A public hearing about the East Village Master Plan — redevelopment plans for the Cedar Village area extending east to Hagadorn Road — is scheduled for the East Lansing Planning Commission's 7 p.m.
Why do people feel the need to force their own beliefs on others? The fact that I disapprove of something doesn't mean others should automatically disapprove too.
Big Rapids — MSU head coach Rick Comley put Tuesday's game against Ferris State into perspective. With many players out of the lineup for the No.
Heather Holcomb no-preference freshman "No. I just turned 18 yesterday and I'm from Dallas, Texas, so I don't know how that works.
New information obtained from North Carolina has caused Lansing police officers to place a 1999 murder case into active investigation status, a news release from the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office stated. Officers with the Raleigh Police Department contacted Lansing police after finding information while executing a search warrant of resident Drew Planten's home on Oct.
I can't believe I've ever said "I'm bored" in my three years here in East Lansing. I didn't realize how many things — art shows, concerts, lectures — go on daily within a very small radius around campus. A friend turned me on to the MSU events calendar, and as an entertainment reporter, I'm constantly checking bulletin boards, the City of East Lansing Web site, the University Activities Board Web site, the Breslin Center Web site and anywhere else I can to see what's going down in the entertainment sphere in East Lansing. I can't fathom how many events I've missed in the past two years because I didn't bother searching for them.
The streets of East Lansing were flooded early Wednesday morning with water as high as knee-deep. The flooding caused at least two cars to stall on Grand River Avenue. East Lansing police Sgt.
MSU Provost Kim Wilcox released a first draft on the results of the academic quality fund on Tuesday, which would allocate $9.7 million to initiatives that aim to benefit students and enhance the academic experience at MSU. Wilcox presented a series of graphs at Tuesday's Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting that show a preliminary idea of how the fund will be divided. For the last few months, Wilcox has led a group from the Office of the Provost in reviewing 118 proposals that were submitted by different deans across the university, totaling more than $74 million.
Students and members of the university community will have the opportunity to comment on the proposed meal plan change at today's Residence Halls Association, or RHA, meeting. The group is meeting at 7:20 p.m.
Challenger Virg Bernero unseated incumbent Tony Benavides in the race for Lansing mayor early Wednesday, with vote tallying lasting through the night.
Riots have surged in France for nearly two weeks, but tensions in the country will probably not have a significant impact on MSU study abroad programs planned for the spring and summer, officials said. There are currently no MSU students studying abroad in France or Belgium, where riots have spilled across the border. "We checked that right away," said Kathleen Fairfax, director of the Office of Study Abroad.
There are two kinds of Holocaust survivors to Yehudit Rotem— those who've spoken out about their experience and those who've remained silent. At 16 months old, Rotem was too young to know when she and her family entered the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Lohheide, Germany, and talk of the experience was limited in her home during childhood. "My parents, like many others, belong to the section that didn't speak about it," Rotem said.
Israeli author and Holocaust survivor Yehudit Rotem will speak in the Green Room of the Union from 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Carol Jacobsen from the Michigan Battered Women's Clemency Project will speak at 6:30 p.m. today in the Castle Boardroom of the MSU College of Law. Jacobsen will discuss the effort to gain clemency for incarcerated battered women, a cause the organization continues to pursue. The event is open to the public and hosted by the MSU College of Law Women's Law Caucus.
About 15 guests joined the MSU ROTC Spartan Battalion for a Veterans Day ceremony at the Alumni Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, to honor veterans of past and present wars. "For me, it's about remembering everybody who went before me," said Lt.
From staff reports The State News Incumbent Vic Loomis and challenger Kevin Beard took the two seats in East Lansing's City Council election Tuesday, and an MSU student took third over the other incumbent, Bill Sharp. With all precincts reporting, Loomis won 29.01 percent of the votes, Beard won 28.16 percent, challenger and MSU student John Fournier won 22.14 percent and incumbent Bill Sharp received 20.33 percent of the vote. Loomis, who will begin his second term on the council, said this term will be his last. "We're going to do another hard four years just like we did last time," Loomis said.
In high school, I was a minority in that I was not sure what exactly my political beliefs were. But in the short two months I have been here, The State News Opinion Page has convinced me that I am a hard-line moderate (if such a thing exists). It publishes what must be the most absurd beliefs on both "sides." On the right, there are those who dare to suggest that membership in a specific subset of a specific religion should be not only considered, but a deciding factor when determining who will interpret the most important law of a country settled for the purpose of religious freedom. Then on the left is John Bice, who surely is kept on retainer solely for when the editors feel The State News isn't edgy enough. Ignoring the social merits of belief in an afterlife, his attack on religious faith as unsubstantiated is entirely hypocritical, as he conveniently forgets that believing in science alone requires just as much faith in the unprovable as religion does. When Bice can show how matter created itself or why earth in general, and life in particular, violate the second law of thermodynamics, then I will congratulate him on his Nobel Prize.
Despite not having enough "space or facilities" to properly care for them, the Potter Park Zoo continues to breed tiger cubs, according to "Tiger cubs frolick for public at zoo" (SN 10/26). Zoos breed tigers because babies bring in dollars, but the cubs' mother has already been shipped out.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon served as the presiding officer of a panel discussion today in Detroit at an annual session on the state of public universities. The discussion, held at Cobo Hall and sponsored by the Detroit Economic Club, featured University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman, as well as business and government leaders. As presiding officer, Simon introduced the panelists and handled the question-and-answer session. The program focused on the role of universities in helping promote growth in the state's economy. Other panelists included state Lt.