Food Fight! opened at the MSU Museum Thursday with a focus on spurring conversation about food production and security.
Former MSU head football coach Mel Tucker has been denied his appeal of the university’s findings that he sexually harassed and exploited rape survivor and advocate Brenda Tracy, officially ending the university's year-long sexual harassment investigation of Tucker.
Enrolled at MSU from 1912 to 1916, Everett C. Yates was the first Black member of the MSU marching band and orchestra. Until the 21st century, however, very little was known about Yates' time at MSU or his life post-graduation.
The Starbucks in MSU’s Main Library opened its doors to the public this week. The much-awaited opening of the coffee shop comes months after the delay of its original opening date.
Since the rise of the Civil Rights Movement in 1954, protest marches have long been a form of activism in fighting to end racial segregation and exclusion. It was at the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held in 1963, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the exalted "I Have a Dream" speech. Communications senior and member of Alpha Phi Alpha Brandon Foster will be the coordinator for the 2024 MLK Commemorative March. For Foster, who was also coordinator last year, the march "means a lot to him" because it brings diversity, equity and inclusion within MSU.
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day approaching on Monday, Jan. 15, a variety of events on campus are commemorating and celebrating the holiday throughout the week.
The holiday break is an excellent opportunity to unwind and unplug from the real world. But as our much needed period of rest comes to a close and we settle back into life in East Lansing, here are four pieces of MSU news to catch you up on what you missed over break.
Students gathered outside the Hannah Administration Building on Monday to protest the reopening of Berkey Hall, one of the sites of the Feb. campus shooting that killed three and injured five. Monday marked the first day that classes have been held in the building since the shooting, which occurred nearly a year ago.
An external investigation was unable to identify anyone at MSU who leaked the identity of Brenda Tracy, the rape survivor and advocate who accused then-football coach Mel Tucker of sexual harassment.
NiCole Buchanan, a member of the organizing committee for the union of tenure stream faculty, said that “well over 54%” of the group have signed authorization cards indicating they want to join the union.
Students and survivors gathered to protest the MSU Board of Trustees meeting. Though the meeting was online, they were joined by trustee Dennis Denno and trustee Rema Vassar.
Hundreds of graduates and their loved ones gathered at the Breslin Center to celebrate for fall commencement to celebrate their accomplishments. Keynote speaker John Hildebrand, the international secretary for the National Academy of Sciences was among them, receiving an honorary Doctor of Science Degree.
“It's clear that (our voices have) had an impact,” Elizabeth Maurer, a sister survivor, said. “Hearing the ‘yes’ was still just so surreal.”
If the documents contain evidence of MSU leaders failing to report information about Nassar’s serial sexual abuse, Nessel said criminal charges would likely “have come and gone in terms of the statute of limitations.”
Several students at Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting demanded that Berkey Hall— one of the sites of the February campus mass shooting—remain closed despite the university’s plans to open the building for the spring 2024 semester.
Michigan State University will publicly release the findings of an outside investigation into who at the university may have leaked the identity of Brenda Tracy, the rape survivor and advocate who the university found to have been sexually harassed by fired football coach Mel Tucker.
The pledges — which were endorsed by Guskiewicz and passed by the board — say the trustees are committed to “building trust” through a clarified role in running the university.
The board approved this resolution at a meeting Friday.
Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees unanimously voted Friday to begin the release of more of thousands of long-withheld documents relating to the university’s handling of years of sexual abuse by disgraced ex-MSU doctor Larry Nassar.
Alcohol will be available at the Breslin Center and Munn Ice Arena starting in January 2024, Associate Athletic Director Matt Larson announced Thursday.