Motorists who wish to travel on South Harrison Avenue must find alternate routes for the next two weeks.South Harrison Avenue, between Trowbridge Road and Mount Hope Road, are closed to repair the railroad crossings of Canadian National Railroad and CSX Railroad.Traffic will be detoured around the construction area through Mount Hope Road, Farm Lane, Wilson and Trowbridge roads.
Joking in half-Spanish, half-English, Juan Rodriguez-Martinez and his friends walked from the Fowlerville High School bus toward their temporary home at Buurma Farms where their parents work the fields. Juan’s family migrates more than 1,600 miles from Weslaco, Texas, to work the fields in Stockbridge, about 35 miles southeast of East Lansing, for the summer months, leaving behind friends and family every year. “It’s better there,” Juan said.
The men’s golf team took home third place honors at the Northern Intercollegiate last weekend at the Indiana University Golf Course in Bloomington, Ind.
MSU’s fire station will be open for another year, but employees and government officials fear keeping a station on campus could become an annual battle. While many firefighters are relieved the state restored funding for the Shaw Lane station, East Lansing fire Chief Randy Talifarro said the issue will resurface again next year. “We’re grateful the funding was restored, but I hope in the future it won’t be used in political debates about other issues because it’s an essential service that is funded by this money and it’s important to keep that separate,” he said.
The second annual Human-Animal Bond Initiative Conference will bring experts from around the world to MSU.
After about 30 hours of working, a medical student, intern or resident achieves a state of mind that transcends mere consciousness.
The Bush administration’s strong-arm policies have claimed another victim - HIV prevention. The White House has deleted information about the effectiveness of condoms from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, perhaps because the administration wants to promote a abstinence-only approach, The Associated Press reported. The administration needs a wake-up call.
The East Lansing High School bands and orchestras will hold its 13th annual fund-raiser car wash Saturday at MacDonald Middle School, 1601 Burcham Drive.The car wash is the band’s largest fund-raising event of the year.
A majority of Michigan’s youth demonstrate positive attributes such as integrity and personal strength against peer pressure and motivation, according to a survey released by the MSU Department of Family and Child Ecology on Tuesday.
Among the changes made by new hockey head coach Rick Comley this season is the segmentation of duties for assistant coaches Tom Newton and David McAuliffe. In the past Newton and McAuliffe worked with former head coach Ron Mason on all aspects of the team, but Comley wants the duo to focus their attention on smaller factions.
Throughout the last five years, I have seen the reputation of the East Lansing Police Department criticized more times than I can count.
MSU police released its 2001 campus crime report Tuesday, showing a slight increase in forcible sex offenses, robbery, arson and weapons law violations from the previous year.The report, released under federal law each year around Oct.
After a rookie year of great achievements, sophomore Chris Toloff is ready for intense competition and a season full of victories.As one of the top runners on the MSU men’s cross country team, Toloff launched a strong performance Saturday in the Roy Griak Invitational, hosted by Minnesota.
It’s a good sign for college sports that the number of student-athletes who reach graduation is on the rise - some 60 percent of Division I’s freshman class of 1995 graduated from college. But MSU still has work to do. For the same class of students, MSU only graduated 57 percent of its scholarship athletes.
A policy implemented Tuesday by Lansing Community College designed to stop smoking on campus was greeted with a mixed reaction from students and staff. The policy follows a train of LCC non smoking measures that began with a smoking restriction inside campus buildings in 2000, said college spokeswoman Ruth Borger. The new measure restricts smoking on the sidewalks and grounds of the campus, excluding public sidewalks and areas not owned by the college.
It’s been a busy two years for Mike Rogers. Since the Brighton Republican won the closest congressional race in 2000 almost 40,000 people have sought assistance in his office.
With the future of her business hanging in limbo, Judy Wang, co-owner of the Blue Note Coffee Café, says she’s thrilled to learn of a new rental assistance program underway in East Lansing.
When confronted with the topic of abortion, psychology junior Beth Kwapis is confident she’ll respect the decisions of others - without the help of her government.“You have to let it be legal and let people choose what they want,” Kwapis said.
After five consecutive home games to start the season, the MSU football team will enjoy a bye this weekend. The Spartans (3-2 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) opened Big Ten play with a 39-24 victory over Northwestern on Saturday at Spartan Stadium.