A week in news:
Following the thefts of numerous pieces of artwork at the annual East Lansing Art Festival, ELPD was able to recover a significant amount of art, with the police pointing to intoxicated individuals making poor choices as the cause.
The East Lansing Police Department have found and recovered six pieces of artwork stolen during the East Lansing Art Festival. Police suspect that the work was primarily of an interrelated and intoxicated group, not an individual, a similar circumstance to previous vandalisms.
“We located some in the houses, and we actually had some turned into the police office,” Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth of the East Lansing Police Department said about the salvaged paintings. “While I think there may have been multiple people, and they may have been linked together, this wasn’t some big crew of art thieves into town for the festival. It was more some intoxicated individuals who made some bad decisions on their way home from a specific watering hole.”
Two armed robberies
Two armed robberies were reported in the MSU and East Lansing area in the last week, with MSU police sending out alerts for both.
The first occurred Sunday where an armed robbery was reported at Kedzie Street and Beech Street early Sunday morning where a handgun was seen, according to an MSU Alert.
Police describe the suspect as a light-skinned black male about 22 years old and about five feet, nine inches tall. He was wearing a dark hoodie, baggy blue jeans and a backwards ball cap and had short dark hair that was in dreadlocks.
The second occurred Tuesday night where an alert said an armed robbery occurred at Bessey Hall at 9:15 p.m.
Both suspects are described as black males with black backpacks and bicycles. One suspect was seen wearing a blue shirt and the other was wearing a black shirt.
No additional information is available for either of the robberies as of Wednesday morning.
MSU baseball falls short
Needing only one win to clinch a spot in the Big Ten Tournament title game entering the weekend, MSU baseball season came to an end following a 4-3 loss Saturday and a 7-3 Sunday loss to eventual Big Ten Tournament champions Ohio State University.
The losses left MSU baseball on the outside of the NCAA field once again as the Spartans haven’t reached the field since 2012.
MSU and Ohio State hadn’t met this season until the final two days of the tournament leading to a game chock full of small ball and extra inning heroics by Buckeye left fielder Ronnie Dawson.
Though MSU struggled down the regular season stretch, their Big Ten Tournament run left it two wins shy of the automatic NCAA bid that goes to the Big Ten Tournament’s champion. A low RPI and a highly considered weak non-conference schedule hindered the Spartans chances for an at large bid.
Nebraska and Minnesota join Ohio State as the conference’s representatives in the tournament field.
MySpartanCareer ends
On May 31 students’ access to MySpartanCareer, MSU’s career development platform, ended. It was replaced with a new platform called Handshake.
“Handshake will be replacing MySpartanCareer and will be your one stop shop for launching your career,” MSU Career Services’ website says.
Handshake launched June 1 and some of its features include: internship and job searches, career exploration resources, career related workshops, employer events, job fairs and career advising.
