Editor’s note: An inaccurate version of this story was published Monday night. This is a corrected version of the article, which notes the commission’s vote does not reverse a previous decision made by the commission.
A University of Florida student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered on Monday by campus police and arrested after repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
Five $20 bills were taken from a bowl in a North Hubbard Hall dorm room Monday by an acquaintance of the resident, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Since her freshman year, political theory and constitutional democracy junior Raynika Brown has worked in Brody Hall’s cafeterias and never had a problem with her job. Until this year. MSU’s Housing and Food Services has made a few changes to the dining halls across campus. As a result, student cafeteria employees say they are understaffed and are struggling to adjust to the new dining hall schedules.
When Eric Tingwall landed in Germany on Sept. 10, he didn’t realize it would only be a matter of hours before his work was published in an online car magazine. But the mechanical engineering and journalism senior’s 500-word essay won him the opportunity to do so.
Due to a $1.7 billion shortfall, MSU may not receive the $26.6 million funding promised by the state in October.
The arrest of a Lansing man last week doesn’t appear to have stopped the recent flurry of vending machine vandalizations on campus.
They almost didn’t make it, but David Cooper and Peter Berg survived a vehicle malfunction and safely brought Pulitzer Prize award winner Robert Coles’ literary archive to East Lansing.
After months of deliberation and stockpiles of public input, the East Lansing Transportation Commission voted against the proposed conversion of Hagadorn Road from four lanes to a three-lane cross section with designated bike lanes between Grand River Avenue and Haslett Road.
Daniel Ortega-Pacheco was sitting outside a Beaner’s Coffee shop in East Lansing two years ago when voices from a passing car yelled “Beaner! Beaner!”
To Carmen Turner, the sight of hungry children is more expected than surprising.
The Michigan Senate passed two bills Monday evening to implement a continuation budget that would extend current spending plans into the next fiscal year, despite opposition from Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office.
MSU students have the chance to begin a new four-year, intensive Arabic language program that promises fluency in a language highly sought by employers in national security fields.
Four rooms were torched at the Super 8 Motel, 2736 E. Grand River Ave., today, resulting in no injuries and the shutdown of part of Grand River Avenue between about 2:15 and 3:30 p.m.
A group of 18 Nigerian delegates are visiting MSU this week in cooperation with the exchange program Responsible Governance, which offers training to Nigerian government officials, community leaders and university scholars.
Students making trips to Ann Arbor no longer need their own wheels. Michigan Flyer Inc., a shuttle bus company which takes passengers from its East Lansing base to Detroit Metro Airport, announced it will add an Ann Arbor stop to its daily route beginning Oct. 1.
For many in the 1960s, Phil Frank’s cartoons were something to look forward to when students opened The State News. Phil Frank, a political cartoonist and 1965 MSU graduate, died Wednesday from a brain tumor. He was 64.
Organizations like End Violent Encounter Inc., or EVE Inc., will have more help in combating domestic violence thanks to a more than $384,000 grant from the Department of Justice to Ingham County.
Negotiating the responsibilities of home is something Jennifer Sowa has been working on with her husband lately. With one child, Sowa said the division of housework and child care is constantly being discussed. That’s why the lecture “How do professional couples in corporate America negotiate household and child care duties” caught her eye.
With pounding tribal rhythms blasting, Bryant Rogers and Mercio Goenha stepped to the center of the crowd. As the intensity of the music rose, Goenha and Rogers came alive, engaging each other with flying cartwheel kicks and soaring punches. They moved with such fluidity the match came to resemble a rhythmic dance.