Lansing, East Lansing and other area officials are in the process of applying for an experimental Internet service provided by Google. The fiber-optic service would improve Internet speeds and could expand local business.
Proposed changes to the pay schedule for academic year faculty were discussed Tuesday at an Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting. Proposals for a different pay schedule would be implemented by August, if the proposal is enacted. Under the new proposal, faculty would be paid money usually withheld under the current system during the academic year and no longer would receive a paycheck during the summer months.
Amendments to the 2009-10 fiscal year budget imposing more than $1.9 million in reductions were approved by the East Lansing City Council Tuesday at its meeting. City officials predicted layoffs for the 2010-11 fiscal year, in which the city will face a $2.5 million shortfall.
A 21-year-old male MSU student reported his bike stolen Feb. 23, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. The bike was locked with a cable lock near Mason Hall. The bike is a red Schwinn bike valued at $200, McGlothian-Taylor said.
The Residence Halls Association, or RHA, will will hold its presidential elections at 7 p.m. Wednesday night in Van Hoosen Hall. The three candidates include RHA President Emma Perot, Vice President Chelsea Satkowiak and McDonel Hall representative Ryan Starski.
MSU is ranked among the top 40 U.S. academic institutions in an annual survey of the best places to work in academia for the fourth year in a row. According to The Scientist magazine’s survey, MSU fell from No. 4 in 2008 to No. 17 in 2009.
Snow removal services in East Lansing were reduced because of a steady decrease in tax revenue, the city announced Tuesday. Currently, snow removal starts when there are 3 or more inches of snow on the ground.
Local governments across the state will be receiving $195,996 in Energy Efficiency & Conservation Block Grant awards, Gov. Jennifer Granholm announced Monday.
The Forage Technology Conference scheduled for 10 a.m. March 11 at Kellogg Center is part of Agriculture and Natural Resources Week.
The Center for Gender in Global Context at MSU will host its spring colloquial series, New Research on Women and Gender: Global and Local Perspectives, at 1:30 p.m. March 19 in Room 302 of the International Center.
The East Lansing Public Library will be holding Second Sunday @ Dublin Square from 4-9 p.m. March 14 at Dublin Square, 327 Abbot Road.
Curtis Stokes, dean of James Madison College, will lead a lecture and discussion Wednesday titled Race and Human Rights at 6 p.m. in Club Spartan on the third floor of Case Hall.
MSU and Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital are teaming up to help relief efforts in Haiti by sending representatives to the country on Wednesday. Together, they are sending five people to Haiti to assess what aid MSU and Sparrow can offer the disaster relief in Haiti.
Legislation passed unanimously 37-0 in the state Senate on Tuesday could make voting while overseas less “daunting” for Michigan residents.
State Rep. Joan Bauer, D-Lansing, who chairs the House Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee, is holding a student hearing Wednesday at 4 p.m.
The Ballet Folklórico de México will be performing at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
After spending the last two summers scuba diving, riding elephants, eating maggots, drinking duck blood soup, visiting Buddhist temples and teaching English in rural elementary schools in southeast Asia, Whitney Lund, a 2009 MSU alumna, became addicted to adventure travel. Looking for another opportunity to do something different, she decided to audition for the pinnacle of wilderness tests: the CBS show “Survivor.”
Cetera Washington lives by the mantra that while defense wins games, rebounding wins championships. So it should be no surprise the junior forward recently has stepped on the accelerator in both areas, becoming a key force during MSU’s run of 10 wins in its past 11 games.
Competing against the nation’s best every week, the MSU wrestling team finally is in line to reap the benefits of facing a grueling schedule with a young lineup. As the team prepares for this weekend’s Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor, it hopes the growth of its underclassmen will carry over in the results of the competition.
It is hard to believe that MSU could not find a different place for the new center, and that it was absolutely necessary to demolish the library. The decision was taken so fast that even the professors of the Department of Physics and Astronomy learned about that news at the faculty meeting, so that their following letter with objections was too late because the matter was already decided without asking for their opinion.