The sounds and smells of Germany can be found on the third floor of Wells Hall this week. Two German studies graduate students, Jeannine Mickeleit and Angelika Kraemer, are running a camp to teach children aged 6-11 years old German language and culture.
The East Lansing City Council authorized City Manager Ted Staton to purchase a piece of property for $160,000, on which DTN Management Co. wanted to construct a new apartment complex, during its July 19 meeting, city documents stated. Although Deputy City Manager Jean Golden has said the city didn't want to get involved in a bidding war with DTN, the offer was still brought to the council by city administrators. "That was the offer from the seller," she said.
As a crowd of supporters surrounded him, Sen. Virg Bernero, D-Lansing, declared victory in the Lansing mayoral primary late Tuesday. As of 1:15 a.m., 39 out of 66 precincts, or about 60 percent of them, had tallied the votes.
As summer winds down for John Fournier, his campaign for a seat on East Lansing's City Council is just beginning to start up. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior said he's been busy finishing up his paperwork to enter his name into the race and expects to have it submitted by the end of this week. Fournier has until 5 p.m.
As of 66 out of 66 precincts reporting. Virg Bernero: 45.53 percent; 6,042 Tony Benavides: 26.52 percent; 3,519 votes Lynne Martinez: 19.14 percent; 2,540 votes Dale Abronowitz: 8.73 percent; 1,158 votes Source: The State News
Michigan's representatives in the Legislature are bringing home the bacon to MSU with a $286 billion highway and mass transit spending bill, of which $16.8 million will go toward a railroad underpass on Farm Lane. MSU President Lou Anna K.
A jury selection for the possible trial of senior running back Jason Teague will take place on Aug. 16, officials from the 54-B District Court said Monday. Teague is charged with one count of assault and battery.
MSU women's basketball senior forward Liz Shimek was chosen as one of 12 members for the 2005 USA Women's World University Games Team to compete Aug.
Twenty-five years after he graduated from MSU, crime writer R. Barri Flowers returns to East Lansing to sign copies of his latest releases, "Persuasive Evidence" and "Justice Served." Flowers has been writing novels for 22 years and has had more than 35 novels published. He began his career as a writer when he had his thesis published - and he has been writing ever since.
MSU men's hockey freshman forward Justin Abdelkader was selected by the Detroit Red Wings in the second round of the National Hockey League Entry Draft on Saturday. In addition to Abdelkader, freshman forward Tim Crowder was chosen by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the fifth round and the Washington Capitals picked freshman forward Tim Kennedy in the sixth round. Abdelkader scored 27 goals and 25 assists as a forward on the Cedar Rapids Rough Riders of the United States Hockey League, or USHL.
I think it's interesting to read the reaction that people have to their actions being called a sin.
Kim Wilcox's first day on campus was more publicity than policy. The new provost, who officially took office Monday, started his day chatting with new deans and department heads, had an afternoon video shoot and in between, conversed with The State News over lunch. To be fair, Wilcox has spent the last two weeks meeting with university officials and learning the ropes from former Acting Provost John Hudzik, who is now a senior adviser to the provost on an interim basis. "This was not a job I wanted to stay in in the long run," Hudzik said.
Incoming freshman Thurman Stanton Jr. spent the last five weeks learning how to be a college student. He's one of 26 new students hailing from all over the state who enrolled in MSU's Summer University Program: Excellence Required, or SUPER. The program, created in 1988, is designed to help a diverse group of students gain the academic, social and interpersonal skills needed to succeed in the university setting. Stanton said he's glad he applied for the SUPER developmental course because it's prepared him to adjust to the college workload. "It's tremendously needed," he said.
A new restaurant will soon join the ranks of establishments along Grand River Avenue in East Lansing. Pasta Per Trio LLC is opening a franchised Noodles & Co. restaurant in downtown where Chios once was, at 305 E.
A battle to construct an apartment complex along the 700 block of Burcham Drive continued last Tuesday when the East Lansing City Council created an ordinance that could leave the land habitable to only families. "They are once again trying to hamstring the project by making it less attractive," said Allen Russell, a representative of DTN Management Co., the plan's developer.
Robert Frost penned a few lines that have struck me in the last few weeks as important. "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." What struck me as important in such lines is in regard to the state of American society.
It's a 2,500 mile race - powered by the sun. The University of Michigan placed first in the 2005 North American Solar Challenge, or NASC, a race that included 20 competitors and their solar cars from universities and colleges across the nation. "We had 10 days of racing," said Michael Brackney, project manager for the U-M solar racing team.
A seemingly universal media phenomenon is the farther away from home a story hits, the bigger it has to be to receive coverage.
The letters into The State News are humorous. Why don't we address more important issues than infringing on others' freedom?