The ramp and bridge from southbound US-127 to eastbound I-96 will be demolished Friday to begin a project to rebuild the structure this summer. Work on the bridge will be done with one lane of traffic maintained at all times on the two-lane roadway.
Parts of a four-block stretch of East Kalamazoo Street in Lansing will be closed for two weeks beginning today to replace lead service lines in the Lansing water system.
The theft of a treasured attraction in the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden has fueled fresh concerns about the security of university and personal property on and off campus.
When he’s not on stage, he leads a relatively quiet life with little fanfare. But to the 1,200 people who packed the Crossroads Food Court in the International Center on Friday night, he is Hershae Chocolatae.
Let me start this off with a caveat: I’d really rather be working on my studies so I can get a job and become a productive member of society than writing this letter — maybe help pull Michigan out of the red or something.
At Lansing’s Collins Road Post Office on the evening of April 15, informational pickets from the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice and the Peace Education Center raised concerns that our federal government spends too much on the military and too little on human needs.
Though it’s more than 18 months away, the 2010 Michigan gubernatorial election has taken its place among the top political stories in our state. With Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s term limited, making her ineligible to run for a third time, the race has drawn a broad field of prospective candidates from both parties.
Twitter. Facebook. Blogging. There are many ways to keep in touch with each other these days, and the government is making no exception.
The MSU baseball team chose its most hectic and crucial week of the season to turn out its longest game of the year on Friday. But they aren’t complaining. In a game that lasted nearly three and a half hours and went for 11 innings at McLane Stadium in the middle of a five-game week, the Spartans put together two late-inning comebacks to cap off an 8-7 win against Michigan that could serve as the turning point in their season.
A 21-year-old male student reported a Pirelli tire stolen from his vehicle and replaced with a deflated Firestone tire, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Oldsmobile Park is technically the Lansing Lugnuts’ home field. But on Thursday, the MSU baseball team firmly stood its ground on the diamond it has occasionally called home in commanding fashion against a most formidable opponent.
When 2006 MSU graduate Alicia Bowerman moved to New York City three years ago, she had no job prospects but had plenty of MSU contacts. “It’s a small world, even though it’s New York City,” Bowerman said, laughing. “I mean, I run into people I went to basketball games with my freshman year.”
Students and community members gathered Thursday to commemorate the artwork of Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, which adorns the courtyard outside of Snyder-Phillips Hall as well as inside the Kresge Art Museum.
The State News talked with junior Charlie Gantt, the Spartans’ starting tight end. He has scored four touchdowns so far in his MSU career, with 19 passes for 302 reception yards.
Coming off the biggest comeback of the season, a 7-6 extra-innings win over Central Michigan, the MSU softball team is looking to use the confidence from the victory to push it to the first Big Ten win this season.
Junior linebacker Greg Jones is willing to play anywhere to help benefit the MSU football team. Jones originally was recruited to MSU as an outside linebacker but played several positions last season including the MIKE, or middle linebacker position, where he had great success and is starting to get more comfortable.
For the better half of the decade, the secondary has been one of the MSU football team’s primary concerns. The Spartans have finished in the lower half of the Big Ten in pass defense in five of the past six seasons. Perhaps not coincidentally, the Spartans also finished in the lower half of the Big Ten most of those seasons.
Students with green-and-white picket signs gathered Thursday at the Administration Building asking passers-by to sign a petition that seeks to cap tuition costs. A Facebook group called the Michigan State University Transparency and Accountability Initiative organized the protest, but representatives from the MSU Young Democratic Socialists also were present, among others.
More than 600 undergraduates crammed into the second floor of the Union on Thursday to present research projects at the 11th annual University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum, or UURAF.
College is about finding something you love to do, then capitalizing on it. Even if that something is beer pong. University of Michigan senior Joe Eastman and Grand Valley State University junior Dane Ellis are testing that theory with their new Web site, Michpong.com.