Despite an extended delay, ASMSU is continuing its push toward a more student-friendly relationship with East Lansing tenants. The undergraduate student government is of the opinion that city landlords ask student tenants to prematurely renew their leases.
Jerome Winston knows how to barbecue. Winston, a Lansing resident, has fed the likes of Muhammad Ali, Earvin “Magic” Johnson and men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo.
Michigan lawmakers will be belting out ideas to encourage Michigan motorists to buckle up. The state Senate is scheduled this week to discuss bills that would increase penalties for those guilty of not using their safety belts.The bills would limit the number of passengers in a vehicle to the number of safety belts available, and would make a safety belt violation a two-point penalty on a person’s driver’s license.
President Bush will visit Michigan today for the first time while in office to give a speech on his economic plan at the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.Bush is the first sitting president to visit Kalamazoo since 1911, when William Howard Taft served as president.“This is part of the president’s effort to build support for his economic agenda that includes tax relief, funding our priorities and paying down the national debt,” White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said.The stop will be Bush’s 16th appearance on his national tax-cut tour since addressing a joint session of Congress on Feb.
LANSING - Because of a slowing national economy, cities around Michigan may have to cut back on their spending budgets - but not Lansing. Lansing Mayor David Hollister proposed a $102.5 million budget plan Monday for fiscal year 2001-02 - a 3.1 percent increase from last year’s budget - to the Lansing City Council. “We were able to avoid cutbacks,” Hollister said.
Scientists aren’t the only ones winning science awards these days.In recognition for his accomplishments in enhancing federal-university relations, Howard Gobstein has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Gobstein, the assistant vice president and director of federal relations for MSU in Washington ,D.C., is pleased with his accomplishment.“It’s an incredible joy to receive this honor,” he said.
The Union Ballroom will offer a taste of sex and New Orleans on Friday night. Danny Roberts and Melissa Howard, from the MTV show “The Real World” New Orleans, will join MSU sex and relationship experts. Sex In the Real World, a Loveline-style event, will be held from 9 p.m.
Although studies suggest members of fraternities and sororities may drink more frequently and more heavily than most college students, researchers say greeks are not more likely to use alcohol after graduation.The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, questions what leads greeks to drink more in college.
Jesse Killingbeck came across the state from his hometown of Conklin, Mich., to visit East Lansing, but left with knowledge about a country across the world.
A growing number of campuses are telling students that their peers drink more responsibly than they may think, but little information is available to show if such efforts result in safer drinking practices.But a Massachusetts-based education policy group is collecting data from 34 colleges nationwide to prove such campaigns - known as social norms programs - lead to more responsible drinking by college students.“To date the effectiveness has been largely anecdotal,” said Helen Stubbs, a spokeswoman for the Education Development Center Inc. “Certainly it’s been shown to work on some campuses.”Studies show most students think other students drink heavily, when in reality most abstain or drink moderately, Stubbs said.
Social, political and economic difficulties in African countries will not improve until the issues receive support from the world community, said Leonard Robinson, president and chief executive officer of the National Summit on Africa.“We live in a time of global interdependence and Africa cannot make it alone,” he said.
Lamont Clegg thinks the art by four graduate students in Kresge Art Museum is amazing.“I really think these four students are really talented and I think they can make it as professional artists,” the museum’s spokesman said.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly approved a bill to allocate $33,000 from the ASMSU investment account Thursday to cover speaking fees for g a nationally acclaimed poet to campus Maya Angelou, who is scheduled to speak on campus April 18.“This is phenomenal,” said Melanie Olmsted, Student Assembly Women’s Council representative.
The Graduate Employees Union is one step closer to gaining collective bargaining power.Graduate assistants are set to vote in an election April 19 and 20 to determine whether they wish to be represented by a collective bargaining unit.“We’re very excited,” said Amy Jones, a sociology graduate student and vice president of the union.
The winner of the show beat out all 142 other contestants in appearance and quality, but she was left near speechless when asked what the victory meant to her.“Moo” was her only response.The MSU Pavilion for Agriculture and Livestock Education was filled with hundreds of people and just as many bails of hay for the Michigan Spring Dairy Show and Sale held Friday and Saturday.
State Rep. Doug Hart, R-Rockford, introduced a bill Thursday that would create “rebuttable presumption” in custody cases involving perpetrators of domestic violence. “It makes sense that perpetrators of domestic violence should not have custody of their children,” Hart said in a written statement. Hart hopes the bill will increase the protection available to victims of domestic violence.
Although the entire student population of Washington & Jefferson College could live in Hubbard Hall, school officials have found that MSU and the Washington, Pa., college have a lot in common.Both schools, as well as the State University of New York at Geneseo and Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., have been working to teach each other how to improve relationships with the communities surrounding the schools through a collaborative program sponsored by the Knight Foundation and the Institute for Research on Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania.The participants in the collaborative effort are meeting for the last time today in Philadelphia, where they hope to discuss how to implement the ideas and programs they saw while visiting each of the college campuses.“I think we’re in a better position to see what the common ground is,” said MSU zoology Professor Don Straney, an assistant to the provost and MSU’s coordinator for the collaborative.
Wall Street investors saw a bear awake from a long hibernation, as slowing growth, especially in technologies, has impacted the economy.The Dow Jones industrial average, the most widely used index to the New York Stock Exchange, slipped into bear market territory - a 20 percent decrease from a previous high - before a late Thursday rally and a strong day on Friday, which contributed to the market’s 9,505 points close.Thursday’s low of 9,107 was down roughly 22 percent from the market’s all-time high of 11,723 on Jan.