One year ago, surviving Welcome Week might have meant you didn’t vomit in the street or have a run-in with the East Lansing Police Department. This year, however, it might just mean you made it to class prepared.
A 40-year-old Niles, Mich., woman reported her Cadillac Escalade struck and damaged by another car Thursday while parked in the South Wonders Hall loop. The other vehicle, a 1999 Ford F-150 driven by a 37-year-old New Haven woman, was moving and held at fault for the incident.
Some state grant money will flow through East Lansing to IBM following a City Council vote to approve a grant agreement. The agreement between Michigan’s Economic Development Corporation and the city extends state funding to the company for bringing new jobs to East Lansing.
Three contenders — including two current members of the East Lansing City Council — have declared candidacy for two open seats this fall.
If a local developer cannot find financial footing for City Center II — a major downtown development — before it falls victim to foreclosure, the project is dead, City Manager Ted Staton said.
MSU freshmen are not the only wide-eyed students roaming campus this week. This summer, the dust settled on renovation projects, programs received upgrades and the former Food and Housing Services reinvented itself to give campus a fresh look even for seasoned Spartans. Amid a shortened Fall Welcome, some students spent the days leading up to the start of the semester discovering campus for the first time, while others rediscovered a changed campus.
Walkers and bikers will be able to stomp past a number of Old Town Lansing’s attractions Sunday as part of a monthly walk through various parts of the city.
It’s time to dust off the ol’ vinyl. As new record stores pop up around East Lansing, Hodge Heckaman, a professional writing junior working at The Record Lounge/Scavenger Hunt, 503 E. Grand River Ave., said the younger audience is gaining an appreciation for vinyl through its dream-like vision of the past.
The MSU Museum and Kresge Art Center present Threads of Change: The Transformation of West African Textiles exhibit. The exhibit includes Kente cloth of Ghana, mud cloth of Mali, printed cottons from New Guinea and more. The event is free and is sponsored by the MSU Museum. The display runs through November.
The dining room of Alpha Chi Omega fell silent Monday as Jen Hayes, merchandising manager of Seventeen magazine, took the floor. Makeup artists stood behind her, poised with brush in hand.
The East Lansing Community Photo Contest is wrapping up and taking last-minute submissions. The contest is taking community photos from both residents and students.
Coney dogs will make their debut in East Lansing on Sept. 10 with the opening of the National Coney Station at 565 E. Grand River Ave.
MSU’s oldest residence hall has been given a face-lift and is now open to students for the first time in more than a year.
Two men have recently been tied to a series of break-ins and thefts that plagued East Lansing from June to August. They have been arrested for felony possession of stolen property by the East Lansing Police Department.
Despite a shortened Welcome Week, turnout to MSU’s 29th annual U-Fest remained consistent, attracting more than 5,000 students.
As new and returning MSU students said goodbye to their families Sunday, residents and City Council members from their new home in East Lansing welcomed them in.
Capital Area Transportation Authority buses resumed MSU service, but returning students might notice some route changes.
Whether by helping out at the local soup kitchen or donating items for Purple Heart Pickup Service, Allison Altenberger has been volunteering since she was a little girl.
A new partnership between MSU’s College of Nursing and Hope College might bring more nursing doctoral candidates to the university and alleviate a shortage of nursing faculty across the country, school officials said.
The MSU and East Lansing community celebrated a calmer Welcome Week this year than in previous years, with smaller crowds and significantly lower preliminary numbers of alcohol-related citations, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said.