of downtown’s post-bar dining scene. At the council’s regular meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road., members approved an application from the owners of What Up Dawg?, 317 M.A.C Ave., to extend its beer sales until 2 a.m. and its dining room operations until 3 a.m.
As spring break approaches and students plan a getaway from classes, they might be among a growing number of passengers at Lansing’s Capital Region International Airport. The airport saw a large growth in departing and arriving passenger flights in 2011 for the first time in several years.
When Israeli soldiers came to campus Tuesday, a struggle overseas was brought to East Lansing after a group of student activists protested the Israeli and Palestinian conflict. As an Emerson Fellow for StandWithUs, a program that aims to educate students across the globe about Israeli affairs, political theory and constitutional democracy senior Raffi Appel invited special guests to campus to share their side of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict.student group protests war with walkout
A lawsuit claiming the MSU College of Law discriminated against a 61-year-old job applicant is moving forward after a federal court ruling Friday. The suit, which first was filed July 28, 2011, by Nicholas Spaeth, claimed the MSU College of Law and five other law schools discriminated against him because of his age when they reviewed job applicants.
When international relations junior Sam Kilberg spent 10 weeks studying abroad in China last summer, he said he made lifelong friends and completed his entire third-level Chinese language requirements. “I had the trip of a lifetime,” Kilberg said.