East Lansing joined four other cities in Michigan last week when it adopted a measure to encourage residents to turn off nonessential lights this weekend. The dim down, nationally known as Earth Hour, takes place from 8:30-9:30 p.m. Saturday and residents are encouraged to turn off all nonwessential lights and electrical devices, East Lansing City Councilmember Nathan Triplett said.
Members of ASMSU traveled to Washington, D.C., this past weekend to speak to Michigan’s legislators about lobbying for higher education funding. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
Playboy bunnies, “Girls Gone Wild” and g-strings were a few of the topics author Ariel Levy discussed Tuesday when she spoke to a crowd of more than 160 people at the Union.
Jasmine Angelini-Knoll closed her eyes, letting words she didn’t always understand flow into her ears.
Guatemala native Oscar Arreola calls his homeland “the most multicultural and multilandscaped country you would find in the whole Central America.” Yet Arreola, an MSU doctoral student who lived in Guatemala until he was 17, said his home country suffers from “a combination of underlying social problems, gangs and drug trafficking.”
A 19-year-old male student reported 10 CDs stolen by two males he found sitting in his vehicle in the East Holden Hall service lot, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Student and local artists expressed emotions, experiences and different perspectives through artwork at a show Monday. Each of the pieces of art dealt with the subject matter of women.
Several discussion sessions are being held to prepare MSU students, faculty and staff for upgrades to the ANGEL system.
A major city development, medical marijuana and newspaper racks highlight this week’s East Lansing City Council agenda as council members are set to vote on a deadline extension for City Center II.
The man accused of murdering an MSU student, her boyfriend and members of her boyfriend’s family began standing trial for an unrelated crime Monday in the 17th Circuit Court in Kent County.
Michigan once set the pace for supporting successful business, but a recent study ranks the state 3rd-worst in the nation in supporting jobs and business growth for the second year in a row.
For friends of Josh Parks, a kinesiology sophomore who died Wednesday, coming together to share memories has been one of the most effective ways to deal with grief, friend Linda Venema said.
It didn’t take long for public administration and public policy sophomore Chelsea Satkowiak to move up the ranks in the Residence Halls Association, or RHA. After one year as a Shaw Hall representative, she was elected Wednesday to be the next RHA vice president.
Curling irons, cosmetic bags and extra fabric were sprawled across the dressing room. Students ironed wrinkles and discussed the best modeling techniques to accentuate their collections as models finished their makeup.
To friends, Shane Collins was a bright student whose promising future was cut short by his sudden death last week. “He was the smartest kid I knew and still had time to be friends with everyone,” said no-preference sophomore Nick Weaver, a close friend of Collins. “You don’t find that very often.”
More than 50 students, faculty members and area residents met Thursday on the median of Grand River Avenue at Abbot Road to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.
A bill introduced Tuesday by state Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, seeks to make it possible for citizens to track all of the Michigan government’s spending online. The bill, SB 382, would require the state to post records of all its spending on a free Web site, which would be open for the public to view.
A bill to support a tuition freeze was voted down by ASMSU’s Academic Assembly on Tuesday, after Chairperson Pro Tempore Brad McDonald voted it down as the tiebreaking vote. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
A team of MSU researchers have found a way for businesses to address what matters most to consumers. The study identified four parts of a total experience that consumers look for: benefit, convenience, price and environment, said Bonnie Knutson, a professor of hospitality business who led the study.