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City Council selects Lahanas as city manager

Beau Hayhoe
January 27, 2012

The East Lansing City Council unanimously selected current Interim City Manager George Lahanas as its next permanent city manger on Friday morning after more than three hours of back-and-forth discussion. Lahanas has served in the interim role since October 2011, when former city manager Ted Staton stepped down to become the city manager in Upper Arlington, Ohio. Lahanas now will be responsible for, among other things, upholding policies Staton worked to implement, including ones that affect some MSU students, such as the city’s party litter ordinance. Lahanas also will continue to work toward implementing the city’s budget for this upcoming fiscal year, a process that will start in February. “I’ve greatly appreciated the past 13 years of service and I’m greatly honored by the trust and confidence (the council has placed in me),” he said.

MSU

ASMSU officer resigns citing conflicting schedules

Rachel Jackson
January 26, 2012

ASMSU Vice Chairperson for Student Programming Emmanuel Williams has resigned from his post in the organization because of overwork and conflicting schedules, ASMSU General Assembly Steve Marino announced at the group’s Thursday night meeting. An interim vice chairperson will be appointed for two weeks until an election can be held to determine a replacement, Marino said.

NEWS

Are You Employable?

Samantha Radecki  and  Isabella Shaya
January 26, 2012

A survey conducted by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published in The Wall Street Journal, used 2010 census data to compare the unemployment earnings and popularity percentages of 173 college majors and fields.

Justin Wan ·
MSU

Tuning his teaching

Justin Wan
January 26, 2012

For music education and music performance senior Matt Nix, music is what he has been devoted to for the past 13 years. But teaching it to young students still stirs a small identity issue within him.

MSU

Students propose a smoke-free campus

Rachel Jackson
January 26, 2012

After some students raised concern about the amount of smokers near MSU buildings, student government groups are working to develop an enforcable solution. Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, President Stefan Fletcher said the issue of potentially creating a smoke-free campus likely will come up at next month’s COGS meeting after medical students raised the issue, and the council will discuss creating a concept for the proposed policy.

MICHIGAN

City manager finalists meet for interviews with officials, residents

Beau Hayhoe
January 26, 2012

The search for a new East Lansing city manager now likely is one day from completion following a day of public candidate interviews conducted by the city council. The five finalists met with the council in front of residents and other city administrators throughout the day at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, answering questions dealing with everything from East Lansing’s relationship with MSU to the city’s environmental sustainability policies.

COMMENTARY

Social media changed protests

It’s a well-known fact that this generation is amidst a social media revolution. We get our news from Twitter, make plans through Facebook and find our friends on Foursquare.