Labor Day weekend has always been popular for students to head home and for families to go on vacation, but high gas prices may keep some students in East Lansing.
Students and permanent residents of East Lansing’s Bailey neighborhood were introduced to each other at a block party Wednesday evening.
From now on, a clearer picture will greet students on campus when they turn on their TVs. MSU began implementing a new cable system Wednesday, and students on campus or in university apartments should already start to see its effects.
Increased police patrols will scatter Michigan’s roads this weekend as part of a statewide initiative to crack down on drunken driving.
The city of East Lansing, along with other partners, in October, will open the Technology Innovation Center above Barnes & Noble Booksellers on Grand River Avenue, according to a press release.
MSU and The State News met in their latest contest at the Ingham County Circuit Court on Wednesday, when an effort to disqualify its two-and-a-half-year-old case was denied.
When Lorenzo Castillo completed his first online course at MSU last fall, he said he was met with a less time-consuming alternative to the traditional class setting.
Access to course materials and checking his e-mail are just two of the benefits wireless Internet access provides Daniel Raba during class.
A 19-year-old Grand Rapids man was sentenced to 20 days in the Ingham County Jail for his participation in April’s Cedar Fest riot.
East Lansing’s streets might be green and white on football weekends, but navy blue has been the precedent for East Lansing’s patrol vehicles for more than 25 years — until now.
The East Lansing City Council will revisit a zoning issue it originally denied regarding part of the West Village development at its work session tonight.
If there is something clogging the airwaves this fall, it could be the thick signal of negativity. MSU professors and students said they noticed a disproportionate amount of negative presidential TV advertisements during this election season.
The kegs are empty, the bottles are smashed and red cups are strewn about in yards. Typically, the messy remnants of a Welcome Week party would signal a successful endeavor. But couches in trees and kitchen furniture tossed in yards alludes to something bigger: Hundreds of dollars in violations and a bad image for East Lansing.
Golf, tennis and swimming are activities you might not find many people doing during Welcome Week, but that’s how the Japan Center for Michigan Universities celebrated its 20th anniversary Sunday.
Members of Alpha Epsilon Pi still do not have a permanent place to live as the house they were hoping to inhabit, 1148 E. Grand River Ave., remains without a rental license.
In the midst of a struggling economy, Welcome Week provided a welcome boost in sales for several new businesses along East Grand River Avenue. Four businesses that opened since the close of spring classes saw a surge in clientele as MSU students settled in before the first week of classes, business owners said.
National church shootings are creating controversy locally concerning guns and religion.
Many of Michigan’s single parents will have one more financial concern beginning in September, when the state will start deducting a $25 annual fee from most child support payments.
The East Lansing Amtrak station has seen more than a 15 percent increase in riders this summer, according to the station’s lead ticket clerk.
Natalie McIntyre, blood services coordinator for the Mid-Michigan chapter of the Red Cross’s Great Lakes Region, said that the chapter has been experiencing a decline in donations this summer.