City officials will present the first of several parts of East Lansing’s 2009-10 fiscal year budget to East Lansing City Council tonight, including a proposed total budget increase of about 40 percent from this past fiscal year.
Despite the feeling of change fueled by President Barack Obama’s election as the country’s first black president, racial inequality generally remains static in the U.S., a report compiled by the National Urban League said.
Checking the status of East Lansing can now be done via Facebook and Twitter. This puts the city on the leading edge of social networking and the spread of information.
MSU’s Residence Halls Association and Impact (89-FM) will continue to operate after students voted to pass tax referendums for both organizations. Both taxes must be approved by students every three years.
Students who planned on living in Owen Graduate Hall during the summer will have to pack their bags and move out as the residence hall undergoes a $10 million face-lift, expected to be completed by Aug. 1.
Graduating seniors might be heading into the “perfect storm” this May as they enter the job market. That’s what Philip Gardner, director of the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at MSU, said he fears for the spring 2009 graduating class.
Members of the MSU basketball teams weren’t the only Spartans who attained the Sweet Sixteen this year. International relations junior Nada Zohdy is the sixteenth student from MSU to receive the Truman Scholarship, which provides money for graduate school to students who demonstrate leadership, said Tara Yglesias, deputy executive secretary for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.
As MSU’s transgender housing policy rounds off its first year of operation, a student is taking the first steps toward a policy that would expand gender-neutral housing to a campus-wide scale, allowing any two students of the opposite sex the option to room together.
The East Lansing SmartZone already was an incubator for multiple small technological business start-ups, but officials said it will receive a welcome boost when MSU Technologies moves in adjacent to the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center.
For members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender — or LBGT — community, this week is all about pride. Pride Week, which kicked off Friday, gives the LBGT community the chance to celebrate themselves in a more open way.
Halfway around the world in a country roughly the size of Michigan, the school year is wrapping up for about 50 MSU students. They are the inaugural class at MSU Dubai, the university’s newest campus, located in the Middle East. MSU has joined several leading American universities in moving to the Middle East, a migration that some have called an “educational gold rush” to one of the world’s largest emerging markets.
A 22-year-old male student reported his wallet stolen after he left it on a bench while playing basketball the evening of April 2 in IM Sports-Circle, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, is calling for MSU to reconsider Archbishop Desmond Tutu as its commencement speaker, citing his criticisms of Israel. They also have called for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reconsider him as a speaker.
Voter turnout for student elections last week was lower than previous years, but two tax referenda for student organizations passed. The taxes almost completely fund the organizations.
MSU Resident Halls Association’s hiring practices were brought into question Wednesday after the General Assembly determined it was unclear whether or not recent hiring practices followed RHA’s bylaws.
It’s a story that led Maj. David Howell, a Michigan National Guard physician’s assistant, back to Iraq. Instead of returning to the region for combat, he went to bring a child to America for a life-changing surgery, resulting in a union among MSU, the Michigan National Guard, Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital and many others.
MSU students celebrated the university’s first Peace Week this week as groups organized several events to promote peace on campus. Documentaries, as well as an event called the Tunnel of Oppression, highlighted the first part of the two-week event, which was organized by the Peace over Prejudice Campaign.
The former president of the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, called for a reelection during a special meeting Wednesday night to discuss the charges leveled against him.
In less than two decades, a former MSU economics assistant professor has gone from lecturing classrooms of students to briefing the president. Ed Montgomery, an MSU economics professor from 1986-90, was named director of recovery for auto communities and workers last week by the Obama administration.
The MSU Office for International Students and Scholars will honor deceased MSU student Don Ausman at its third annual Globie Awards today. The ceremony is scheduled for noon in The Spartan Club, located on the fourth floor of Spartan Stadium.