Senior associate vice president for Student Affairs and Services Denise Maybank will serve as the interim vice president for Student Affairs and Services when current vice president Lee June steps down at the close of the year, President Lou Anna K. Simon announced to the Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, on Tuesday afternoon.
Celebrating the sixth night in the Festival of Lights with food, family and ice skating, about 100 people attended Chanukah on Ice at Munn Ice Arena on Monday. Sponsored by the Greater Lansing Jewish Welfare Federation with an unspecified grant from the Ravitz Foundation, the event brought together three Lansing-area Jewish congregations to host and support the evening’s festivities, said Susan Herman, director of the Michigan Jewish Conference and coordinator of the Statewide Jewish Outreach.
Luke Moreland knows it’s important to stay healthy with finals just around the corner. Officials at Olin Health Center and the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, wish to keep students such as Moreland in mind. The organizations are working together this week to continue their annual effort to distribute cold and flu packs to students living in the residence halls.
The Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, officially will become MSU AgBioResearch at the turn of the new year.
East Lansing’s new library director Kristin Shelley never intended to become a librarian.
A recent study has found public universities decrease their tuition and fees when states increase merit-based financial aid, but increase them when states increase need-based financial aid.
A long line of people wrapped around the streets of downtown East Lansing on Sunday afternoon as they braved the cold to eat free chili and interact with others in the community.
On a chilly December afternoon, community members stood in the cold to help collect coats for those who might not have something warm to wrap themselves in during the holiday season and letters for soldiers who won’t be home to celebrate it.
For Muslim students across campus, the new year rings in with reflections of personal growth and prayer instead of noise-makers and kisses at midnight. The local Islamic community is preparing for the Islamic New Year on Tuesday.
Swaying back and forth and clapping their hands in time, members of the MSU Gospel Choir moved to the music they sang Friday evening. The choir was among several groups that performed at Worship 2010 at St. Paul Lutheran Church and Worship International Church, 3383 Lake Lansing Road.
Governor-elect Rick Snyder spent nearly $11 million in his bid to win the primary and general gubernatorial elections, according to campaign finance reports filed Thursday with the Secretary of State.
Members of the College Libertarians, College Democrats, College Republicans and Young Democratic Socialists participated in a political debate in Case Hall on Thursday night.
After Carol J. Adams’ pony was shot and killed, she had a realization that shaped her life. More than 150 students and community members attended Adams’ Sexual Politics of Meat Slideshow and Lecture Thursday evening in South Kedzie Hall, where Adams spoke of her philosophies.
Students and East Lansing residents shopping for the holiday season can pick up discounts today as stores lower prices in a local spin-off of last weekend’s Black Friday.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly is advocating to update the current university attendance policy to add a list of acceptable absences for students to be excused from class.
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton met with ASMSU members Thursday night to get feedback about qualities they would like to see in the next police chief.
When Howard Ballein was first hired to work at a bookstore in 1952, he was paid 70 cents per hour. When he opened Student Book Store, or SBS in 1960, books sold for about $6 and the store was 1,800 square feet.
Getting caught while parking in a restricted lot for five minutes to turn in a paper could become a more costly infraction if a bill passed by the state House of Representatives on Thursday is signed into law.
Sarah Tarnowsky was suspicious when she returned to her East Lansing home Sunday afternoon to find the back door open.
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