Chinese restaurant from Ann Arbor opens new location in Northern Tier
Three years ago Kai Zheng decided it might be time to look outside the blue and maize mindset. He had worked at his father's Panda House restaurant in Ann Arbor as a dishwasher, cook - almost every job at the restaurant - for four years and wanted his own piece of the restaurant business. So Zheng and his father started to look at locations in East Lansing to open another Panda House. They gravitated toward the Northern Tier area because of its high-traffic volume from student apartments.
U.P. artists featured at Lansing Art Gallery
Three-year-old Elise Wilcox bopped around the Lansing Art Gallery on Sunday not knowing anything about the work of the two Michigan upper peninsula artists as she strolled through.
Branding of creationism as a science shouldn't let it in schools
A recent poll found that over two-thirds of those surveyed favored teaching creationism alongside evolution in school.
MIDDAY UPDATE: University Village set to be replaced with apartments to attract undergrads
University Village apartments are set to be demolished in June and replaced with new, modern apartments aimed at undergraduate students, MSU officials said. The 24-acre site on northwest campus will include housing units for 300 people, which is less than the current 456 apartments in University Village now, said Chuck Gagliano, assistant vice president of the Division of Housing & Food Services. He said prices are not set and will be determined by the market for housing. The families and graduate students that mostly occupy University Village apartments must move out by the end of their lease on May 15. MSU's Board of Trustees still have to approve a designer and contractor in its October meeting, Gagliano said. "Those units have reached a point where they need to be torn down," said MSU Trustee David Porteous.
Store rents 40,000 movies
Business: Video To Go, 300 N. Clippert St, Frandor Shopping Center, in Lansing Name: Tom Leach, owner Age: 59 Time with the business: 24 years.
Columnist shouldn't dis Izzone campout
As a member of the Student Alumni Foundation Board of Directors, I am a little offended by Bob Darrow's column "Fans get a feeling for Izzone basketball" (SN 9/26). I am not an Izzone Director, but I stand behind them. If he thinks it was hazing, then why didn't he leave?
Court ruling on same-sex benefits to be appealed
In the next few weeks the state Senate will consider asking the Michigan Supreme Court to stop giving benefits to same-sex partners of public employees. Sen.
Officials disagree on funding MSU will receive
State and university officials disagree over whether MSU is getting increased funding from the state this year. MSU officials argue that the university is being promised less money in the 2006 fiscal year budget than last year.
Software upgrade causes sluggish Webmail
Andrea Campain said she wishes MSU Webmail was operating as usual. Right now, Campain said she has several different group projects in the works, all of which use an MSU e-mail account as a main communication form. "It's been really hard to keep up with everything going on in the group project because we can't communicate," the advertising senior said. For the last 10 days, Campain and anyone else who uses Webmail have found themselves waiting longer than normal for the server to load. Due to an upgrade in software this summer, the new e-mail system in use is not working properly at the correct speed, said Rich Wiggins, senior information technologist for Academic Computing & Network Services, adding that network users have called trying to figure out the problem. The system was upgraded in order to increase capacity, but the new server couldn't keep up with the increased amount of traffic during the fall semester. "We anticipated we needed more space to hold the amount of e-mail people are sending and receiving," Wiggins said. He said during mid-mornings and mid-to-late afternoons, he and his team have noticed that Webmail slows down significantly. To fix the problem, the office has been conducting conference calls with the software vendor.
Israel abroad safe, secure for students
While concern about student safety and security is critically important, especially regarding travel to the Middle East, The State News' editorial "Trouble abroad" (SN 9/22) recommending keeping study abroad in Israel "axed" this year rests in an unreasoned speculation and in a view that Israel has been violent or unstable "for the last few thousand years." This is not a knowing view.
Smith: Starting kicker up for grabs - even if he's a frosh
After experiencing a game in which junior kicker John Goss missed two field goals, MSU head coach John L.
Black gold rush
With no relief in sight, gas prices continue to hover around $3 a gallon. Americans are struggling to find ways to conserve energy, yet vast amounts of oil are available in the North Slope of Alaska. As a solution to the oil shortage, the Bush administration has proposed putting the entire North Slope up for lease for development.
Plan B not substitute for birth control pill
Dear Dr. D., I've heard a lot about the emergency contraceptive, "Plan B," talked about around campus.
E.L. reports rise in noise complaints
East Lansing council members say they have received an increase in the number of noise complaints in neighborhoods, and East Lansing police say a ban on drinking games on campus has led to the increase. "I have had substantially more e-mail and telephone calls this fall than I have had the three previous falls that I've been on council," Councilmember Vic Loomis said.
Riding on the path
Its eyes are jet black and unflinching, at a height level with my own. As I squeeze out the last of the tension in my hand brakes, it wanders to where four others are grazing on clover just 15 feet from where I sit idle on my bicycle. Its white tail moves back and forth as it studies my movement, jumping a bit when my shoe scrapes on the trail's wet pavement. Above us, sunlight pokes through holes in the dark green ceiling, casting jittery spotlights on the carpet of slick, matted-down leaves. Just then, one of them steps near the trail, thumping its front right hoof into the thick sod.
Family feel
When a rabbi was unable to perform Rosh Hashana services last year, MSU student Jordan Helfman spent the next five days preparing to fill his shoes. Helfman's help was needed again during this year's services at the Lester J.
Council counts
Just a reminder: You have one week left. Oct. 11 is the last day to register to vote and change your address to East Lansing before the City Council election in November.
Mich. man charged in sexual assault of student
A West Bloomfield man has been charged with kidnapping and attacking an MSU student as she walked to her car early Sunday morning. Karim M.
Group responds to race-related assault
The floor where Elvia Gonzalez lives in East Akers Hall no longer has a bulletin board. After racist slurs were repeatedly written on the board, it was taken down. The same goes for the message board Gonzalez used to keep on her door. That kind of harassment isn't unusual on the floor where she lives with a number of other students who come from migrant families. But those slurs were mild compared to a Sept.