Student and local artists expressed emotions, experiences and different perspectives through artwork at a show Monday. Each of the pieces of art dealt with the subject matter of women.
Several discussion sessions are being held to prepare MSU students, faculty and staff for upgrades to the ANGEL system.
A major city development, medical marijuana and newspaper racks highlight this week’s East Lansing City Council agenda as council members are set to vote on a deadline extension for City Center II.
The Music & Entertainment Career Association, or MECA, will hold its first meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in room 131 of Hubbard Hall.
The man accused of murdering an MSU student, her boyfriend and members of her boyfriend’s family began standing trial for an unrelated crime Monday in the 17th Circuit Court in Kent County.
Michigan once set the pace for supporting successful business, but a recent study ranks the state 3rd-worst in the nation in supporting jobs and business growth for the second year in a row.
For friends of Josh Parks, a kinesiology sophomore who died Wednesday, coming together to share memories has been one of the most effective ways to deal with grief, friend Linda Venema said.
It didn’t take long for public administration and public policy sophomore Chelsea Satkowiak to move up the ranks in the Residence Halls Association, or RHA. After one year as a Shaw Hall representative, she was elected Wednesday to be the next RHA vice president.
Curling irons, cosmetic bags and extra fabric were sprawled across the dressing room. Students ironed wrinkles and discussed the best modeling techniques to accentuate their collections as models finished their makeup.
To friends, Shane Collins was a bright student whose promising future was cut short by his sudden death last week. “He was the smartest kid I knew and still had time to be friends with everyone,” said no-preference sophomore Nick Weaver, a close friend of Collins. “You don’t find that very often.”
The madness is coming to East Lansing. Breslin Center will shed its green and white in favor of NCAA blue this weekend as MSU plays host to four teams, hundreds of media members and thousands of screaming fans for the first round of the women’s NCAA Tournament. No stranger to postseason play, Breslin Center was home to MSU’s deep WNIT run last season and the Spartans’ first-round NCAA Tournament win in 2007, making it the third consecutive year East Lansing will play host to a title dream.
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
A bill introduced Tuesday by state Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, seeks to make it possible for citizens to track all of the Michigan government’s spending online. The bill, SB 382, would require the state to post records of all its spending on a free Web site, which would be open for the public to view.
A bill to support a tuition freeze was voted down by ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday, after Chairperson Pro Tempore Brad McDonald voted it down as the tiebreaking vote. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A team of MSU researchers have found a way for businesses to address what matters most to consumers. The study identified four parts of a total experience that consumers look for: benefit, convenience, price and environment, said Bonnie Knutson, a professor of hospitality business who led the study.
The room was instantly silent. The envelopes were about to be distributed, each one containing potentially life-changing content. Family and friends grew quiet, having anticipated this day for a long time.
Police on and off campus reported a relatively simple St. Patrick’s Day, despite the holiday keeping their departments slightly busier compared to last year. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said his department made 20 arrests on Tuesday.
Students could keep some money in their pockets and off their utility bills next winter if East Lansing receives money from the $787 billion stimulus package to improve energy conservation in rental properties.
In the hope of reducing the workload of chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian position Tuesday to take on some of McDonald’s duties.
Starting today in Washington, D.C., MSU will lead a national celebratory conference for Title VI, the federal program that helped shift the university’s mission statement from “land-grant” to “world-grant” university during the past 50 years.