Police expect to obtain a warrant today for a man believed to have shot a 23-year-old Lansing man early Wednesday morning while he was at a friend’s house in East Lansing. About 3:30 a.m.
The roaring ring from the familiar manila phones will not echo down dorm halls this fall.Rather, students will have to provide their own phone.Increased cell phone use among university students is leading to a decrease in the use of university-provided long distance services.MSU is seeing a decrease in the commission it receives from its long distance company, AT&T, said Tom Koch, telecommunications coordinator at University Housing..The drop is not substantial enough to change University Housing operations or reduce services to students, he said.But MSU will no longer provide phones for dorm rooms, though they will still offer them upon student request.
The days of long lines and grumbling stomachs at Buffalo Wild Wings may soon be over. The restaurant, 360 Albert Ave., currently seats 275 people, but it is seeking an additional 111 seats and 2,150 square feet by expanding into 350 Albert Ave.
Raphael Adley wants people everywhere to incite a riot. With the publication of his card game, “Riot!,” he takes a jab at campus riots everywhere, though the game was loosely based on the riots at MSU in the late 1990s.
Campus safety advocates hope a recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will begin to open the doors to disciplinary records and proceedings at colleges and universities. The ruling prevents students and parents from suing universities that violate the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, which protects students’ educational records from public disclosure.
The Michigan Democratic Party accused Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus on Wednesday of misleading voters with his new TV spots for the gubernatorial race. Party Chairman Mark Brewer said Posthumus’ advertisement unjustly tout the candidate’s record on education funding, retirement security and welfare. “His legislative career is full of examples of hostility toward seniors in this state,” Brewer said.
In a country engulfed in violence, terrorist attacks are an everyday concern for the people of Israel.
Not since 1978 has a Spartan baseball player earned first-team All-American honors. Thanks to Bob Malek, that streak has been obliterated.
MSU has a large number of classes where the total enrollment of students is well into the hundreds. These are classes where seats are scarce and the only interaction a student has during class might be yelling out an answer when the professor offers a rhetorical question.
MTV is on a roll with its reality based shows and its newest edition serves up sorority life - Hollywood-style.
The East Lansing City Council will hold a meeting at 7:30 p.m. today in East Lansing’s 54-B District Court, 101 Linden Street, to discuss a possible land-share agreement with Bath Township. Known as a 425 agreement, residents are encouraged to attend.
The Lansing Lugnuts’ pitching staff ranks near the top of the Midwest League, even with the loss of four quality pitchers.Angel Guzman, Mark Carter, Adam Wynegar, and Eric Brown have taken their collective 14-5 record to the Single A Daytona Cubs, but the Lugnuts (3-2 second half, 40-34 overall) still hold a 3.20 ERA this season - third best in the Midwest League.The task of making up for those lost pitchers goes to pitching coach Mike Anderson, in his second year with the Lugnuts.It might seem losing pitchers of that caliber would be an enormous burden on the team, but Anderson said it’s just a part of the minor league system.“That’s what it’s all about,” Anderson said.
On July 1, exactly three weeks after the initial election, East Lansing school board candidates Randy Bell and William Donohue will finally know who wins the one available seat. After the two tied with 1,259 votes in the June 10 election, a hat drawing Friday named Donohue the official winner.
Disputes between landlords and tenants are commonplace in college towns. Fortunately, most spats are on a relatively small scale, dealing with problems such as getting leaky faucets fixed or covering minor damage to a property.
After the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Steven Claiborne said he wouldn’t step foot on a plane - he rides Amtrak instead. But the Illinois resident, who uses the railway at least three times a week to conduct business in mid-Michigan, might have to alter his travel plans again.
Judgment day has arrived for NBA Draft hopefuls.Only 57 aspirants will hear their names called tonight in the 2002 NBA Draft at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
“The Practice” is in recess for four months, “Law & Order” is on suspension, and the shadow of reruns has befallen “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” It’s summertime and while that means no school for most, the grind of summer jobs and day trips to the beach, it can be a pitiful time for hardcore couch potatoes.
A pair of Nightingales will soon migrate south to East Lansing, and the Spartan hockey team will be the beneficiary of the move. Adam Nightingale, a forward for Lake Superior State, is transferring to MSU, and his little brother, Jared Nightingale, has signed a National Letter of Intent with the Spartans and will be a freshman in the fall. Per NCAA transfer rules, Adam Nightingale will not be allowed to play for a season, but can practice with the team.
It is with some trepidation that I voice an opinion that might raise the anger of a few people on campus.
Lansing - A downtown office and housing development is one step closer to breaking ground after the city council approved the $2.18 million sale of city land for the new home of the Michigan State Police. The council voted 7-0 Monday to sell the land to developers Gary Granger and MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson, rejecting other recent offers of up to $4.2 million.