MSU officials have banned Richard Shafer, assistant director of Student Life, from contacting students for the remainder of the semester amid an investigation to determine if he violated university policy.
When it comes to academic governance at MSU, it takes a majority — quite literally — to get things done.
As mayor of East Lansing, Vic Loomis’ days are full of challenges. With a schedule often crammed with meetings, finding time to squeeze in a walk or 15 minutes on the treadmill isn’t easy.
A preliminary hearing for two College of Music students charged with home invasion is set for 9 a.m. Feb. 14 at the 55th District Court in Mason.
When Justin Shaw graduated from MSU in December 2006, he never thought he would be bagging groceries.
About 75 percent of the 6.5 million registered potential bone marrow donors are white, leaving minorities in need of transplants without a match.
Steady snowfall into the late evening is expected to continue today for the Lansing area.
It’s natural for people who don’t know what the ashes represent to point them out, Meredith Nelson said. “It’s like when you have food in your teeth, you’d want to tell them,” Nelson said. The history freshman, who is Christian and doesn’t celebrate Ash Wednesday, said she has never actually seen anyone wearing ashes.
Abortion could be the issue that draws people to the polls in the fall, at least in Michigan.
The East Lansing City Council postponed a decision on whether to use eminent domain to acquire property to build an alleyway along the 600 block of Virginia Avenue during its meeting Tuesday night.
Several organizations will challenge the constitutionality of Proposal 2 before a Detroit federal judge at a 2:30 p.m. hearing today.
After meeting three South African orphans whose mother died from AIDS more than a year ago, Kevin Kuehn started writing letters to the siblings.
For Melissa Fore, the first step to better health care for graduate employees is to acknowledge the difference between graduate and undergraduate needs.
With the Republican and Democratic fields whittled down to a pair of candidates each, Super Tuesday’s 22 elections are starting to look more like Super Twos-day.
In a room buzzing with machines, a thick sheet of extra-rich dough slowly rolls down a conveyor belt at the Quality Dairy Bakery in Lansing, ready to become a cult icon. The dough will be cut, pressed, molded, warmed, fried, filled and glazed to become some of the 100,000 paczkis made at the factory during a 10-day period.
The importance of religion and politics, civic engagement and reveling in the joys of being an American were among some of the topics actor Richard Dreyfuss discussed at a campus visit Monday.
When Sarah Wilson picked up a box of paczkis this year, she didn’t think about the nutrition of the confections. “I just like to eat them,” the accounting senior said. Local nutritionists say that may not be a bad thing.
For Kristin Bott, a teaching assistant in the Lyman Briggs College, there is nothing worse than leaving a classroom feeling like you didn’t do a good job.
There are no seating charts in campus cafeterias, but high school habits have managed to infiltrate residence halls, sociology graduate student Jessica Mills said.
Tucker Avram has bought a different student-response system, or “clicker,” for each semester he’s been a student.