I love the financial crisis. Well, not “love” it, since it caused millions of Americans to lose their homes, ground economies to a halt on not one but two continents and is part of the reason I and thousands of other graduating seniors can’t find a well-paying job.
When a college student obtains a credit card, it should be a responsible, mature decision about when one has the proper income to afford it.
Incoming MSU freshmen will have some assigned reading to complete before they step on campus this fall. MSU and the city of East Lansing today announced the selection of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” by Katherine Boo, as part of the 11th year of the One Book, One Community program.
Last fall, Monica, a Lansing Community College sophomore, was invited to her friend’s East Lansing home to tour his place. The evening started off as a casual hangout, but it ended in a way she didn’t see coming. Her friend was showing her around just like he said, but when they got to his room, he turned off the lights and locked the door, forcing her onto his bed.
It was the end of the road for a double homicide case when David Marion Jr., 22, was sentenced Wednesday morning to a minimum of 40 years in prison. But for the families of the victims, it was only partial closure.
Workers moved Wednesday morning to secure the site of a decrepit Abbot Road building with ties to the $105 million City Center II project, setting the stage for a financial evaluation of the redevelopment effort and possible demolition at the site.
A four-year-old case stemming from a disputed MSU parking ticket and a related university ordinance once again saw the light of day when a case filed by MSU alumnus Jared Rapp went before the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday.
A 19-year-old male student reported a ball was thrown through his dorm room window between 9:01-9:30 p.m. April 2 in West Akers Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
From the moment Gretchen Whitmer entered the room, Kelly Rossman-McKinney knew she had make a mistake. When the then-29-year-old arrived at the East Lansing Rotary Club event to campaign for the 70th district seat in the 2000 election, the Democratic candidate’s charisma was palpable.
Robert Spiegel called his mom to make sure she was doing OK after hearing reports of a tornado in Dexter, Mich., on March 15 — about 65 miles from MSU. “It hit our neighborhood, and the house right across the street from us was completely gone to the foundation,” the finance junior said, adding his mom was safe in the basement.
Efforts by the Black Student Alliance, or BSA, and other student groups to create a freestanding multicultural center might be stalled in the face of logistics, such as cost and space availability, officials said. When MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon spoke at a Residence Halls Association, or RHA, meeting last month, students addressed the issue with her, but she said she hasn’t formed a position on how to proceed without looking at all the facts, including cost and space.
An about 4 percent increase for residence hall housing rates for the 2012-13 academic year was announced at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, meeting on Wednesday night.
On Wednesday, medical student Jon Vandenberg rolled across the tennis court in a wheelchair, racquet in hand, and passed a tennis ball to 15-year-old Katie Frayer from Dewitt, Mich., who was born with Arthrogryposis, a congenital disorder that has left her in a wheelchair.
MSU is extending the reach of one of its top-ranked programs this summer with the launch of new online master certificate programs.
Instead of buying Aquafina bottles, Lauren Weber, an interdisciplinary studies in social science senior, totes a refillable water bottle with her on campus to make water conservation a daily priority. Although MSU promotes water conservation on campus, some universities, including Seattle University, have taken the practice further by ending bottled water sales on campus.
On Tuesday night, the East Lansing City Council approved a predevelopment agreement for the City Center II project near the intersection of Abbot Road and Grand River Avenue.
The MSU baseball team continued its winning ways with a 6-1 victory against Eastern Michigan on Wednesday in Ypsilianti, Mich. With the Crosstown Showdown with the Lansing Lugnuts on Thursday at Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing along with a three-game series this weekend with in-state rival Michigan, head coach Jake Boss Jr. limited the innings of his pitchers in the game.
Jimmy Pickens considers himself blessed to have played in professional baseball stadiums multiple times since he picked up the game as a kid. As a freshman out of Brother Rice High School in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Pickens even has had the chance to play in the Detroit Tigers’ Comerica Park in the Catholic League Championship. Still, Pickens said he can’t wait to get a taste of his first Crosstown Showdown at 7:05 p.m. Thursday, when he and the MSU baseball team take on the Single-A Lansing Lugnuts at Cooley Law School Stadium in Lansing.
For the sixth-straight year, the Lansing Lugnuts will open up the season against the MSU baseball team. The Lugnuts — the Single-A affiliate of the MLB’s Toronto Blue Jays — made it to the Midwest League Championship series last season, a few months after the Spartans won the Big Ten championship. The annual Crosstown Showdown provides Greater Lansing baseball fans a chance to see two top-of-their-level teams face off at Cooley Law School Stadium.
The last time Anthony Rashad White took the field in a competitive atmosphere, he secured MSU’s first bowl win since 2001 with a blocked kick on the final play of a 33-30 victory over Georgia in the 2012 Outback Bowl. Three months later, the senior nose tackle is back on the field for MSU’s spring practices and working to fill the void left by the person who was lined up on White’s left during the play — defensive tackle Jerel Worthy, who elected to forgo his senior season and declare for the NFL draft just a few days after the bowl game.