While some MSU students will go on a tropical vacation during spring break, more than 200 students will spend the week volunteering in communities across the country as part of Alternative Spartan Break, or ASB.
When Evan Williams first began his journey as a vegetarian five years ago, he had dreams of McDonald’s Big Macs.
In lieu of last night’s snow storm, Leah Mohnke thought it might be smart to check local school closings to determine if she would need to wake up at 6 a.m.
The cost for Yue Yuan to come to college in the U.S. has increased ever since her sister and cousin came to the U.S. for college, but her parents knew the value of an education at MSU could result in a better life.
Vice president nominations and an advance screening were the topics covered at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, general assembly meeting Wednesday night.
As of about 5 a.m. this morning, Internet is back on with no interruptions across the state after last night’s difficulties. Just before midnight Tuesday evening, all of Merit Network’s Internet users had difficulty connecting to the Internet as a result of an issue with a router at a Merit facility in Chicago.
After absentmindedly missing an exam in his online TC 201 class, Jacob Shutty is re-evaluating his summer academic plans. The media and information freshman is one of many students who are considering taking a summer class — a move becoming more common among MSU students, according to the Office of the Registrar. According to the office, throughout the past 10 years, total summer class enrollments have increased steadily, reaching 48,695 total enrollments in summer 2012 — an increase of 2.5 percent from summer 2011.
The cost of MSU’s health care plan will continuously increase throughout the next six years to meet the new requirements of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA. At Tuesday afternoon’s University Council meeting, Renee Rivard, the director of benefits with MSU Human Resources, or HR, presented the impacts the ACA will have on MSU from 2012 through 2018.
A week ago, current Residence Halls Association, or RHA, Communications Coordinator Zachary DeRade was nothing but smiles as he fought off many peers’ congratulations to conduct his first interview after being elected as the RHA 44th session president.
The fundraising is heating up on campus in advance of the MSU men’s basketball team’s game against Michigan this weekend.
When political science and pre-law junior Zade Alsawah applied to intern at the White House last summer, he did so hoping for the best but expecting the worst.
Picture the typical MSU party environment: a combination of young men and women, loud music, binge drinking and some sexual interactions behind closed doors. But many of these sexual encounters on colleges, such as MSU, aren’t always consensual.
Running almost naked in more than a foot of snow sounds crazy to some, but a group of 17 students braved the cold Friday afternoon, showing off their bodies to hopefully inspire others to love their figures as well.
A 19-year-old female MSU student has been found dead at her Bailey Street home, according to East Lansing police.
MSU Provost Kim Wilcox was named one of four finalists for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor position, according to a report from the Lansing State Journal.
Upwards of 100 MSU students gathered inside the Breslin Center ticket office this morning, with high anticipation to get the first crack at tickets for the March 19 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis concert.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, officials passed a bill at Thursday night’s general assembly meeting to provide up to $250,000 for a second spring concert.
“I want peace more than anything in the world,” said Lital Shemesh, former Israeli combat soldier in the border police unit of Israel Defense Forces, or IDF. “But I will not apologize for defending my country or my right to live.”