Sometimes I wonder if anyone really cares about the opinions, attitudes and feelings of students on campus. I have spoken with a number of students over spring semester and the beginning of summer semester.
As MSU’s Board of Trustees heads off to Detroit for its three-day retreat, it seems like a strange place to conduct talks about the future of the university.
The speculation is over — Izzo’s here to stay. And to sports editor Chris Vannini, it’s because the man whose life revolves around shaping players into the best they can be just couldn’t leave the Spartans he calls family.
Upon hearing news that men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo would be staying “for life at Michigan State,” the Spartan community erupted in celebration across campus, nation and worldwide.
After a lengthy discussion lasting more than an hour and a half, the East Lansing City Council unanimously approved a special use permit for a liquor license for a restaurant currently in the works in the downtown area.
On Tuesday night, nine days after MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo first was rumored to be the leading candidate for the coaching vacancy of the Cleveland Cavaliers, Izzo announced he will remain the Spartans’ leading man at a press conference in the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center Auditorium.
MSU Extension is working with Macomb and St. Clair counties to create a position for an MSU Extension educator to promote agricultural products in those areas. The Michigan Extension program is part of MSU, and works with federal, state and county governments to apply MSU research with other areas of Michigan. The program, along with the two counties, want to create the MSU Extension educator position to focus on economic development of agribusiness.
Members of the Michigan Congressional Delegation signed a letter to men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo, thanking him for the positive impact he has on both MSU and across the state and urging him to stay at MSU.
A 24-year-old male from Okemos reported his portable disc golf set stolen last Wednesday evening at the MSU Agricultural Exposition Site, east of Lot 89, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
After 15 years of waiting, the amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, finally bloomed in the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden last Friday, and filled the room with a smell so disgusting it caused headaches. The corpse flower is known as the largest flower in the world, but is actually the largest inflorescence, which is a cluster of flowers. Found only on the edges of Sumatran rainforests, the corpse flower can grow to more than six feet tall and three or four feet in diameter.
Mark Stephens, an education program coordinator in MSU’s Department of Community, Agriculture, Recreation and Resources Studies, led a two-day Fishing for the Future of the Great Lakes workshop May 15-16 at Gardner Middle School, 333 Dahlia Dr., in Lansing. Stephens, who coordinates the Project Friends Involved in Sportfishing Heritage, or Project FISH, program, said the workshop equips people to teach kids about fishing and aquatic resource stewardship.
Jake Chelios, brother of MSU sophomore forward Dean Chelios, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play for the MSU hockey team next fall. After one season in the United States Hockey League, during which he scored 12 goals and had 22 assists in 52 games, Jake Chelios decided to join three other MSU recruits in signing letters of intent for next fall.
MSU Sports Information has confirmed an 8:30 p.m. Tuesday press conference where men’s basketball coach Tom Izzo will announce he is staying with the university.
The outpouring of support for MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo offers conclusive evidence that there are issues that can motivate the MSU community. It is our hope that this current level of interest in university matters will continue as the MSU Board of Trustees begins its discussions of the school’s budget.
Tuesday marks seven weeks until statewide primary elections for a variety of political spots, including for Michigan governor. With seven candidates — five Republicans and two Democrats – seeking their parties’ nomination, the next month and a half is a race to the Capitol.
The MSU Board of Trustees will embark on its annual retreat Wednesday to discuss, among other things, the university’s budget in light of uncertain higher education appropriations from state legislators.
Staff writer Jeremy Warnemuende, amid rampant and seemingly unending coverage of men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo’s potential move to the NBA, tries a different route: a personal appeal.
A 19-year-old female MSU student reported her cell phone stolen last Tuesday evening in South Case Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Workers have begun preparing the site of the future Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum by digging a 22-feet deep hole to start laying the facility’s foundation. Students can expect to see above-ground construction on the $40 million museum by the time fall semester begins.
An idea for a late-night concession stand that might turn into a full blown hot dog restaurant — with beer — will be voted on by East Lansing City Council at its meeting Tuesday night. The proposed business, What Up Dawg?, would occupy a building on M.A.C. Avenue near the St. John Student Center, 327 M.A.C. Ave., one of the prospective owners Seth Tompkins said. After the lease was signed, Tompkins began pursuing the only aspect that potentially will delay the project — a liquor license.