Students might say goodbye to the Cedar Village apartments, and hello to a cinema, riverside park and various forms of entertainment, according to renderings for the proposed East Village project unveiled Wednesday.
A former MSU medical student was sentenced Wednesday to six months in the Ingham County Jail and five years probation after he violated probation stemming from a fraud case involving MSU.
Mike Mosallam loves the challenge of making others laugh. “It’s much harder to make someone laugh than to make them cry,” said Mosallam, who lives in Dearborn.
After four months of sandwiches, pitas and subs, E.L. Moe’s Firehouse Grill, 565 E. Grand River Ave., closed Friday because of slow sales. The Mediterranean and sandwich restaurant struggled to keep pace with nearby chain restaurants — namely Taco Bell — and wasn’t able to draw enough customers to stay open, manager Ahmad Elbast said.
Best-selling author Rebecca Walker will give a speech at 7 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center Auditorium entitled “What Barack Obama and Sarah Palin have to Teach Us about Race, Class and Gender in America.”
It was a sunny day in Lebanon in 1999 when Raed Mokaled and his wife took their two sons to the park to celebrate 5-year-old Ahmad’s birthday. While Ahmad was playing, an explosion tore through the air. Ahmad died hours later in the hospital. He is one of thousands of people, many of them children, killed or maimed by leftover cluster munitions.
The MSU hockey team plays in the Ice Breaker Tournament this weekend. Here is a look at the two teams they will face off against. Both games will be at Agganis Arena in Boston.
The last time the MSU field hockey team saw Wake Forest, it was on the way out of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. Twice last season, the Demon Deacons got the better of the Spartans, something the players haven’t forgotten.
After a tough weekend that saw the team lose two conference games, including a drubbing by No. 1 Penn State, the MSU volleyball team is looking to get back on track at home. The season’s first conference road trip didn’t go as planned. The team snapped its 10-game winning streak, losing 3-1 to Indiana and 3-0 to Penn State. The losses move them to 10-5 overall and 2-2 in the Big Ten.
With the election less than a month away, the dirty tricks have already begun. Drexel University in Philadelphia recently found itself awash in fliers warning students undercover police officers would be present at the polls looking to arrest those with warrants or unpaid parking tickets. The flier was attributed to an “Obama supporter.”
UN Resolution 181 called for the partition of the land we now call Israel. This left 43 percent of the land to the Arabs and 57 percent to the Jews — though this included much land that one would probably classify as “desert.” This plan was passed in the UN General Assembly, accepted by the Jews and would be put in place for independence to be declared.
After reading YAF files complaint against James Madison, MSU (SN 10/8), I am again surprised and confused by the actions of this group. As the article details, the university recently sent an e-mail to students promoting the rally for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. What I saw as efforts to promote student political involvement, Young Americans for Freedom quickly called out as partisan political endorsement.
A special interest group is a political organization set up to influence political decisions in a way that is beneficial to the members of that group. These agendas can be ideological, such as the National Rifle Association, or they can be corporate, set on pushing agendas beneficial to a company. They also can be set up to support issues considered relevant to a specific demographic of the population like the AARP. Basically, if you can think of an issue, it probably has at least one interest group.
An MSU student’s death last week was part of a quadruple homicide, Ottawa County sheriff’s Lt. Mark Bennett said Tuesday. Katherine A. Brown, who was an agribusiness management sophomore, was beaten to death, police said.
The economy was on the minds of 80 undecided voters and Internet users during a more aggressive town hall presidential debate Tuesday at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
Voters will have the chance to resolve an ethical issue that has been debated in the Michigan Legislature for years when they cast their ballots this November. Proposal 2 seeks to amend the state’s constitution to loosen restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research in Michigan. Embryonic research is allowed in Michigan, but researchers must get their cells from outside the state. Taking them from sources within the state is a felony.
Police released a composite sketch of the suspect in a Monday assault near Beaumont Tower and West Circle Drive.
The ordinance to conditionally rezone 0.55 acres of the West Village project was approved 4-1 by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday after months of discussion.
As a part of Domestic Violence Awareness Month this October, the Capital Area Domestic and Sexual Violence Coordinating Council, or CADSVCC, hosted a town hall meeting Tuesday evening with the candidates running for Ingham County prosecuting attorney.
Students and East Lansing residents are encouraged to help the environment by participating in the Red Cedar River Cleanup.