Smoking is widely acknowledged as being bad for your health. But is it also bad for your wealth? If you want to work in medicine, it might be. A new policy at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital requires that prospective employees have to be nicotine-free. At first glance, it’s an example of a hospital practicing what it preaches: health.
As the MSU baseball team mobbed the right side of the pitcher’s mound in a towering dogpile Friday after clinching a share of the Big Ten championship, the weight of three decades of losing had been lifted.
Recording the best place finish ever by a Spartan at the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, MSU women’s golfer sophomore Caroline Powers tied for sixth with an even-par finish at 288 (70, 76, 96, 73). Her score also is the best 72-hole score earned by a Spartan at the championships, which ended Saturday in Bryan, Texas.
Hundreds from all over Michigan gathered outside of the Capitol Building in Lansing Saturday afternoon petitioning for the recall of Gov.
Unfortunately Northwestern (20-29, 10-13) had other ideas for the Spartans (34-19 overall, 15-9 Big Ten), as they upended Senior Day at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, 6-5. The day was not a total loss for MSU as they were presented with the Big Ten championship trophy by Athletics Director Mark Hollis and MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, along with championship shirts and hats, following the conclusion of the game.
After 32 years of waiting, under five different head coaches, the MSU baseball team has earned a share of the Big Ten championship after defeating Northwestern, 10-1, Friday at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field.
As she stood on the runway, microphone in hand, lights flickering around the stage of the Spartan Club in Spartan Stadium, former MSU basketball player Lauren Aitch grinned from ear-to-ear, Thursday night. Her charity, the Hidden Key Fashion show, had been in the making for more than seven months and in her eyes, it had turned out even better than she expected.
The glitz and glamour of the Emmys rubbed off on MSU this past weekend as members of the university took home eight awards at the annual event.
In his last career start at McLane Baseball Stadium at Kobs Field, senior pitcher Kurt Wunderlich threw a complete game shutout, as the Spartans (33-18 overall, 14-8 Big Ten) downed Big Ten foe Northwestern (19-28, 9-12), 3-0. With the win, the Spartans edged ever closer to winning a Big Ten championship — the program’s first since 1979.
A bill passed Wednesday in the state Senate could mean increased health costs for recently-hired college graduates working in the public sector. The bill would require local government and public school employees to pay 20 percent of their health insurance premium. Many people in the private sector already pay at least part of the cost of their health insurance, said state Sen.
Jim Sukenik thinks the recent renovations at the University Club of MSU, 3435 Forest Road, in Lansing, are something he would expect to see in Chicago or New York, not Lansing. Sukenik, president of Bakergroup Hospitality & Foodservice Design and the head of the design team behind the renovations, said the club’s new bar, called Mixx, and the accompanying restaurant, Mingle, represent “large-city outcomes” in terms of the club’s dining experience. Sukenik, an MSU alumnus, said he was approached by the club in August to design the changes, which he said sought to restore the club’s reputation as a premier dining location.
Prospective employees at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital will have to be nicotine-free in accordance with a new hospital policy that went into effect May 1. The policy prohibits the hiring of any employee who tests positive for nicotine or tobacco and is part of an initiative that Sparrow took to help promote healthier lives throughout mid-Michigan. John Foren, a spokesman for Sparrow Hospital, said implementation of the new hiring policy was going well. Foren declined to comment further on the policy. Teri Wilson, a consultant and researcher for the Michigan Department of Community Health, said testing for tobacco is done by assessing the level of cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine, in a person’s system.
David LaPratt will do whatever it takes to improve his business — so he set his restaurant up on Campusfood.com, an online food-ordering system for college campuses. LaPratt, the owner of Samuel Mancino’s Italian Eatery, 401 N.
Three MSU students reported various valuables allegedly were stolen from them between 3:30-5:30 p.m.
The University Seventh-Day Adventist, 504 Ann St., will hold a gospel concert at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, with Hyman — a Christian artist who records Jewish music — performing.
The MSU baseball team stands in position to win the Big Ten as its seniors take the field at home for their last weekend series against Northwestern.
No arrests have been made in correlation with the robbery of a Lansing PNC Bank branch Tuesday, but police are actively pursuing a suspect, Lansing police Sgt.
After leading police in a high-speed chase, 20-year-old East Lansing resident and MSU employee Carl Stamm died in a motorcycle crash at 4:20 a.m.
State economists determined yesterday that Michigan will have more than $400 million more in revenue available for use this fiscal year than previously was projected. At the biannual meeting, economists from Gov.
A coin-operated machine in Wells Hall outside of Room C-111 allegedly was robbed between May 13 at 5 p.m.