The city of East Lansing helped clear a path for pedestrians when it handed out more than $4,000 in snow removal fines during the winter break. Residents who did not shovel snow from the sidewalks around their homes received an $85 ticket.
Tom Izzo has always wanted to be a football coach. He loves the sport. But now that the head coach has eight days off until his team faces Wisconsin - similar to the time between football games - he's wishing he could face the Big Ten rival sooner. "There's nothing like having a situation like this and having eight days (off)," Izzo said.
The East Lansing Public Library will have a children's program from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday.
It's something people use daily. Some use it to budget their bank account and others use it to buy groceries.
The three letters to the editor on 1/10 regarding the rapist article "Listed students: Stigmas result from public sex offense registry," (SN 12/9) all have valid points, but I think they missed the purpose of the article.
If Chad Halsey wants to talk about partisan voting problems "Ohio election needs to be investigated" (SN 1/10), he need not point fingers without taking a deep look into his own party as well.
A vigil at the rock on Farm Lane for an MSU student who died in a car accident during winter break was not as peaceful as was hoped for, participants said. The vigil, held Sunday at 4 p.m.
More than 200 years ago, a group of fresh-minded revolutionaries decided they didn't quite like the way they were being governed.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. For the Detroit Pistons, the darlings of the NBA just seven months ago, wins and the championship effort that was prevalent last season have been few and far between. Of all the things one could point to as causing a problem this year - the brawl, lack of effort, complacency, and so on and so forth, are all secondary to one thing. The loss of Mehmet Okur. It is beyond obvious that losing Memo and his multitude of abilities has hurt the World Champions in all aspects of the game. Now with the Utah Jazz, Okur has averaged 11.7 points per game and 7.4 rebounds per game.
Five brick and stone entrance signs into MSU's campus proclaim the familiar phrase: "The pioneer land- grant college." But the once all-agriculture school is no more, and MSU has transformed into a Big Ten institution with more than a dozen specialized colleges. MSU officials say the land-grant philosophy of affordability and outreach has endured through the university's many changes - including six different names and exponential enrollment growth during the post-World War II years.
What happens inside a girl's bathroom, anyway? Besides the obvious, I mean. I ask this question not to shock you, dear readers.
For Rep. Leon Drolet, R-Clinton Township, former president Ronald Reagan has important ties to Michigan. Drolet said Reagan's connections include accepting the republican nomination for president at the 1980 Republican National Convention held in Detroit and the Democratic and Republican supporters he had in Macomb County during his terms. "His popularity knew no party," Drolet said.
A 20-member study abroad group that traveled to Peru returned on Saturday minus one student. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said a female student remained behind when her study abroad group left Peru to return to Michigan late Friday night. "Our number one concern is the safety of the student," Denbow said.
Medical technology senior Judith Njogu won first place in the second Annual International Student Essay Contest sponsored by MSU's Office for International Students and Scholars. Njogu, of Kenya, will receive the top prize of $1,000. Like many participants, Njogu wrote about her experience in the United States, describing her shock from cultural differences.
Almost a third of MSU Pell Grant recipients could see their financial aid reduced or cut for the 2005-06 academic year, because of changes in the U.S.
The MSU football team lost one of its recent, in-state recruits Monday morning to a rival Big Ten school. Aubrey Pleasant, who verbally committed to MSU on Dec.
Alex Gottschalk recently received what his colleagues call one of the most prestigious awards in nuclear medicine.
Before I get started, I would like to acknowledge that the Business College has probably heard this all before, and it's the same old story to them.
More than 150,000 bodies, about a third of them children. About five million people without homes. The numbers from the tsunami disaster in South Asia and Southeast Africa are staggering. But to the average American they are just numbers.
After being named last year's number one mascot, Sparty has something else to cheer about - his picture on thousands of bottles of soda. MSU and Jones Soda Co., a Seattle-based beverage maker, came to an agreement in December to feature pictures of Sparty, the Universal Cheer Association's 2004 Mascot of the Year, on a series of bottles. About 60,000 bottles of the soda, in green apple and cream soda flavors, will feature six different labels with pictures of Sparty around campus.