MSU police recommend international students review US laws

With each new year comes a new class of international students who might be unfamiliar with American laws, and it’s a joint effort between MSU police and the Office for International Students and Scholars to educate them on laws, specifically those involving traffic and alcohol. OISS Director Peter Briggs said students are required to attend orientation at the beginning of the year, but his office also facilitates weekly sessions that discuss different topics about life in the U.S.

Students, faculty hosted reading to recognize Banned Books Week

It is a beautiful day to read out loud, even if it is a banned book. As part of the Banned Books Week, students and faculty gathered in front of the patio of the MSU Library to read out loud passages of their favorite banned books on Tuesday.

MSU joins alliance to make minority graduation rates a priority

Sparty competing in Capital One Mascot Challenge

Sparty will be competing in the Capital One Mascot Challenge again this year.The Capital One Mascot challenge is a contest where fans vote for their favorite mascot. The winning school will get a $20,000 scholarship toward its mascot program.

MSU pushes vaccines in competition against other universities

MSU has joined the ranks of 13 Michigan colleges competing in the “Flu Battle.”

Wharton Center program connects area kids to performing arts

The program is a scholarship fund established by Wharton Center to provide free tickets to local youth.

MSU Debate team starts season strong by qualifying for quarterfinals in Georgia State tournament

The MSU Debate team

MSU domestic violence expert calls issue a 'pandemic' in society

Planetarium begins fall semester shows with new projectors

The audience was able to virtually visit each of the planets and learn a little bit about all of them.

Professionals celebrate American Business Women's Day

Today marks the 31st American Business Women’s Day, and MSU’s Eli Broad College of Business continues to play its part in supporting women in business. “Talent, energy, new ideas, (and) innovation,” are what American Business Women’s Association Executive Director Rene Street said women bring to the business workforce and why they deserve to be recognized. American Business Women’s Day was created when President Ronald Reagan signed a joint Congressional resolution in 1983, Street said.

COGS struggles to make progress on health care issue

The group of concerned students went back and forth for almost half an hour to call the meeting to order and approve the day’s agenda.

Homecoming week events

The University Activities Board has a plethora of activities planned for this week leading up to homecoming.Tonight, from 6-8 p.m., 'Hayrides & History' will begin in the International Center parking lot.

MSU joins "It's On Us" campaign against sexual assault

MSU is joining a new White House campaign in the hopes of educating students about sexual assault, this time specifically focusing on what bystanders can do to intervene if they see an act of sexual violence in progress.

Gamers convene for competition at the Union

The event brought together a community of similar interests that doesn’t often have opportunities to congregate.

MSU senior juggles school with his own marketing company

Business marketing and media and information senior Nicholas Stachurski is just like a lot of MSU students. He hangs out with friends, goes to class and bleeds green and white. But there’s one thing that sets him apart from most — he is a student entrepreneur in charge of his own company.

Peace corps recruitment efforts remain strong at MSU

Currently ranked 14th out of universities with the most current volunteers with 47 graduates in the corps, MSU has also had more than 2,000 alumni join the program in the past.

ASMSU awaiting results of health survey

ASMSU expects results Friday from the National Collegiate Health Assessment, a representative survey of student health on campus.

Diving for the puck

Painting the rock on Farm Lane for the first time was how marketing senior Colleen Anthony and her teammates wanted to recruit for their Intramural Sports team.

Filmmakers Club aims to film three to four short films this semester

Casual, creative and comical are three words that can be used describe sitting in on an MSU Filmmakers Club meeting.

Student cyclist reflects on experiences biking through China

It seems that for thousands of years Spartans have not changed their warrior culture. Braving through 2,000 kilometers and eight mountains, supply chain management junior Jacky Yang along with his friends, accounting junior Can Wang and geography junior Haochen Han, cycled from the Chinese Province of Yunnan to Tibet in 29 days during summer 2013.