In light of the recent atrocities in Paris, Beirut, and Baghdad, many individuals of the Islamic community explore an interesting duality between feeling total remorse for the victims of these tragedies along with fearing how their fellow Americans will now perceive them.
The State News has compiled a list of just a few of the many activist groups that students looking to make a difference in the community can join.
When Brittany Galliers was a kid, she wanted to be chef. After several attempts at making meals and burning them, she realized culinary arts were not her calling.
MSU students for choice held a candlelight vigil at the rock monday night in the wake of the recent attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. “Because we are a pro-choice organization working closely with planned parenthood, the vigil is something we feel really passionately about.
At two football games this year, monetary prizes in the MSU Athletics Department/MSUFCU 50/50 raffle went unclaimed.
From the banks of the Red Cedar to holding a passport getting ready to travel across the world, MSU’s commitment to international education is evident through its’ study abroad program, a program that is consistently ranked as one of the three largest study abroad programs in the country. MSU currently offers over 385 study abroad programs in more than 65 different countries on all seven continents of the world.
Twenty-eight percent of the Chinese international students living in MSU’s 24 residence halls live in either Akers Hall or Hubbard Hall.
While the closing month of semester ushers in the holiday season and the scramble of many students across campus to trek home, many international students are not afforded that luxury.
The Hosei University sophomores studying English at MSU this fall are a long way from home, 6,000 miles and the entire pacific ocean stand between them and their homes in Tokyo.
East Lansing Police reported an individual with a gun at Grand River Avenue and Collingwood Drive, according to an alert sent out Sunday at 3:32 a.m.
Packaging junior Sydney Gort was arraigned on two counts of making a terrorist threat on Thursday, MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said. The first count the 23-year-old was charged with stems from a threat made in the MSU School of Packaging on Nov.
On Tuesday evening, MSU Police were alerted to an anonymous threat written on a wall in the School of Packaging, according to a statement by MSU Spokesman Jason Cody.
This Wednesday, thousands of MSU students will be faced with the choice of either attending classes or being home with their families on Thanksgiving.
MSU police have unveiled a new parking app, allowing users in a limited number of ramps to pay for parking online, according to an MSU police statement.
With Thanksgiving days away students look forward to eating with their families, and resting up in preparation for final exams.
Student cultural clubs from all over campus and the Lansing community gathered at the MSU Union for MSU's 2015 Community Volunteers for International Programs’ Global Festival. The festival featured live performances and demonstrations by over twenty different groups with members from Thailand, Africa, Iran and many more. The event also featured street food, a gift shop selling cultural goods and booths where MSU clubs shared their culture with students and the community. “It’s really imperative that we have things like this because it’s a great place for domestic students to learn about all the different cultures on campus” comparative cultures & politics junior and community outreach and programming intern for MSU’s Office for International Students and Scholars Sohela Suri said.
With a distinctly visible moon casting a pale glow over campus, several dozen students and a few faculty members gathered at The Rock on Farm Lane for a candle light vigil to honor the dearly departed in the wake of recent terrorist attacks around the world.
Penny Gardner, MSU writing, rhetoric, and American studies professor, former Playboy Bunny, now lesbian feminist and activist says she is flying to the finish line instead of walking.
Students expecting to be met by President Lou Anna K. Simon at an open forum to discuss campus racism Friday were disappointed when she failed to make an appearance.
MSU’s annual Global Festival will take place this Sunday, drawing visitors from all around the area to MSU to enjoy the diverse range of cultural backgrounds that make up MSU.