After a visit to MSU a few years ago, Matt Papa knew he wanted to be a part of the fraternity his brother was president of — Pi Kappa Phi — when he transferred from a community college this year.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, and MSU’s undergraduate student governments provide services, funding and a voice for MSU students. With their contributions to policymaking at MSU, The State News decided to catch up with a few members of these governing bodies to find out who these student representatives really are.
MSU police are investigating a sexual assault against a female student that occurred between 6 p.m. Saturday and 3 a.m.
Campus police reported about half as many arrests as the last Notre Dame home game, and the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, also said numbers were surprisingly low.
An MSU student is facing three felony charges after allegedly stabbing three other students last Thursday night, officials said Monday.
Dining hall food at MSU no longer is day-old pizza and a mystery as to where it came from. It’s homemade tortilla chips, sushi rolls and Thai chicken pizza, cooked fresh and not in the back kitchen — a factor that helped “place MSU at No.
Safety issues have caused all fitness centers in residence halls to close until January 2013 for repairs and improvements, according to a letter from Director of Residence Education and Housing Services Kathy Collins to all hall residents.
When a catastrophic earthquake rumbled parts of the Caribbean and collapsed Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti, senior Emilio Voltaire, a Haitian-American MSU student, said he experienced effects of the disaster long after it hit.
If you only had 48 hours to spend on MSU’s campus, what would you do?
A “home away from home” is how journalism junior Justin Polk describes celebrating Rosh Hashana, one of the holiest celebrations in the Jewish faith, at MSU Hillel.
For predental freshman Alex Durkin, living with a resident assistant wasn’t the way he envisioned his start to college, but it was the reality.
Since coming to MSU, Dominic Nangea and Kuya Julius always wanted to personally meet MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon — a wish that came true this Sunday.
For advertising junior Ryan Basso, naming the top university in the nation is easy — MSU.
Doused with mud, mechanical engineering senior Brian Cheadle rounded a corner at top speed, and off snapped part of his vehicle’s wheel.
Saturday morning, the four current East Lansing City Council members met at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, to interview the 14 residents who applied to fill the vacant city council spot left by Don Power on Aug.
The morning after most home football games, East Lansing is comparable to a party war zone -— streets filled with broken glass, lawns littered with red solo cups and trash scattered throughout the city.
A 19-year-old male student had his backpack stolen from outside East Akers Hall on Sept. 10. The student said he had left his backpack on a bench outside while he skateboarded, and he forgot his backpack when he re-entered East Akers Hall, MSU police Sgt.
Alexandria Rose hurled her magenta flag into the air and couldn’t help but crack a smile.
The election season was one of the primary topics discussed by ASMSU’s biweekly Policy Committee, which met Thursday to discuss plans to engage the student body in both local and national elections.
From a small town in Northern Michigan, Michelle Samalik, who graduated from a high school with little diversity, is one of about 150 freshmen considered to be “underrepresented” in the College of Engineering.