A female student, bicyclist was transported to the hospital at about 11:45 a.m. today after being struck by a male student, motorcyclist, MSU police Sgt.
Just hours after summer officially began, the East Lansing city council approved an ordinance outlining how residents must respond to winter weather. The council unanimously approved a revised snow removal ordinance that will impact students in rental houses come winter, specifying the time frame in which residents and businesses must remove snow, ice and other obstructions, such as broken bottles, from city sidewalks.
Fire officials still are investigating the cause of a fire that burned a house on 532 Ann St. early Sunday morning, East Lansing Fire Inspector Gerald Rodabaugh said. The East Lansing Fire Department responded to a call at 3:39 a.m.
No charges will be pressed against the Fowlerville, Mich., police officer involved in the automotive crash that caused the death of an East Lansing man, according to a press release from Livingston County Prosecutor David Morse. Carl Stamm, a 20-year-old East Lansing resident and MSU employee, died May 17 after colliding his motorcycle at speeds of up to 126 mph with the officer’s police car on 1-96 near Fowlerville, according to the statement. The motorcyclist had a blood-alcohol level of .10 at the time of his death, according to autopsy results, Livingston County Sheriff Bob Bezotte said. The state’s legal limit is .08. Two Livingston County deputies pursued Stamm after clocking him at more than 100 mph, Bezotte said in a previous interview. Both police cars activated their lights and sirens and called other local police departments for assistance, according to the statement.
Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law Michigan’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which he deemed a “kids’ budget.” Although this budget would cut 15 percent of funding for universities in state, Snyder said it is structurally balanced, eliminates Michigan’s $1.5 billion deficit and creates a fiscal environment that can be sustained by Michigan’s young people. “We’re not going to leave a state in worse shape than when we were running it for our kids in the future,” he said.
Last month, an injured bald eagle was rescued from the Saginaw River and was sent by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to MSU’s Veterinary Medical Center. Since then, the bird has been rehabilitating under the watchful eye of James Sikarskie, associate professor of small animal clinical sciences. Sikarskie was looking to send the bird to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden when they were in need of another bald eagle. However, the bird wasn’t quite what they were seeking and still is in need of a home. “There are so many eagles that Cincinnati wants someone younger who’s easier to tame down,” he said.
MSU researchers have been awarded a $5 million grant from the Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Researchers in the MSU Department of Animal Science will use the grant to study genetics related to the efficient production of milk in cows, said Rob Tempelman, professor of animal science and member of the research initiative. “We have these genetic markers we can apply,” Tempelman said.
The MSU swimming and diving team will host the John Munley Long Course Memorial Swim Meet at 6 p.m. Saturday at IM Sports-West at the outdoor pool with the lanes arranged for long course meter competition.
The 6.9 percent increase results in a hike of about $718 based off last fall’s tuition rates for an in-state undergraduate student taking 14 credits per semester this fall, according to the Office of the Registrar.
For years, David Mead cruised throughout the tri-county region on his bike. Now, he delights in helping people in need do the same. Mead — a Lansing resident — has volunteered his time to various bicycle repair programs in the area for more than a decade. “It’s satisfying to see people get bikes — it’s a recycling effort,” he said.
After releasing maps Friday detailing how they think Michigan’s district lines should be redrawn, Republicans from the state House and Senate hope to have the redistricting process completed by July 1. Some significant changes to districts in state would be made if these Republican maps were to be adopted. The redrawn congressional districts proposed by Republicans would put two Michigan Democratic incumbents into the same district.
Nutritionists often refer to breakfast as “the most important meal of the day,” but the numbers show MSU students have been eating much less breakfast than they did four years ago. From July 2006 to June 2007, students in the MSU cafeterias ate 68 tons of cereal, and since then, the number has dropped dramatically.
The Spartans welcomed a lion on campus this past weekend, but you won’t catch him with a football. An African male lion was sent from John Ball Zoo, in Grand Rapids, to Potter Park Zoo, in Lansing, then to MSU’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital to undergo an MRI.
Although summer officially begins Tuesday, the East Lansing City Council is set to approve an ordinance that would dictate the way off-campus students respond to winter weather. After more than a year of discussion on the issue, the council likely will approve a new snow removal ordinance that would require residents to shovel sidewalks within a set time frame, subjecting them to a tiered fine system for failure to clear their sidewalks of snow, ice and other debris — including broken bottles and other trash.
Plant biology professor Sheng Yang He was named one of the nation’s most innovative plant scientists by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, or HHMI, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, or GBMF.
It’s not often that an a cappella group enjoys being booed, but the Accafellas aren’t your typical a cappella group. They’re an all-male, nine-member singing group, made up of MSU students ranging across a variety of majors.
Almost one year after the original date, megaband U2 will perform its rescheduled concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at Spartan Stadium. When the original concert was scheduled, the athletics department planned accordingly for changes to the stadium, which included a new grass field.
FanTape and Aire Serv of Mid Michigan will sponsor the first ever Kick for the House celebrity soccer match at 4 p.m. Saturday at Grand Ledge High School Football Stadium, 820 Spring St., in Grand Ledge.
Have you wondered recently about your future? Have you really wondered about your future and the future of the state, the country or the planet? Last year, we were treated to the fairly innocuous movie “2012” — dramatically presented and poorly acted — in which the prediction for the future was pretty bleak.
Gov. Rick Snyder, taking the words of Abraham Lincoln to heart, has put in motion a collective of committees that supposedly would create legislation for the people, by the people. But which people?