The American Red Cross is pitting green and white against maize and blue to see who can collect the most red during its annual MSU/U-M Blood Challenge. The three-week competition began Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 24.
In case you missed it … A student government group has passed a bill to address what some members feel is a cleanliness problem with campus cafeterias.
Facing an almost $1 million projected budget deficit for the upcoming 2012-13 fiscal year, the city of East Lansing is moving forward with plans to consolidate the city’s emergency dispatch center into one shared facility in south Lansing for all of Ingham County. East Lansing officials laid out their plans for the move — including addressing a $944,645 projected budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year — during a meeting last weekend.
When accounting sophomore Kate Good does laundry in her Shaw Hall residence, it doesn’t involve searching for spare change under the couch or fumbling around for coins in her pocket. Instead, Good pays to do her laundry with a swipe of her ID card, loaded with Spartan Cash. “It’s really helpful and convenient,” said Good, who uses her Spartan Cash at MSU vending and laundry machines, as well as the food court at the International Center.
Three MSU business fraternities — Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi and Phi Chi Theta — held their inaugural business networking mixer from 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the Union.
With a warmer winter than in past years, hospitality business junior Alex Mlynarek has had to travel outside of the Lansing area in search of snowy slopes.
As smart phones and portable technology become more of a norm among younger populations, new distractions for drivers are on the rise.
The MSU Steering Committee pushed ahead plans to finalize the discontinuing of two academic programs yesterday.
A 49-year-old man from New York City, was arrested between 12:45-1:15 a.m. Feb. 2 for being drunk and disorderly and for having an open container of alcohol near the College of Law Building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The cost of a college internship — and how MSU measures internship credits — is under examination by an ASMSU committee after some representatives noted a disconnect in the amount students were paying in tuition for credit and the instructional time they received. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss financing for a portion of the long-running City Center II project during its Tuesday meeting. Public discussion on refinancing four parcels of property on Evergreen Avenue related to the $97 million redevelopment project is on the council’s business agenda for Tuesday’s meeting, scheduled to take place at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
A popular Internet phenomenon turned Spartan green this weekend when a California-based online class note provider connected memes with college campuses. Memes are images with captions typed overtop of them, often relating to humorous situations or occurrences. The most popular images often turn viral and prompt people all around the country and world to create new captions for the same picture.
MSU researchers are taking note of revisions to the criteria for those diagnosed with autism disorders as an American Psychiatric Association panel updates the definition for the first time in 17 years.
The MSU College of Law is holding its 18th annual Diversity Week, which runs until Friday, with a variety of events catered to spreading awareness throughout not only the law community, but campus-wide audiences, said Mary Ferguson, director of Diversity Services for the college.
Recently published MSU research shows U.S. math teachers are lagging behind their international counterparts when it comes to preparation.
Despite two losses, members of the MSU Women’s Club Water Polo team were all smiles after the Spartan Invite last weekend where they competed in the pool with 12 teams from across the nation.
A smoky haze hung in the air as dance music blared and small groups sat around large glass pipes filled with hookah tobacco during the official grand opening of Six Lounge Hookah & Smoke Shop on Saturday night.
Students, alumni and anyone on the Internet can help Sparty take on unfriendly rival snowmen in a new video game produced by MSU students. With the help of telecommunication, information studies and media associate professor Brian Winn, a group of graduate and undergraduate students working at the Games for Entertainment and Learning, or GEL, Lab recently produced Grumpy Snowmen — a game featuring Sparty hurling footballs, basketballs and other sporting equipment at snowmen dressed in rival Big Ten colors throughout campus.
State officials are expected to announce the status of partial funding for the proposed multimillion dollar Bio Engineering Facility on Thursday, said Kurt Weiss, spokesman for the State Budget Office.
Dead Prez holds a special place in Cletissa Haynes-Hogue’s heart.