In most places, 40 degree weather, cold rain and 15 mph winds are not synonymous with ideal swimming conditions. The forecast didn’t faze the colorfully dressed pageant queens, Vikings, Care Bears and half-naked college students who dove into the frigid waters of Eagle Eye Golf Club, 15500 Chandler Road, for the sixth annual Law Enforcement Torch Run Polar Plunge.
Political science and pre-law freshman Nikolai Wasielewski faces charges of conspiracy and accomplice after the fact for his involvement in a Nov. 1, 2009, prank.
East Lansing police Officer Jim Phelps knew he wanted to be a police officer since he was 5 years old. And since 1993, Phelps has hit the pavement as an officer in East Lansing, holding jobs as everything from a patrol officer to a crime scene investigator.
Making it in the restaurant business for a year marks a milestone — but it’s a bittersweet one for Brother’s Grill, 403 E. Grand River Ave., which officially closed Thursday after just more than one year of operation.
East Lansing and the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, officials are discussing discounted parking permits for graduate students to use during class hours at city parking garages, citing mutual benefits for both parties.
MSU students looking for a taste of off-campus living without crossing Grand River Avenue will have an opportunity to do so next fall, thanks to a new student retention program that will increase the number of single room dorms on campus.
After removing the end date from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon’s employment contract last month, members of the MSU Board of Trustees said the action does not mean Simon intends to depart her post sooner than anticipated.
Kyle Martin was sitting in class — the same as any other day — when he received the news. He sprinted out of the lecture as soon as he got the text message: “What’s going on in Haiti is horrible.”
Billionaire alumnus Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe, donated another $2 million to help the art museum bearing their name reach its funding goal of $40 million, the university announced Wednesday.
After hearing a tapping noise on her ground floor apartment window about two years ago, Kate found a sticky note with an online screen name secured to the glass. Kate, an MSU graduate student, assumed it was a prank until she found the same note attached to her car a few days later.
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, considered the Democratic front-runner for the Michigan attorney general nomination, exited the race Wednesday.
Changes to several Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus routes scheduled to take effect this month will be postponed until fall 2010.
MSU’s Physical Plant Division and the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. today in the lunch room at the Physical Plant building.
East Lansing’s 54-B District Court and the East Lansing Police Department Record Bureau will be closed Friday for inventory.
With credit lines in knots and entrepreneurs walking a proverbial tight rope, East Lansing officials are discussing an incubator program to provide steady financial footing for restaurateurs.
Communication senior Allen Kuschell is on the lookout for a job or internship. With the economy the way it is, he said he’ll take whichever comes first.
State Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, announced today she is dropping out of the Michigan Attorney General race.
Updates to MSU’s Academic Governance bylaws failed to move past Faculty Council for the second time this academic year after members sent the final substantive piece back to the committee-level Tuesday.
Ideas to reduce the MSU’s faculty health care costs by nearly $11 million were presented at Tuesday’s Faculty Council meeting as part of what could be years of changes to the university’s current system.
A deal completed Tuesday by MSU and Detroit radio station WJR (760-AM) would continue to give the station exclusive radio broadcast rights to MSU athletics until 2020, a university official said.