East Lansing city officials are seeking $325,000 hiding somewhere in the city’s $50 million budget.The East Lansing City Council held the first of three scheduled work sessions Tuesday to help determine how it can stop the 2001-2002 budget from dipping into the city’s $2.8 million savings.“This is the first budget I’ve seen on council where we’ve drawn upon reserves,” Mayor Mark Meadows said.
High health care costs and low census numbers are just two of the factors leaving East Lansing’s proposed 2001-02 budget unbalanced. The budget includes a plan to use $325,000 in savings to help cover gaps left by those factors and the scale-tipping costs of new recreational facilities. Gary Murphy, East Lansing’s director of finance, said the city council will have to resort to reducing costs or raising revenue if it wants to avoid dipping into savings. “Neither are easy,” he said.
The sun shined at times on Monday on MSU’s campus - reminiscent of last weekend’s weather, when warmer temperatures and sunny skies brought people outdoors.Some people barbecued, others warmed up for upcoming exams by reading in the sun, and a few even tried for a summer tan.But within 24 hours of the 70-degree temperatures and clear skies, the reality of April showers set in.
Abby Travis has played with quite a variety of artists during the years. Some include Brit-rockers Elastica, psychedelic sex-pop rocker Beck and industrial metal kings K.M.F.D.M. Then she went solo. She will be performing material off both her debut and her most recent solo album, “Cutthroat Standards and Black Pop,” tonight at Mac’s Bar, 2700 E.
As the controversy between the United States and China continues, MSU students and local veterans groups are debating about whether the Bush administration should apologize to the Chinese government. “It’s a really awkward position,” said Leang Eap, a marketing and Chinese senior.
By JAIME ARON The Associated Press IRVING, Texas - Troy Aikman’s NFL career ended with the Dallas Cowboys after all. The three-time Super Bowl champion announced his retirement at a news conference Monday at Texas Stadium, where he starred for 12 seasons. “You watch and you think that your time will never come,” said Aikman, fighting back tears as he announced his plans.
A new law requiring doctors to report the names of domestic abusers is not a good idea. The law requires doctors to report the names, if known, of abusers or face misdemeanor charges.
The Associated Press DETROIT - Assisted suicide pioneer Jack Kevorkian has promised not to assist in any other deaths if a federal judge releases him on bond pending an appeal of his second-degree murder conviction, according to a published report Monday. Before he was sent to prison in 1999, Kevorkian said he would assist in suicides “no matter what, as long as a patient wishes it, even if they burn me at the stake for it.” Now, as Kevorkian waits to see what U.S.
MSU faculty, students and visitors walking into the Union Station Cafeteria will be greeted by 13 faculty members who have been part of the university since 1855.While the people will not be able to shake the visitors’ hands, they will be present in a 55-foot mural on the north wall of the cafeteria.“These 13 individuals are some of the most influential faculty members since the beginning of the university,” said James Sheppard, director of the Union.
Your editorial “Cell phone legislation completely unnecessary” (SN 3/26) addresses the hazards of cell phone use while driving.
This letter is in response to “Alcohol can cause many nasty side effects” (SN 4/2). In his column, Craig Gunn has described a utopian society, which by its nature and the laws of thermodynamics (order-producing systems produce disorder), is inherently flawed.
LANSING - Kelli Trantham can’t wait to once again walk the 145 steps or so from Oldsmobile Park to Rum Runners Dueling Piano Bar and Grill after cheering on the Lansing Lugnuts. Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
University officials met with members of the Graduate Employees Union on Monday to address concerns about an anti-union campaign. “In the course of our discussion, the union raised some particularistic concerns about material (circulated by the graduate school),” said Bob Banks, assistant vice provost for Academic Human Resources.
While newly elected ASMSU representatives took their respective seats last week, Charles Beachnau did not have a spot reserved.That is because Beachnau, who won his bid for a Student Assembly College of Agriculture and Natural Resources representative seat last month, is awaiting the results of an ASMSU special election, which is scheduled to end Wednesday.
The community of people with disabilities at MSU has a new hero. And people parking illegally in accessible/handicap spaces have a new enemy. Kim Kramar is on the lookout for cars parked illegally and if he catches them, he has them towed. “When I get in the mood, I call to have cars towed and I will sit there and wait for the spot to open up,” said Kramar, a construction management senior who has disabilities and claims his “best day” last year was when he had 32 vehicles towed. And he has few regrets, saying students parked illegally in accessible/handicap spaces should have to pay the proper price. “They want to be caught - I have seen people actually see a parking enforcer nearby and still illegally park,” he said.
Thank you so much for bringing Tim Kochenderfer back for an opinion column (“You’re to blame for loss of championship game,” SN 4/9). His stupid humor was always refreshing for someone who had to be up at 8 a.m.
Every fairly large college town is basically the same – the bars, the student ghetto, the unusually high amount of coffee shops, the street.East Lansing and Columbus, Ohio, home of The Ohio State University, are two examples.
I’d like to comment on the official justifications of an undercover police officer investigating a student activist group last spring. One justification offered for this action was that group members participated in violent protests against the World Trade Organization, World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
If you do one thing before the end of the year, the Residence Halls Association asks this - save three lives. The last RHA-sponsored blood drive of the year is taking place from 1 p.m.