Congress is backing Michigan's efforts to improve and revitalize the state's public transportation systems with more than $9 million in federal funding, officials announced Wednesday. U.S.
Before reviewing "Mullets Rock," I had never been one to dance on tables. But when I heard the opening power chords to Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" come over the stereo in my dorm room, crash boom went my laptop and books and up I went on my desk. That, in short, is the feeling any true appreciator of good rock music will get when taking a listen to this compilation. The album cover says it all - a guy with a mullet, a buxom, mud flap girl tattooed on his bicep, wearing zebra pants.
Make no mistake - it's not "Rent." But "tick, tick ... BOOM!" is good for what it is - a small show about the premature mid-life crisis of a struggling artist.
The city of East Lansing and surrounding areas are beginning efforts to make the Northern Tier community safer for pedestrians and residents, starting with street lights. Lights were constructed along the stretch of Abbott Road between Lake Lansing Road and the Clinton County line last month and were turned on over the weekend, East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton said. Staton said the new street lights were part of a plan to increase safety on the roadway ever since the land north of Lake Lansing Road came into the city. Staton stressed the importance of the lights and wondered when they will be added north of Clinton County. "The volume of traffic out there just requires it," he said. Two female MSU students were hit by a car in the area, one of them killed, while walking along the unlit streets in October.
A committee supporting benefits for student domestic partners will have one more voice in their corner.MSU's Council Of Graduate Students unanimously passed a resolution Monday to support the committee comprised of ASMSU, the Residence Halls Association and family community services senior Kendra Kearney.ASMSU is MSU's undergraduate student government.COGS President Jim Ciszewski said the organization's next action is to take the discussion to the administration."The next step is to start a dialogue between the student government and the administrators and the trustees and see if we can reach an agreement," he said.
Champaign, Ill. - The Spartans were out of their league Tuesday night, suffering a 70-40 Big Ten shellacking at the hands of Illinois at Assembly Hall. The Spartans' 40-point effort was the lowest ever under head coach Tom Izzo, and the worst loss since the coach's rookie year, when the team lost by 36 to Iowa in 1996.
Jocelyn Perrin is a tomboy. There's no way around it. She grew up playing with hot rod models and driving tractors on her family's West Michigan farm.Now, just a few years after getting into the game, Perrin - aka Lil' Miss Dangerous - is one of the world's best female monster truck drivers and one of four female drivers in the United States.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers announced Tuesday he has secured more than $1 million in funding for a Lansing-area environmental corporation.Rogers, R-Brighton, gained $628,000 from the U.S.
The best things in life are free, and sometimes so are the little annoying things. Buying notebooks every semester after paying an arm and a leg for books can be a serious burden, but students across campus might be able to take notes for free soon.
Lansing - If bioterrorism strikes Michigan, many of the state's county health departments won't be prepared, a county health official testified Tuesday. Responders "are just not uniformly prepared" and lack the "resources needed to either plan for or handle these threats," said Robert Pestronk, the Genesee County Health Department director.
Everyone knows that trying to park at the dorms is a nightmare. That's one of the many reasons I moved off campus - to avoid accumulating even more parking tickets.
Freshman tailback David Richard told The State News on Tuesday he has finalized his financial aid papers for Missouri. His papers were sent to the Tigers on Monday and he will start school there this summer.
An extra 75 cents might be added to student's tuition bills if ASMSU can convince the students to open up their pocketbooks.A bill to increase the MSU undergraduate student government's per semester tax from $10 to $10.75 was passed by the Student Assembly on Thursday, and will be placed on the March 19 student ballot.All student taxes are refundable.This is the second tax ASMSU is sponsoring in next month's election.
Students and MSU officials will gather at 8 p.m. today in the Brody Auditorium to address recent racially motivated events on campus. The forum will address a sexually charged flier posted in Shaw Hall and two women in Emmons Hall who were called derogatory names. Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs, Nikki O'Brien, coordinator for African American Student Affairs, and history Professor Pero Dagbovie are among the officials expected to attend. "We want to address the situations which took place within the last month, specifically the one in Emmons," said Terrance Wilbert, an Emmons Hall racial ethnic student aide.
As a student here at MSU, I believe we should add on to the ASMSU tax in order to purchase environmentally friendly energy.
Although the number of men and women smoking, drinking and using other drugs is about equal, each gender has different reasons for abusing substances, according to a study released earlier this month.The study is based on a nationwide survey of females age 8 to 22 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.Researchers found while boys experiment with alcohol, cigarettes and drugs because of the thrill or social status, girls participate due to stress or depression."Girls are more likely than boys to be depressed, have eating disorders and to be physically or sexually abused," said Emma Berndt, spokeswoman for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Lansing - A man wearing a ski mask opened fire inside a National City Bank on Tuesday afternoon, before leaving with an undisclosed amount of money. An Ingham County K-9 unit tracked the suspect from the bank, 3335 E.
After weeks of speculation, Gov. Jennifer Granholm will issue an executive order today to rectify the state's $158 million budget imbalance. The batch of cutbacks will cost MSU about $5 million in state funding by way of a 1.5 percent reduction for all state universities, Granholm said earlier this month.
MSU trustees should be ashamed of themselves for sitting on their hands while their Maize and Blue neighbors are being hauled into a court case that could alter university admissions policies across the country. Whether they find themselves in agreement with the University of Michigan's law school affirmative action policies is beside the point.