As fans patiently wait for the new season to begin, EA Sports will ease some of that tension with the release of its latest football title “NCAA Football 12” on Tuesday for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles.
MSU men’s basketball sophomore guard Keith Appling and the USA U19 World Champion -ship Team took down Australia, 78-77, for fifth place Sunday in the 2011 FIBA U19 World Championship in Riga, Latvia. The defending championship U.S. team lost its chance for the gold medal with its 79-74 loss to Russia Friday.
Through his first week with the Lansing Lugnuts, former Spartan Eli Boike has put up a .250 batting average in three games, hitting 3-for-12 from the plate. The former Spartan has added two RBIs and walked once while going without an error in the field.
High heels of every conceivable variety pointed down at the sidewalk outside an empty storefront in Lansing’s Eastwood Towne Center.
Most college graduates looking to enter the field of teaching don’t worry about finding a job. There are so many schools and so many students that teachers always are in demand, Lauren Blakely said. But holding on to that teaching job is a graduate’s biggest concern, the history senior said.
Prosecutors requested the bond for the alleged dog killer to be raised to a total of $1 million in court Thursday because of previous threats of violence to witnesses he made, among other things, Ingham County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Lisa McCormick said. Graduate student Andrew David Thompson’s lack of ties to the community after his suspension from the College of Osteopathic Medicine and the nature of the 13 counts of animal killing he faces also influenced the prosecution’s request, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jeff Cruz said.
A study led by an MSU professor asserts that Asian carp could pose serious damage to the Great Lakes ecosystem if they spread across the region’s waterways. University distinguished professor in fisheries and wildlife Bill Taylor’s research indicates the voracious species of fish could threaten existing fish populations in the state’s lakes and harm water systems and various commercial and recreational fisheries. “You know it’s big when academics and the management community say we don’t need five more years of study,” Taylor said in a statement. Taylor worked with three other researchers from institutions across the country to study the effects of potential Asian carp proliferation, examining key assertions from policymakers along the way. Taylor and his research team disputed claims by policymakers who say electrical barriers are an effective means of preventing the fish from entering lake waters, among other things. The most notable of those electrical barriers operates in rivers near Chicago.
As the directors for WDBM (88.9-FM) sat down for their weekly meeting, three gold records were stacked unceremoniously against the back wall, one on top of the other. This past decade the Impact — MSU’s college radio station — won the Gold Record Award for Michigan’s college radio station of the year 10 consecutive times.
Graduate student Andrew David Thompson admitted to killing 10 Italian greyhounds by grabbing them by the neck and beating them or throwing them against the wall or floor, court records show. Thompson admitted to killing the dogs during an investigation by Ingham County Animal Control, according to court records. Thompson faces charges of 13 counts of dog killing, three of which allegedly occurred in a condominium at 220 M.A.C.
The lead developer behind the multimillion dollar City Center II project is amid a sticky tax controversy with the federal government, further raising questions regarding the future of the project’s site and finances as it is slated to break ground this fall. On June 24, the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, filed a personal lien notice on Scott Chappelle, the president of Strathmore Development Co. — the company developing the City Center II site — with Ingham County totaling $496,659.20. City Center II is a mixed-use development project planned to revamp the site of several vacant buildings located on the corner of Abbot Road and Grand River and Evergreen avenues in downtown East Lansing. The lien shows a string of debt owed to the federal government between 2007-09.****
The moves Gov. Rick Snyder made in his first six months in office to cut university funding and impose pension taxes have some Michigan residents worried if Snyder’s plan for reinvention really will bring about the state’s success. July 1 marked 182 days since the governor took office.
A 27-year-old male student accidentally lit trash on fire at 3:45 p.m. June 24 in the Chemistry Building, MSU police Sgt.
Last week, Brennan Woods had a meal unlike anything he ever has had before — hand-squeezed sage lemonade, a burger made with tall grass beef, caramelized red onions, balsamic vinegar, organic greens, fontina cheese on foccacia bread — and he got it from a trailer. Woods, an MSU alumnus, first heard about Trailer Park’d “Slow” Fast Food, a nomadic local food trailer based in Lansing, from friends and was encouraged to try it. “It was pretty packed when I went there — there was a long line,” he said.
Dave Closs still remembers when he first met Don Bowersox. Closs was an MSU undergraduate student when he started working with Bowersox on computer simulation games for conferences decades ago. Closs and many others in the academic community were struck by the death of the 79-year-old Bowersox at his Traverse City, Mich., summer home on Monday.
On Friday, an exhibit chronicling the effects of social networking in today’s society will begin its run at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St. The exhibition, titled “Unfriended,” will be open through August 21 and features ten artists from both local and national scenes.
MSU Extension is partnering with the Wayne County Airport Authority, or WCAA, to grow bioenergy crops to promote alternative fuels in aviation. Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport and Willow Run Airport have begun growing, harvesting and processing biofuels to explore greener options for aviation fuel.
More than 40 affiliates of various departments and organizations in Michigan met on Wednesday at the Northern Transformation Corporation directional meeting in East Lansing.
Children, ukulele players and a clown came together in East Lansing Wednesday evening to participate in the 37th annual Bailey Neighborhood Ice Cream Social Wednesday at the Orchard Street Pump House, 368 Orchard St. The event is sponsored by the Bailey Community Association and the Orchard Street Pump House board.
After spending four years in East Lansing before graduating from MSU in 2010, Eli Boike has returned to the familiar place that was home to him during his college years.
Several MSU football players have been tabbed for success in the upcoming 2011 season.