The U.S. Senate’s economic stimulus package passed Tuesday is $18 billion larger than the U.S. House’s version, but contained billions of dollars fewer in student aid, infrastructure and other higher education funding.
Two East Lansing restaurants have made the decision to ban smoking in the past month, a change that will come to all Michigan businesses if the Legislature passes a statewide smoking ban.
The city of East Lansing is looking for nominees for the Crystal Awards, an annual recognition given to local individuals and groups that significantly enhance the quality of life in East Lansing.
MSU’s financial future, the academic calendar and the Outside Speakers Policy were among many items discussed during Tuesday’s meeting of MSU’s Executive Committee of Academic Council. Provost Kim Wilcox said MSU will have to make adjustments during the next couple of years to combat the struggling economy.
This weekend, residents will have the opportunity to celebrate Lansing’s 150th anniversary. Hats off to Lansing weekend will begin at noon Thursday outside of National City Bank, 120 N. Washington Square, in Lansing.
Leaders from the East Lansing and MSU communities gathered Tuesday to emphasize the importance of HIV testing and awareness by being tested themselves. Organizations including the MSU Residence Halls Association, Black Student Alliance and ASMSU, MSU’s undergraduate student government, teamed with Michigan Equality, Olin Health Center and Lansing Area AIDS Network to host the event.
A more user-friendly ordinance that regulates the latest technologies in electronic signs will be discussed Tuesday at the East Lansing City Council meeting.
A 32-year-old male student had five fraudulent charges made on his Visa credit card after losing his wallet on a bus Jan. 29, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Ruckus.com — once dubbed by MSU “the premiere digital entertainment network designed specifically for college students” — quietly and abruptly shut down during the weekend
A crucial deadline faced by Detroit automakers to present the federal government with plans showing they’re viable has taken a backseat to the more than $800 billion proposed federal stimulus packages, two MSU professors who follow the industry said.
Criminal justice sophomore Troy Walters, a U.S. Army veteran, spent a year in Iraq when he was 20, but he had always planned on coming to MSU afterward. “The whole time I was in Iraq, especially in 2005 when the basketball team was in the Final Four, I was paying attention to that,” he said.
The final pretrial hearing for the man accused of murdering MSU student Katherine A. Brown and three others was canceled, court officials said.
Enrollment by Iraqi students at MSU almost tripled in one year from 2007-08, according to data from the Office of the Registrar. And the number could continue to climb if a new Iraqi government scholarship program, which would send 10,000 Iraqi students abroad, is approved by Iraq’s Parliament.
Steve & Barry’s’ successor in the building at 515 E. Grand River Ave., Campus Street Sportswear, opened its doors on Saturday.
Most students have seen those e-mails from classmates begging for notes from a missed class or help with a study guide. A newly expanded Web site aims to provide another venue to help students get missed class materials.
Consumer confusion and patchy communications among emergency responders are among the downsides to last week’s announcement the transition from analog TV signals to digital will be delayed to June 12.
The mysterious death of finance senior Kevin Boskey has left those who were close to him searching for answers as they remember a friend who brought smiles to their faces.
Students will get a significantly smaller cut of the proposed economic stimulus package than originally planned if the U.S. Senate’s revised version of the package is passed. After the U.S. House of Representatives approved an $819 billion package on Jan. 28, the Senate is expected to vote on its $827 billion version early this week.
An MSU student died late Friday in an incident that did not appear suspicious, East Lansing police Capt. Kim Johnson said Sunday. The student had been ill “for quite some time” and the death does not appear to be the result of foul play, Johnson said in an e-mail to The State News.
For shoppers during a recession, it’s out with the new and in with the old. Resale and thrift stores across the country are pulling in more customers and claiming high profits despite the economic slowdown.