A major development project in the city is at a crossroads. After years of varying levels of activity, the East Lansing City Council is scheduled to discuss and vote on a predevelopment agreement for the controversial City Center II project.
Religious studies senior Sara Lone believes religious literacy is important for every person. “Religion is a part of everything (and) every field,” she said. “If you’re in marketing and you go to Saudi Arabia, you need to know you can’t put half-naked women on a billboard.”
Accounting senior Matthew Kravutske took his potential employability into consideration when picking a school, and like many students at MSU, employability still is one of his concerns. But a new study from the Lumina Foundation shows the demand for degreeholders might be higher than the number colleges are actually producing.
MSU students, faculty and community members of all ages gathered Tuesday in Snyder and Phillips halls to digest some of their favorite stories during the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities, or RCAH, fifth annual edible book contest.
A 21-year-old female student reported some contents of her backpack were stolen March 27 between 1 and 1:30 p.m. from Anthony Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Talyor said.
Big dogs, small dogs, fluffy dogs and scrappy dogs joined to help fellow canines get medical treatment Saturday morning in the second annual IRONDOG 5K Run/Walk. More than 500 participants, some of which ran alongside their furry friends, accompanied hundreds of dogs to help raise money for the IRONDOG fund.
A few years ago, when Constantinos Coursaris visited Japan with a group of study abroad students, they got lost in a subway station looking for a train. Insisting on helping out, a local man showed them in the right direction, missing his own train in the process, said Coursaris, an assistant professor with the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media.
MSU’s undergraduate student governments, ASMSU and the Residence Halls Association, are holding elections this week for initiatives during the 2012-13 academic year. ASMSU’s elections take place from 8 a.m. today until 8 a.m. April 9 and serve to elect each college’s representatives to the group’s General Assembly for the next academic year.
With models in cages and money raining on the audience, the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. 10th annual Hair and Fashion Show on Saturday was nothing short of wild.
For the fifth-consecutive year, MSU has received a record number of freshman applications — topping the 30,000 mark for the first time in school history.
Saturday night fever came a day early last weekend. Students took to the roller skating rink in Demonstration Hall on Friday evening, all infected with the same peculiar disease: funkadellic fever.
Longtime East Lansing City Attorney Dennis McGinty has stepped down from the post to take a different position with the city.
With the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination currently in full swing, the city of East Lansing is making its own preparations for election season.
Adreanna Scribner, an out-of-state international relations sophomore, traveled about 800 miles from home to come to MSU. Being that far away from home was a challenge for Scribner, which got her thinking about how some troops overseas must feel being more than 5,000 miles away from their homes in the U.S.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., celebrated its 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show on Satruday evening at Wharton Center. With 42 female models, nine different scenes and one musical performance, the show attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. The models showcased clothing from a variety of stores ranging from swimwear to formal wear.
Helping keep high school music departments running is why Samantha Brooks decided to host MSU’s first ever VH1 Save the Music Foundation Benefit Concert on Thursday at the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre. The recent graduate and Tau Beta Sigma’s event co-chair decided holding the concert would be the perfect way to raise money for a cause and bring the MSU and East Lansing communities together.
David Closs, chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management at MSU, is one of 50 experts invited by the U.S. General Services Administration to contribute to a discussion Friday at the White House. Participants in the dialogue will explore ways to help the federal government create sustainable supply chains. The business, academic, nonprofit and government specialists will be presented with problems, and they will take their experience in supply chain management to try and find solutions, Closs said.
This summer, the bustling activity of students and visitors frequenting the Union will come to a brief stop. From early May through mid-August, the first floor of MSU’s traditional gathering space will be renovated as part of a $2.4 million project approved by the Board of Trustees in January. Guests already are seeing evidence of changes now as some of the Union Central Store shelves aren’t being restocked.
East Lansing’s dining scene could get a mobile upgrade later this year if the city council approves a policy next week allowing food trucks to operate downtown. The policy revision builds on guidelines approved last year allowing food cart vendors to operate at three different locations in the city.
Although lawmakers still have not come to an agreement on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, some grassroots groups such as the OneVoice movement still believe a solution is possible through youth leadership and cooperation. Members of OneVoice, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to making a two-state solution come to fruition for Israel and Palestine, came to MSU on Thursday evening to share their message and discuss ideas for change with student attendees.