As President George W. Bush marks the final X’s on his presidential calendar, experts said President-elect Barack Obama’s Oval Office entrance could improve the country’s international image and help the United States push its foreign policy objectives.
East Lansing residents who might have been eyeing Albert Place Condominiums could get the chance to rent one out, as the owners talked with the East Lansing City Council about getting a rental license at the council’s work session Tuesday.
Mandy Moran is going home. When the marketing senior graduates in a week and a half, she won’t be heading off to Chicago or San Francisco to begin her career. Rather, she’ll head home to Rochester Hills in hopes of getting a seasonal job until the summer, when she said she hopes to get hired by a company.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon unveiled a new financial aid fund Tuesday for students suffering from recent economic hardships.
The first probable cause hearing was held Tuesday afternoon for the man accused of four counts of homicide, including the death of MSU student Katherine A. Brown.
Students who plan to take the bus on campus Thanksgiving Day will have to find other transportation.
A month after ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” unveiled a newly built home to the Nickless family in Holt, the episode is set to air at 8 p.m. Sunday on ABC.
Lydia Hawthorne would have to pay at least $750 for a round-trip plane ticket back to her hometown of Rochester, Minn., for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving dinner will be quieter for Krista R. Lueth’s family this year. The 34-year-old MSU student has been missing since Nov. 11 and investigators are still approaching the investigation as a missing person case, State Police Sgt. Kevin Mark said.
A slow summer and difficult luck finding a new franchise owner forced BTB Burrito, 403 E. Grand River Ave., to close its doors Tuesday.
With the first snows of winter come snowmen, snowball fights and salt sprinkled across the roads. However, coating campus roads with salt will be trickier this year, as an increase in the price of salt caused MSU to cut back on its purchases. Even though MSU will look at alternative ways to remove snow and ice, East Lansing will continue primarily using salt, as its budget allocations have increased as a result of the price change.
Michigan taxpayers have a choice to make during the next year, experts said: Deal with a higher gas tax and possibly other tax hikes, or watch as potholes slowly consume the road. Unless funding for transportation infrastructure doubles, Michigan’s roads, bridges, airport runways and shipping ports will fall into severe disrepair, according to a report released Nov. 10 by Michigan’s Transportation Funding Task Force.
MSU has applied for $20 million to expand the new Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, which will be located in West Fee Hall. The institute will promote various forms of research, from clinical to community-engaged.
For more than three decades, Mother Nature’s worst couldn’t stop Chi Chang from teaching class. The chemistry professor begins his 45-minute drive from Brighton to East Lansing earlier once snow starts to turn I-96 white, but those extra allotted minutes aren’t always enough.
A Lego-based wall-climbing robot kicks its legs up high like a chicken and walks with suctioned feet across a table in the office of Dean Aslam, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. For the past 10 years, Aslam has been applying Lego-based objects to complicated engineering tactics as part of his university research and as a method of outreach.
The East Lansing City Council will see a packed agenda at its work session tonight, including discussions on the Albert Place Condominiums, the petition on using public bonds to finance the public portion of City Center II and the revision of an historic district commission. The work session is scheduled to be held at 7 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
A 19-year-old student was assaulted in Lot 91 near Hubbard Hall Friday, MSU police reported. The student parked her car and was crossing the railroad tracks at 9:45 p.m. when two men hit her and started tearing her clothes, police said.
The MSU Board of Trustees unanimously approved Robert Groves as the new vice president for university advancement at its Friday meeting. Groves comes to MSU after working at the University of Michigan as the associate vice president and campaign director for university development. At U-M, Groves ran the daily operations of the Michigan Difference, a $3.1 billion fundraising campaign.
Students and community members packed into MacDonald Middle School’s auditorium Saturday to catch a glimpse of African life. The Afroganza: Bridging the Gap gala was the finale to MSU’s African Culture Week, featuring African singers, drummers, stilt dancers and an array of African fashion.
The third annual International Dance Extravaganza gave almost 300 people the opportunity to watch experienced performers before learning to shake their hips and strut their stuff on Friday night. Those in attendance were treated to almost an hour of eclectic dancing and a night full of ethnic food, crafts and dance lessons.