In celebration of Earth Month, MSU’s Office of Campus Sustainability hosted the fourth annual Dim Down this past April. Lauren Olson, project coordinator in the Office of Campus Sustainability, said Dim Down is designed to bring about awareness of the amount of electronics people have on during the day, especially those they might not need.
Sangat is an important concept in Sikhism. In English, it roughly translates to “company.” From an early age, a line from my first morning prayer stuck out: Japji Sahib. Those who surround themselves with sangat stay true to their values.
Students and the fire department have a love-hate relationship: Students love it when the fire department arrives but hate that something went so wrong they had to call the fire department. Students and police traditionally have a contentious relationship because the police bust parties, and students like parties.
On Saturday, Lansing will kick off the 2011 summer tourism season with the Be a Tourist in Your Own Town annual event. Tracy Padot, vice president of marketing for Greater Lansing Convention and Visitors Bureau, said she expects more than 12,000 people will tour Greater Lansing on Saturday, when local business open their doors to people from around the area. For a $1 passport, visitors will have access to more than 60 venues in the Lansing area, including pontoon boat rides on the Grand River, an instrument petting zoo at the MSU Community Music School and even the opportunity to rappel down the 23-story Boji Tower in downtown Lansing. “We really hope that we’re educating (people) about all the great offerings we have,” Padot said.
Three provisions in The Patriot Act, which have had some citizens worried about the violation of their First Amendment freedoms, have been extended for four more years. After legislation to extend the provisions was passed in the U.S.
21-year-old female student reported her cell phone stolen between 11:30 p.m. May 19 and 8:30 a.m. May 20 in the basement of North Hubbard Hall, MSU police Sgt.
Visitors to MSU’s campus soon might find quicker ways to navigate campus thanks to a new website created by an MSU student. Electrical engineering sophomore Nick Hess has teamed up with four other college students — including a fellow Spartan — to start campusroutes.com, a website that uses GPS features to help students and visitors find the fastest walking routes between buildings using campus sidewalks. Hess and Chris Ostrowski — a computer science junior at Western Michigan University — first came up with the idea during Lansing’s Startup Weekend, an event held in April, which showcases innovative business ideas and provides monetary prizes to the best idea as selected by a panel of judges.
The Board of Water and Light, or BWL, Chili Cook-off has become a Greater Lansing tradition, and this Saturday will mark the 16th year of the charitable event. The cook-off began as a way to offset the costs of the BWL’s Adopt A River program, before ultimately becoming a benefit for local nonprofit organizations, BWL communications director Mark Nixon said. Last year’s event was hampered by rain, but Nixon expects 12,000-14,000 people to attend this year, based on previous years’ turnouts and pre-event ticket sales. “The whole idea was to celebrate the riverfront,” Nixon said.
Anyone interested in stargazing can attend the free open house at the MSU Observatory next weekend. Open to the public, the events will be on June 10 and 11, and they run from 9:30-11:00 p.m.
In the upcoming year, East Lansing residents might see reductions in public safety services because of cuts approved in next year’s budget, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said.
With temperatures nearing 90 degrees, the timing couldn’t be better for the seasonal opening of the East Lansing Family Aquatic Center. The water park, located at 6400 Abbot Road, will open its doors at 11 a.m on Friday.
A new program by the Fair Food Network will help offset the high price of fresh fruits and vegetables, allowing bridge card holders to “double up” their purchases.
MSU has been ranked the fourth-most economically diverse college in the country, according to data collected by the Department of Education and analyzed by The Chronicle of Higher Education. The department’s study looked at the 50 wealthiest colleges and universities across the country and ranked them according to the percentage of undergraduate students who received Pell Grants for the 2008-09 academic year.
Adam Rainbolt said he wasn’t sure what to expect when he stepped up to the burning car that had just rear-ended a truck at the intersection at which his vehicle was stopped. “The first thing I thought was, ‘We’re going to open the door and see a dead body in there,’ because it was such a terrible crash,” said Rainbolt, a mechanical engineering senior. But as Rainbolt, along with electrical engineering senior Ryan Hunt, approached the car, he realized the driver was alive, and together he and Hunt pulled a pregnant woman from the burning vehicle, saving her life. The collision occurred Tuesday in Thomas, Mich.. Hunt and Rainbolt were driving home from their internships at Dow Corning Corporation with two other coworkers and were stopped at a four-way stop when they heard the crash occur a few cars in front of them, across the intersection.
Former East Lansing Mayor Sam Singh announced his candidacy for state representative Wednesday, stepping up as the first official Democratic candidate to pursue the East Lansing seat for the 2012 election. Singh, who graduated from MSU in 1994, looks to fill the seat of State Rep.
A 50-year-old male university employee reported scrap metal stolen from a dumpster between 7-8 p.m. on May 30 outside the T.B.
MSU’s Model United Nations team, the International Relations Organization, or IRO, was ranked among the top 10 college teams in the world. The ranking was compiled by bestdelegate.com, a website operated by a group of Model U.N.
With record-setting rainfall hitting Lansing this spring, flooding has been an ongoing problem for Lansing residents. Following Sunday’s thunderstorms, the rain accumulation since March has totaled 14.96 inches, making this the rainiest spring in Lansing’s history, National Weather Service meteorological intern Kimberly Hoogewind said.
When Jake Boss Jr. was hired in the summer of 2008 to replace former head coach David Grewe, he not only set out to raise the bar on expectations for the MSU baseball program but also to develop a style of play that allowed his team to be competitive on a consistent basis.
Although the MSU baseball team ended its season on a sour note with a loss to Illinois in the Big Ten Tournament, the Spartans have a lot of reasons to celebrate what was accomplished in 2011.