To help the growing international population in East Lansing, city officials have added an interpreter service to all departments to broaden communication with the international community. LanguageLine Solutions is a 24-hour phone service that will translate face-to-face interactions between city staff and community members whose primary language is not English.
MSU alumnus Scott Westerman’s plea to raise $3,000 for ovarian cancer research in response to a University of Michigan fan’s game day prank has been more successful than he ever imagined. Westerman, the executive director of the MSU Alumni Association, called on Spartan fans to raise the money after “Go Blue” was splashed across East Lansing skies during the last football game against Youngstown State.
The new iOS 7 software will be available for download Wednesday. Here’s a look at some of the major updates and new features iOS 7 has to offer.
With the East Lansing City Council elections coming up in November, ASMSU has decided to step in to spread awareness among students to register and vote.
The MSU community celebrated United States Constitution Day on Tuesday with activities that honored the nation’s founding document in both serious and light-hearted ways. Constitution Day, originally known as Citizenship Day, commemorates the day the Constitution originally was signed. It was named a federal holiday in 2004.
For more than 60 years, the MSU Evening College has served as a way for alumni to stay engaged with the university through courses and instruction. With the new Alumni Lifelong Enrichment for Spartans program, or LENS, the MSU Alumni Association looks to “re-envision” what the former evening college should be.
With the intent to improve student and community relations and establish communication between the two, a University Student Commission, or USC, is appointed each year. At Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council meeting, new members of the USC were appointed, representing the Residence Hall Association, Inter-fraternity Council, Nation Panhellenic Council, ASMSU, Olin Health Center, Community Relations Coalition and the council of Graduate Students.
The man found unresponsive in Patriarche Park this weekend was a student in the MSU College of Law, officials confirmed Tuesday. MSU officials said 31-year-old Noah Cooper, a law student at MSU, was the man who reportedly died after being found unresponsive in the park, located at 1100 Alton St.
Redshirt freshman cornerback Ezra Robinson, who pleaded guilty to underage drinking and driving last month, now faces court-ordered classes and fines.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light, or BWL, will begin producing wind energy-generated electricity for customers in the Lansing area by fall 2014.
Campus police are investigating an assault that occurred at 1 a.m. Sept. 14 near Lot 29 at the intersection of Shaw Lane and Akers Road. The victim, an 18-year-old female student, told police she was returning to her residence hall when an unidentified man attacked her from behind, according to a statement from MSU police.
After several decades of existence, the neighborhood-run Orchard Street Pump House community center could soon acquire an official contract with the city of East Lansing. Positioned in the heart of the Bailey Neighborhood, the pump house serves as a center for community events, including exercise classes, ice cream socials, concerts, celebrations and several other neighborhood activities.
A man found unresponsive at East Lansing’s Patriarche Park earlier this week has been pronounced dead, the East Lansing Police Department confirmed Monday evening. The man was found in the park, located at 1100 Alton St., early Sunday afternoon and has since died.
After pleading guilty to an underage drinking and driving charge earlier this summer, redshirt freshman cornerback Ezra Robinson now faces fines and court-ordered classes. The Sarasota, Fla., native was sentenced to attend a victim impact panel and an alcohol highway safety class before 54-B District Court Judge Richard Ball early Monday morning. He also is required to pay $758 in fees by Nov. 15 or he will risk jail time.
Jerred Pender walked to the closets on the right side of his bedroom. One holds his civilian clothes. The other has some military uniforms, a camouflaged helmet and two pairs of cowboy boots on the shelf above. A stuffed camouflage backpack lay on the ground, the top flap hanging open.
It’s been days since flames ripped through Phoenix cooperative house, and for the majority of its residents, life is back to normal. But for environmental biology junior Jordan Brandel, whose room was completely destroyed, the living situation remains far from ideal.
The challenge calls for contestants to eat all of the restaurant’s nine original-style hot dogs in 20 minutes. In addition to fame, winners also receive a T-shirt, the chance to make their own hot dog recipe and are immortalized with a picture on the wall of What Up Dawg?, located at 317 M.A.C. Ave.
A Lansing initiative to decriminalize marijuana use is slated to appear on the city’s Nov. 6 ballot, but the notion of how the law would be enforced and whether the law will carry over to surrounding areas remains uncertain. If passed, the initiative would allow the possession, use and transfer of less than one ounce of marijuana on private property in Lansing for those aged 21 or older.
The man police believe initiated a series of sexual assaults in East Lansing during the summer is facing charges for a similar incident that occurred in late March, court documents show.
Minority enrollment at higher education institutions already was sloping downward before the 2006 ban on affirmative action. A new report from a Detroit-based advocacy group shows that trend continued even after the ban, but large universities — MSU included — have been the exception to the rule.