Walking home as usual after interning at the MSU Plant Biology Laboratories, 16-year-old Detroit high school student Brenten Williams said he was stopped by an MSU police officer. "I was walking toward the bridge near Abbot and Mason (halls) and a cop pulled up in a motorcycle," he said.
Tonight, hungry students wandering Albert Avenue for something to eat will have a new option. Menna's Joint is opening a second location next to Harper's Restaurant & Brewpub, 131 Albert Ave. "We just needed to expand," owner Joe Conrad said. The opening at 7 p.m.
Video games will not only be a pastime for MSU students but also a degree specialization. Courses in video game design and development will be available for students to take in September as an introduction to a possible career. Brian Winn, associate telecommunication, information studies and media professor and co-founder of the program, said it's a four-course section that students can take in their junior and senior years.
Each year coordinators at the MSU Safe Place, a haven for victims of domestic violence, hire interns to handle services for the organization. Friday is the last day for this summer's interns, and 2005 graduate Hope Delecke and anthropology senior Kelly Nowicki said the experience at Safe Place will stay with them long after college. "After I graduate I plan to go to the Peace Corps and work in community health," Nowicki said.
Instead of letting obsolete cell phones sit dormant in a closet or drawer after getting them upgraded, people can donate their phones to charities that give them to people in need. The Charitable Recycling Program, located in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., collects phones for emerging countries with economic needs for cell phones, marketing manager Jonnie Sullivan said. "We clean them all up and make them look nice and put new batteries in them," she said.
MSU fans attending events at campus venues such as the Breslin Center and Spartan Stadium can now choose from a variety of Pepsi products. The Division of Housing and Food Services and the MSU Athletics Department announced Wednesday a new contract with PepsiCo Inc. for all campus concessions.
When Mark Collins watches an MSU football game, he pays attention to something many others might give little thought - the grass. Collins, farm manager at MSU's Hancock Turfgrass Research Center, was involved in growing the grass that now sits in Spartan Stadium and said the results give him a sense of pride in his work. "I expect this will be the same way," he said Wednesday, standing in the 4-acre plot of grass that will become the new home turf of the Lansing Lugnuts this September. The field, planted last September, is being grown by MSU employees at the turfgrass center, a 56-acre site south of the main campus. The new field to be located in Oldsmobile Park is part of a long-term arrangement by both the Lugnuts organization and the city of Lansing, which owns the ballpark.
MSU students are helping Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who recently returned from Japan, prepare for another journey. This time her destination is the Internet. The governor released her first radio address and podcast this weekend through a partnership with MSU's student radio station WDBM (88.9-FM), the Impact. Impact Production Director Jeremy Whiting and General Manager Gary Reid head the team producing the governor's podcasts. "It's a great experience for a young student to get involved and know how broadcasting works on a professional level," Reid said.
Kristie Macrakis described East Berlin in the late 1980s as a drab, black-and-white city, where the East German secret police operated behind the scenes. "It was kind of like 'spy city,'" she said.
Michigan law-enforcement officials launched a two-week effort Friday to enforce and educate the community about safety-belt laws. The East Lansing Police Department is among several Ingham County agencies that will participate in the campaign on Friday.
The MSU fundraising effort to raise $1.2 billion for the university before 2007 has surpassed the billion-dollar mark, university officials are expected to announce today. The Campaign for MSU, which began in 2000, seeks to raise gift support for research and teaching, support for students, scholarships, new facilities and building renovations, maintaining programs and faculty recruitment.
Thousands cheered as they watched community members, from high school marching bands to government officials, march in downtown Lansing on Saturday in the sixth annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic. Hosted by the Capital City African American Cultural Association Inc., this years' parade theme focused on diversity and the celebration of family heritage, said Micheal McFadden, event marketer and broadcast radio personality for WWSJ (1580-AM). "Family heritage is important, and whatever your ethnicity is, you should get excited about discovering your family history," he said. The Lansing Area African American Genealogical Society, or LAAAGS, had an informational tent that offered genealogy information. Mary Agnes Lipscomb, president and co-founder of the society, said the primary focus is to assist black people in researching family history. "This is very important because we need to know where we've been in order to plan where we are going," she said. Lipscomb said sometimes it can be hard to trace family history. "Our history wasn't always written down, and many relatives don't want to discuss the past either," she said.
The MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine is lending a hand to cover impoverished children's feet. Heart and Sole is a project that collects moderately worn and new shoes for needy people around the world, project organizer and College of Osteopathic Medicine Graphic Designer Ann Cook said. She said the project started in 1999 after a secretary who returned from a trip to Malawi in Africa recalled the children's desperation. "When she went to the streets to buy trinkets, the kids would do anything for shoes," Cook said. Currently Heart and Sole is collecting tennis shoes and school shoes.
In sub-Saharan Africa, it's common for a person to contract malaria as many as five times a year. The disease is so common, medical students in Malawi find it boring, said Dr. Terrie Taylor, an MSU professor who is considered one of the world's leading researchers on malaria in children.
After Saturday's Walk To Cure Diabetes on campus, walk organizer Tom Brennan owes Karen Breen a bottle of wine. Breen, executive director of the Detroit chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF, bet Brennan a bottle of wine that donations would break $50,000 and won handily when Brennan announced Saturday afternoon that the walk had raised $75,000. The walk, which benefited the international JDRF, kicked off from Ralph Young Field, west of Spartan Stadium, and covered 1.5 miles through campus, featuring head football coach John L.
The sounds and smells of Germany can be found on the third floor of Wells Hall this week. Two German studies graduate students, Jeannine Mickeleit and Angelika Kraemer, are running a camp to teach children aged 6-11 years old German language and culture.
City officials have tried blocking an attempt by a local rental-housing mogul to construct new apartments on Burcham Drive. The East Lansing City Council authorized City Manager Ted Staton to purchase a piece of property for $160,000, on which DTN Management Co. wanted to construct a new apartment complex, during its July 19 meeting, city documents stated. Although Deputy City Manager Jean Golden has said the city didn't want to get involved in a bidding war with DTN, the offer was still brought to the council by city administrators. "That was the offer from the seller," she said.
Last year the annual African American Parade and Family Heritage Picnic attracted more than 15,000 people, state Rep.
As summer winds down for John Fournier, his campaign for a seat on East Lansing's City Council is just beginning to start. The political theory and constitutional democracy senior said he's been busy finishing up his paperwork to enter his name into the race and expects to have it submitted by Wednesday. Fournier has until 5 p.m.