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(10/04/16 3:34pm)
Many people might not realize how much MSU departments and their staff utilize bikes in their work on and around campus. For more than three decades the Infrastructure Planning and Facilities department has had the largest fleets of work bikes on campus, 23 as of August 2014, which are heavily utilized throughout the year for work trips that don’t require a full-sized motor vehicle. Gus Gosselin, former Director of Building Services and current Senior Engineer with IPF and co-founder of the MSU Bike Project, which was the forerunner to the current MSU Bikes Service Center, was instrumental in building up that fleet and helping the modest bike get the respect it deserves alongside other wheeled transportation options for IPF workers. He’s been riding his bike to meetings, lunches and other work trips around campus for many years, carrying his helmet into meetings to strategically let others know that he rode a bike. There are other departments that also heavily utilize bicycles to help them with their daily work on campus. A couple dozen lease their bikes from MSU Bikes’, utilizing our fleet services for their staff use throughout the work day. MSU police’s bicycle unit has the next sizable fleet of bikes, which help their team of bike patrol officers with a host of work from community policing, routine traffic enforcement and other types of enforcement where a bicycle provides unique benefits — they’re quiet, fast and can go places motor vehicles can’t go.More recently, MSU Bikes, Surplus and Recycling have all been utilizing bikes with large trailers to do even more work on campus than previously thought possible. Their medium length Bikes at Work trailers allow them to haul up to 300- 600 pounds of cargo, and with the help of electric-assist bikes staff don’t need super-human bicycling strength to haul those kinds of loads.MSU Bikes has used the same type of trailer to haul its recycling materials, signage in parades and other special events, mobile bike repair clinic equipment and many other purposes. More information, videos and photos on this blog post show the variety of cargo we’ve hauled through the years that might inspire others to use pedal power more routinely and not just for recreation or health reasons.
(10/05/16 12:49am)
Some dreams die young. MSU football's died in infancy.
(10/03/16 1:18am)
When it comes to living arrangements, I’ve been through it all in my four years of college — I started out in the four-person dorm at Akers hall, transitioning to the traditional one roommate dorm my sophomore year. Junior year was the apartment, and now, for my last ride, I currently reside in a house of Milford Street just off of Grand River Avenue.
(09/30/16 5:15pm)
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football writer Stephen Olschanski talk Les Miles firing, MSU football vs. Indiana and elite coaching jobs in the country.
(09/30/16 3:54pm)
For months, millions of Americans have lambasted the country’s two prominent political party choices for president, decrying Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton as consistently untrustworthy and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as a know-nothing narcissist.
(09/28/16 5:46pm)
MSU Bikes has been "Helping people discover the joys of bicycling!" for more than 10 years now on campus and I've been in the trenches here all those years. If I were asked what three things would make your bike riding way more fun and easy here’s my list:
(09/28/16 5:17pm)
Should psychos have guns? Should society be able to discriminate against gays? Should billionaires be able to buy politicians? Should it be harder for African-Americans and the poor to vote? These are just a few of the issues that the Supreme Court have influenced in the past few years. The same Supreme Court that currently has a vacant seat.
(09/29/16 12:01am)
Before MSU played Wisconsin last Saturday, Gabe Sherrod, Delton Williams and Kenney Lyke raised their fists during the national anthem. Their stance is strikingly similar to the protests of Olympic gold medalist Tommie Smith and bronze medalist John Carlos, who raised their fists on the podium in the 1968 games in Mexico City to raise awareness of the struggles African-Americans faced in the U.S.
(09/27/16 12:40am)
Follow along live with Daniel Eggerding, the president of the MSU College Democrats, and Noelle Cohn, the secretary of the MSU College Republicans, during the first presidential debate of the 2016 election season.
(09/27/16 5:50am)
There’s a certain point in a game during which the fight is already lost despite the time that remains.
(09/26/16 1:20pm)
Dear Michigan House Speaker Cotter,
(09/26/16 1:14pm)
This past week, I had the incredible opportunity and honor to join in the congratulations of more than 140 Spartan student athletes as they earned their varsity letter jackets. Moreover, eight former student athletes of MSU, including the late Mike Sadler, were inducted into the Spartan Hall of Fame.
(09/23/16 3:44pm)
As the election draws closer and opinions flare up and down campus, the culture of division that characterizes modern American politics shows its ugly face.
(09/21/16 1:39pm)
I think I understand what athletes are trying to say by sitting for our anthem, but for me it gets lost in the reality of the delivery.
(09/20/16 3:59pm)
Casey Harrison and Stephen Olschanski talk MSU football's big victory over Notre Dame, the college football landscape, their hot takes, a little controversial takes and rank their power five teams in the nation and the Big Ten.
(09/20/16 2:57pm)
MSU smacked the college football world in the mouth on Saturday.
(09/18/16 11:14pm)
MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio had two weeks to prepare for then-No. 18 Notre Dame, and it showed. From the very first whistle it took the Fighting Irish about 45 minutes to figure out MSU's strategy, and by then, with a 36-7 cushion, it was destined that the Megaphone Trophy would be back in East Lansing.
(09/16/16 5:28pm)
MSU's tobacco use ban went into effect on Aug. 15. Despite the attention, MSU police are being lenient in doling out tickets for smoking on campus as folks adjust. In a previous article from The State News, MSU spokesman Jason Cody said MSU police will not actively seek out violations or actively attempt to give students tickets.
(09/14/16 10:59pm)
A bye week is a time for teams to recover from wounds and injuries before facing yet another stretch on the gridiron. MSU football drew an uncertain future with their week two bye, but head coach Mark Dantonio is taking positives from the scenario.
(09/06/16 4:19pm)
State News sports editor Casey Harrison and football beat writer Stephen Olschanski bring you show No. 2 of the TSN Sports Podcast. After a rocky start in week one, show two brings a different flair. They break down MSU's stumbling victory over Furman, give you their Big Ten and national landscape projections, their hot takes for the week and give you their chumps and champs of MSU football's victory.