“(This book starts) many conversations that need to be had about race and policing and America as a whole,” award-winning author Jason Mott said. “So I hope it just starts the conversation.”
Kai Edward Ljubicic has been identified as one of the victims of the car crash at Lake Lansing Road and Coolidge Road. His family has set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for his memorial.
Typically, the 100th bill in each Associated Students of MSU session is looked at as more of a light topic. But it was different this year. Bill 59-100 proposed that ASMSU use its funds to build a bench memorial honoring the lives of the victims of the tragic events of Feb. 13.
At the ASMSU general assembly meeting Thursday, representatives passed a bill recommending improvements to RVSM and SARV training, including requiring it to be in-person.
As the Michigan State University Department of Police and Public Safety's investigation of Anthony McRae continues, Chief of Police Chris Rozman said updates will come to the community through the DPPS Twitter page as well as MSU's emergency alert messaging system.
More than 900 students will present research projects at the 25th annual Undergraduate University Arts and Research Forum. There were over 1,000 creative submissions this year.
Six community listening sessions for the presidential search will be held throughout the month of April, trustees Dennis Denno and Brianna Scott shared in a press release Thursday.
The final cost of Michigan State University’s Board of Trustees’ recently released investigation into the removal of former business school dean Sanjay Gupta totals $1,577,167, according to deputy spokesperson Dan Olsen.
MSU Graduate Employees Union President Ava Hill said she hopes the University of Michigan Graduate Employee Organization's strike starts a larger conversation about the way graduate workers, as well as other campus workers, are treated at universities.“There's a lot of people here who are overworked and underpaid."
Michigan State University still held classes during the storm, creating many rain-soaked Spartans as they darted between buildings to their classes. Others stayed home and watched the rain rise in their parking lots, backyards and streets.
Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane is committed to reducing gun violence following the tragedy at MSU. Since taking office, he has implemented various policies aimed at doing so.
"In that moment it hit me; I'd be screwed because I couldn't move our furniture to barricade the door," Olguin said. "And then students in Berkey who were going out the window ... would that even have been a possibility? Where would that have left me?"
MSU experienced its first spring storm of the year on April 5, 2023. The Red Cedar River flooded throughout campus, causing closed sidewalks and parking lots. Students rushed between classes to avoid the showers.
ELPD Sgt. Jayson Young said the crash involved two cars and that the intersection would be closed down for a "few hours.”
The vice president for the Office of Civil Rights and Title IX Coordinator finalists will visit campus on April 10. Later in the week, the community will have opportunities to give feedback on both candidates.
“The display of bandanas is essentially bringing awareness to the issue because farmworker women who are working in the fields do wear bandanas not only to shield them from the sun and other elements but also (metaphorically) in regards to sexual harassment, sexual assault,” Caluk said.
Since the mass shooting on MSU campus in February, students have demanded that Michigan lawmakers enact stricter gun control. To continue this fight, some students are now turning their attention to the university itself.
Michigan State University appointed Harvey Amoe III, commonly known as Chip, to the role of Director of Sustainability on Wednesday. His goal is to address climate change and its threat to human health in the best way possible during his time at MSU, he said.
Michigan’s sex education program only mandates teaching about two things: HIV and AIDS and promoting abstinence as a healthy lifestyle. However, many sexual education policy experts are advocating for a more expansive minimum to be taught, one that includes not only discussion of sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, but also the concept of "sexual citizenship."
