Local students and permanent residents joined together early Sunday to help clean up East Lansing. The Spartan Football Cleanup, sponsored by the Community Relations Coalition, or CRC, united residents to help clear the aftermath of Homecoming weekend.
Using this year’s theme of “Where Heroes are Made,” student organizations created floats for the Homecoming Parade on Friday. Throughout the week, student groups met in the concourse of Spartan Stadium to assemble their floats on top of flatbeds or to create banners. Here are a few examples of what some student groups are doing in honor of Homecoming.
The color-coded wristbands for lower-bowl Izzone members at men’s home basketball games are no longer in effect.
The East Lansing City Council elections are approaching, but the scarce number of lawn signs throughout the city wouldn’t indicate it.
Recipients of 2007 MSU Alumni Association awards range from former NASA employees to former MSU Trustees members and multi-million dollar philanthropists. Fourteen individuals and organizations are expected to receive awards Thursday at the Kellogg Center commemorating them for their work with the university.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm, along with a host of others, is fighting to influence U.S. House of Representative members to override President Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP.
Two female students were each assaulted twice Sunday between 12:45-1:15 a.m. after an argument over a picture on Facebook.com, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The Wharton Center is getting ready to blow out 25 birthday candles this week.
For Maggie Endres, a class is more unique when she gets to hear her professor’s position on an issue … But Endres said there has been a couple of circumstances where she felt pressured to agree with a professor to get a good grade.
The agitating noises of construction traveled from the West Village redevelopment to Valley Court Park at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, but during this 2007 East Lansing Centennial Celebration, the sounds were symbolic.
Religion and abortion — two topics typically thought of as polar opposites — will come together for a lecture today given by a minister with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a national pro-choice organization.
Students in an ISS class were treated to a first-hand discussion with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., on financial aid and rising health care and tuition costs and her position on the war in Iraq.
As MSU takes the next steps in restructuring the Academic Governance system to increase faculty voice, students may see a decrease in theirs.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum Tribute Exhibition visited Michigan’s Capitol Building on Wednesday as part of a 25-city nationwide tour.
It was her love of horses as a child that left Susan Ewart knowing what she wanted to do in life — become a veterinarian.
MSU cafeterias switched ground beef distributors and could be serving ground beef again as soon as Friday evening, university officials said.
Less than seven hours after it started, the United Auto Workers union called off a strike that sent thousands of Michigan autoworkers pacing the picket lines.
East Lansing will seek financial assistance from the state to help families afford housing units in the Virginia Avenue project.
Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama, John Edwards, Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. Joe Biden have withdrawn their names from Michigan’s primary ballot.
About 12,300 recipients have subscribed to the university’s emergency text system that launched about six weeks ago, MSU police said.