Although it represents only about 6 percent of MSU’s $1.1 billion budget, energy and utility consumption is one area university officials are targeting to cut costs for next year in the face of decreased state support, possible layoffs and an increase in tuition.
Travelers could see less hassle crossing the Canadian border after Michigan’s enhanced driver’s license became available Tuesday, but some have voiced concern about the license infringing on personal privacy.
Each group sat around small tables carefully cutting and gluing brightly colored sheets of paper onto posters. This wasn’t an elementary classroom, but one at MSU. The students are getting ready to share information about Arbor Day with middle schoolers.
As Canadian ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson spoke via satellite to a room full of scholars, business leaders and politicians Wednesday morning in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building. He advocated for strong Canada-U.S. relations, especially for border states such as Michigan.
Traffic on Hagadorn Road near Shaw Lane was blocked for more than an hour Tuesday evening after a motorcycle-vehicle accident.
The 18th session of ASMSU’s Academic Assembly elected its chairpersons Tuesday, filling leadership roles that will represent the student voice for the 2009-10 school year. ASMSU is MSU’s undergraduate student government.
The economy’s impact on city services was reflected in sections of the city’s budget, which was presented Tuesday to the East Lansing City Council. The city’s human services, parking fund and capital improvement received little or no increase in funding, due in part to difficult economic times, council members said.
Here’s what MSU students had to say about the University of Michigan’s smoking ban.
Known as a man dedicated to developing MSU medical students into strong people — as well as doctors — longtime MSU professor David Kallen died Monday at his home in Grand Ledge. He was 79.
Like many aspects of life, the amount of financial aid available to MSU students is a process of give and take. How much money goes to help students pay for college? And how much goes to fund the classes themselves?
Although MSU campus buildings went smoke free in fall 2008, University of Michigan officials took smoking bans a step further in their decision to push smoking off campus grounds.
The city of East Lansing has been named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation for the 22nd year. The recognition is given to cities that have a continual commitment to community forestry.
Stone Temple Pilots are among the three new acts added to the lineup for the 10th Annual Common Ground Music Festival, slated to be held July 6-12. Los Lonely Boys and Billy Squier also were announced as performers at the festival, which will be held at Adado Riverfront Park in downtown Lansing.
Lengthy lines and scrambling students could potentially disappear from bookstores at the beginning of a new semester as a result of federal legislation. The legislation requires universities to make lists of course materials available to students by the opening of the enrollment process.
They varied in size, color and style, but the 300 shirts that hung from clotheslines Tuesday in the Union were all interwoven with a common theme: empowerment for the women who decorated them, survivors of sexual violence.
To help boost their Rhino Expansion Project, the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, invited a special friend for support. America’s best-known zookeeper, Jack Hanna, and some of his animal friends visited the zoo Tuesday evening to chat, bark and growl about animal education and black rhinoceros conservation.
Green buildings and the city’s proposed 2009-10 fiscal year budget are on the agenda for tonight’s East Lansing City Council meeting, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
The distance from Detroit to Chicago might not seem so far if plans for a high-speed railway linking Midwest cities are approved.
The Old Town Scrapfest this summer might be the perfect opportunity for hungry artists to express their creativity.
In observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, members of Alpha Epsilon Pi will lead a “Walk to Remember” and candle-lighting ceremony today.