National Public Radio White House correspondent Don Gonyea will speak on campus next week. Gonyea, an MSU alumnus and native of Monroe, will present “Stories from the Bush White House” at Kellogg Center at 7 p.m.
The State News is requesting a $1 per semester tax increase when the universitywide polls open online March 12-16. The increase would up the tax from $4 to $5 per semester. “The State News wouldn’t be asking for it if it wasn’t needed,” Editor in Chief Jeremy Steele said.
For some students, spring break may be extended by one day.A one-day strike that calling for undergraduate students not to participate in class March 11 is being sponsored by Lansing-based Direct Action and Students for Economic Justice.The strike will be in support of MSU’s Graduate Employees Union, which is negotiating for its first contract.
Sally Walshaw loves working with animals, especially the furry little mice and rats used for laboratory research - but she hates the paperwork involved with them.“We already have steps in place that ensure that all of the animals used for research here at MSU are taken care of and treated with the highest quality of care,” said Walshaw, acting director and training coordinator for MSU’s University Laboratory Animal Resources Center.Although birds and rodents are not covered by the Animal Welfare Act, some animal rights activists have been lobbying to have them included in the act, the chief federal law regulating the use of laboratory animals.
Lansing - Eight-year-old Taylor Fowlkes threw her head back in the air and clasped her microphone as her voice mixed with the rest of the Johnson Memorial Temple Youth Choir Wednesday. The Pontiac resident joined many musicians, poets and dancers at a Black History Month program held at the Capitol.
Sarah Schmidt began using Planned Parenthood at age 15. Now 22 and a social work senior at MSU, she testified Wednesday in front of the Senate Families, Mental Health and Human Services Committee that she doesn’t know where she would be today without the primary care program. A bill presented to the Senate committee would prioritize state family planning funding to go toward organizations that do not publicly advocate, perform or refer women to have abortions. Schmidt said she was uneasy about telling her mother she was sexually active and uncomfortable traveling to receive care.
The East Lansing Family Aquatic Center may have been one of summer’s biggest successes, or one of the season’s more mediocre events.
Rodney Patterson said the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. will have a positive and educational message to offer students who attend his presentation today.
As part of his nightly routine, Dan Kiesling delivers babies into beds of straw and hay. In the middle of the night Tuesday, Kiesling, an animal science sophomore, prepared a sheep to nurse her newborn twins.
There is one certainty in the race for Michigan’s secretary of state position this year, all the candidates will be working to get rid of the hanging chads.Candidates for Michigan’s chief elections officer - two Democrats, three Republicans and one Green Party member - are determined not to let what happened in Florida be repeated.The six candidates are vying for Secretary of State Candice Miller’s position when she leaves to run for U.S.
A presentation titled “Mexican Immigration Workers: Is Working in the U.S. Good or Bad for Health?” will be held noon Thursday in 301 Nisbet Building.
Mason - Posts still stand where waterfowl and goslings were once raised, the old, rusted fencing and barbed wire lying nearby. Just across the trail, the remnants of last season’s prairie grasses stick up above the small amount of snow cover. The Ingham Conservation District has worked to clean up the land since receiving it two years ago but executive director Susan Tangora said there is still a lot to be done. Eventually the district wants to restore the 200-acre plot to a mix of beech-maple woodland, grassland and wetland areas. But a lack of funds limits the amount of work the small district can do. “Volunteers are a really good resource,” Tangora said.
Kellogg Co., a longtime contributor to MSU, has made another donation to the university.The MSU Board of Trustees, in a special meeting via conference call, approved Tuesday the donation of two sets of patents.The 11 U.S.
Photographer Jan-Michael Stump was named the 2001 College Photographer of the Year by the Michigan Press Photographers Association.
The interests of workers around the world will be discussed at 7 p.m. today. The Journal of International Law will present “Labor Rights in a Free Trade World: Paradigm or Paradox?” at the Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre. A panel of trade representatives, business leaders, economists and scholars will be moderated by MSU President M.
Lansing - MSUreceived $326 million in funding Tuesday.The state Senate approved budgets for universities and community colleges that deny them funding increases but protect them from cutbacks.On a 36-1 vote, without debate, senators approved a $1.7 billion budget for Michigan’s 15 universities in the fiscal year beginning Oct.
In April 1997, Nancy Muriel was dragged out of her bed by her drunken boyfriend, and after struggling against him, tumbled onto Saginaw Street.She was killed by a passing truck.Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III had just taken office when Muriel’s case came to his court.
ASMSU is requesting a $3 tax increase from undergraduate students when polls open March 12-16.The undergraduate student government’s leaders say the increase is needed to serve students better.
MSU and transportation officials are trying to make construction zones safer for motorists and workers.Experimental sensors and electronic signs will display the safe speed limit on a five-mile stretch of Interstate 96’s construction zone south and west of Lansing.In addition, the Michigan Department of Transportation announced that it will use at least $350,000 to cover the overtime costs of police officers patrolling work areas across the state.MDOT employee Jeff Grossklaus said the sensors will be installed in April and will detect the volume and speed of traffic as well as indicating if the pavement is wet.
Fifteen-year-old Samantha Reid left for the movies on Jan. 16, 1999, with a group of friends. The date-rape drug GHB, gamma hydroxybutyrate, was slipped into her soft drink.