Thursday night usually signifies the crowding of students in a local bar to unwind after a long week of classes, but last Thursday, one Lansing bar was crowded for a different reason — to celebrate WDBM 88.9-FM’s birthday. 25 years ago, Impact existed as an AM radio station with a signal that could only be picked up by certain residence halls.
MSU’s International Volunteer Action Corps, or IVAC, which first launched in 2006, is currently being “re-engineered” to include new members and keep the activities.
ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, passed a bill that would recommend change to current course retake policy, allowing students the ability to retake whichever courses they want, no matter the grade.
A $9 million grant will give a boost to MSU’s public health program in Flint, Mich., allowing the College of Human Medicine to place seven to nine full-time faculty members in the area.
After a hectic week of scouring for internships and interviewing with employers, some engineering students relaxed by creating intricate machines that completed simple tasks in a complex way.
Four Spartans placed fifth in the Makeathon competition, where they had to make a marketable prototype in only 24 hours.
Anticipation buzzed through the crowd as plungers donning all kinds of costumes prepared to submerge themselves in the frigid depths early Sunday afternoon in Bath Township.
It was no Madison Square Garden or Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, but on Saturday night Chandler Crossings turned into a boxing venue that carried the excitement of a world-class fight night.
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the death of Dustyn Frolka. The advertising sophomore was found on I-69 on Feb.15 by the East Lansing exit in respiratory distress.
University officials publicly announced new initiatives meant to heighten awareness of student safety, particularly in terms of sexual violence and sexual assault, in a statement emailed to the MSU community Friday. In the statement, Office for Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives Director Paulette Granberry Russell said despite current university efforts in place to protect student safety, “there is more that we can do to educate the MSU community on sexual violence.”
The man who police suspect murdered sophomore Dominique Nolff was arraigned Thursday in Grand Rapids. Marquay McCoy, 19, was arrested on Tuesday for cutting his tether while on parole. East Lansing police have named McCoy as a suspect in last month’s shooting on Cedar Street, which killed Nolff and injured another student.
It’s been months since her apartment was broken into and robbed, but communication sophomore Julia Dinoto still can’t shake the uneasiness when she imagines a stranger’s hands sorting and pilfering her belongings.
Class is in session, and the word for the day is “cohesion.” When asked for the definition, the students stare back blankly at the teacher, unsure of how to answer.? But this is no English class.
After recent funding changes proposed by Governor Rick Snyder, the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan Executive Director Michael Boulus is happy to see increases to higher education funding, but noted funding is still a pressing issue.
Fifteen Spartans will be competing on Wolverine territory on Friday to design and create marketable products as part of the first ever collegiate Makeathon at the University of Michigan.
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For those curious about the processes that results in the alcohol in their can or bottle, there is a club for that.
The State Board of Canvassers approved a petition Wednesday to form a coalition of organizations and interest groups that would raise Michigan’s minimum wage from the current $7.40 to $10.10 by 2017.
It happened at Purdue. It happened at Ferris State. And on Jan. 31, it happened here. ? The past two months have been tumultuous for MSU. Reports of shootings at other Big Ten and state universities, particularly even a shooting death near MSU’s own campus, have shaken the student body and left MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon with one grim reminder: No one is immune to violence.
LANSING — A recommendation for funding Michigan’s public universities that would restore MSU to about half of the funding cut during Snyder’s first year in office was reviewed by the House Higher Education Subcommittee Wednesday. Gov. Rick Snyder’s recommendation calls for a 6.1 percent increase from the previous year, which equates to a little over $15 million.