Since her freshman year, political theory and constitutional democracy junior Raynika Brown has worked in Brody Hall’s cafeterias and never had a problem with her job. Until this year. MSU’s Housing and Food Services has made a few changes to the dining halls across campus. As a result, student cafeteria employees say they are understaffed and are struggling to adjust to the new dining hall schedules.
When Eric Tingwall landed in Germany on Sept. 10, he didn’t realize it would only be a matter of hours before his work was published in an online car magazine. But the mechanical engineering and journalism senior’s 500-word essay won him the opportunity to do so.
They almost didn’t make it, but David Cooper and Peter Berg survived a vehicle malfunction and safely brought Pulitzer Prize award winner Robert Coles’ literary archive to East Lansing.
A group of 18 Nigerian delegates are visiting MSU this week in cooperation with the exchange program Responsible Governance, which offers training to Nigerian government officials, community leaders and university scholars.
MSU is taking its nationally recognized workers’ compensation program east, hoping to aid Rutgers University in providing the same services for New Jersey residents.
For many in the 1960s, Phil Frank’s cartoons were something to look forward to when students opened The State News. Phil Frank, a political cartoonist and 1965 MSU graduate, died Wednesday from a brain tumor. He was 64.
Negotiating the responsibilities of home is something Jennifer Sowa has been working on with her husband lately. With one child, Sowa said the division of housework and child care is constantly being discussed. That’s why the lecture “How do professional couples in corporate America negotiate household and child care duties” caught her eye.
With pounding tribal rhythms blasting, Bryant Rogers and Mercio Goenha stepped to the center of the crowd. As the intensity of the music rose, Goenha and Rogers came alive, engaging each other with flying cartwheel kicks and soaring punches. They moved with such fluidity the match came to resemble a rhythmic dance.
Bailey Park usually is used for soccer practices or baseball training, but once a year, it becomes the place for bocce ball.
A bell-ringing ceremony will take place at 4 p.m. Monday at Beaumont Tower to commemorate the 220th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution.
Forty MSU freshmen raced pop cans down a track Thursday for MSU’s new engineering course geared toward hands-on learning.
MSU just can’t keep those pesky Truman Scholarship Foundation trustees away. With 15 students accepted in the 30-year history of the prestigious award, the university has finally received its due.
MSU’s College of Business is requesting the university’s Academic Governance to approve a split within the Marketing and Supply Chain Management Department. If approved, the department would become two separate entities.
Premedical junior Wazeur Rahman woke up at 5 a.m. Thursday before his biology exam to cram – not full of facts – but with the breakfast he had cooked himself before the sun rose. He had to begin fasting for Ramadan.
Administrators are responding to issues at MSU football games this year with stricter ticket distribution, excess seating and the use of color-coded wristbands.
Biology professor Jonathan Walton began teaching at MSU 20 years ago, but his fascination with science didn’t start there.
Since the start of the year, sweat pants and T-shirts no longer fly at Illinois State University’s College of Business. Students have to show up to class in pressed polo shirts and khakis.
If Abbey Askotzky was at home during Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, she’d be taking the day off school and going to temple with her family. Her mom would have been in the kitchen the day before, preparing food and shaping braided challah bread with raisins into a circle, to symbolize the sweet new year.
Mark Hollis, MSU associate athletics director for external relations, is expected to be named the new Athletics Director at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting today.
Although the presidential election is more than a year away, some MSU students are already working to campaign for various presidential candidates.