White House officials likely will be the ones announcing MSU’s Student Convocation speaker, an MSU official said Tuesday. “It’s the White House’s announcement to make,” said Sue Carter, secretary to the MSU Board of Trustees and executive assistant to MSU President M.
City council voted to rezone a recently annexed golf course Tuesday night, in a move that will allow more development. Councilmember Bill Sharp was the only “no” vote on the proposal, which filled council chambers with many residents concerned about future plans for Four Winds Gold Course, 5800 Park Lake Road. The zoning gives the property owner the ability to develop the golf course for single-family homes, apartments or business. Some area residents have expressed concern that the zoning could add 1,000 apartment units to the area, which was once part of Meridian Township. “East Lansing doesn’t care,” Meridian Township resident Kevin Schumacher said.
All theater lovers get ready for the MSU Department of Theatre and Wharton Center’s 2002-03 season lineup, which has a diverse selection of performances mixed in with a few world premieres. Wharton kicks off its 20th Anniversary Encore Season with the production “Riverdance,” famous for its skilled Irish dancers.
By BRIAN CHARLTON For The State News The MSU Debate Team added another award to its overflowing shelves of trophies last weekend. The team won the Cross Examination Debate Association Seasonal National Championship for the best overall performance.
A la mode. A la carte. Amen. Achoo. These may be well used words. But to supply chain management senior Maxwell Bolton, none of these A-words are as important as a cappella. For Bolton, a member of Capital Green, a cappella is like life.
With freshmen rackets leading the way, the MSU women’s tennis team is having one of its best seasons in recent years.After two years of rebuilding, third-year head coach Tim Bauer has started to implement his style of players.
Lansing - A new ad campaign that will attempt to discourage underage drinking was launched in the Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday, accompanied by signs proclaiming “We all lose when kids buy booze.”“We want to address the issue that comes home to parents when kids drink,” said Mark Smith, director of enforcement for the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.Smith and Michigan Liquor Control Chairman Dan Gustafson said they plan to have a hotline, or a central place to call to report those who are selling to or providing minors with alcohol.“We’re going to start in the Lansing and Jackson area,” Gustafson said.
Creating empty storefronts isn’t the answer when it comes to collecting taxes from local eateries who haven’t paid up.
ASMSU members will start this summer to encourage students to vote in the fall. The undergraduate student government’s Academic Assembly members set a goal last week to get at least 2,000 students registered to vote in East Lansing. Organization officials say they hope the rest of the 120 member organization will get involved in the project, which will kick off at the Academic Orientation Program in June. A campuswide voter registration drive will start about Aug.
In addition to a 6 percent housing rate increase and a failed tax increase referendum, the University Apartments Council of Residents have yet to fill all of its 25 spots for next year’s officers.Only eight positions in the council have been filled, leaving apartment officials scrambling to prepare for next year. Last week, the council elected four executive board members and representatives from University Village and Cherry Lane apartments.
This is in response to Scott Szymendera’s letter to the editor (“Fraternity members’ right to act dumb,” SN 4/15), and his comment that the recent actions of Pi Kappa Phi is a “disgusting reminder of the moronic antisocial behavior that is all too common in the MSU greek system.” I would like to ask what Szymendera is basing his opinion on?
Lansing - Legislators and aides looked on as the Segway Human Transporter zoomed around the west Capitol steps Tuesday afternoon. A new kind of stand-up scooter, the transporter would be permitted to navigate city sidewalks if a bill proposed by Sen.
The MSU baseball team broke an 18-year-old record Tuesday with five home runs in its 22-6 beating of Wayne State.The Spartans (23-8 overall, 6-5 Big Ten) entered the nonconference game with 57 home runs, two shy of the 1984 record of 59.
Some East Lansing residents were awakened by the sounds of police and fire sirens Monday night brought on by a gas leak at the southwest corner of Collingwood Road and Ann Street.The leak, in the basement of 239 Collingwood Road, was reported at 11:39 p.m.
Rick Sokol walked into a McDonald’s in 1999 and saw something he had never seen on the fast food giant’s menu - a kiwi burger.Sokol was in New Zealand and was in his second study abroad program with MSU.“Things like that are just priceless,” the agricultural extension and education graduate student said.In the 2000-2001 academic year, 223 graduate students participated in MSU’s programs.
The MSU Department of Police and Public Safety is welcoming students to the department to increase knowledge about diversity.Latino students met with employees Tuesday to help improve communication.MSU police Sgt.
You’ve gotta love the weather right now. In just a matter of days, I’ve been drunk and outside several times.
“Ride or die.” That is the motto and the attitude the MSU Cycling Club takes to every meet. And with the weather warming up, the club will be practicing more to prepare for the last few events of the season. The club sent three riders to its most recent meet, April 6 at Purdue University.
For Ryan Dew, nothing beats a deluge of salt when it comes to snacking.“Potato chips are one of the biggest snacks here, and the greatest,” the finance sophomore said.