Sidney Finkel knew he arrived at 13 years old at Buchenwald, one of the largest concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He knew he had survived the Holocaust as a Polish Jew. But until Finkel obtained his prisoner record from Kenneth Waltzer, an MSU professor of Jewish studies, he didn’t know he had entered the camp in December 1944 or that he had arrived with his brother and father.
MSU received two grants Wednesday totaling $150,000 as part of the Michigan Initiative for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a consortium of the 15 public universities in the state.
Within the next few weeks, Michigan’s state government workers could have quite a bit of wiggle room in their work schedule, and East Lansing officials are considering similar scheduling changes.
The university and The State News are still at a disagreement when it comes to the public’s right to information after 2 1/2 years.
City Center II became one step closer to becoming a reality when the East Lansing City Council unanimously approved the development agreement for the project at its meeting Tuesday.
East Lansing residents and students may have to become more cost-conscious consumers, as prices for food and gasoline throughout the nation are increasing by significant amounts.
After three years of renovation, the Women’s Center of Greater Lansing is larger and better equipped to provide its clients with an array of career and counseling services.
Throughout the month, local restaurant Crunchy’s is celebrating its state with a Michigan-only menu — featuring cheese from the MSU Dairy Store, along with 27 different Michigan-brewed beers.
Hotel Indigo, an upscale boutique hotel, part of InterContinental Hotels Group, one of the largest hotel groups in the world, has committed to East Lansing’s City Center II project.
The State News caught up with MSU alumnus and Colorado Avalanche defenseman John-Michael Liles this week. Liles was a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award as a senior and the first two-time winner of the CCHA’s Best Offensive Defenseman Award.
There’s no hiding that the MSU hockey team is going to be young this season. But MSU head coach Rick Comley and associate head coach Brian Renfrew don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. Both coaches are excited to get out on the ice and start working with the large incoming freshman class.
About 1,500 East Lansing residents are without power this afternoon after an underground cable fault near the intersection of Albert and Charles streets, said Mark Nixon, spokesman for the Lansing Board of Water & Light.
I’m the type of person who thrives under pressure. In fact, there are a lot of things I just can’t get done unless I’m on a tight deadline or there’s some impending doom looming over my shoulder that requires me to act quickly. I sat down Monday night, for example, to start writing a paper due Wednesday for my sociology class.
What a joy it was to open The State News of July 11. We got some good old opinion material to sink our teeth into with, Consider planet when having kids (SN 7/11). Drew Robert Winter decided to take on the age-old establishment of “birthin’ babies.”
When students opened their MSU e-mail accounts on Monday evening, they were greeted with an e-mail from President Lou Anna K. Simon. Unfortunately, the e-mail wasn’t a chain letter and it wasn’t sent to ask students how their summer was going.
A burglary that occurred in Spartan Village between 2 p.m. July 4 and 3 p.m. July 5 is currently under investigation, MSU police Lt. Jennifer Brown said.
A request to increase the occupancy of Lou and Harry’s Five Star Deli, 245 Ann St., was deferred by the East Lansing City Council Tuesday in order to give the city staff time to prepare a report on the restaurant’s compliance with special use permit requirements.
At this year’s Michigan Agricultural and Equipment Exposition, or Ag Expo, leaders from different MSU Extension county branches came to East Lansing to educate the public on the services they provide in light of the effects the economy has had on their own funding.
While several aspects of the Avondale Square project were unanimously approved by the East Lansing City Council at its meeting Tuesday, the ordinance to contract rezone 0.55 acres of vacant land was denied by a 3-1 vote.
Tuesday was a day of both storms and sunshine for Michigan’s economic forecast. General Motors Corp. announced plans to reduce personnel, executive salaries, health care benefits and truck production — a move that will affect thousands of workers. Volkswagen AG also announced it chose Tennessee over Michigan as the location for a new manufacturing plant.