An ordinance approved at Tuesday night's city council meeting repealed a portion of the city code dealing with handbills and bill posting that had been the subject of controversy at the Great Lakes Folk Fest in early August. Councilmember Ruth Beier, Triplett and Yeadon all agreed that the repealed portion of the code was subject to misinterpretation and miscommunication.
Craving pizza? How about free pizza? This Thursday Goombas is hosting its 3rd annual Free Pizza Day from 5 to 6 PM. The first 100 people in line by 6 PM will receive a hot, fresh pizza for free!
When one hears the word “meditation” it’s easy to picture a group of Buddhist monks silently sitting cross legged in a circle.
Despite heavy downfalls plaguing city sewer systems in the past month, East Lansing officials said there is nothing unusual about it. More than 3.6 inches of rain bombarded the city during the aforementioned week, and caused problems for both students and residents alike. East Lansing Director of Public Works Scott House said the sewer system in East Lansing does not seem to hold as much water as it needed to during a period of heavy rainfall or flash floods. "In that type of event you’re exceeding the design capacity for the system, meaning that the pipe can only handle so much," House said. "The rest will sheet flow so that will typically seek low ground where it will pool or find an opening where it will convey through." MSU Infrastructure Administrator Ron Lacasse mentioned detention basins play a major role in lessening the overall effect that a flood has on an area.
After 50 years housing the brothers of Sigma Chi, the fraternity house on the corner of Grand River and Collingwood is getting a makeover.
Both the East Lansing Police Department and MSU police are receiving reports of phone scams involving student victims, according to an ELPD statement. The scams involve a caller claiming there is a warrant out for arrest on the person they are calling, saying they must pay fines immediately over the phone or face arrest. Both police departments are saying these are frauds, especially when the caller demands the alleged fine to be paid with a Green Dot or other pre-paid card. ELPD and MSU police stress they do not call to demand the payment of fines by phones. Scams of this nature are long running and The State News reported on them both during last spring semester as well as over the summer.
Throughout the early stages of the 2016 presidential primaries, Donald Trump has been a popular topic for discussion in the realm of political media.
The One Book, One Community program seeks to unite East Lansing and MSU residents through literature.
MSU’s tobacco ban will go in effect next academic year, however, the consequences of breaking the ban are still uncertain.
While two groups are in the heat of collecting signatures to get their marijuana legalization proposals on the ballot in 2016, one group has decided first see if the legislature can appropriately
Vietnamese restaurant Pho replaces Tony’s, the longtime breakfast spot.
College is a fresh start and a new beginning for most, but for international students at MSU it can feel like a whole new world.
The Department of Education's Office of Civil Right's Office has found MSU did not resolve two separate cases quickly enough in accordance to OCR mandates. Three cases were found to be pending against MSU in February of 2014. In a letter to Deputy General Counsel Kristine Zayko, the office indicated MSU also did not notify students of the name or title of the Title IX Coordinator. "OCR determined that the University failed to adequately notify students and employees of the name or title of the Title IX Coordinator, and the University’s notice of nondiscrimination failed to indicate that inquiries could be referred to the University’s Title IX Coordinator or OCR’s Page 3 – Ms. Kristine Zayko Assistant Secretary as the Title IX implementing regulation requires.
SCM World, a talent development partner for leading supply chain management companies, ranked MSU number one on their list of Top 15 Supply Chain Schools of 2014.
As a part of the university's welcome week, the University Activities Board will be hosting its 35th Annual U-FEST tonight at the MSU Union. Starting at 7 p.m.
Two years after a pilot program to phase night receptionists out of Brody and North neighborhoods, Residence Education and Housing Services will still not move forward with expanding the program to East and South.
For the freshman moving into the dorms, Sunday marked the beginning of a new life.
Incoming freshman and returning students are going to start to see the beginning of MSU's campus-wide smoking ban. Though the ban will not take full effect until the fall of 2016, MSU's first outreach and information initiatives after the ban was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees earlier this summer, MSU spokesperson Jason Cody said. According to the new policy, not only cigarettes, but all tobacco products including smokeless tobacco and e-cigarettes will be included in the ban.
The East Lansing Police Department is currently investigating two home invasions and assaults which occurred early Aug. 22, according to an ELPD statement.
An MSU student from West Bloomfield faces child pornography charges after he allegedly filmed prepubescent boys in a locker room and distributed the photos online, according to Click On Detroit and The Detroit News.