Namesake of Ferency Co-op a political activist, lost against Romney in 1966
Even after a thrashing from Mitt Romney’s father in the 1966 race for Michigan governor, Zolton Ferency kept his forward charge.
Even after a thrashing from Mitt Romney’s father in the 1966 race for Michigan governor, Zolton Ferency kept his forward charge.
When MSU alternative band Audio Monarch hit the stage at the International Center Friday night, it was clear the group came out to have a good time.
Several years ago, West Circle Complex Director Kate Burdick said she had a Mexican resident who was a star student and one of the most popular people on his floor.
The phrase, “You play like a girl,” has been thrown around in gymnasiums and playgrounds for decades — typically as an insult from one male to another.
Lansing resident Dave Cripe and his father, Al, began making buttons for car shows as a hobby. Little did they know a business would develop into what is now known as Betty’s Buttons & T-Shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing, named after Cripe’s mother, Betty.
MSU students and officials are working to help an MSU student from Korea who has been diagnosed with a severe form of cancer.
With the student election season fast approaching this spring, ASMSU officials are preparing to raise visibility and voter turnout with a new level of student engagement.
When the Internet was invented, it opened up a gateway for students of all ages and education levels to cheat, share information and plagiarize — leaving instructors to develop countermeasures.
Racism could be the source of premature births in black women, according to a documentary shown in Brody Auditorium on Thursday.
ASMSU’s committees discussed several controversial bills concerning student safety and security at their Thursday night meeting in Student Services.
In an attempt to increase the school’s national academic ranking, an admissions official at Claremont McKenna College in California exaggerated students SAT scores, an issue which has raised concerns from MSU students and administrators. “The problem with rankings is that they can have a negative effect on many colleges’ perceived status,” said Jeff Olson, Kaplan Test Prep vice president of data science.
MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business ranked No. 1 nationally and No. 2 worldwide in placement success for graduates, according to a Financial Times MBA ranking released Monday.
On Sunday, MSU will participate for the second year in the RecycleMania Tournament — a competition that runs from Feb. 5 to March 31. More than 600 colleges from across the country compete to collect the largest amount of recyclable products, and MSU officials aim to collect more than 1 million pounds of recyclables during the competition.
MSU’s 2011 endowment funds rank No. 5 of the 12 institutions in the Big Ten in terms of percentage increase, according to the initial results of a national survey. The survey, released Tuesday by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, or NACUBO, shows the percentage change in the market value of an endowment from fiscal year 2010 to fiscal year 2011, MSU chief financial officer Mark Haas said in an email.
A 20-year-old male resident mentor in Armstrong Hall reported an assault on an 18-year-old male student between 2:45-3:30 a.m. Jan. 29, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Long before Richard Cordray began working with President Barack Obama, he escaped from everything deep in the bowels of South Neighborhood dorms.
Valentines cards and decorations won’t be the only places to find hearts this February. Throughout the month, MSU Bakers is making more than 300 dozen heart-shaped cookies not only for residence halls, but also as part of a fundraiser for the American Heart Association, or AHA.
Before supply chain management junior Hashim Alsadah arrived in East Lansing from Saudi Arabia, he signed a contract with oil company Saudi Aramco guaranteeing him a job after graduation. In exchange, the company is paying for his tuition and fees at MSU.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, continues to work toward fixing the campus movie offices, and new computers will be available next week to aid the group with movie rentals.
When biosystems and agricultural engineering professor Evangelyn Alocilja began research in 2000 to create nanoparticle-based biosensors that could detect diseases, she never imagined she would one day become the founder of a company.