Randy Talifarro thought his career with the fire department would end in Flint.But when the East Lansing City Council announced they had chosen Talifarro as their top choice for the position of East Lansing Fire Chief, he couldn’t decline.“I was not real aggressive in seeking to leave Flint,” Talifarro said.
The MSU debate team returned to East Lansing victorious after its first win of the year at the Kansas City Swing, a series of debates held at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and William Jewell College.
Ford Motor Co. said Thursday the Firestone tire recall should cost it $500 million as expected, not including untold costs of defending itself against and settling lawsuits over crashes involving the questioned tires. Henry Wallace, Ford’s chief financial officer, said the half-billion dollars the automaker figured the massive recall would cost it in lost production, among other things, has been split evenly over its past two earnings quarters. “As for the litigation, that’s going to go on for some time,” he said. Roughly 200 lawsuits have been filed against Ford and Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. over crashes involving the tires, 6.5 million of which were recalled last summer.
MSU’s College of Engineering recently received a $300,000 grant to support a program that introduces new teaching methods to improve students’ learning experience.The award is the second grant the program, Reforming the Early Undergraduate Engineering Learning Experience, has received from the GE Fund, a charitable foundation of the General Electric Co.Thomas Wolff, associate dean of undergraduate studies in the College of Engineering, said he’s pleased to receive funding again.“There aren’t many cases and opportunities where (engineering) faculty really are afforded some funding to improve their teaching and to do that on a large scale,” he said.The grant is part of the GE Fund’s Learning Excellence initiative, which aims to invest in original, interdisciplinary education methods.“GE as a company has learned that boundaryless thinking, teamwork, and e-skills are critical to success,” said Roger Nozaki, program manager for the GE Fund.
Fredro Starr of “Save the Last Dance” and Morris Chestnut, star of “The Best Man,” will meet and greet fans today from 5 p.m.
The assembly approved a measure Tuesday proposing the use of Latin terms such as Magna Cum Laude and Summa Cum Laude in place of the English graduation honors used by the university.
The East Lansing Police Department is out in full force to improve communication with the students it protects. Citing some difficult times during the past few years, the city’s blue is searching for ways to improve relations with students.
While ASMSU will have an official logo embedded on future volumes of the Red Cedar Log, several of its representatives want ASMSU to leave a more significant mark on the publication. ASMSU’s policy committee rejected a bill Tuesday that would grant the Red Cedar Log Advisory Committee and the ASMSU Student Assembly editorial control over the yearbook. “The purpose of the bill is to create accountability with ASMSU because of a historical consistency of misrepresentation for our minority population,” said Bryan Newland, the North American Indian Student Organization representative for the ASMSU Student Assembly. Although the failed measure was not endorsed by the policy committee, supporters have called on minority students to gather at the assembly’s weekly meeting tonight in support of the bill.
It’s been two years since Brian Wilson decided to move away from the safe haven of MSU residence halls.Although the advertising senior said he’s enjoyed living off-campus so far, the first year away from campus has been very difficult for him.“I’m just starting to learn how to utilize the benefits of living off-campus,” Wilson said.
Minorities searching for career opportunities will soon have a chance to market their skills.The Minority Career Fair, sponsored annually by Career Services & Placement, will take place Jan.
The theme for the 2001 Battle Against Cancer is something that organization founder Nick Kovacic hopes students will stop to think about.The theme, “It’s your life.
Shannon Sharp wanted to give The Eli Broad College of Business a boost. Her $20 donation contributed to the “Senior Class Campaign,” a year-long fund-raising contest between seniors at the University of Michigan and seniors at MSU.
Engineering arts junior Lawrence Thomas hardly ever uses the computer in his Spartan Village apartment.Although his computer is fully equipped with DVD-rom, a CD burner and performs the most practical word-processing functions, Thomas often finds himself using one of the more than 60 computer microlabs on campus.“They’re easy to get to,” Thomas said.
After more than six months without a fire chief, the East Lansing City Council named Randall Talifarro to fill the fire department’s top seat.He will begin his new duties in March.
Amanda Wenn has been making a habit of buckling up every time she rides in a car since she was a child.The anthropology senior is like many Michigan motorists who are strapping in.
Dick Ammons has never seen such a positive approach to music and spirituality as he sees in Lucille Olson. Ammons has been the minister at the Unity of Greater Lansing church, 240 Marshall St.
Sherie Rappoport said her recent trip to Israel was the best experience she has ever had.The education freshman traveled with a group of 28 MSU students from the Hillel Jewish Student Center on the Birthright Israel Trip, a program that takes Jewish college students who have never been to Israel on a 10-day trip through the country.
In some parts of the world a mosquito bite can lead to more than just a pesky itch; it can lead to any number of fatal diseases.Alex Raikhel, an MSU professor of entomology and genetics, was the lead researcher in discovering and creating the world’s first transgenic - or genetically altered mosquito.