A Grand River Avenue building is in the clear for demolition. A plan to construct a mixed-use facility on the Bailey Street site near Taco Bell was approved by the East Lansing City Council at its meeting Tuesday. "This has been a long process," said David Krause of Corey Partnership, the project's developer.
Author and sociologist Useni Perkins will speak about the life of Malcolm X at 6:30 p.m. today at the Erickson Hall Kiva.
The Senate and House appropriations committees returned Gov. Jennifer Granholm's executive-order budget with hopes they could work to remove a $30 million cut to Michigan's public universities. Both committees - headed by Republicans - met Tuesday and said they won't vote on the budget, which was released last week, until they had revised it with Granholm. The budget would cut $5 million from MSU's operating budget, and was developed to close a $375 million shortfall for this fiscal year. The executive order has to be approved by both the House and Senate appropriations committees before it is put in place. Ari Adler, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema, R-Wyoming, said the committees were concerned with part of the budget that cuts $30 million in operating costs for public universities and gives them up to $200 million in maintenance during the next two years.
Nicholas James Mainella, a 20-year-old MSU student who was found dead Tuesday after an apparent drug overdose, was remembered as "genuine and outgoing" by friends. "He was the most genuine and outgoing person you could have known," said Doug Ray, a long-time friend from Albion College.
Beginning next fall, MSU students will have the option to live among their male and female friends when the first floor of Holden Hall becomes coed by suite. Holmes, McDonel, Case, Wonders and Wilson halls currently are the only dorms on campus to offer coed housing. Fred Kayne, associate director of University Housing, said men and women in MSU residence halls were almost completely isolated from one another as recently as 35 years ago, when the first coed floor on campus was implemented. Now, MSU has more than a dozen coed floors that house more than 900 students, which is about 6 percent of all students that live in residence halls. Joshua Gillespie, director of Holden Hall, said students had been requesting coed housing for several years, and he hopes the new arrangement will encourage more interaction between residents. "It will be a facsimile of apartment living," Gillespie said.
The Wendy's and Taco Bell restaurants in the International Center and the Wendy's and Little Caesars in the Union have decided not to rebid on their current locations, said Jim Sheppard, manager of the Union. The restaurants will close when their contracts run out at the end of this school year. Sheppard said all other restaurants in the Union and International Center, including Panda Express, Subway and Blimpie, have rebid on their current locations, but that doesn't guarantee that any of them will return next year. Those decisions should be made by early next month, Sheppard said. Taco Bell and both Wendy's locations have been in their locations since 1995, and Little Caesars is the longest-running restaurant on campus, open since 1987, Sheppard said. For more on this story, please see Thursday's edition of The State News.
Minnesota is a team with its back against the wall. At least that's how MSU head coach Tom Izzo and the No.
What makes a great hip-hop album? For some, excellence is achieved through vicious, banging beats that leave the head nodding so emphatically that any words are almost unnecessary.
The lack of parking on campus has students pulling their hair out. Not only is this frustration cause for illegal parking and tickets, but the cost of meter parking can become quite expensive.
"I worry about getting the flu, and the cold. The weather this year has been a lot different from previous years with the changes in temperature.
Two "MacGyver bombs" exploded Tuesday on the back porch of a rental duplex on Burcham Drive, officials said.
Double standards exist in almost all areas of life. For example, how come there aren't as many changing tables in men's bathrooms as there are women's bathrooms?
A 20-year-old male MSU student was found dead Tuesday evening in an East Lansing residence on the 300 block of Spartan Avenue, officials said. The student's name is not being released because the family has not been notified, East Lansing police Sgt.
The NHL made a take-it-or-leave-it pitch to the players' association on Tuesday night, just hours before hockey was set to be canceled altogether. The league bumped its salary-cap proposal from $40 million to $42.5 million and gave the union until 11 a.m.
In Monday's editorial, "Tact needed" (SN 2/14), The State News editorial board managed to present a poorly researched, factually incorrect editorial that suggested the United States should be acting more like Santa Claus than a global hegemon toward North Korea.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is saying 'no' to having a monument of the Ten Commandments in the rotunda of the state Capitol, days after saying she wouldn't mind having one. Granholm had said on the WKAR television show "Off the Record" that having a statue of the commandments in the Capitol wouldn't bother her. "I know that will make some people mad, but I think they are universal values," Granholm said.
America is fat, and it doesn't care. It's evident by the lack of concern over the fact that while the government was planning new health and nutrition guidelines, it's paid no attention to the blatant meddling of food company lobbyists in the process. Released in January, the new nutritional guidelines call for an hour of exercise, attention to reducing calories, a large increase in fruit and vegetable consumption and acknowledgment of the value of eating whole grains.
A tie for eighth place isn't where the Spartans want to be in the CCHA standings with six games left.
It was a graffiti party in a typical college student house. People were writing on each other's white shirts, others were dancing.
Preliminary meetings began Tuesday among members of MSU's administration to create guidelines for exceptions to MSU's new open-alcohol ban. The process to establish discussion is still in its early stages, said Sue Carter, secretary to the MSU Board of Trustees. More information will be available next week, Carter said. A ban on open alcohol was approved by the board Thursday by a vote of 7-0.