Speech to focus on MSU experience
After cramming for one last final, stealing one last apple from the cafeteria and listening to the Beaumont Tower's Carillon one more time, Shannon Houghton will share her MSU experiences with the senior class of 2005 at the undergraduate commencement ceremony. The Senior Class Council selected Houghton in mid-April to be this year's spring speaker.
College Republicans make plans, vote on executive board
As the semester winds down, MSU College Republicans are busy wrapping up a year in which they helped re-elect President Bush and got students to vote.
GEU continues protest, talks
After seeing no movement by the university toward a compromise in contract negotiations, members of the Graduate Employees Union took to the streets on Monday wearing sandwich boards with slogans such as "MSU Bargaining Skills: F-" The union, or GEU, protects the labor rights of teaching assistants.
Columnist shares life at lecture
Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman said it's difficult to be a newspaper columnist, constantly churning out opinions on every issue of the day. She's even heard some say holding the job is like being married to a nymphomaniac.
Judge rules Utah company can sell Ephedra products
Local health stores might be able to sell a product containing ephedrine alkaloids after a federal judge ruled last week that a Utah company could sell the supplement. Ephedra is an herbal substance often used in weight loss supplements. The decision landed almost exactly a year after the U.S.
Baten 'speaks her mind' on council
Editor's note: This is the second in a five-part series to reintroduce the people who run East Lansing.
E.L. officials offer reward for stolen duck statue
A fowl mystery has surfaced in downtown East Lansing - and not a feather was left behind. A bronze duck statue was removed from East Lansing's Fountain Square Park near the Marriott Hotel at University Place, 300 M.A.C.
Hamil murder, theft trial set to begin May 11
A Marshall man accused of murder, stealing a motor vehicle and drunken driving will go to trial in Ingham County Circuit Court, a judge ruled Friday. Alexander Hamil, 19, came to MSU to celebrate St.
Sharp 'brings perspective' to council
Editor's note: This is the first in a five-part series to reintroduce the people who run East Lansing.
Students to discuss union rights, contract
Members of the Graduate Employees Union will line Grand River Avenue today to raise awareness about their bargaining sessions.
Student assembly chair, vice chair re-elected
ASMSU officials met Thursday to elect candidates for positions for the upcoming school year. Physics senior Andrew Schepers was re-elected to fulfill the chairperson position, defeating political theory and constitutional democracy senior Andrew Bell by a vote of 15-13.
Award-winning writer to speak at Kellogg
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and columnist for The Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman will be speaking at the fourth annual Neal Shine Lecture today at 4 p.m.
Safe Place charity race attracts more than 1,000
Dogs, strollers and sprinters wound their way through campus during MSU Safe Place's 11th annual Race for the Place on Sunday. The 5K run brought out more than 1,000 adults and children and raised between $40,000 and $50,000, said Holly Rosen, director of Safe Place.
Sparty's party offers music, giveaways
Doing cartwheels and dancing to rock music projected from a concert stage, 8-year-old Abby Mealy, of Okemos, couldn't stand still as she waited in line with her 5-year-old sister Amanda for a ride on the Ferris wheel at Demonstration Field on Saturday. From the top of the ride, Abby leaned forward in her seat to look at the activities going on at the fourth Sparty's Spring Party, which was sponsored by the University Activities Board, or UAB. "I like going fast, and I could see everything," Abby said.
State News page designers win national honors
There's a reason why the size of the above headline is 46 points. There's a reason why this story is on the left side of this page.
Students build Habitat home
It's not much of a house to look at now, but soon it will be a home. Students from the MSU Habitat for Humanity chapter rolled up their sleeves this weekend to put the finishing touches on a house at 2509 Poplar St.
Greek Week results in 140K for charity
By Jonathan Junia Special for The State News In the Auditorium on Saturday there were zombies fighting nerds, aliens fighting cowboys and devils fighting angels, in addition to mock appearances by Will Smith, John Travolta, the Blues Brothers, James Bond and a giant chicken. They were all there for Songfest, the biggest and last event of Greek Week - a week devoted to celebrating sororities and fraternities and raising money for local charities.