Police officers, firefighters, city officials and members of the East Lansing and MSU communities filled the seats and lined the walls of Courtroom 2 in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court Thursday afternoon to witness the formal swearing-in of Juli Liebler as East Lansing’s new police chief.
This weekend, about 500 high schoolers from multiple states will come to MSU for one main purpose: saving the world through compromise.
This weekend, 140 cadets in MSU’s ROTC program will train outside the classroom at Fort Custer in Battle Creek, Mich., to conduct drills on problem solving, land navigation and weapons training before taking on larger tasks. The training event, called the Michigan Cluster Field Exercise, will take place alongside more than 600 cadets attending universities including Central Michigan University, Western Michigan University and the University of Michigan, said Bill Lukaskiewicz, a retired lieutenant colonel who is an instructor with ROTC.
When it comes to research happening on campus, doctoral student Christina Campbell knows all about the research being done in the psychology department.
Adding to the variety of dining options, students have yet another choice. On March 21, a new kosher option was made available at Wilson Hall, said Samuel Appel, president of the Jewish Student Union.
Members of RHA, the Residence Halls Association, elected Kelcey Gapske to serve as vice president for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Wednesday’s cold and rainy weather notwithstanding, the newly opened restaurant What Up Dawg?, 317 M.A.C. Ave., served as the host to Sigma Chi’s Pre-Derby Days Coney Contest.
Heather Frarey began dreaming of owning her own record store in high school. After three and a half years of business, her dream will be realized fully as she makes plans to move her store, The Record Lounge, to a main-level location in downtown East Lansing.
About 50 people packed into Room 303 International Center on Wednesday evening took a moment of silence to remember the more than 9,000 victims of the March 11 earthquake and the following tsunami off the coast of northeastern Japan.
A few weeks ago, Eda Uong stood before a room of about 30 MSU students and repeated words first spoken to him by a U.S. solider in his home country of Cambodia.
Brightly colored camouflage cans are back on Michigan stores’ shelves after a state entity OK’d the restocking of Four Loko and other controversial malt beverages.
For marketing sophomore Josh Davidson, pushing through the second half of the semester has been difficult, especially with the coming of warmer weather.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon was in Lansing on Wednesday to give her take on the university’s role in the state’s economy before the House higher education appropriations subcommittee.
After electing Sarah Pomeroy as president March 2 and Wednesday’s scheduled vice-presidential election, representatives from RHA, the Residence Halls Association, are preparing for the upcoming school year.
Whether she’s walking to class or falling asleep at night, Sharmaine Ingram listens to music “all the time.”
Going to study in a new country can be daunting. Going to study in a country that has a travel warning placed on it by the Department of State is even more so.
At an informational meeting on Tuesday, students asked representatives from Gender Neutral MSU for details about the proposed gender-neutral housing option at MSU.
The entrepreneurial cogs started turning in Allison Manchel’s brain when she and her roommate were driving in East Lansing’s infamous Feb. 2 “snowpocalypse” and was having trouble seeing out her front windshield.
Following an anonymous $100 million gift Western Michigan University announced it received Tuesday to start a medical school, MSU will lose a medical student training partnership it currently has with Kalamazoo hospitals, according to The Grand Rapids Press.
The MSU Asian Studies Center will host a community forum on the recent disasters in Japan at 7 p.m. tonight in Room 303 of the International Center.