MSU Trustee Mitch Lyons faced some criticism Friday evening when he turned to his personal Twitter account to express his disgust by recommending punishments for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, which included removing “his limbs without anesthesia so he can rot in prison.”
Brought on by the wettest month in the history of April in the Lansing area, the flooding of the Red Cedar River reached 7.69 feet this weekend, the highest level since February 2001.
Less than a week after the tragic events at the Boston Marathon, Lansing hosted the nation’s first marathon since the incident, but not without mention of the events and an increased security for the event, according to race officials.
Eleven professional drag kings and queens strutted their stuff down Bourbon Street at the Official MSU Drag Show on Friday in the International Center. With a Mardi Gras theme, the Crossroads Food Court was transformed with green, purple and yellow decorations, such as feather boas hanging from the ceiling, spotlights and a stage.
The East Lansing Public Library hosted its second-annual Books, Bites and Bids Library Fundraiser on Friday. About 350 East Lansing community members attended and thousands of dollars were raised.
For Department of Psychiatry professor James Hillard, it was obvious how important events such as Friday night’s Relay For Life of Michigan State University were in his battle against cancer.
Though best known as the reason MSU will be home to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to friends and family, Henry Blosser was a gardener.
?As of 2:45 p.m., the flooding of the Red Cedar River has reached 7.69 feet, the highest since February 2001, said Jim Maczko, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.
The beloved Sparty statue’s cleaning following this weekend’s unwelcome paint job in University of Michigan colors cost nearly $300. The statue itself is valued $10,000.
Nutritional sciences senior Andrew Singler texted a series of profane messages to Okemos resident Connor McCowan the night he reportedly drove to Singler’s apartment and stabbed him until he fell bleeding onto the floor, Feb.
Weed, pot or reefer — whatever you call it, marijuana will be under the spotlight this coming weekend. As the annual and unofficial “marijuana holiday” draws near, some marijuana users could be lighting up as usual, while others could be under tighter regulations. Saturday marks the infamous 4/20, a day many celebrate by smoking marijuana.
Media and information junior Elliot Zirulnik could have let his disorders define him. Instead, he has embraced his autism and essential tremor by making the best of it.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, faces the risk of losing student tax funding after deciding to decline passing a bill to turn the group into an official university department and transfer funds to the university financial system at the general assembly meeting Thursday night.
To the dismay of the nonprofit Anti-Defamation League, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Arab American News, Osama Siblani will be inducted into the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame on Sunday.
The alternative career fair, RECESS, and electronic music show, featuring Kaskade, originally scheduled to take place Friday will be postponed because of inclement weather.
With supporters from the East Lansing community holding signs that read, ‘Reach Higher for Beier,’ and ‘Truth with Ruth,’ Ruth Beier announced her candidacy for the East Lansing City Council on Thursday morning at the East Lansing Public Library.
After Wednesday’s meeting about the Park District Area proposals, three development proposals stand out amongst the rest of the bunch.
Graduates with degrees in agriculture always have been able to find work — people need to eat no matter what. Recently, however, the field has seen an increase in demand for jobs.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, faces the risk of losing student tax funding after deciding to decline passing a bill to turn the group into an official university department and transfer funds to the university financial system at the general assembly meeting Thursday night.
Profane text messages from his sister’s boyfriend antagonized Okemos resident Connor McCowan enough to drive to his apartment and stab former MSU student Andrew Singler until he fell bleeding onto the floor, according to testimony from Meridian Township police on Thursday at the 55th District Court in Mason.