The summer semester serves as an opportunity for students to accelerate their progress toward their degree, but with the semester divided into six-week sessions, the accelerated pace can make grasping course material especially difficult.
For the past 42 years, motorcyclists in Michigan have been required to wear a helmet when riding. That may soon change, as separate bills have been introduced to the Michigan Senate and the Michigan House of Representatives to repeal that requirement.
The East Lansing City Council is scheduled to hear the thoughts of city residents as the first stages of a sidewalk renovation program are set to begin soon. Some sidewalks might be repaved several months earlier than originally planned, as the city is considering including the repairs in the 2011 Local Street Project, a city initiative that gives repairs to residential streets. The council plans to hold a public hearing on the issue during its regularly scheduled meeting 7:30 p.m.
State representatives voted unanimously Thursday to pass a bill that would outlaw another drug in Michigan. This bill would classify a drug known as “bath salts” as a Schedule 1 drug — a drug considered to have a high risk of abuse and no legitimate medical purposes. Bath salts have the appearance of those added to people’s baths, to help cleanse and relax.
MSU retailing professor Patricia Huddleston co-wrote a new book that analyzes the shopping habits of women.
A 51-year-old male, not affiliated with the university, reported graffiti found on the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum between 8 p.m.
After advancing beyond the NCAA opening rounds, seven members of the MSU track and field team will compete at the NCAA Championships, which begin Wednesday in Des Moines, Iowa.
The time has come yet again for the Detroit Pistons to hire another head coach. After two lackluster seasons of leading a group of mismatched veteran players and misguided young talent, John Kuester was the latest to be fired in the Pistons’ semi-annual coaching carousel. Kuester finished with a record of 57-107 in his two seasons in Detroit and failed to make the postseason both years, the first time that has happened since the mid-90s.
I always have felt there was a lack of things to do in East Lansing. I don’t know whether that stems from having lived here for a decent amount of time, or if I’m not looking hard enough, but it seems the city simply lacks a strong (nonstudent/MSU) culture.
With the elimination of the Michigan Earned Income Tax Credit and the release of a study from the Basic Economic Security Tables for Michigan that shows minimum wage isn’t enough to live off of, low-income individuals and families have had little reason to be positive recently.
More than one million farmers in the African nation of Malawi could see improved harvests in the coming years as a result of research conducted by an MSU professor. Sieg Snapp — an associate professor of crop and soil sciences and a researcher at MSU’s W.K.
Two days after he was diagnosed with brain cancer in January 2010, Shawn Koch was in surgery, and he has since been in chemotherapy and had radiation treatments.
Beginning with “I solemnly swear,” former East Lansing police Lt. Bill Mitchell’s career as a captain with the East Lansing Police Department was launched Thursday. Students and residents can expect Mitchell to continue to prioritize drunk driving enforcement, provide youth services and use new technology to serve the community, Mitchell said.
An MSU alumnus turned high-level Iraqi official visited campus Saturday, personally extending an invitation to Michigan businesses to profit from Iraq’s postwar reconstruction efforts. Sami Al-Araji, a 1967 graduate and now the chairman of the Republic of Iraq National Investment Commission, addressed a small audience of Michigan business leaders at Kellogg Center Saturday afternoon, calling for the creation of a Michigan delegation of businesses to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure. The delegation’s first project and major focus would be a $5.5 billion to $6 billion construction project that would create 100,000 housing units in the country, housing around 600,000 people, Al-Araji said. The opportunity would create jobs on both sides of the aisle, Al-Araji said, benefitting Michigan manufacturing companies while boosting Iraqi businesses. “We feel that we can benefit from whatever capabilities (are) available and, at the same time, benefit the state of Michigan,” Al-Araji said.
A Michigan corporation is sponsoring a competition that will give college students real-world legislative experience while providing the real world with a solution to a political problem. The Students Reinventing Michigan Corporation is asking undergraduate college students to submit proposals detailing how the state Legislature can best improve Michigan’s infrastructure with public support during the current tough economic times.
A 39-year-old female student reported her bicycle stolen between noon on May 3 and 1 p.m. May 12 at the south side of South Hubbard Hall, MSU police Sgt.
People in the market to purchase a house in Greater Lansing are in luck as prices for homes have dropped significantly over the past few years. A CNN Money report recently listed Lansing at number two on their list of 10 “dirt-cheap” housing markets in the U.S.
Peggy Lovejoy saw the culmination of her artistic ability come together as her exhibit, Close Observation of Everyday Beauty, opened Sunday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
Jill Jack and her band joined several other musicians Saturday to play at East Lansing’s second annual Pumpstock at East Lansing Bailey Community Center park, 300 Bailey St.
Though few people are aware of it, Lansing sits atop a legend. Nearly two decades ago, a foreigner allegedly stepped off a plane in Lansing, hailed a cab and asked what there was to do in the area. The cab driver, a longtime Lansing resident, replied that there was nothing to do, and the visitor should turn around and go home.