Flags were raised, greens were rolled and drivers were dusted off for golf’s opening day Tuesday. This year’s opening day in Michigan — the latest for some courses in six years — has been delayed because of late snowfalls and heavy rains in March, and Tuesday’s wet and windy conditions didn’t help.
Fresh footprints, strange sightings and mutilated house pets suggest a re-emergence of cougars in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced last month.
Thirteen teams, 135 dancers and about $195,000. Greek Week at MSU was the fourth-largest fundraising event nationwide for the American Cancer Society last year, and Panhellenic Council President Julia Lyskawa is confident this year’s event will rival that sum.
As the end of the semester approaches, the standing committees of MSU’s Academic Governance system are assessing their agendas to determine what they’ve completed and what they have left to do.
An East Lansing man is facing three child sexual abuse charges stemming from a December 2007 incident in Grand Traverse County.
Lead letters are arranged on a “KWIK PRINT” gold-stamping machine. Unadorned white walls rise from the black laboratory surfaces where Eric Alstrom is working on his next book. His inspiration does not come from his work space, but from the fascination of what one person can create with a few sheets of paper, a leather binding and a sliver of gold leaf. “It’s a mixture of the hands-on, the artistic and the historical,” Alstrom said. Alstrom, the collections conservator in the Conservation Lab of Giltner Hall, has been conserving and creating books for about 20 years.
On warm days when downtown East Lansing is bustling, the patio at Dublin Square Irish Pub is often at capacity. But because of a city ordinance many local restaurants want to see rescinded, the inside of the restaurant is half-empty.
The down spout of a drinking fountain in Hubbard Hall was broken off sometime between 8 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday, causing about $50 in damage, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Who would you pick for a commencement speaker? “Barack Obama, because I think he’s going to be our president and I would like to say that I saw our president speak. I think that a lot of his message is about our responsibilities. It’s not what he’s going to do for us, but what we need to do. I think that’s the sort of thing we need to hear upon graduation – our responsibilities as adults.” Kate Leitch zoology senior
MSU professors fit a national trend among educators by donating more to Democratic presidential candidates than Republican candidates, even though Republicans nearly doubled the amount of contributions received from Michiganians.
Outdoor eating and the city’s annual budget are among the items to be discussed at Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council meeting.
When graduates pose for pictures outside Breslin Center this May decked out in caps and gowns, flanked by family members and diploma in hand, a line of graduate students thrusting picket signs in the air could be in the background.
One of goals of MSU’s Greek Week is to bring the community together to raise money for charity, but that doesn’t mean the group can’t have fun while raising funds.
Two world-renowned leaders in health and the environment will speak at MSU’s spring commencement May 2, signaling MSU’s emphasis on its global impact and focus on the environment.
Friday night was much calmer than students or police anticipated after the Spartans made their seventh Sweet 16 appearance in 11 years.
MSU’s undergraduate student government planned to unveil its new Web site today as thousands of students would potentially visit the group’s site this week to vote in ASMSU’s election.
The fate of embryonic stem cell research in Michigan might rest in voters’ hands if a grassroots campaign collects enough signatures by July 7.
It was udder madness as hundreds of kids and parents anxiously awaited their turn to milk a cow, pet farm animals and stick their hands inside a cow’s stomach Saturday during the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual Vet-a-Visit.
Since Country Markett closed its doors in January, Rachel Ulch’s spontaneous trips for bread, beer or laundry detergent have her looking elsewhere.
Flashlights and candles powered student activism this weekend as part of Earth Hour, a worldwide event aimed at raising awareness about global climate change.