Planning for the three-year mark of the violence on Feb. 13, 2023, is underway. A committee of students, staff, and faculty is working with the Office for Resource and Support Coordination to plan this year’s commemoration. It includes a day of service for campus community members to participate in, a resource tent located near the Grand River Parking Ramp where luminary kits will be available for pick-up, Alumni Chapel, and a remembrance concert and bell tolling at Beaumont Tower. A livestream of the Beaumont Tower bell ringing will be available below beginning at 8 p.m.
As a reminder, most classes will not be held on Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, though the university will remain open to support students and our community.
The Breslin Center’s Hall of History, open 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and the MSU Alumni Chapel, open 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., will be staffed with volunteers to assist with resources/support.
Join the Center for Community Engaged Learning for Caring Through Service, an opportunity for community building, service, and advocacy. Visit the Breslin Center Hall of History between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to support mental health initiatives, create meaningful connections, and give back to the community. Food will be available, as participants come together in community to support one another through service.
A tented, heated space will be open and staffed with volunteers to navigate resources and support, offer luminary kits (white paper bags with green electric tea lights) for pickup, provide bottled water and hot cocoa, and direct community members to QR codes The tent will be located at the corner of West Circle Drive and East Circle Drive, near the Grand River Ramp.
There are plans for music to be played, a moment of silence and then the ringing of the Beaumont Tower bells from 8:10 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Beaumont Tower, as well as the MSU Union and Berkey Hall, will be lit green from dusk on Feb. 13 until dawn on Feb. 14. A livestream of this will be available for viewing by Spartans around the world near the top of this page.
Luminaries (picked up at the locations above) can be lit and photos captured and shared on social media using the hashtag #spartanstogether.
As part of the one-year commemoration, members of the MSU community were invited to write messages and place them anonymously in an acrylic box. Two boxes are now installed in the newly renovated impacted spaces, the MSU Union and Berkey Hall.
In the Union, the art piece is located in the food court seating area. In Berkey Hall, the art piece is located in the first floor gathering space.
Cards and QR codes with information about supportive resources will be available near these art pieces.
MSU Counseling & Psychiatric Services (Olin Health Center, 3rd Floor 463 East Circle Dr.; 517-355-8270) and the MSU Employee Assistance Program (110 Linton Hall, 479 W. Circle Dr., 517-355-4506) will have drop-in appointments available from 8 a.m. through 4:30 p.m. on February 13.
For immediate support, students should contact CAPS Crisis Line at 517-355-8270, #1 to speak to a licensed counselor. For employees, after-hours support is available via calling 517-355-4506, #2.
Visit the websites or call for more details related to accessing these drop-in appointments or to inquire more generally about available services.
Community members may choose to gather in remembrance of those we lost, those injured and all those impacted at any of resource and support locations, outside the impacted buildings, in front of Beaumont Tower, at any other space that feels meaningful to them or follow the live stream from a comforting location of their choosing.
MSU hopes community members will find support in one another and take time to remember the students we lost and honor those injured in the violence that impacted so many of us two years ago.
Below are additional resources and guidance to help leaders and educators as the remembrance nears.