The Graduate Employees Union took one step closer to their proposed one-day walkout Sunday by approving a ballot sent to all members that could authorize the job action. If approved – and if a contract has not been reached before then – the walkout would take place at 6 a.m. Tuesday, with members present at nine picket lines placed strategically around campus.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly was unable to approve its 2008-2009 budget despite spending more than seven hours meeting Thursday. Although the assembly named its Student Assembly chairperson, vice chairperson for external affairs and vice chairperson for internal affairs, members tabled the budget until its meeting Thursday.
The MSU Board of Trustees has voted to raise room and board rates for all students a rate of 5.25 percent. It will now cost $7,026 annually for a double room and unlimited meal plan in on-campus residence halls – $350 more than last year.
The MSU Board of Trustees will conclude the spring semester with a meeting today that’s more about celebration than hard decision-making, board members said.
Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous. She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
Housing and Food Services has begun a training program to educate employees on how to respond if there is an active shooter in their work place, one that could soon spread to the rest of campus.
Members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community wouldn’t let the anti-gay slurs marked on 10 buildings last week in Lansing’s Old Town affect the 36th annual Pride Week festivities.
While ASMSU members want university officials to differentiate tassel colors shared by two colleges, it’s too late to change what color will hang from graduation caps this year.
Members of ASMSU Student Assembly’s 45th session will elect the group’s officers during its meeting at 6:30 p.m. today.
MSU named Carole Bolin director of MSU’s Diagnostic Center for Population and Animal Health, or DCPAH, effective Tuesday.
About two minutes before giving birth, things got complicated for the “woman” lying on a table in the LaSalle Bank Club Room at Spartan Stadium.
MSU will host a conference Friday for educators and students to address incorporating international learning at all levels of education.
For their final home game, seniors on the MSU club lacrosse team have more decisions to make than which plays to run.
Today is the last day to register for MSU’s Take Your Child to Work Day, set for April 24.
Col. Roy Bierwirth has made a life out of being a hero, from his days as Sparty through his career in the U.S. Army.
After dissecting cow eyes, two fetal pigs, a shark and a sheep heart, cutting and stitching a pig’s foot didn’t phase human biology junior Kirsten LaFrance.
A picket line along Grand River Avenue. Empty classrooms across campus. Exams going unproctored, homework ungraded and recitations abandoned. That will be the scene on campus for students should the Graduate Employees Union vote to stage a one-day walkout.
Chicago native Lin Bergeron walked through the entrance of the Union on Monday with a group of other potential students and their parents to tour the university, and was confronted by a group of graduate students holding fliers.
General management sophomore Michael Ueberroth said it was a “drunk dial” that changed his perspective on the world, in particular, Africa. “A friend called me up, drunk, at 3 a.m. and told me he wanted to do something that made a difference,” he said. “And something about the crisis in Darfur was on the television at the time.”
The MSU lacrosse team’s final home game of the season will serve as a fundraiser for MSU Stars, a student organization that raises money for Make-A-Wish Foundation.