East Lansing resident Erich Ditschman, who has experienced continual, unexplained kidney failure for 10 years, will start canoeing the 225-mile Grand River next week to help raise awareness for the National Kidney Foundation of Michigan.
Following Tuesday’s announcement that MSU will end its undergraduate programs at the university’s satellite campus in Dubai, 85 students’ educational careers suddenly were in limbo. With two months to go until fall semester begins, those students now are left to plan for an uncertain future.
A 25-year-old Lansing man is in jail facing charges of bank robbery and assault, resisting or obstructing a police officer after allegedly robbing the MSU Federal Credit Union branch in the Union on the morning of July 2, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A former MSU track and field triple jumper is in jail awaiting a preliminary hearing after he allegedly tried to rob and then assaulted a man July 1 in East Lansing, Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Lisa McCormick said.
A 20-year-old Lansing man was arraigned Tuesday afternoon in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court with fleeing and eluding a police officer, driving with a suspended license and being a habitual offender after a high-speed police chase early Tuesday, East Lansing police Capt. Tom Johnstone said.
A 25-year-old male MSU student reported his bicycle stolen during the afternoon of June 25 on the north side of the Plant Biology Laboratories building, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Hand-churned ice cream, music, sunshine and residents from across East Lansing were abundant Wednesday evening at the 36th annual Bailey Neighborhood Ice Cream Social. The event, which is sponsored by the Bailey Neighborhood Association and the Orchard Street Pump House committee, welcomed East Lansing residents to the Orchard Street Pump House, 368 Orchard St., to make ice cream and socialize with community members they otherwise might not have had a chance to meet.
An MSU-assisted analysis of 10,500 sexual assault evidence kits from the city of Detroit might be used to prosecute hundreds of alleged rapists if results prove conclusive to investigators. The MSU Center for Statistical Training and Consulting, or CSTAT, the Michigan State Police, the Detroit Police Department and others are coordinating the effort to process the kits in an attempt to understand how a rape happened and who committed it. A $600,000 allocation by the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention and Treatment Board was given to the various agencies to begin the study to assist the defunct Detroit Police Crime Laboratory, said John Collins, the forensic science division director for the Michigan State Police.
Local police and MSU officials gathered Wednesday at the Eldorado Golf Course, 3750 W. Howell Road, in Mason, to enjoy a round of golf and support children in the community. Donors gathered at the East Lansing and Lansing Police Athletic League’s, or PAL, joint 2010 PAL Golf Outing, with proceeds benefitting field trips and sports camps for children in the area.
A magician’s performance, which included three birds, a rabbit named Banana and many jokes for all ages, was the kickoff event for the city of East Lansing’s Play in the Park interactive children’s series. The annual series of events is sponsored and planned by the city of East Lansing’s Office of Communications.
East Lansing Fire Chief Randall Talifarro recently returned from a fellowship program at Harvard University to help improve his decision-making abilities and become a more receptive public servant, he said. Talifarro was selected with six other fire officials from across the country by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Fire Administration to review case studies from governments across the country and discuss emerging practices and issues in public safety.
Because of a lack of funding from the federal government, about 80,000 students with the Michigan Students First, or MSF, loan program could be responsible for paying more for college than they originally signed up for. Established in 2003, the program offered students the ability to pay zero-percent interest on their student loans if they made 36 timely consecutive payments every month. Now that funding for the program was cut last week, students who were on pace, but hadn’t completed, the 36 payments are liable to pay full interest for the balance of the loan.
An MSU-led study has found undernutrition and a poor early life environment can lead to cognitive disabilities later in life. Zhenmei Zhang, an MSU assistant professor of sociology, started the project with two other professors in 2007 and found males and females who grew up undernourished were more likely to develop mental deficiencies, such as memory loss, when they are older.
Michigan has the 10th highest adult obesity rate and the 41st highest childhood obesity rate among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., according to the study. The study, the “F as in Fat: How Obesity Threatens America’s Future 2010,” was released last week by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Both the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate are on a summer recess, and will resume operations on July 21. The last regularly scheduled meetings in the houses took place July 1. Both the House and Senate will meet next at 10 a.m.
During the summer, MSU students still in East Lansing have a variety of different opportunities presented to them than they might find throughout the regular school year. Lighter class loads and warmer temperatures give students more time to enjoy the outdoors, including East Lansing’s surrounding golf courses, which are in prime form.
When the Netherlands meets Spain in Sunday’s World Cup final, it will guarantee one thing: the first European champion when the World Cup is played on a continent other than Europe.
Choosing to forego his senior season with the MSU hockey team, junior forward Corey Tropp has signed a three-year entry-level contract with the NHL’s Buffalo Sabres, MSU announced Tuesday.
Beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, tickets for the MSU football game against Florida Atlantic at 12 p.m. Sept. 11 at Ford Field will be on sale for the general public. Because the game is an away game, only MSU students who have bought season admission can buy tickets. Students are limited to buying three tickets and must pick them up at the visiting team’s will call on game day using two forms of ID and an e-mail confirmation.
What do you think of when you hear the word “valedictorian”? I assume most of us know the title typically means “a student who has earned their spot as having the highest grade point average, GPA, in his or her graduating class.” Lately it has been a growing trend among high schools in the U.S. to sprinkle a few more students in there. And by “a few,” I mean anywhere ranging from three to 94 students.