Come next year, thousands of female students will find birth control more affordable, and those pregnant or with children also will see their financial burden reduced.
With the lazy days of summer coming to a close, campus is starting to get busier as the university prepares for the return of students to the area. In the fall, MSU will boast the largest freshman class in the university’s history, expecting to introduce about 7,800 new students to the banks of the Red Cedar.
Jim Maclellan is homeless. Temporarily, at least. The 2011 alumnus, who is staying at MSU to pursue a master’s degree in the fall, can’t afford to give up his university laboratory job — he has to stay in East Lansing until classes begin.
Florida pastor Terry Jones’ views toward Islam are well-documented. He became a nationally recognized figure after declaring Sept. 11 International Burn a Koran Day, and on a trip to Dearborn, Mich., he was arrested on charges of disturbing the peace.
When a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the Miyagi Prefecture in Japan in March, Masaru Nakata didn’t feel a thing.
While crowds of folk music lovers gathered throughout downtown East Lansing this weekend for the Great Lakes Folk Festival, a smaller group of folk fanatics gathered at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., for a more intimate performance.
Amanda Rigterink has always had an interest in behavior when it comes to animals and a passion to share her knowledge with others. Rigterink, MSU’s first veterinary behavior resident, started seeing exclusively behavior cases at the MSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, or VTH, in June. “My overall goal with the behavior service is to enhance the human/animal bond and to teach students about behavior,” she said. Chairperson of the Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences Charles DeCamp said having an animal behaviorist resident is significant.
When marketing junior Shannon McGreal-Miller heard she was one of 10 finalists in a contest to meet billionaire industrialist Warren Buffett, she was ecstatic.
The East Lansing taxi cab business, which has boomed over the last few years, now might have expanded past its peak and is slated for review by the city once students descend on campus in two weeks.
Six MSU undergraduate students have received top honors for research presented through the school’s Spring University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum during this past school year.
Barryton, Mich., resident Chad Jeremy Kemp will stand trial in Ingham County’s 30th Judicial Circuit Court for four felony charges, including weapons possession and eluding police.
Gaping holes in Michigan’s medical marijuana law have allowed dangerous people to hijack the system, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said Wednesday.
Starbucks Coffee Co. will open a new franchise location in late September or early October on the first floor of Wells Hall, Sparty’s Convenience Stores service manager Joe Garza said today.
A 21-year-old male student reported his passenger’s side rear window shattered at Lot 75, off Kalamazoo Street, between Aug. 6 at 9:30 p.m. and Aug. 7 at 9:30 p.m., MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Under the shadow of the Ann Street Plaza’s iconic clock tower, a pair of empty storefronts appears out of place — two dark picture windows set against the nighttime liveliness of The Post bar next door.
On Monday, future educators from 25 countries gathered at MSU for the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, or FLTA, Orientation Program.
Benjamin Cuddeback started visiting the MSU Horticulture Gardens on the corner of Bogue Street and Wilson Avenue during his breaks from classes. Cuddeback, a horticulture senior, said he liked the gardens so much he decided he wanted to become a summer intern.
In face of finding a new city manager, dealing with a struggling economy and serving thousands of student residents, a new candidate for City Council is stepping up for the challenge.
When mechanical engineering sophomore Yizheng Wang came to study at MSU from China, he knew he wouldn’t be able to bring everything he needed.
After walking almost 100 miles in sweltering temperatures, citizens from across the state made their way to the Capitol steps to present Rep.