After months of meetings and developments, ASMSU has achieved little progress on its tracking mobile application for MSU students, faculty and local residents. ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, has planned to develop an app to track Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, buses on mobile phones.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., celebrated its 10th Annual Hair and Fashion Show on Satruday evening at Wharton Center. With 42 female models, nine different scenes and one musical performance, the show attracted a crowd of more than 200 people. The models showcased clothing from a variety of stores ranging from swimwear to formal wear.
It just wasn’t the MSU softball team’s day. In the Spartans’ (10-22 overall, 0-5 Big Ten) first conference series of the seaon against Ohio State (20-11, 4-1) at Secchia Stadium at Old College Field, they lost the first two games in Saturday’s double-header. Despite attempting to make a comeback, MSU fell 9-4 in the first game before being mercied, 14-1, in the second game as the Buckeyes made contact at nearly every at-bat.
Tony Bucciferro hasn’t always had the best luck against Ohio State. Coming into Saturday’s matchup, the senior pitcher had surrendered 22 hits and 13 earned runs in 10.2 innings of work in his last two outings against the Buckeyes. Even as Bucciferro reversed his fortune Saturday with a nine strikeout performance with just two hits surrendered in eight innings, the MSU baseball team (15-8 overall, 0-1 Big Ten) couldn’t overcome the two walks by his replacement sophomore David Garner in the ninth and were out-dueled by the Buckeyes, 1-0, at McLane Baseball Stadium at Old College Field.
Although it’s early in the spring season — with the spring game not until April 28 — the coaching staff said it’s been impressed with the first week of practice, seeing potential for development in several areas.
The East Lansing Police Department and East Lansing Fire Departments responded to a vehicle submerged in the Red Cedar River at about midnight Friday morning near the intersection of Grand River Avenue and Hagadorn Road.
Local police and fire respondents are investigating a vehicle submerged at the bottom of the Red Cedar River near the bridge on Hagadorn Road.
After more than a year’s effort, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, passed a bill Wednesday night setting up flexible housing for fall 2012, a year earlier than previously planned. The new flexible housing option, which will allow some on-campus residents to live with members of the opposite sex, is expected to be implemented as a pilot program in some suite-style rooms in West McDonel and North Wonders halls, said Kathy Collins, Director of Campus Living Services and Residence Life.
On April 1, 2011, Charlie was diagnosed with a rare brainstem cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. Survival rates are slim to none, and most children die within a year of their diagnosis. Almost a year later, Charlie isn’t bedbound or visibly sick. A beaming smile rests on his face as he plays dinosaurs with his sister or stops to admire a spider crawl by.
A 20-year-old female student reported her wallet was stolen between 2-2:20 p.m. March 27 after she left it on a Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus, MSU police Sgt.
Helping keep high school music departments running is why Samantha Brooks decided to host MSU’s first ever VH1 Save the Music Foundation Benefit Concert on Thursday at the Auditorium’s Arena Theatre. The recent graduate and Tau Beta Sigma’s event co-chair decided holding the concert would be the perfect way to raise money for a cause and bring the MSU and East Lansing communities together.
David Closs, chairperson of the Department of Supply Chain Management at MSU, is one of 50 experts invited by the U.S. General Services Administration to contribute to a discussion Friday at the White House. Participants in the dialogue will explore ways to help the federal government create sustainable supply chains. The business, academic, nonprofit and government specialists will be presented with problems, and they will take their experience in supply chain management to try and find solutions, Closs said.
This summer, the bustling activity of students and visitors frequenting the Union will come to a brief stop. From early May through mid-August, the first floor of MSU’s traditional gathering space will be renovated as part of a $2.4 million project approved by the Board of Trustees in January. Guests already are seeing evidence of changes now as some of the Union Central Store shelves aren’t being restocked.
East Lansing’s dining scene could get a mobile upgrade later this year if the city council approves a policy next week allowing food trucks to operate downtown. The policy revision builds on guidelines approved last year allowing food cart vendors to operate at three different locations in the city.
Although lawmakers still have not come to an agreement on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, some grassroots groups such as the OneVoice movement still believe a solution is possible through youth leadership and cooperation. Members of OneVoice, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to making a two-state solution come to fruition for Israel and Palestine, came to MSU on Thursday evening to share their message and discuss ideas for change with student attendees.
Kim Fritz, owner and proprietor of Nibble, a local cheesecake company, never thought her grandmother’s cheesecake recipe would turn into a full-fledged business. But at the East Lansing Farmer’s Market in 2009, Fritz experienced true success.
A bill headed for the Michigan Senate is aiming to fix a loophole with Michigan gun laws regarding college campuses.
On Thursday evening, Mosher, an Arabic and comparative cultures and politics junior who has Latin American heritage, performed two poems — one about her Spanish heritage and another about her least favorite class — for an audience of about 50 people in Hubbard Hall cafeteria.
Less than a month before the university’s proposed Energy Transition Plan, or ETP, heads to the Board of Trustees for a vote, members of ASMSU’s Executive Committee on Student Affairs passed a bill supporting the proposed policy Thursday night.
After he began working out regularly when he came to campus as a freshman, biomedical laboratory operations sophomore Tim Bazil said he finds exercising makes him feel better about himself and is a good way to take a break from the books.