A clean-water report card, released by the Public Interest Research Group in Michigan, PIRGIM, gives the state a failing grade in clean-water enforcement.The report, released Sunday, found that most of the nine states surveyed failed to properly enforce the Clean Water Act - with Michigan as one of the worst offenders.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm spoke to about 200 higher education officials Wednesday promoting strategies that encourage universities to research ways to boast economic and job growth in Michigan. Granholm stressed the importance of Michigan's colleges and universities in research and technology and using them to find ways to enhance the state's economy during her speech at MSU's University Club. "Universities have always had an essential role to play in our economy," Granholm said in her address. Officials from the state's 15 public colleges and universities, state business representatives and the state agency Michigan Economic Development Corporation recommended to use universities' research to help the state's struggling economy and unemployment rates. The recommendations work on ways to get universities involved with state government.
Tonight, teachers and aspiring teachers won't be grading students' poetry - they'll be sitting back and listening to it. The National Council of Teachers of English is sponsoring a poetry slam from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
A new co-ed MSU student organization called the Competitive Cheer Club has been created for students with previous cheerleading experience. Carla Colbeck, president and founding member of the club, said she hopes to recruit between 20 and 25 members for a competitive team that will create dance choreography for statewide competitions. Excluding money for uniforms, there is no fee. Colbeck said the club, which will meet for two hours, twice a week, will also be participating in community events. "This is a really great club that is going to take off and get students interested," Colbeck said. The first meeting of the MSU Competitive Cheer Club will be at 6 p.m.
A year after MSU's law school changed its name to MSU-DCL College of Law, the school's Detroit alumni are still comfortable with the switch. Formerly known as the Detroit College of Law, the law school in Detroit was founded in 1891.
Lansing area residents can learn the benefits of buying and selling antiques from noon to 1 p.m. on Oct.
Switching to a new machine, Ryan Tapper checks the weights and prepares to work his arms on the butterfly at the Powerhouse Gym of East Lansing, 435 E.
Members of the Academic Council approved a proposed amendment to MSU's anti-discrimination policy at the first Academic Council meeting of the school year Tuesday.Provost and Interim President Lou Anna Simon also discussed the challenges facing a land-grant university in the 21st century.The proposal, which would add gender identity to the harassment section of the policy, now heads to MSU President M.
Michigan Audubon Society's CraneFest will be held on Oct. 11-12 at Battle Creek Kiwanis Youth Area. The nonprofit organization's free event will offer a variety of events including crane viewing, an art show and sale, book signing, guided nature walks and a nature photo workshop.
MSU students will host the Grill-Off, an MSU and Lansing community fund-raiser from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday for Court Appointed Special Advocates at Valley Court Field.Booths also will offer meals created on a grill.
The Lansing City Council voted Monday to reinstate an ordinance that allows police to seize the vehicles of people caught soliciting prostitutes.
The Impression 5 Science Center will host the 11th Annual Capital City River Run on Sunday. Proceeds will support educational programs at the science center, located at 200 Museum Drive in Lansing.
Blake McLendon was a devoted listener of WWDX (92.1-FM) The Edge, jamming to the station in his room in Akers Hall until the station changed its name and format."I used to listen to it 24/7 in the dorms and now I don't," the finance junior said.
Some ASMSU members support a November ballot proposal to eliminate primary elections for the East Lansing City Council which could increase the chances of a student being elected to the council.
Haven House, a homeless shelter for families, celebrated its 20th anniversary of service to the greater Lansing community Tuesday. The shelter, 121 Whitehills Dr., commemorated the anniversary with a celebration combined with the Haven House annual fall fund-raiser. Haven House originally opened as the Economic Crisis Center in 1983 to help Lansing area homeless families.
Professors and business officials from around the country gathered on campus Friday to discuss the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the law that changed the way corporations disclose their finances to the federal government.A symposium titled "In the Wake of Corporate Reform: One Year in the Life of Sarbanes-Oxley - A Critical Review" examined the act but also focused on problems it has caused.
The Hannah Community Center will be filled with the musical sounds of modern dance, jazz, hip-hop, tap, Latin and East Indian as over 70 dancers from different ethnic groups participate in "Dance for a Cause."Now in its second year, the event raises money through ticket sales and sponsors to benefit Habitat for Humanity of Lansing.
The Lansing Board of Water & Light will test its public warning system with a "whooping" tone and voice message in English and Spanish at 10 a.m.
This flu season, cough drops might be mistaken for Listerine Pocket Packs and a digital doctor may diagnose whether patients should make the trip to Olin Health Center. Throat lozenges in the form of wafer-thin strips and Olin's online doctor are two innovations on a centuries-old illness this year, and experts are hoping they'll have a better handle on the disease than in recent years. Chloraseptic Sore Throat Relief Strips appeared on the shelves of Walgreens, 410 E.
As Romanian author Karin Gündisch read from her book "How I Became an American" on Monday night, some bursts of laughter came sooner than others. Some members of the 40-person audience in the International Center got the joke as she read the German version, but the rest didn't follow until translator Angelika Kraemer read the English version a paragraph later. Gündisch stopped at MSU two weeks into her American tour for the book.