Abuse and exploitation of animals for human entertainment is unacceptable in and of its own right, but to suggest that an establishment with a track record as dark as the one shadowing the Royal Hanneford Circus is worthy of support reaches immorality at its highest plane.
State Rep. Mark Meadows, D-East Lansing, announced his plan to extend state legislators’ term limits in both the Michigan House and Senate. As Michigan’s constitution currently states, state representatives are limited to six years in the House and eight years in the Senate. Moreover, term lengths are two and four in the House and Senate, respectively.
The forthcoming Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum has important academic implications for students studying in MSU’s Department of Art and Art History, university officials said. The museum will be home to programs and courses aimed at various disciplines.
Members of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity delayed the fate of their 128 Collingwood Drive home as the East Lansing City Council referred the issue to the city’s Historic District Commission on Tuesday during its meeting at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.The referral was made to ensure the site plan to convert the home into 15 high-end apartments meets city code.
Andrew Tittle was sentenced to one year in jail and five years of probation for his role in the death of MSU student Jeremy Sobczak-Obetts. Tittle was sentenced for operating while intoxicated. Sobczak-Obetts died last October in a car accident. Tittle will report to the Kent County Jail on April 6.
A purse valued at $280 was reported stolen on Saturday from Biggby Coffee in the Union by a 32-year-old woman.
Tasty Twist opened this week at its new 1137 E. Grand River Ave. location, after the East Lansing ice cream staple was ousted from its home since 1957 at 1307 E. Grand River Ave. by the property owner. Owner Scott King was told in November by property owners that they planned to tear down his soft serve shop to expand the adjacent Citgo gas station. He obliged, but not long after, East Lansing Tasty Treat moved into Tasty Twist’s former location.
MSU researchers could be part of the solution to childhood obesity in Flint under a partnership between the university, a Flint nonprofit fitness foundation and Flint Community Schools.
Hoping to diminish the number of costly and painful surgeries performed on cats, MSU veterinarians and researchers are conducting a dietary study aimed at solving three major feline bladder problems.
Researchers from MSU and University of California-Davis are working with researchers and students from three Central Asian countries — Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — to create more environmentally safe methods of pest management in those countries.
Of the thousands of MSU students who studied abroad in the last year, about 11 percent made Asian countries their destination, said Cheryl Benner, communications manager for the university’s Office of Study Abroad. This percentage puts MSU on par with other universities nationwide that see lower numbers of students choosing Asia as their study abroad destination. Eleven percent of American college students who go abroad pick Asia as their destination, while more than half of students choose European countries, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Abortion has long been a hot-button issue in America, and a possible solution might be in Japan. The Asian Studies Center and the Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences hosted a lecture called Abortion, Reproductive Technologies and Feminist Bioethics in Japan, on Tuesday.
In an effort to ease Ingham County’s tight budget and ensure parks will be open for the 2010 winter holidays, all Ingham county parks will be closed for furlough days on March 22 and 29 and Dec.
MSU’s Asian Studies Center is presenting a screening of Bollywood’s, “The Sky Below” at 6:30 p.m.
The Environmental Protection Agency released a proposal in January to decrease the primary limit of ozone emissions allowed to between 0.060 parts per million, or ppm, and 0.070 ppm — standards that the Lansing area might have problems reaching
Betty Allen said she never experienced anything as wonderful as the kindness shown to her by some MSU students. Two groups of 12 MSU students painted the 72-year-old New Orleans resident’s home during an Alternative Spring Break, or ASB, trip.
Lower income East Lansing residents interested in developing a business plan can do so through the Entrepreneur Institute of Mid-Michigan’s upcoming Foundations of Business Planning program.
The MSU Center for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, or CERES, is holding a Brown Bag Luncheon Series by Lisa Cook, a professor in James Madison College from noon to 1:30 p.m.
Whether you’re 21 and ready to hit the bars or you want to stay inside and celebrate the holiday, there’s a way for everyone to get a little Irish this St. Patrick’s Day.
The Kellogg Bird Sanctuary, 12685 E. C Ave. in Augusta, Mich., is offering its third annual Field of Ornithology Course, or FOC, this spring. The course will run from Wednesday through May 22 and include lectures and field trips every other week.