Some students are playing dirty and paying the price. Despite Ingham County’s low teen pregnancy rate, sexually transmitted disease numbers constitute a “mini-epidemic,” said Marcus Cheatham, assistant deputy health officer for the Ingham County Health Department.
Farm Lane will close Wednesday from Mount Hope to Trowbridge roads for construction as an estimated $35 million project gets underway.
The Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice will hold a vigil Tuesday afternoon in memory of the 4,000 U.S. military members killed in the war in Iraq.
Intermittent lane closures on Grand River Avenue will begin today and last through Friday as ash trees are removed along the road.
Following a tense, five-month-long contract negotiation, the clock is ticking toward a walkout for graduate employees — but not at MSU. The University of Michigan’s union for graduate student employees, the Graduate Employees’ Organization, approved a plan to stage a two-day walkout today and Wednesday for all graduate student instructors and workers after the union and university were unable to agree to a contract.
The suspect in a reported child rape case in East Lansing 25 years ago has been arrested and charged with four counts of criminal sexual conduct.
Sheila Teahan is hoping the proposed changes to the university’s large governance bodies will alleviate some dysfunction and make them more effective.
One of the four people indicted earlier this month in connection with the 1999 arson of Agriculture Hall has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson.
The East Lansing City Council will receive and discuss an annual report from city police detailing liquor and restaurant license renewals at its work session tonight.
Neither the MSU College Republicans nor the MSU Young Americans for Freedom violated the university’s anti-discrimination policy, according to a 126-page report released in the past week by MSU’s Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives.
ASMSU likely will leave one of its top positions open for the remainder of Student Assembly’s 44th session after the departure of an official last week who faces a third-degree criminal sexual assault charge.
About $1,720 of electronics and cash were stolen from an East Holden Hall dorm room sometime between midnight and 2 a.m. March 16, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
April showers could bring more than May flowers this year. After two tornadoes struck Ingham County this past fall, meteorologists said abnormal storm tracks could create more of the same this spring, although storm forecasts are difficult to make.
The MSU logos that emblazon track jackets, T-shirts and other clothing around East Lansing might come at a cost greater than the $20 or $30 charged in stores.
Departments across campus soon might have a reference point for the training and duties required of undergraduate learning assistants as a drafted policy winds its way through MSU’s Academic Governance system.
Lack of storage, basic text features and a clunky interface — these are some of the complaints leveled against MSU’s e-mail system. But all of those issues could disappear if plans being explored by university officials to overhaul or eliminate the system come to fruition.
MSU will be allotted 1,250 tickets for Houston’s NCAA Tournament regional games, said John Lewandowski, associate athletics director for media relations.
The aroma of pad Thai, spring rolls and fried rice filled East Lansing High School on Saturday during the third annual Thai Food and Culture Night.
Nigel Scarlett, ASMSU Student Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs, announced his resignation Thursday during the Student Assembly meeting.
Clear, crisp high-definition television could be coming to campus next year. The MSU Telecommunication Systems Department is conducting a campuswide test until the end of the month that provides high-definition channels to students on campus.