Legislators announced Wednesday that they will ask the manufacturer of "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" to recall the video game and will ask state retailers to take it off their shelves.
In the state of Michigan, torturing an animal is punishable under law, but currently no law protects a human being from being tortured by another. Rep.
The topics of campus, sports, East Lansing and anything else are all possible forums people can post replies to on the new MSU forum site, www.msufans.com. And you don't have to be from MSU to log in. Advertising and sociology senior Justin Sailor created the site two months ago and said there are already more than 500 users. "I was basically looking for a summer project," he said.
The hearing scheduled for last week to determine whether public employers can offer benefits to domestic partners has been postponed until August, and some university employees are worried about losing their benefits. A Michigan Constitutional amendment was ratified in 2004, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman. The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, is representing 21 same-sex couples who filed the lawsuit in March after Attorney General Mike Cox interpreted the amendment as barring the city of Kalamazoo from providing domestic-partnership benefits in future contracts. The court hearing was postponed in order for Gov.
A city ordinance that limits the number of signs East Lansing residents can have on their front lawns is being amended, but it has some residents and city leaders at odds over freedom of expression. Two East Lansing residents expressed their concerns for the city's "environmental quality" at the City Council meeting last Tuesday. These residents are concerned certain modifications to the policy will cause more people to overrun their lawns with political signs. The most significant concern addressed was the "visual clutter," said East Lansing's Deputy City Manager Jean Golden.
A $2 million grant to MSU will be used to help finance renovations in the Lyman Briggs School and to create an endowment in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences. The grant was given by the Midland, Mich., Rollin M.
With scorching summer temperatures, some students across campus shuffle to class or work in the lightest clothes possible, including their footwear - flip-flop sandals. "(Flip-flops) are better because you can flip them off your feet easily," said Lansing resident, Ryan Howard.
"I think any type of celebration (the university) puts on isn't going to be what we want it to be." George Konstantopoulos accounting senior "It would be nice to do something like that if it got down to the Elite Eight or Final Four, but I don't think it would defer anything riot-wise." Colleen Duff kinesiology senior "That'd be fun.
Two bills recently introduced to the state House of Representatives would ban the use of alcohol without liquid, commonly called AWOL, in Michigan. AWOL is an inhalant that is a combination of alcohol mist and pure oxygen and can create a euphoric sensation.
A late-night Saturday thunderstorm that continued through daybreak Sunday left the city and some area businesses scrambling to function. The storm caused a power outage and knocked some trees down, said Sgt.
A series of grants announced Wednesday will mean more than $1.8 million in funding to train nurses for MSU's College of Nursing. The four grants could mean more students will be admitted, said Teresa Wehrwein, assistant dean for professional partnerships and faculty practice in the college. Michigan will be in need of an extra 7,000 nurses by 2010 and 18,000 nurses by 2015, said Jeanette Klemczak, chief nurse executive in the Michigan Department of Community Health. MSU is one of six universities developing an accelerated second-degree program to get more nurses into the workforce quickly. Gov.
Forget "Super Mario Brothers" and "Grand Theft Auto." An MSU graduate student is working to create an online text-based video game called "Ink" for student writers to compete against one another. Kym Buchanan presented his educational version of "You Got Served" to MSU's Writing Center and Writing In Digital Environments Research Center, or WIDE, in the spring after using the game's format for a telecommunications course's final project.
Owners of iPods and other personal MP3 players now have more listening options than just the music they download or rip from their CD collections. "People have called podcasting the TiVo for radio," said Gary Reid, a university distinguished senior specialist in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media and general manager of MSU's student radio station Impact (88.9-FM). Podcasting allows nearly anyone to broadcast an audio file over the Internet.
A 19-year-old Marshall, Mich., man was sentenced on Wednesday in the Ingham County Circuit Court to serve eight to 20 years in prison for the murder of an Okemos man. Alexander Hamil, who came to East Lansing to celebrate St.
A queen will be attending MSU as a student this fall. Biological sciences senior Courtney Fountain was named the 2005-06 National Cherry Queen at this year's National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich.
Alison Barber is expected to be confirmed today as the new secretary of the MSU Board of Trustees, officials said. The board will meet today to discuss, among other things, the appointment of Barber, the MSU senior associate dean in the Eli Broad College of Business.
When Ed Carlson goes to a baseball game or visits his girlfriend, it's a large, complicated production. Due to his cerebral palsy and quadriplegia, the 40-year-old said in-home health care has to get him ready to go out, and a special mode of transportation needs to be coordinated.
An MSU organization is aiming to help the community by providing free advice to local nonprofit organizations. Students Consulting for Nonprofit Organizations, or SCNO, is a national organization that focuses on helping local communities through pro-bono consulting.