The recent clash in Israel may cause some MSU students to put their winter break plans on hold. A bloody clash between Israelis and Palestinians broke out late in September.
As many Spartans watched the first two presidential debates, some felt like the most important part of the debates was missing.While the majority of Americans have already decided to back either Texas Gov.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss several issues today concerning the transfer of funds to the East Lansing Police Department for vehicle improvements. The council may approve a contract in the amount of about $248,000 to install Mobile Data Computers in 14 patrol cars.
A former national security adviser to President Carter spoke about his international relations experience and current global stability to about 180 students, faculty and area residents at the Kellogg Center on Monday. Zbigniew Brzezinski was the keynote speaker for the annual James Madison College Founders Circle luncheon.
While university students are expected to become more critical of written texts in their schooling, not as much focus is on visual texts such as illustrations or diagrams.MSU Professor Colleen Tremonte has been trying to find out why.The associate professor of writing and American culture at the James Madison College spent two weeks this summer at California’s Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning researching her question.“The program acts like a center for advanced study in teaching and learning,” Tremonte said.
A group of students is hoping to implement an Asian American studies program at MSU. Soh Suzuki, a studio art senior and Asian Pacific American minority aide in Snyder and Phillips halls, has been acting as a liaison between APA students and faculty and staff members.
MSU is rolling out the red carpet, all the way to the nation’s capital.The Semester Study Program in Washington, D.C.
LANSING - Another stride has been made in the race for downtown revitalization in Michigan’s capital.The Michigan State Housing Development Authority gave the city a $250,000 grant Monday morning to help with the goals outlined by the Blue Ribbon Committee on Downtown Revitalization.
GRAND RAPIDS - For voters not happy with the leading presidential candidates, Howard Phillips would like you to know the Constitution Party makes a great alternative.Phillips and his fellow party members feel his race for the presidency is not receiving fair coverage.
After climbing 72 winding steps to Beaumont Tower’s carillon room, 8-year-old E.J. Omara slid onto a wooden bench nearly twice his size.
Presidential candidates vying for electoral votes might be hitting up Michigan residents with even more campaign commercials during nightly TV viewing.A new poll by The Detroit News shows Republican Texas Gov.
When the MSU community returns to campus for the spring semester, there could be up to 1,000 people trying to find a new place to park.In January crews will begin an 18- to 20-month, $22 million process that will tear down and build a new Shaw parking garage.
Back in 1950, when MSU was still called Michigan State College, 17 women paid $17 each in tuition to become the first students to enroll in the Department of Nursing.Now more than 400 students strong, MSU’s College of Nursing turns 50 this year.
LANSING - After an 18-month hiatus, Grand River Avenue in Old Town is open for business once more. Business owners in the section of Lansing celebrated the end of the construction period on Grand River Avenue with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and celebration breakfast at Ramon’s Restaurant and Lounge, 718 E.
To celebrate its new location on Grand River Avenue, a local art gallery reopened an exhibit of two Lansing-area artists.Trillium Gallery, 207 E.
Polluters’ plans to help improve the quality of life of organisms in the Red Cedar River by donating items such as broken bicycles and a television set were spoiled Sunday afternoon.These objects and other garbage were pulled from the river in a cleanup effort sponsored by the Residential Initiative on the Study of the Environment.More than 40 volunteers from various campus groups went down to the river in waders and canoes to help clean the water that flows through MSU’s campus.“This project was independent of the E.
“Jaws” may have dropped on campus Thursday. During a special visit, Academy Award-winner Richard Dreyfuss stopped at MSU to stump for Democrat Vice President Al Gore and encourage political activism.Dreyfuss, the well-known star of the shark movie and “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” spoke to more than 200 students at Case Hall’s cafeteria.