MSU alumnus Ken Blidy joined his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity brothers last year to embark on a 63-day coast-to-coast bicycle tour. It wasn't until he finished the tour when everything came together for him. "It didn't actually hit me until we got to Washington, D.C., and we raised our bikes in the air," he said.
Two new stores plan to brew business in East Lansing. Starbucks hosted its grand opening Thursday for its second Grand River Avenue location at 1141 E.
As the summer driving season wears on, some state lawmakers are looking to ease the price at the pump for Michigan motorists. Reps.
I couldn't help but see the news regarding the Michigan Supreme Court's decision in the case Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, et.
This is in response to "Non-Christian teachings cause of world tragedies" (SN 7/26). Apparently, John Hayden lacks the ability to look critically at what really serves as the root of all evil. Want to know where the justified evil comes from?
At 2 p.m. Sunday, Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive, in Lansing, will welcome members of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Members of the fraternity have been on a coast-to-coast bicycle tour this summer to raise funds and public awareness for people with disabilities.
At 6 p.m. Aug. 15, The Harris Nature Center, 3998 Van Atta Road, in Meridian Township, will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a barbecue, which is open to the public.
CORRECTION: Caption should read Morgan Pohl. Bright light will fall on munchkins, mice and poppies during the next two weekends. All-of-us Express Children's Theatre presents its annual summer performance, "The Wizard of Oz," on Fridays and Saturdays at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. The nonprofit theater, founded by director Evelyn Weymouth, offers theater for children, by children. "I've found that if you honestly, truly, to your core, expect professional behavior from children and believe they're capable of it, you'll get it," Weymouth said. More than 50 cast members, ages 6-18, will perform an hour-long show with all the familiar characters but is based on the famous novel rather than the movie musical. Another crew with nearly 60 members execute behind-the-scenes tasks including lights, sound, props, makeup and costumes.
Can you feel it coming? It's the inevitable question, asked a million and a half times during Welcome Week when friends reunite.
Could a single text message save your life? That's what MSU officials believe could happen with the new text messaging emergency notification system that begins this fall. As students sit in classrooms, isolated from the media, they'd receive text messages from the university about emergency situations - from tornadoes to school shootings. Beginning fall semester, people can register their cell phone numbers through several pages on MSU's Web site, which will link to the Department of Police and Public Safety, or DPPS, said MSU police Sgt.
The summer of 1967 - some remember it as the Summer of Love. For others, the thoughts of a carefree, idealistic summer are pushed aside by thoughts of a more somber nature. Those thoughts center around burning buildings, police brutality and violence based primarily on race. This week marks the anniversary of the civil disturbance in Detroit. The flash point of the riot occurred when police shut down an after hours club, or a "blind pig." But the reasons for the riots run much deeper than that. Racial discrimination, segregation, poor housing and disenfranchisement all played important parts in the city's explosion that July. For years before the riot, Detroit was undergoing a drastic change.
Because of No Child Left Behind laws, schools are spending less time teaching history, science and art to focus on reading and arithmetic for annual tests. Since the 2001-02 school year, when NCLB was enacted, 44 percent of U.S.
Enjoy a dive into Lake Michigan this summer. Before I do, I'd like to thank Richard Librizzi for pointing our attention toward British Petroleum Co. Ltd.'s attempts at increasing the daily garbage it heaps into Lake Michigan in "Corporations polluting Michigan's water sources" (SN 7/26). BP wants to increase its daily ammonia discharge by about 1,600 pounds, while it would bump up its daily release of suspended solids, like lead, by about 5,000 pounds, according to The Chicago Tribune. This is all while BP advertises it actually gives a damn about the environment.
An energy bill without improved fuel economy standards simply won't make a serious dent in our oil dependency or help consumers at the pump.
There was a lot of excitement prior to the first RivFest on Tuesday at The Riviera Cafe Restaurant and Lounge, 231 M.A.C.
For many of the visitors to the East Lansing Family Aquatic Center, the Summer Splash event Wednesday was a welcome surprise. Maya Mandujano, 9, Alena Hartsuff, 8, and Nicole Jarwan, 9 - three best friends who came to the water park with their babysitter to enjoy the day - found the Summer Splash event was taking place at the center, 6400 Abbott Road. "If there's a raffle, I would like to do the raffle," Mandujano said.
In the third incident of its sort since 2005, MSU is investigating another embezzlement - this time, in the College of Education. MSU police are investigating an employee in the college who may have embezzled about $19,000 by making unauthorized personal charges with a department credit card.
I would like to express my concern dealing with the recent increase of grade-point averages for graduating with honor and high honor. First, I would like to say the school officials' idea is good - making students more competitive and pushing them to do more work.
Sam Kampondeni's job as a radiologist in Malawi, Africa, is about to get a lot easier. That's because Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, the country's largest city, is in the process of receiving a donation from the General Electric Corp., or GE, and MSU. "It's a major contribution," Kampondeni said.
The Chicago Tribune printed an extensive article July 15 about a large petroleum company, BP, planning to increase the volume of refinery waste - ammonia and sludge - from its facility near Gary, Ind., into Lake Michigan.