As students, the recession has very uniquely affected us. Thanks to the recession, temporary employment has nearly disappeared, loans have dried up and, due to budget constraints, MSU has had to make significant cuts along with what seem to be endless tuition increases.
If there is one thing that typically is expected of “middle-class” children in the U.S., it is enrolling in college. They go to elementary, middle, and high schools, and then go to some kind of college. That’s the progression. Move out, get hired, start a family and repeat the process all over again. It’s normal enough that anything else is considered an aberration.
The 25-year-old Lansing man who allegedly robbed the Union’s MSU Federal Credit branch earlier this month was in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court on Friday for a preliminary examination. During the examination, witnesses said a man resembling the defendant entered the Union’s MSUFCU branch on the morning of July 2 and stole about $2,400 in cash.
Lansing political insiders expect one of two Republican candidates to be chosen as Michigan governor in November, according to a survey released Tuesday by The Capitol Caucus. Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Attorney General Mike Cox and U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, received 38 and 30 percent of the vote, respectively, according to the caucus’ report.
A 38-year-old male visiting scholar reported his iPod stolen from the food court at International Center on Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The sidewalks of Grand River Avenue were congested with merchandise from local businesses participating in the annual East Lansing Sidewalk Sale. Stores cleared out items from inside, placed them outdoors and put them on sale for area residents passing through downtown East Lansing to purchase Thursday. The sales provide a good boost to the local economy and highlights many of the downtown’s unique shops.
The MSU volleyball team, which typically plays at Jenison Fieldhouse, will host a series of matches at Breslin Center in 2010 for the third consecutive season.
MSU will begin its first robotics program this fall after recently receiving a $60,200 grant from the Motorola Foundation. The uG9-12 Robotics Competition-Driven Mentoring Program will consist of about 20 first- and second-year MSU engineering students.
The 11th annual Common Ground Music Festival kicked of Monday, and organizers say the concert series has created a diverse crowd each night. Without the human element — from volunteers to attendees — Common Ground wouldn’t be the same, they said.
Former students of MSU Dubai’s now-defunct undergraduate programs have begun transferring to other universities, about nine days after MSU officials announced the programs’ ending.
When students return to campus for the fall semester, they unknowingly will become participants in a study that tracks the ebb and flow of recycling in Anthony Hall, using about 170 sensors developed at MSU.
MSU’s College Assistance Migrant Program recently was awarded a more than $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The five-year grant will be paid in installments of $242,000 each year as long as the program passes yearly evaluations to be completed by the education department.
An MSU employee reported a coin-operated tampon dispenser was broken into on the first floor women’s bathroom of Eppley Center’s west wing, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Paul Roose lead the group participants through the gardens and shared facts about the surrounding nature mixed with stories as part of the Strolling with the Storyteller event. Each month during the summer, there is a event featuring a different garden where a guide tells educational stories as they walk through the gardens.
Michael Ronkin was chosen by the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission, Federal Highway Administration and the Michigan Department of Transportation to hold a conference Tuesday through Friday at the East Lansing Marriott at University Place, 300 M.A.C. Ave., to discuss issues facing cyclists. The group embarked on an 11-mile journey Wednesday through the campus and city.
Driven by the absence of future research projects and budgetary pressure, MSU will sell one of its three dairy cow herds from the Upper Peninsula Experiment Station, or UPES, this fall. The UPES — located in Chatham, Mich. — is one of 15 field stations in the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, or MAES, which is restructuring after $400,000 was cut by MSU’s Board of Trustees last month and state appropriations still are uncertain.
Zookeepers in Lansing and across the country will be honored with their own week next week. Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, will join the American Association of Zoo Keepers, or AAZK, and zoos and aquariums across the country in celebrating National Zoo Keeper Week July 18-24.
Mayors from across the state declared their support of Lansing Mayor and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Virg Bernero on Wednesday. Supporting mayors come from many cities, from Flint to Sault Ste. Marie, and included East Lansing Mayor Vic Loomis.
Plant growth in a student-maintained garden in the middle of North and South Kedzie halls has grown uncontrolled since the students who started the garden have gone home for the summer. Signs have been broken, garbage has not been removed and the plant life has grown without maintenance.
Michigan has a bigger hand in helping rural farmers in Zambia than you might think. For more than a decade, MSU’s Department of Agricultural Economics has been working on the Zambia Food Security Research Project, or FSRP. Jan Nijhoff from MSU is currently leading efforts to promote regional trade and sound investment in the agriculture at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, or COMESA’s, headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia. Working together with other organizations, businesses and farmers, COMESA is paving a new road toward improving food security and livelihoods of people in Zambia.