Eight people filed petitions for East Lansing City Council elections by the 4 p.m. deadline Tuesday, but Mayor Pro Tem Beth Schwarze was not one of them.Schwarze has been on the council since 1997 and was elected mayor pro tem in 1999.
The tuition guarantee is anything but a sure thing for incoming students.In fact, nothing about the higher education budget for 2001-02 is guaranteed.The Senate’s Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee recommended Tuesday to increase funding for each of Michigan’s three major research universities - MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University - by 6.3 percent.The Full Appropriations Committee will consider the recommendation next week.Although a 6.3 percent funding increase may help MSU continue to keep the cost of tuition down, Trustee Dave Porteous said the funding gap between the research schools is still something he and other trustees would like to see addressed.“I think everyone is very aware of the tight state budget,” he said.
The Lansing-area chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union will find out today what information the university will disclose to it regarding the police infiltration of an MSU student activist group. MSU’s Freedom of Information Office has used its final day of a 10-day extension in response to the ACLU’s request for university files. “I’m never surprised by anything the university does,” said Henry Silverman, president of the Lansing-area ACLU and a history professor. Silverman said he doesn’t expect that the request, when it is fulfilled, will contain the information the organization asked for.
By JEANINE AVERSA The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate Tuesday by a half-point, the fifth reduction this year, in an effort to keep the struggling economy afloat. The Fed said the rate cut was needed to combat various drags on the economy, including a decline in business investment in new equipment. “This potential restraint
Beginning June 8, 261 children from Spartan Village Elementary School will have nearly three months to amuse themselves however they choose - summer vacation.But Bill Gale, principal of the on-campus elementary school, has a new tool to help parents keep their kids busy.Spartan Youth Programs, a new Web site created by University Outreach, provides a list of nearly every summer camp, activity or program created for children from kindergarten through 12th grade.“This is an amazing choice,” Gale said.
The first day of testimony supporting state Sen. David Jaye’s validity as an elected official was put into a virtual holding pattern after new documents were found that could prove important to either side of the Washington Township Republican’s case.The Senate panel investigating Jaye spent most of Tuesday in recess and broke early to allow the defense and prosecution the chance to share and review the newly found Senate records, which included memos and other office records pertaining to Jaye’s character.Defense attorneys say some of the memos could prove favorable for Jaye’s case.The panel is charged with determining whether Jaye, a 13-year veteran of the Michigan Legislature, should be expelled from office for “a recurring pattern of personal misconduct.”“It’s ironic.
When I was very young, I loathed when adults asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. Regardless of my age I always firmly believed I was QUITE grown-up, so I gave them a ridiculous answer and replied, “I’d like to be a set of Tinker Toys, or perhaps a trophy wife.” And let me tell you, at 8 years old, those sort of answers always killed them!
A law signed May 2 by Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus eliminated the state’s statute of limitations in cases of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
The MSU baseball team’s postseason hopes were shattered this weekend in State College, Pa., after it dropped four straight games to Penn State. “We certainly are disappointed,” MSU head baseball coach Ted Mahan said.
This year, for the first time in quite awhile, I attended graduation. Lacking the stature of the speakers, I merely listened to their words of wisdom, and recalled the time of my own graduation 31 years ago at Madison Square Garden.
Michelle Martin has worked at least 20 hours a week to cover the cost of tuition and living expenses since she transferred to MSU two years ago.The university’s tuition guarantee has helped the history junior afford her education by keeping the rate of yearly tuition increases down to an average of 2.8 percent a year for the past six years.But university and state officials say the guarantee, instituted at MSU in 1994, may be in jeopardy.For the first time since 1993, Gov.
By BRIGITTE GREENBERGThe Associated PressWASHINGTON - Timothy McVeigh’s lawyers said Sunday he is re-evaluating his position on wanting to be executed after learning the FBI failed to disclose evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing case.The FBI’s lapse has prompted members of Congress to urge hearings into how it happened, and one Democrat wants President Bush to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to review the FBI.McVeigh has not instructed his defense team to pursue a particular legal strategy.
After the Lansing school bond failed May 1, Lansing officials are now trying to decide how and when to have another school bond proposal.The $338.5 million proposal, based on an eight-year construction schedule, would have been used to renovate 39 Lansing schools.
Letter carriers in the East Lansing area collected an unusual amount of outgoing mail Saturday - an estimated 10,000 pounds worth. But it wasn’t a standard load of letters that filled mail trucks at the end of the day; rather it was a collection of nonperishable food items donated by residents who took part in the U.S.
A 43-year-old woman is listed in critical condition after a van collided with the car she was riding in near the intersection of Hagadorn and Jolly roads Sunday night.“I saw that he was going through the light,” said Pat Whittier, an East Lansing resident who was traveling south on Hagadorn Road on her motorcycle behind the van when the accident occurred.
The MSU swimming program was struck with tragedy April 30, when team members learned that standout swimmer John Munley had died during a morning jog near campus.
The panel appointed to review the undercover investigation of Students for Economic Justice made the right decision by choosing Quinn Wright, a student, to serve on the panel. The panel was created to investigate the undercover infiltration of SEJ by the MSU police.
The three attorneys defending embattled state Sen. David Jaye will begin their arguments Tuesday before the six-member Senate panel investigating the Washington Township Republican’s conduct. The bipartisan panel is meeting to determine whether Jaye should be expelled from office for “a recurring pattern of personal misconduct.” Tuesday’s noon meeting at the Michigan National Tower will begin the second week of hearings concerning Jaye’s fate as a state senator.
The MSU women’s crew team qualified all four varsity boats Saturday for Sunday’s Grande Final at the Lexus Central Sprints Regional Championships. But the Spartans finished fifth in Sunday’s competition with a total of 14 points, as Michigan won the competition with 120 points. The first varsity eight boat had the best showing with a time of 6:42.4 and a fourth-place finish in the final. The second varsity eight boat finished the final with a time of 6:55.6.
Though local authorities say it’s too early to draw a connection between a recent bank robbery and a previous one at the same location, an FBI agent stationed in Lansing believes the East Lansing bank that was robbed Thursday could possibly be connected to a November robbery. The Thursday incident marked the third time in six months the Michigan National Bank, 1390 W.