The results of the Graduate Employees Union’s continued contract negotiations with MSU could set a precedent for whether the university offers its employees domestic partner benefits.
The names of the six MSU students suspended for their involvement in the Cedar Fest riot last weekend will not be publicly released, a university official said Wednesday.
A grant of $10,000 was awarded to Volunteers of America by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday.
The number of reported crimes related to last weekend’s Cedar Fest riot has been minimal, police said Tuesday.
While scoping out colleges, Bryan Morrison knew he wanted a taste of it all — the perfect fusion of the arts, culture, music and history. The freshman found the feeling of diversity and community he was looking for in the Residential College in the Arts & Humanities. The college, located in Snyder-Phillips Hall, is nearing the end of its first operational academic year, and students and faculty said they’re looking forward to its growth.
One of the 28 MSU students arrested at Cedar Fest was arraigned Tuesday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court and faces a single charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.
Trying to boost MSU’s faculty salary ranking of ninth in the Big Ten for the second year in a row, the University Committee on Faculty Affairs has recommended a 5 percent increase for the 2008-09 academic year.
Michigan legislators said college students could be relieved of some financial burden if the state moves to place state employee retiree health care benefits in a trust fund instead of paying the bill annually.
Members of ASMSU will meet with an East Lansing City Council member today to discuss a proposal for creating a “bill of rights” for student renters.
It’s OK to be angry about rape. That was the message advocates gave Tuesday at Beaumont Field as supporters of sexual assault awareness joined to share stories and support each other.
MSU’s decision of whether or not it will punish students involved with the Cedar Fest riot with interim suspensions will be made this morning, said Lee June, vice president for student affairs and services.
Former MSU Trustee Dee Cook sounded close to tears as she expressed her disgust at the riot during Cedar Fest this weekend. “Here we go again,” Cook said she thought when reading the news. “When I saw it, I said to my husband, ‘Oh, for heaven’s sake.’”
It doesn’t sound accurate, but it’s true — it could be cheaper for some freshmen to attend Stanford University next fall than MSU. In February, Stanford announced a plan to eliminate the total cost of tuition, $36,030, for undergraduates coming from families who earn less than $100,000.
An 18-year-old male from Detroit was arrested for stealing a laptop and cosmetic bag from a Rather Hall dorm room at about 5:50 a.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The 52 people charged for crimes committed during Cedar Fest all face misdemeanor charges, but that could change as charges are finalized, East Lansing police said Monday.
Following the sudden death of a Western Michigan University student suffering from complications similar to meningitis, local health officials said they’re experiencing very few cases near campus.
The body of a 72-year-old Lansing resident was found Sunday at College Fields Golf Course, located at Hagadorn and Bennett roads.
It’s the one envelope a graduate student teaching assistant never wants to receive — one with a letter informing them a job within their college won’t exist next year.
To push themselves and each other to obtain diploma, about 300 students have gripped markers and signed an MSU student group’s banner intended to increase graduation rates among black students.
Sweet wafting steam billows out of the “little Frankenstein-looking thing” in a field off Hagadorn Road. That “Frankenstein thing,” as Jason Darling describes it, is a maple sugaring evaporator.