MSU’s graduate school will do its part fostering scholastic integrity as part of a seven-university grant aimed at raising awareness for ethical research practices. Along with Penn State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, MSU will distribute a survey this spring to graduate students, faculty and research personnel in an attempt to gauge the ethical climate of the institution.
Despite the recession, one product is creating economic stimulation. Condom sales in the U.S. wrapped up the last quarter of 2008 with a 5 percent increase, and full-year sales were the highest in three years, according to a report compiled by The Nielsen Company. Sales in January of this year were 6 percent higher than the same month last year.
A new bill could make voting easier for out-of-state MSU students. State Rep. Rebekah Warren, D-Ann Arbor, introduced a bill to Michigan’s House of Representatives last week that would repeal Rogers’ Law, which requires Michigan voters to have the address listed on their driver’s license match the address on their voter registration card.
An accidental fire started Thursday morning in a trash receptacle outside University Village Apartments when a garbage truck overheated, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
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Cultural Vogue, a biannual display of Asian Pacific American culture, will be held at 6:30 p.m., Friday at the Auditorium.
The slowing economy won’t stop Mardi Gras from rolling into East Lansing. Bars around East Lansing expect Mardi Gras business will be booming and the economic downturn won’t stop people from coming through their doors.
Michigan alcohol sales statistics for 2008 indicate that people spent less on booze but didn’t cut back on drinking, a signal residents are making like college students and buying the cheap stuff.
Changes to the site plan for Gaslight Village, a development located to the north of East Lansing’s downtown area, will be discussed at tonight’s City Council meeting.
Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital formally became MSU’s primary medical partner Monday, a move hospital and university officials say will improve area health care, research opportunities and recruitment.
ASMSU is seeking a second interim chairperson after another high-ranking official resigned Thursday — the second to step down within one week. Garrett Faulk, Student Assembly internal vice chairperson and a criminal justice sophomore, said his ASMSU workload was too much to handle.
The North American Indigenous Student Organization’s 26th annual MSU Pow-Wow of Love on Saturday and Sunday united distant families this weekend through their common heritage.
Miss America 2008 Kirsten Haglund will highlight Michigan’s events during National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, with a press briefing at 10 a.m.
The Capital Area Humane Society today is encouraging residents to follow the advice of Bob Barker and have their pet spayed or neutered. Tuesday is Spay Day USA, the Humane Society of the United States’ celebration of keeping pets healthy.
While Michigan’s overall economy stumbles, one sector is growing at an unprecedented pace. An MSU study released this month found Michigan’s agribusiness sector increased 12 percent in 2007, the year the data was collected. The number represents more than double the amount of growth in the industry during the previous two years combined.
MSU Rodeo Club and the International Professional Rodeo Association, or IPRA, rounded up some of the best rodeo riders in the country for the 40th annual Spartan Stampede last weekend at the Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education.
After injuring her knee and paying the hospital bills on her own, journalism senior Maryhelen Harper knows how helpful a health care plan can be.
A federal stimulus bill requirement that Michigan must use federal stimulus funding to replace cuts to education could erase the incentive for MSU to comply with Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s proposed tuition freeze.
Simply having a pregnancy test in their possession leads many women to test more often, which leads to healthier babies, according to research done by an MSU professor.
MSU freshmen, whether they know it or not, are part of the university’s cutting-edge technology. Upon enrollment, first-year students were issued a new form of ID card that allows the university to store larger amounts of data than previous cards. Although other students still have old ID cards, all faculty and staff will transition to the new card this semester.