Free calling cards are bringing an important message. The message has been in brochures, posters, advertisements, billboards and public announcements.The message is AIDS is still killing people.The Midwest AIDS Prevention Project is distributing 5,000 free 10-minute phone cards to gay and bisexual men throughout Michigan.
The Ronald McDonald House of Mid-Michigan might not give you super-sized combo meals.But it can give comfort and a place to stay for out-of-town parents with sick children.“I can walk across the street and see my daughter anytime I want,” Lansing resident Shelly Vendeville said.Vendeville is staying at the house, 121 S.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss alley improvements and an application for a grant to buy a building downtown Tuesday. Carolyn Bennett, East Lansing community and economic development administrator, said the department is asking city council to approve an application from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation to receive a grant to purchase a building in downtown East Lansing. “It is to start City Center Two,” Bennett said.
The battle with AIDS is not over.Between 800,000 and 900,000 Americans are infected with HIV. The Ingham County Health Department, the Mid-Michigan District Health Department, Lansing Area AIDS Network (LAAN) and Planned Parenthood of Mid-Michigan are joining forces to ensure HIV counseling and anonymous testing is available from 7:30 a.m.
More than 300 people spent Sunday morning honoring the memory of Bob Forsythe and raising money for The Listening Ear Crisis Intervention Center.The event, Bob’s 5K run/walk, raised about $10,000 for The Listening Ear, with 295 runners and 80 volunteers.
Kevin Estrada may have heard his name called in the NHL Entry Draft this weekend, but he still plans on playing hockey in East Lansing next season. In the third round of Saturday’s 2001 NHL Entry Draft in Sunrise, Fla., the Carolina Hurricanes selected the speedy left wing with the 91st overall pick. But that won’t stop the 5-foot-11, 185-pound 19-year-old from playing in Munn Ice Arena next season. “The (Hurricanes) want me to go to school and develop,” Estrada said Sunday from Florida.
About the time I was 7, I was sure about a few things in life. I knew firsthand I was put on this earth to be a star on the television show “Kids Incorporated.” Around the age of 11, these dreams were crushed with the realization that it might not happen.On the bright side, at 21 years old I am living out my other childhood dream: living in New York City.
The editorial criticizing the Michigan penal system (“Hard time,” SN 6/18) for imposing strict visiting policies is ignorant and obviously lacks the understanding of what purpose a prison serves.
LANSING - Kweon Yoon-Min’s facial muscles were tensed and his eyes were fixed on teammate Blair Barbier’s mouth - which was full of a submarine sandwich, complicating things further. Barbier used hand motions and talked slowly between bites while trying to relay questions to Kweon during an interview last month in the Lansing Lugnuts’ locker room at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
MSU hockey head coach Ron Mason announced Friday the signing of 6-foot-2, 190-pound goaltender Matt Migliaccio for the 2001-02 season. Migliaccio, 20, was a member of the America West Hockey League’s Bozeman Ice Dogs last season, posting a 20-12-2 record with a 2.88 goals against average, a .913 saves percentage and three shutouts. Putting his pen to the paper of his National Letter of Intent was not a problem for Migliaccio. “It’s awesome,” the Wyandotte native said.
Although most ASMSU representatives can see clearly, they’ve set their sights on the College of Education’s visual impairment program.A yearlong hold has been placed on the program’s enrollment while university officials review the program.
Matt Trumble likes the idea of getting more money back from the government.The fisheries and wildlife junior expects to be among the millions of taxpayers who will receive rebate checks in the coming months from the Internal Revenue Service.The refund plan comes as part of President Bush’s proposed 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut, passed by Congress earlier this month.Ideally, Trumble said he would like to spend his tax rebate on entertainment - like a plethora of new CDs and movies - but will likely be more practical.“I’ll probably just put it toward paying off my student loans,” he said.
LANSING - Things came around full circle this weekend at Louis Adado Riverfront Park. That’s because the Woodlands Indian Community Center held its annual powwow Saturday and Sunday, which featured Native American dancing, dress and food. The setup of the event, which was held to celebrate Native American heritage, was literally circular.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Well, “Dr. Dolittle 2,” the new animal-heavy comedy, only stars one of those frightening creatures, and the movie hardly deserves an, “oh my!” Starring Eddie Murphy, reprising his role as the title-character doctor who has the ability to converse with animals, the movie is steeped in run-of-the-mill fart jokes and a mild comedic punch that fills most modern “family” movies. The movie follows Dolittle as he deals with his role as the doctor who splits his time between human and animal patients and attempts to spend time with his family, which is beginning to resent the amount of time he devotes to helping the animal kingdom. While planning a trip to Europe to spend time with the family, a sudden tragedy engrosses the good doctor - an evil logging company is cutting down an entire forest, conveniently proximate enough for the woodland creatures to contact Dolittle to help. So, Dolittle has to find a way to save the forest.
After years of struggle by Yugoslavian authorities, NATO officials and the international community, Slobodan Milosevic is one step closer to being extradited to the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands. Yugoslav police last month announced the discovery of evidence linking former President Milosevic to possible war crimes during the 1999 Kosovo conflict, and on Saturday the Yugoslav Cabinet voted 8-1 to approve a decree paving the way for his expected journey to the United Nations tribunal. Police say they have found at least two mass graves in Serbia, presumably filled with the bodies of ethnic Albanians. The decision to extradite comes two years after the United Nations indicted Milosevic for crimes against humanity during his crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, which ended after the NATO bombing campaign in 1999.
DELTA TOWNSHIP - The Michigan State Police on Friday opened the doors to its new state-of-the-art forensic science laboratory on Canal Road. The new 82,710 square-foot facility came with a $23.5 million price tag and replaces the lab’s old offices, which were housed among six different buildings at the state police headquarters compound on Harrison Avenue in East Lansing since 1932. Together, the old offices constituted about 15,000 square feet.
After a year of sit-ins, takeovers and death threats, members of Penn State University’s undergraduate student government decided to take action against racism on campus. And they brought the rest of the Big Ten with them. During the Association of Big Ten Students annual summer conference last week, eight representatives from ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, and eight other schools’ representatives signed a bill sending condolences to Penn State and standing up against racism in their own schools. The student governments also supported a Sept.
In two years I will be a teacher in one of our nation’s public schools. I was therefore appalled to read it is even being suggested by some that we place metal detectors randomly throughout schools and arm our school officers with guns (“ Officers discuss school violence,” SN 6/20). I firmly believe people, including students of all ages, will behave according to how they are treated.
When Rachel Carson published the novel “Silent Spring” in 1962, she warned that the pesticide dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane, or DDT, might have more long-term effects on the environment than killing insects.The pesticide, which had been produced in lots of 600 million pounds per year in the United States, was later banned in the country in the late 1970s.MSU researchers have found dichlorodiphenyl dichloroethene, or DDE - a metabolite of DDT - might have a long-term effect on human beings.Wilfried Karmaus, an associate professor of epidemiology, researched children in areas of Germany where the pesticide is still used, with the help of epidemiology graduate student Scott Asakevich.Many of the girls exposed to the pesticide were nearly an inch shorter than average.