The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Activities and other MSU cultural groups are sponsoring the Latino Welcome Reception, Thursday.
The Alliance of LBGTA Students will receive a face lift this semester after moving forward to amend its constitution and the ASMSU Constitution to rename itself as the Alliance of Queer & Ally Students.
The East Lansing City Council is seeking to make information regarding potential medical marijuana ordinances more accessible to the general public after discussion at the council’s work session Tuesday at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
Lansing community organizer Jennifer Middlin spoke to a group of more than 20 students, community members and entrepreneurs from around the state at the MSU Union on Tuesday about how entrepreneurs can use social media to build relationships with their customers. The speech was sponsored by the Mid-Michigan Innovation Club for Entrepreneurs, or ICE, as part of its meeting for the month of September.
Students walking by the rock on Farm Lane on Tuesday afternoon were greeted with international music, dancing, free ice cream and the chance to interact with several different cultural organizations and university departments.
At MSU, there are multiple expressions of creativity throughout campus. Some come in the form of sculptures, or in something such as graffiti. And every so often, these art forms collide. The abstract red and black statue outside of Snyder and Phillips halls has been vandalized twice since the start of the semester. The structure, called The Funambulist, was first tagged sometime between Sept.
The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, will give an update on its new parking permit program for graduate students at its meeting Tuesday. The COGS meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m.
Antics about the number of gubernatorial debates to hold continued Monday evening between Democratic candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and Republican candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder after Bernero unexpectedly arrived at one of Snyder’s town hall meetings. As he campaigns across the state, Snyder holds many town hall meetings that are free and open to the public; this, his 59th, was in Westland, Mich., near Detroit.
The sounds of laughter and festive music could be heard down the halls of the Wilson Hall basement as more than 40 students gathered Tuesday for a meeting and in celebration of Semana Latina, or Latino Week.
The East Lansing City Council approved a plan Tuesday to support a new jail booking system, which will help the East Lansing Police Department coordinate moving files between the ELPD, the Lansing Police Department and the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office.
Despite escalating immigration issues in Arizona and across the country, the MSU College of Law has opened its doors and offered help to immigrants or refugees at the Immigration Law Clinic.
In a fresh attempt to generate a televised debate between the gubernatorial candidates, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has created a new offer to television stations across Michigan: If you host a debate, Bernero will come.
A two-year grant by MASA Israel Journey, or MASA, has the potential to bring the university $50,000, many more Spartans will have an opportunity to expand the MSU presence in Israel through travel and study.
ASMSU is considering filing to become a nonprofit organization after the group lost its tax-exempt status through a new university accountability measure last year.
Michigan author Harry Dolan will give a talk and sign his mystery book, “Bad Things Happen,” at 7 p.m.
Text messages might soon make an impact on how classes are taught on a college campus, according to a national survey done at MSU.
Despite protests in cities across the country Saturday evening, the scene at All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road, in East Lansing was calm as more than 350 people sat and listened to a reading of the Quran. Rev.
MSU medical students and local health professionals flocked to the 4-H Children’s Garden on Saturday to man X-ray machines, give eye exams and operate MRI machines.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly will be working to strengthen its relationship with other student government groups under the direction of new chairperson Christopher Schotten. Schotten, a political theory and constitutional democracy senior, was elected as chairperson Thursday night, filling the seat vacated by interim chairperson Kyle Dysarz on Sept.
A few dozen students and volunteers went Saturday to MSU’s Lot 89 to begin building a house for an MSU student through Habitat for Humanity. The event kicked off the beginning of a five-week build that will provide a 1,100-square-foot house for Anna Malavisi, an MSU philosophy graduate student, and her three daughters.