The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, will give an update on its new parking permit program for graduate students at its meeting Tuesday. The COGS meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m.
Antics about the number of gubernatorial debates to hold continued Monday evening between Democratic candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero and Republican candidate and Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder after Bernero unexpectedly arrived at one of Snyder’s town hall meetings. As he campaigns across the state, Snyder holds many town hall meetings that are free and open to the public; this, his 59th, was in Westland, Mich., near Detroit.
The sounds of laughter and festive music could be heard down the halls of the Wilson Hall basement as more than 40 students gathered Tuesday for a meeting and in celebration of Semana Latina, or Latino Week.
The East Lansing City Council approved a plan Tuesday to support a new jail booking system, which will help the East Lansing Police Department coordinate moving files between the ELPD, the Lansing Police Department and the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office.
Despite escalating immigration issues in Arizona and across the country, the MSU College of Law has opened its doors and offered help to immigrants or refugees at the Immigration Law Clinic.
In a fresh attempt to generate a televised debate between the gubernatorial candidates, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero has created a new offer to television stations across Michigan: If you host a debate, Bernero will come.
A two-year grant by MASA Israel Journey, or MASA, has the potential to bring the university $50,000, many more Spartans will have an opportunity to expand the MSU presence in Israel through travel and study.
ASMSU is considering filing to become a nonprofit organization after the group lost its tax-exempt status through a new university accountability measure last year.
Michigan author Harry Dolan will give a talk and sign his mystery book, “Bad Things Happen,” at 7 p.m.
Text messages might soon make an impact on how classes are taught on a college campus, according to a national survey done at MSU.
Despite protests in cities across the country Saturday evening, the scene at All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road, in East Lansing was calm as more than 350 people sat and listened to a reading of the Quran. Rev.
MSU medical students and local health professionals flocked to the 4-H Children’s Garden on Saturday to man X-ray machines, give eye exams and operate MRI machines.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly will be working to strengthen its relationship with other student government groups under the direction of new chairperson Christopher Schotten. Schotten, a political theory and constitutional democracy senior, was elected as chairperson Thursday night, filling the seat vacated by interim chairperson Kyle Dysarz on Sept.
A few dozen students and volunteers went Saturday to MSU’s Lot 89 to begin building a house for an MSU student through Habitat for Humanity. The event kicked off the beginning of a five-week build that will provide a 1,100-square-foot house for Anna Malavisi, an MSU philosophy graduate student, and her three daughters.
As people wandered around the Bestmaze Corn Maze of Williamston, Mich., completely lost, they helped find a way to make a child’s wish come true. On Saturday and Sunday, Bestmaze donated half of the revenue from ticket sales to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan, an organization that raises money to grant wishes for children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses. “We wanted to give back to the community but we didn’t know which fundraiser to do,” said Mark Benjamin, owner of Bestmaze. This is the first year that proceeds from Bestmaze will be donated to the foundation.
It was his friend’s 21st birthday and David Truax had offered his house for the celebration. On the porch with a dozen or so people — some Truax knew, some he didn’t — he went inside for about half an hour.
Students in the Muslim Studies Program might be getting a step up this semester as the relatively new specialization and studies program now has an endowment.
The Kresge Art Museum will be exhibiting 25 photographs from its Mexico collection until Oct. 4. The exhibit, “Luces en Alba: Dawning Lights in Mexican Photography,” opens with a reception from 5-7 p.m.
Crowds of students packed the MSU Union on Thursday night as more than 60 student groups came out to show their cultural uniqueness at the Spartan Remix Welcome Reception.
Asian American students across MSU’s campus are gearing up for a fight in perhaps one of the most overlooked necessities in the U.S. — voter registration.