Getting e-cards from friends, family and acquaintances is usually a nice gesture. Normally, the message does not have anything to do with life-threatening diseases.
Last week, an airliner departing from New York City struck a flock of geese and was forced to land in the Hudson River. All the passengers survived. Though told adequately in just two sentences, this story became the focal point of international attention for days after it broke.
MSU head coach Rick Comley said a shoulder injury might keep senior forward Tim Crowder out the rest of the season.
Fortunately for the MSU wrestling team, as coach Tom Minkel puts it, “usually the best guy wins.”
A 19-year-old female student told police she was sexually assaulted Tuesday as she walked to her vehicle near Lot 30 on Hagadorn Road, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Seeing President Barack Obama deliver his inaugural address was worth everything — the crowds, cold and early morning, education junior Trisha Langlois said.
Just because Fletcher Daniels wasn’t in Washington, D.C., doesn’t mean he wasn’t emotionally moved by President Barack Obama’s first words as the 44th president. As the chemistry senior joined about 300 others at the Union Ballroom to watch the historic inauguration, Daniels said he was overwhelmed with emotion.
A pickpocket walked away with a 38-year-old man’s Blackberry Curve outside of Biggby Coffee in the Union Sunday afternoon, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
As of noon Tuesday, the nation is in Barack Obama’s hands. In front of a crowd estimated to exceed one million people, Obama assumed the presidency from George W. Bush and became the first African American president in U.S. history.
The need to bring more business to East Lansing was the theme of Tuesday’s City Council meeting, as members examined several ordinances aimed at future development.
“It’s like a fresh start,” Teresa Snead said. “I love it, I love it. So happy.” This year, Snead, 36, and her four children spent their first holiday season in their new Lansing home after they were officially handed the keys on Nov. 21.
“I grew up in Detroit and went to public schools … I know people who, whether they wanted an education or not, couldn’t have one,” said Christopher Waston. “I want to make as much change as possible.”
The MSU Faculty Council discussed revisions to the tenure system and academic minors at its Tuesday meeting. Provost Kim Wilcox said the revision of the tenure system included a complete review of the policies on granting tenure to professors, in order to bring the system up to date.
When farmers devote entire fields to only one crop, it reduces the number of insects that serve as natural pesticides and causes a negative impact both environmentally and economically, research by MSU scientists concluded.
The College of Nursing was awarded a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to study childhood obesity during the next three years. Nursing professor Mildred Horodynski will use the funding for a three-year infant feeding program called “Healthy Babies Through Infant-Centered Feeding” in Michigan and Colorado, according to an MSU release.
Americans weren’t the only ones to witness history Tuesday. International students also stopped to reflect on the impact the change in presidential leadership might have on them and their home countries abroad.
MSU wants to avoid problems that plagued the last upgrade of the ANGEL system by helping to test the new version early. The university is set to upgrade either to version 7.4 or 7.3 of ANGEL in mid-May. The last time ANGEL was upgraded in 2007, the system presented numerous technical bugs, causing serious problems for faculty using ANGEL, said David Gift, vice-provost of Libraries, Computing and Technology.
Not many people would open a campus-related clothing store in the same location where a national chain couldn’t survive. But most people aren’t Daniel Switzer. Switzer and his business partners own Campus Street Sportswear and picked up the lease of the Steve & Barry’s former building at 515 E. Grand River Ave.
Part retail store, part museum, Dicker & Deal Second Hand hosts an eclectic collection of merchandise ranging from used electronics, to gold jewelry and tools, to bicycles and firearms. Some of the most unusual items in the store are those on display and not for sale. This includes a variety of curios and antiques including war relics, unique taxidermy, old arrowheads and a vintage FBI identification division kit.
College is a whole new world for those freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.