In the fall of 2006, when Sarah Crespi and other MSU students were talking about using the power of a Wiki Web site to help protect the Great Lakes, she knew they were on to something.
After 25 years, MSU is asking faculty and students to help write a new mission statement for the university.
As the ink dries on the new four-year contract General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers tentatively agreed to Wednesday, there are many mysteries on its historic pages.
A railing was bent and detached from a West Holden Hall stairwell sometime between 10 a.m. Friday and 8 a.m. Monday, causing $800 worth of damage, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. A 46-year-old male employee reported the railing was detached and part of the stairs crumbled at the site as a result, McGlothian-Taylor said. There are no suspects in the incident, she said.
In an area of the world marred by conflict, Dubai is attempting to establish itself in the United Arab Emirates as the “stabilized factor.” MSU will be the first and only American university to have a presence in the city, after finalizing a partnership with TECOM Investments and the Dubai International Academic City on Tuesday morning.
The state’s legislators have until Thursday night to finalize a budget that would go into effect Oct. 1 — the start of the new fiscal year.
Three weeks before her 21st birthday, Lauren Ramsey found out she was pregnant — and she said she almost ran screaming from Olin Health Center. Ramsey said she thought her life was over, and she could never raise a child alone, but two years changed that outlook.
For Keali Chambers, learning how to control and manage certain invasive species drew her to a job in entomology. The fisheries and wildlife junior has been working with emerald ash borer beetles that kill millions of ash trees in Michigan alone.
Local investigators have reopened the 1970 murder case of a 19-year-old Lansing woman found dead on the outskirts of campus. Marie Ann Jackson disappeared from the Lansing area on November 13, 1970. Her body was discovered in a pine grove eight days later by a man looking for a hunting site.
A continuous battle cry from students for a quieter library persuaded MSU Main Library officials to reserve the entire east wing for quiet study only. The change in policy — effective at the beginning of this semester — asked cell phone users to take their calls to the stairwells and for study groups to use the west wing for their projects and discussions.
Because the state Legislature has struggled to reach a budget agreement, an issue important to many MSU students is falling through the cracks — health insurance. Proposals that would allow students and others to remain covered under their parents’ health insurance plan until the age of 26 have sat idle since May.
While the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corp. continue to search for an agreement to end the strike, Jelissa Hardy will be staying within the safe confines of her East Shaw Hall dorm room.
Papa John’s Pizza is leaving its slice of East Lansing at 1105 E. Grand River Ave. With the closing, the chain store’s Lansing location at 1522 E. Michigan Ave. will deliver pizzas to East Lansing and campus residents beginning Oct. 1.
ASMSU will vote on a bill Thursday to decide whether the undergraduate student government should try to get candidates to Lansing before the presidential primary elections.
Students and staff said they are reacting positively to a policy change which designated the Main Library east wing for quiet study only.
A couple getting married at the Kellogg Center had a hitch in their plans to tie the knot Friday when the bride’s mom hung her daughter’s wedding dress on a ceiling sprinkler head, setting off the sprinkler system and filling a hotel room with six to eight inches of water, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Four years ago, a group of programs at MSU and the surrounding community gathered to share ideas and resources in assisting students who have been victims of sexual assault and to warn others.
Ramadan is an Islamic 30-day fasting period that some MSU Muslims describe as an important yet stressful religious holiday.
Many East Lansing-area residents opened their doors to live music Sunday evening when members of the East Lansing High School marching band performed on front porches and accepted donations.
The potential conversion of Hagadorn Road and the proposed construction of a sound wall near a local neighborhood will be among the topics discussed at Tuesday’s City Council work session.