Unconventional recyclables such as tires, used furniture and scrap metal will be accepted at the city of East Lansing's Project Pride cleanup Saturday. Items can be taken to the Abbott Center parking lot, 1400-1500 Abbott Road, for disposal.
Jeff Riedinger has been recommended as the dean of MSU's International Studies and Programs. He has been serving as acting dean since 2005, and his appointment is subject to approval by the MSU Board of Trustees at the June 15 meeting. Riedinger would succeed John Hudzik, who served as ISP dean from 1995-2005.
With her long, black curly hair swept back by glasses, Pearl Hernandez laughed and joked with those around her as she got her face painted by one of her friends. The result: One side of the sixth-grader's face was painted purple, the other cheek had a stencil of a planet. The Pattengill Middle School student never used to be so outgoing.
While everyone else is focusing on Bush's incompetence and the red-state/blue-state standoff, a more significant and quiet revolution is under way among younger voters.
East Lansing has dogs on its mind. The city wants to create a dog park where "man's best friend" can run free, unhampered by leashes. And dog owners want a place where they can bring their four-legged friends without worrying about keeping them on a leash, Wendy Longpre, assistant director of the East Lansing department of Parks, Recreation and Arts said. "We really do want to provide an area where people can recreate with their dogs," she said.
Irvin Rosenfeld has been smoking 10-12 joints of federally supplied medical marijuana a day for 25 years - he said it has saved his life. "Without my medical cannabis, I would be homebound, I would most likely be unemployed and I would be a drain on society," said Rosenfeld, a 54-year-old stockbroker from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He smokes to alleviate excruciating muscle pain from a disease that causes tumors to form on the ends of his bones.
There is the assumption among many people that if you work hard, show effort and are loyal, you will be successful in whatever field they go into. Unfortunately, this assumption is often countered with factual knowledge of wage inequities, which still exist. In addition to the egregious problem of employment discrimination, the U.S.
Laney McCormick sits at a desk and listens to people complain. It may not be the most exciting job, but it's how she's getting her start in the law enforcement field. As a cadet for the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD, she sits at the front desk and tries to direct people to an appropriate officer. Criminal justice classes at MSU weren't cutting it for McCormick, who wants to be a police officer, so she decided to get the necessary experience to enter the ranks. "At MSU, all the classes were about theory and law enforcement today," she said. For almost a year, McCormick has been a cadet at ELPD.
Lansing — Outside Gier Park Elementary School, a 6-foot wooden pole stands decorated in the name of peace, with paintings by students in a plot filled with mulch and flowers. The pole's objective is to promote peace to improve the sometimes rocky relationship between Gier Park Elementary School at 401 E.
The amount of assumptions and contradictions underlying each misconception that Isaac DeVille spews onto the paper in his article, "Liberal family life" (SN 5/29), is despicable. Who is he to assume that all children blindly accept the political allegiance of their parents?
Central United Methodist Church will host its annual "Celebration of Music in Worship" Sunday.
One of my favorite op-ed battles to date has to include the ongoing literary gems debating the greek system and what they call the "college" experience in "Elitist and proud" (SN 5/25), and "Fraternity stereotypes reaffirmed by columnist" (SN 5/29). Both sides have proven themselves highly amusing, to say the very least.
Legislators took a major step in healing the state's budget woes for the 2007 fiscal year Wednesday. Two bills that would transfer money between funds were approved by the Michigan House of Representatives, thus alleviating the state's $800 million deficit. Because of higher interest rates, the Michigan Higher Education Student Loan Authority, or MHELSA, raked in roughly an unexpected $90 million, said Greg Bird, spokesman for the Office of the State Budget. Lawmakers decided to take the excess money from MHELSA and filter it into the Michigan Merit Award Trust Fund, which helps fund Medicaid and other programs, aside from funding Michigan Merit Award money. The surplus money will be funneled into programs supported by the General Fund, which would save money for the General Fund, thereby helping ease fiscal deficit. Building on the General Fund growth, representatives also decided Wednesday to get a $410 million advance on the state's annual tobacco settlement money.
An MSU student and her family were charged with torturing and killing animals at their Lapeer County farm. Kate Mills, an animal science junior and 4-H Club queen, was charged with a felony count of animal killing and torturing, and misdemeanor counts of cruelty and abandonment, animal burial, and for possessing an unlicensed dog, according to the Lapeer County 71-A District Court. Mills was released on a $5,000 personal bond and is scheduled to appear in court at 9 a.m.
Bob Johnson knows every home in East Lansing from top to bottom, but now that he is retiring as East Lansing's city assessor, city officials are left trying to fill his shoes. Almost 30 years of documenting city homes and determining their value.
Hand over the keys and find your own ride. A new bill would put the brakes on taxpayer-funded vehicles, ordering political appointees and state employees from 19 departments to use their own wheels to get to work. Rep.
It seems ironic that the president who orders and requires America's military servicemen to serve in combat zones was, himself, part of a plan that gave him an extra month's vacation and early release from his military "obligation" when the country was engrossed in the unpopular Vietnam War. "223 days 'til MSU," (SN 5/29), deals with Mathew Brady's inability to return stateside and begin a productive life in a civilian setting at MSU because of military requirements.
Friends for more than 50 years, there wasn't much Gordon Guyer didn't know about Frederick Williams. "He was one of a kind," he said. Williams loved history, MSU sports and hunting, but it wasn't those things that made him stand out. His passion - that's what did it, Guyer said. On May 17, the two talked on the phone and planned a get-together for the upcoming week, when Guyer would be home from seeing his granddaughter graduate from the University of Kansas. Williams, a long-time former MSU faculty member, died May 20, at the age of 89 - before Guyer could return to Michigan. "He said to me, 'I'll feel better and when you get back, you'll come over,'" said Guyer, president emeritus of MSU.
Drew Winter's column "Despite Dems' status, progress still lacking" (SN 5/25), while relevant, was a sad excuse for an op-ed and was equally as unproductive. Winter basically says we shouldn't support minorities and women in politics.