In a world of pizza places using premade crusts and frozen ingredients, one newcomer to East Lansing is turning to freshness to set itself apart. Marco’s Pizza, 3498 Lake Lansing Road, prides itself on quality ingredients.
Research institutes and upgrades to the ANGEL system were a couple of the issues discussed at the first Executive Committee of Academic Council, or ECAC, meeting of the new year. ECAC endorsed the creation of the Institute for Cyber Enabled Research as well as the Clinical and Translational Science Institute. The first of the two will work with cyber-enabled discovery, which is using computers for research.
During the holiday season, evergreens symbolized joy and the spirit of giving, but now, in East Lansing, they symbolize wood chips. Sanitation workers spent the past two Mondays collecting Christmas trees from curbs and chipping them to mulch in an effort to recycle and ease landscaping costs. The mulch from the discarded trees will be spread in local parks this summer.
No one knows the streets of East Lansing better than Rich Johnson. As a 27-year-veteran of the East Lansing Department of Public Works, he has spent the last five years working for the Streets Department doing everything from plowing to pothole repair. According to the Department of Public Works, the Streets Department removed a total of 3,649 cubic yards of material from the streets in 2008, excluding fall leaf collection. Johnson told The State News about his work as a street sweeper.
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 her perspective on her new frontier.
The chocolate and coffee business is a family affair for brothers Paul and Jared Smith. After opening their first Great Lakes Chocolate & Coffee Company in Sturgis in 2002, the business has expanded to include four locations — including one in Lansing’s stadium district, 500 E. Michigan Ave., Suite 190, that opened in August.
She’s a Grand Blanc resident, a mentor in Shaw Hall, and a psychology junior who wants to get her doctorate when she graduates. Like many other average students, Choua Kue went to the local movie theater to see “Gran Torino” last Friday with friends. But the difference between Kue and the hundreds of others that filled the theater prior to the movie’s start was that she was preparing to see a familiar face share the big screen with the movie’s star and director, Clint Eastwood. That face was her own.
It’s a security fence. Or maybe it’s a separation barrier. It could even be an apartheid wall. Whatever it is, it’s lying along the West Bank and Israel border.
President-elect Barack Obama will become this nation’s first minority president Tuesday. But not everybody’s voice is being heard, and it’s time for that to change. It’s time to truly become a nation of one.
Travis Walton has not forgotten. The memory of watching Penn State’s student section storm the court after his team’s devastating 85-76 loss in State College, Pa., last season left a sour taste in the senior captain’s mouth — one that he’s been eager to rinse out.
U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., will have a seat at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for the 111th Congress, her office announced today. The committee shapes national energy policy and will oversee legislation regarding renewable energy resources.
College tuition for students in low-income Michigan school districts could become significantly more affordable through a program signed in to law Tuesday. The law, approved Tuesday by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, will allow for the creation of up to 10 “Promise Zones,” where communities can pay for college-bound students’ tuition through private donations, as well as funds equivalent to half of all increases in state education taxes paid by the community each year.
The MSU Board of Trustees on Tuesday voted unanimously to reappoint Joel Ferguson as chairperson and Melanie Foster as vice-chairperson for the next two years. Board members said the pairing had been a successful one during the last two years.
The inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is seven days away, and MSU students — along with millions of others from across the nation — are planning trips to Washington, D.C., to witness the event. Below is a list of items students should keep in mind if they’re heading to the nation’s capital.
Better design flexibility and parking options are two of several proposed changes to the Delta Triangle, an area of land along Louis Street that potentially could be rezoned for the creation of more multiple-student and multiple-family homes.
Service organizations such as Teach For America and the Peace Corps are seeing increased interest among MSU students as the job market declines.
The moment international relations sophomore Brad Parker learned President-elect Barack Obama won, he knew he and his friends would be in Washington, D.C., for the inauguration Jan. 20.
As the search for missing MSU horticulture student Krista Lueth enters a third month, friends and family are awaiting closure to a painful process. Roy Lueth, Krista Lueth’s father, said Monday he’s hoping the $5,000 in reward money he has offered for information will help lead to her discovery, whether she is found alive or dead.
Two female students found that an estimated $610 worth of property had been stolen from their Armstrong Hall dorm room after winter break, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A plethora of pizza joints already maintain a steady hold on East Lansing, especially along Grand River Avenue. That means restaurants need more than just good food to set themselves apart.