By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Bush administration Wednesday offered Beijing a chorus of regrets but no apology for the collision between a U.S.
Colorfully packaged pasta, cookies and cereal line the shelves of Foods for Living, 2650 E. Grand River Ave.
East Lansing may be maturing as an urban area, but it’s not growing up.After more than one year of discussion and planning, the East Lansing City Council approved an ordinance at its Tuesday regular meeting that limits building heights throughout the city.The height limits have been reduced from eight stories, or 14 with a city permit, to four stories, or 10 with a city permit.The ordinance also allows the city council to make exceptions for projects that would be beneficial to the city but require more height.Councilmember Sam Singh said the change would help protect residents living near the downtown from the shadows of tall buildings, while still leaving the city open to new development.“I think the downtown can handle some more considerable heights, especially on the Grand River (Avenue) side, but as soon as you get down around Albert (Avenue), you start to encroach on neighborhoods,” he said.“We’ve had the opportunity to have buildings of considerable size and it just hasn’t happened.”Orilla McHarris, a resident of East Lansing’s Bailey neighborhood since 1965, said she was pleased with the decision to hold on to the small-town atmosphere that can be ruined by tall buildings.“Our neighborhood is generally in favor of keeping the buildings low and letting everybody get some sunshine and fresh air,” she said.
Thank you so very much for informing me I am a bigot because I enjoy hockey. I never realized that black people are not welcome in the sport.
It’s going to be East Lansing’s newest flavor.Raydan Café and Market, 317 M.A.C.
To say the MSU football team had a rough time on the offensive side of the ball last year would be like saying the stork in those Warner Brothers cartoons had a little too much to drink when it delivered babies.
As a student here at MSU I frequently walk to class, work and around Grand River Avenue - just like a majority of the other students here on campus. More than once I have witnessed a few close calls between people who are walking and people who are driving.
University police probably acted within the law when officials used an undercover officer to infiltrate a student activist group, state legal experts say.But area law enforcement officials and legal scholars disagree about whether the use of such tactics was proper.“There are legitimate times when police agencies can use undercover investigations,” former state Attorney General Frank Kelley said Wednesday.Kelley, Michigan’s top lawyer for 37 years before retiring in 1998, said many law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and area police, have operated extensive undercover operations within political groups - and all legally.However, the use of such a covert operation at a university - a place where students and police have traditionally clashed - is probably a mistake, he said.“Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think that was a very good procedure on a college campus,” he said.MSU police deployed an undercover officer more than a year ago to pose as a student and gather information about Students for Economic Justice, an officially registered student group.In a statement released Friday to The State News, university police Assistant Chief Jim Dunlap said officials were concerned a May 2000 commencement speech by World Bank President James Wolfensohn could draw violent protests, echoing those that began Nov.
ALBANY, N.Y. - A year ago at this time, Joe Markusen was sitting on the edge of his couch, cheering as North Dakota claimed its seventh national hockey championship. A native of Grafton, N.D., a small town that adores the Fighting Sioux hockey team, he graduated from Park River High and naturally became a fan of the school down the road in Grand Forks, N.D. “There’s no professional league in North Dakota, so college hockey is pretty big,” said Markusen, a 6-foot, 186-pound freshman defenseman.
Two high-profile speakers highlighted a week of events for Pride Week, presented by the Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay and Transgendered Students.Kate Bornstein, a nationally-renowned transgender author, activist and playwright, spoke to a crowd of about 100 in the Union Ballroom Tuesday night.Keith Boykin, author of “One More River to Cross: Black and Gay in America,” spoke to nearly 100 people about race and sexuality Wednesday night in the Union.Saying that all members of the LBGT community are “transgressly gendered,” Bornstein said during her speech that people must work to define their sexual identities outside of gender roles set by American society.“The eyes of those who would make us men or women only do not have to be our eyes, their voices don’t have to be our voices and their politics do not need to set the standard for our politics,” she said.Bornstein’s presence at MSU was well received by Carrie Copeland, a co-director for the Alliance.Copeland said ever since reading Bornstein’s book “Gender Outlaw,” she felt university classes dealing with sex and gender were often one-sided.“It was very frustrating for me for the professor to refer to gender as only male or female when it was so much more than that,” the interdisciplinary studies in humanities senior said.
Although the 2nd Annual Madison Charity Ball is a little different from last year’s event, its purpose remains intact - raising funds for charity.The event, which takes place from 7 p.m.
One campus organization got money from the Internal Revenue Service a little early this year.The MSU-Detroit College of Law Tax and Rental Housing clinics recently received a $100,000 grant from the IRS.“It is funding that is provided for us in order for us to provide the services that we do,” said DCL Professor Michele Halloran, director of the Tax Clinic.Halloran co-wrote and submitted the grant request.
LANSING - When Lisa Thompson and Cynthia Pugh met on MSU’s campus as undergraduates almost 20 years ago in Bryan Hall, they never imagined they would one day open a Beaner’s Gourmet Coffee shop in Lansing. But that day came Monday, when the duo opened a cafe in hope to promote intellectual conversations and thinking, inside the Capital Area District Library, 401 South Capital Ave. “It’s been fun and hectic,” said Pugh, an owner of the new coffee shop.
LANSING - Anyone who has lived in Michigan for a few years knows the old joke: Michigan has two seasons - winter and construction.
Agency executives from around the country made a stop at MSU on Wednesday to discuss the current challenges facing natural resource management in the United States.Nearly 100 people attended the seminar, “Emerging Issues Confronting Natural Resource Agencies in the 21st Century,” in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.Seven panel members came from as far as Florida, Arizona and Massachusetts, where they are executives of federal or state management and conservation agencies.
There was once a great discussion. It was in the newsrooms and around the dinner table. In the classroom and at the bar.
Emotions may swell. Tears may fall. Words of solace may be shared. For MSU’s 18-member men’s gymnastics team, walking off the mat after this weekend’s NCAA Championships will mean more than just the end to another season. Fifty-three years after its first match, MSU is preparing to say goodbye to the program. “It’s kind of hard to believe when you’ve been doing it so long - like 13 years - it’s just going to end all of the sudden,” mechanical engineering freshman gymnast Joel Vargo said of his career.
Students for Economic Justice transformed the sidewalk behind Wells Hall into a catwalk Wednesday, enabling the group’s models to unveil companies they say are exploiting workers’ rights.More than 80 students, most in between classes, stopped and watched as students sported plain white T-shirts featuring names of companies such as Gap, Target, Ann Taylor and Disney.“Disney is known as family-oriented,” Bethany Enright, a mechanical engineering freshman and master of ceremonies, told the crowd via a megaphone.