This season’s class of four seniors has been part of the highest of highs (2007 National Championship) and the lowest of lows (everything about last season).
The No. 12 MSU hockey team is trying to keep an even keel entering the final weekend of the regular season. At this point, the worst thing the Spartans can do is overlook the Falcons.
The East Lansing Art Festival received a national ranking of 117th in fine art sales and 153rd in fine craft sales in Art Fair SourceBook’s Top 200 of 2009. The rankings are determined by the festival’s gross average sales for 2009, which was $2,857 per artist exhibitor.
Melissa Erdman, an animal science junior in the MSU Production Medicine Scholars Program, was named the 2010 senior division winner of the Michigan Dairy Ambassador Scholarship and Leadership Program.
A Fair Housing Workshop to help the city assesses city housing choices based on race, religion, sex, disability, familial status, national origin, student status and sexual orientation is scheduled for 4 p.m. Monday at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbot Road.
Comedian Brian Regan will perform live at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing, will be hosting local band Souldub at 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
The Michigan Economic Development Corporation awarded more than $156.7 million in new tax credits Thursday to fund 11 job-generating ventures across the state. The tax credits will help 10 Michigan companies and back a brownfield redevelopment project.
MSU’s University Activities Board will host their eighth annual Battle of the Bands at 9 p.m. Saturday at the International Center.
Throughout the years, Pilobolus has improvised and choreographed more than 100 works, and its performance Wednesday night at Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall featured a selection of six of these works, some that were new in 2009 and another hailing from 1971, the year of Pilobolus’ conception.
Emotions and memories will flood the minds of those four — Lauren Aitch, Allyssa DeHaan, Aisha Jefferson and Mandy Piechowski — when they step on the Breslin Center court for the last time Sunday against Minnesota.
Picture this: A young student in his early 20s is sitting on a couch. He picks up the large glass bong from the coffee table in front of him, presses the lighter to the carefully packed bowl full of dried herb and draws deeply with his lungs, filling his body full of smoke. Suddenly, he’s higher than Mount Everest — and it was all legal.
Are colleges out purely to get students’ money? A recent study said more Americans believe schools are putting their financial interests above their educational mission.
Three more MSU football players pleaded guilty Thursday to charges at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court stemming from a November 2009 fight. Redshirt freshman wide receiver Myles White and junior cornerback Chris L. Rucker each pleaded guilty to one count of assault and battery. Junior defensive tackle Oren Wilson pleaded guilty to two counts of assault and battery. Single counts of conspiracy to commit assault and battery against each player were dropped.
A 38-year-old male MSU employee said he was threatened Feb. 17 in McDonel Hall, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A majority of fraternity members from Lambda Chi Alpha flooded the East Lansing Planning Commission meeting Wednesday in defiance of the national fraternity’s effort to sell their house to an apartment complex developer. The house, located near the corner of Collingwood Drive and Albert Avenue, would be changed into high-end apartments by a Troy-based developer.
The corner of Grove Street and Albert Avenue could be the location of a new eight-story multi-use apartment complex. David Krause, the developer of the proposed building that would be adjacent to the Grove Street Parking Garage, said the bottom floor of the building would be zoned for commercial use and could house the city’s proposed restaurant incubator. A submitted site plan will go before the East Lansing Planning Commission at its March 10 meeting.
The East Lansing Planning Commission unanimously approved a site plan amendment Wednesday to City Center II during the commission’s meeting. The site plan amendment will allow a five-story building included in the of the 5.5 acre, $116.4 million project bounded by Abbot Road, Grand River Avenue and Valley Court Park to include office space.
City Manager Ted Staton discussed different ideas city staff is considering to alleviate a nearly $5 million budget shortfall for the coming year at the council’s Wednesday work session in City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
The first meeting of a series of hearings to address financial aid issues was held Wednesday. The meeting’s goal was to develop a feasible funding plan in the future.