Students affect change with letters
Karin Bashir said students often talk and don’t take action, which is one of the reasons she participated in signing letters Tuesday at Case Hall as part of a week-long write-a-thon.
Karin Bashir said students often talk and don’t take action, which is one of the reasons she participated in signing letters Tuesday at Case Hall as part of a week-long write-a-thon.
Students and East Lansing residents can get in the holiday spirit from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Dec. 18 at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, during a family friendly holiday event.
Although the emotional roller coaster ride of marriage might be draining at times, research by an MSU professor suggests it might help people live longer.
State officials are hoping to fend off some unwelcome visitors with their efforts to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, and MSU professors are stressing the importance of stopping any invasion before it starts.
Assistant professor of fisheries and wildlife Travis Brenden, along with his wife, Tammy Newcomb, enjoy collecting change as much as donating it each holiday season.
A special screening of the film “Happiness Is” will be shown at 3 p.m. Saturday in the East Lansing High School auditorium, 509 Burcham Drive.
The East Lansing Arts Commission has a new exhibit on display, “A Walk with Thoreau,” by artist Brian Vance.
The city of East Lansing will offer free metered parking and free parking in surface lots and ramps for holiday shoppers from Dec. 19-27.
Concerns about “sexting” and cyber abuse are the motivation of recent legislative action by state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing.
Students and residents using the various paid parking structures and lots around East Lansing soon might need more cash to park.
Jessica Muir spent the past two summers studying abroad, but the physics and astrophysics senior’s next stay overseas will be extended after she received a prestigious scholarship.
A potential arrangement between Wharton Center and the city of Traverse City is expected to be finalized at a city meeting tonight, which would send some of the center’s programming to Traverse City, a city official said.
Parents always tell their children not to play with food, but these artists are breaking rules by using food as the inspiration for their artwork. At the “Food for Thought” art exhibition in the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center, 325 E. Grand River Ave., artists explore different mediums to show how food affects everyday life.
ASMSU will decide Thursday whether to move forward with a proposed tax referendum to fund its Readership Program and a proposal to create two new scholarship opportunities for students.
Mussa Maingu moved to East Lansing in 2000 with the goal of becoming a dentist. From Mwanza, Tanzania, he said the shortage of health care professionals in his home country was a primary influence on his career path.
When Cathy Leonard first heard about the recommended elimination of MSU’s Deaf Education Teacher Certification program, she did not believe it. Leonard, who is deaf, joined about 100 MSU students, faculty and members of the deaf community at the Administration Building Friday to protest the program’s possible elimination.
A new art exhibit called Food for Thought, which features work focused on food, will open between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday at the East Lansing Technology Innovation Center, 325 E. Grand River Ave.
A holiday concert featuring three duos is scheduled for 8 p.m. Dec. 19 at Stage 1210, 1210 Turner St., in Lansing’s Old Town.
The last two weeks of the semester should bring some of the coldest weather students and residents have seen this season, but meteorologists said this winter should be a milder one in comparison to previous years.
To Javier Pescador, racial biases of Mexicans during the Great Depression era still can be seen today. Pescador, a history professor, gave a lecture Thursday at the MSU Museum Auditorium examining the work of photographer Dorothea Lange and the racial biases her photos show.