FEATURES
Spartan finds musical inspiration through religious studies
Unlike many musicians, Daniel Hoover doesn’t have aspirations to become rich and famous playing music one day.
FEATURES
Science center to have Bunny breakfast
Breakfast with the Bunny will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday at Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive, in Lansing.
FEATURES
The Loft to host night of indie rock
Four groups will perform for a night of indie rock at 8 p.m. Friday at The Loft, 414 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
COMMENTARY
Conservative faculty urges students to vote
MSU students will again be voting in 2010 — this time probably less enthusiastically than in 2008, when students overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama, the candidate of “hope and change.”
COMMENTARY
MSU should do more to stop food waste
One of the largest problems in the United States, and the next issue MSU should tackle aggressively, is food waste. The amount of food wasted every day and thrown away in the cafeterias is huge — there’s no denying that. Although the food is unlikely to go to another hungry resident of the world, it’s a huge economic waste and loss of natural resources that could be used more productively.
COMMENTARY
New legislation will simplify student loans
The passing of this legislation is a sign the government is heading in the right direction to increase the number of college graduates. The new law will allow students easier, more direct funding for college. The government is cutting out what seems like an unnecessary middleman in the form of private loan companies, which might look to make money off of students and add unneeded red tape to the lending process.
SPORTS
Lucas surgery successful
MSU head coach Tom Izzo said Tuesday at his weekly press conference that junior guard Kalin Lucas underwent surgery on the ruptured Achilles tendon in his left leg on Tuesday. Izzo said the surgery went “very well” and he hopes Lucas will be able to make the trip to Indianapolis this weekend to watch the Spartans in the Final Four.
NEWS
Police brief 03/30/10
A man allegedly connected to an on-campus sexual assault in February was arraigned Monday in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
NEWS
Who will represent your school?
When MSU students go online to vote in the ASMSU spring elections at studentelections.msu.edu, there will be at least 28 names staring back at them. The 28 students are vying to become the faces of MSU’s undergraduate student government, a group with a budget of more than $1 million and the official voices of the university’s undergraduate populace.
NEWS
Environmental economics and policy major safe from elimination
Officials in an MSU college have rescinded a recommendation to eliminate the environmental economics and policy major, the first such instance in the months since dozens of program and specialization cuts were made public.
NEWS
FRIB's environmental impact to be minimal
The $550-million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, poses no serious environmental threats to MSU, according to a preliminary assessment of the facility’s potential impact on its surroundings.
MICHIGAN
Fiscal year budget proposal contains various changes
East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton will formally submit the 2010-11 fiscal year budget proposal Monday with various temporary cost-cutting and revenue-generating measures.
MICHIGAN
Panel discusses women in workplace
Sherrie Barr’s female dance students are not girls — they are young women. According to her, the subtle change in syntax can make a world of difference in terms of respect, something the dance industry historically has lacked in being defined as a woman’s field. Barr, MSU’s director of dance, spoke Monday as part of a panel for Wearing the Pants: Women in the Workplace, an event coordinated by student group Respecting Individuals on Neutral Grounds, or RING, and the MSU Women’s Council.
MSU
MSU celebrates LGBT Awareness Week
MSU’s College of Human Medicine LGBT Allies in Medicine will host several speakers this week as a part of LGBT Health Awareness Week: Closing the Gap.
MSU
COGS asks students to approve new tax
Officials on the newly elected executive board for the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, want to create new programs and services for the more than 10,000 graduate and professional students at MSU, but said their plans are contingent on a tax referendum currently before students.
MICHIGAN
Golfing nine on the indoor challenge
Workers at Burcham Hills Retirement Community rolled out the green carpet as residents and staff waited for their tee time Friday.
MSU
New health education program to start in fall
Beginning this fall, the MSU colleges of Education and Osteopathic Medicine will collaborate to better prepare health educators for teaching through a new online master’s degree program. The Education for Health Professions program was approved last week by MSU’s Academic Council.
MICHIGAN
Mich. House passes emergency contraception bills
Legislation moving to the state Senate would require Michigan emergency rooms to provide emergency contraception to individuals who are sexual assaulted. Four bills, originally part of a 15-bill initiative promoted by Planned Parenthood, passed the Michigan House last week and would extend access to contraception, said state Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing.
FEATURES
Cirque du Soleil to come to breslin
Cirque du Soleil’s “Alegría” will be performed at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday through Saturday and 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday at Breslin Center.
FEATURES
Easter egg hunt to happen at Capitol
The Lansing Jaycees will sponsor their annual Easter Egg Hunt with announcements beginning at 10 a.m.