A program proposed in April, which would give certain state residents the opportunity to become teachers with 15 credit hours, has students feeling skeptical of the program’s legitimacy.
What started out as a weekend hobby for Dave Cripe and his dad turned into much more than that when their business, Betty’s Buttons & T-shirts, was born. “My dad and I were at a car show and he’d bought this little button machine,” said Dave Cripe, owner of Betty’s Buttons & T-shirts, 1135 S. Washington Ave., in Lansing.
An ethical election process is vital to the sanctity and reputation of a governing body. With this in mind, I’m asking that the recent election held by the Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, be redone.
It’s far from breaking news to say the economy is drastically affecting the way everyone operates, and the government isn’t an exception. When economic conditions go south and taxes aren’t raised, the government has no choice but to cut back spending. That means no program or department is safe from having its budget reduced or eliminated all together.
Three cars were reported damaged June 15 in Lot 89, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Wilhelmina Holder said she still has trouble finding her place in the U.S. work force since fleeing Liberia in 1985, five years after her father, who also was the president, was assassinated.
East Lansing residents will be seeing more touches of orange if a $1.8 million bond for street improvements is approved at tonight’s City Council meeting. The council, which meets at 7 p.m. in City Hall, 410 Abbot Road, plans to discuss improvements at various locations in the city, including sections of Bessemaur and Columbine drives.
A $2.1 million grant will allow MSU to participate in the largest study in history to examine the risk factors of autism. MSU Biomedical Research Informatics Core, part of the university’s Clinical and Translational Science Institute, will use funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue work for the CDC’s Study to Explore Early Development during the next three years.
About 600 MSU employees’ positions might be affected by the approximately $50 million in cuts the university is instituting during the next two years, MSU officials said. These cuts are an issue especially for nontenured faculty, who see job security as the No. 1 issue they face, said Richard Manderfield, spokesman for the organizing committee of the recently formed Union for Nontenure-Track Faculty and a visiting assistant professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures.
Upgrades in supplies ranging from uniforms to a geographic mapping system could be in sight for the East Lansing Police Department but only if the U.S. Department of Justice approves the ELPD’s wish list of items to purchase using federal stimulus money.
Although many students might hold post-exam celebrations at a bar or a club, for the students in Nick Bowman’s Communications 399 class, planning a night out on the town is the final exam.
The first business day after state offices closed last Friday meant long lines and full waiting rooms for customers hoping for quick service Monday at the Secretary of State’s East Lansing branch, 400 Albert Ave.
The Avian Disease and Oncology Laboratory in East Lansing received $430,000 in federal stimulus funding last Friday for system upgrades and building maintenance. The lab, 3606 E. Mount Hope Road, deals with research of poultry-related diseases.
In celebration of summer and spirits, the 10th annual Festival of the Sun will take place from 2-10 p.m. Saturday at the park and parking lot located at the corner of Turner Street and Grand River Avenue, in Old Town Lansing.
When I got my first cell phone in the fall of my freshman year of high school, it didn’t have texting and it was for ‘emergency purposes’ only. My little sister’s first phone, which she got just four years later, played music and had an LED light-up screen. That’s not to mention it had unlimited text messaging, which is a good thing considering that in one month last year she sent and received more than 14,400 text messages.
A conflict between state law and public university power might lead to an increase in the presence of guns on MSU’s campus. The MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to allow concealed weapons on campus, assuming the owner has the proper permits. Any person with a concealed weapons permit might bring a gun on campus, but not into any buildings, such as the dorms.
Two diamond rings presumed stolen between April 25 and 26 from a room in the Kellogg Center remain missing, MSU police Sgt.
Although guns remain prohibited from MSU campus buildings, those with concealed weapons permits now can carry a firearm through campus, following a MSU Board of Trustees vote Friday.
MSU students could see as much as a 10.1 percent tuition increase during the next two years, the MSU Board of Trustees decided Friday when it approved the 2009-10 university budget guidelines.
For MSU alumnus Robert Dozier, writing hip-hop songs isn’t all about the rhythm or the beat — it frees his mind from oppression.