The MSU Board of Trustees retreat to Holland, Mich., cost thousands less than last year, but still set the university back almost $9,000. The retreat took place early last week.
Although construction continues on the Shaw Ramp, unionized workers are picketing the construction to vocalize fair pay. Members of the Operative Plasterers and Local Cement Masons International Association Local No. 16 picketed outside of Shaw Ramp, speaking out against the Grand Rapids-based builder D.C. Byers Company. The workers claim the company is not meeting the requirements of the Prevailing Wage Act, which requires construction workers be paid an established wage.
An MSU team is following gastric bypass surgery patients with high expectations that the surgery has positive effects on the patients’ immune systems. “I think we’ll see a more positive effect of the surgery and I think the immune function is one of those,” MSU surgeon Pandu Yenumula said. Yenumula will work with Pam Fraker, a professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, to research the effects the surgery has on the immune system. Immune system cells called neutrophils will be studied in patients to give researchers some idea of how well the immune system is performing after surgery, Fraker said. “We’re talking about the cells that defend against disease and infection and also do a lot of wound healing and tissue repair after the surgery,” she said.
Spartans fans have a new way to stay up on athletic news online. The MSU Athletics Department launched a Facebook page July 28.
Payback is a dish best served cold. Ice cold. “Everybody likes to dunk Chief Wibert,” East Lansing police Sgt. Patricia Nowak said. “He’s a very good sport; he volunteers for this every time. (The) water’s usually pretty cold.”
The distance between Detroit and Chicago might seem a little shorter if a plan to bring a high speed rail line to the Midwest comes to fruition. Michigan, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Missouri, Indiana and Minnesota have all united in hopes of securing $8 billion of federal stimulus money to build a 110 mph rail line though the states.
A University Club employee reported damage to and theft of various items valued at more than $1,600 from his 2001 Dodge Durango on July 25, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Beater owners might have more time to trade in their old cars for some cash if a bill to increase funding for the “cash for clunkers” program passes in the U.S. Senate this week. Passed in the U.S. House on Friday, the bill could add $2 billion in funding from the stimulus package to the program, a boost Michigan lawmakers said is money well spent.
Human remains might belong in graveyards, but skeletons are showing up in suburban backyards, proving pieces of history might lie just beneath the grass. A human jawbone was unearthed last week at a Bloomfield Township residence by construction workers, and the Bloomfield Township Police Department later determined the bone required no criminal investigation.
It’s a competition no one wants to win: Which Big Ten university has the highest tuition? And which one had the biggest tuition increase for the 2009-10 year? MSU has the sixth highest tuition in the Big Ten and the third largest tuition increase for 2009-10. A resident MSU freshman will pay about $10,800 in tuition for 2009-10, an increase of about 5.2 percent, according to information from MSU.
The time students spend at MSU can determine a lot of the important parts of life after stepping off campus. A lot of people decide what they want to do with their lives, make lifelong friends and even meet their future spouses while matriculating at MSU.
Mothers and grandmothers make baked goods out of the love in their hearts. Some people have turned their passion for baking into a career. Enter Morgan Yates, manager and head cake decorator for Bake N’ Cakes, 3003 E. Kalamazoo St., in Lansing.
Beaumont Tower is a university landmark, a symbol synonymous with MSU and recognizable to people who’ve never been to East Lansing, let alone on campus, all over the nation. We walk by it every day, hurrying from class to class, without ever stopping to pay attention to it.
Former director of MSU Libraries Dick Chapin, 84, died July 29 from a stroke. Chapin served as director from 1959-89 and helped expand MSU’s libraries from 750,000 items to more than three million items.
The Fray will be playing at Breslin Center on Sept. 16 with openers Nathaniel Rateliff and The Wheel. The concert is sponsored by ASMSU.
The MSU Museum received more than $100,000 to update the databases in its cultural history and vertebrate collections and to put pictures of 10,000 ethnographic objects online.
With blue skies overhead, the city of East Lansing kicked off its Walking in Our Community series Sunday to promote community health. The walk was one in a series of walks put on by Community Partners in Health, a Mid-Michigan coalition working toward healthy living.
Students with a creative eye and a knack for video editing have a chance to showcase their work for the first ASMSU Student Video Promo Contest. Announced last week by ASMSU, the contest calls for students to submit a promotional video that does not exceed two minutes, incorporates ASMSU’s logo and appeals to the university’s student body, ASMSU spokeswoman Portia McKenzie said.
The article Pets featured at E.L. event for children (SN 7/27) romanticizes the exhibition of exotic animals and supports the dubious claims of educational enrichment through animal exploitation.
I thought long and hard about penning these words, but felt after some real heart wrenching soul searching that the time was ripe to offer a comment about a problem that has been festering in our poor country for years and years and years.