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$2K of $20K reward fund distributed by police

Katie Adbilla
January 27, 2014

Although $20,000 was set aside as a reward for any information regarding December’s civil disturbances in Cedar Village, only about $2,000 of the fund has been shelled out to informants, according to East Lansing police. Following December’s Big Ten championship, thousands of students flocked to Cedar Village, chanting and burning furniture and nearly anything in their path. By the time the disturbance was dispersed at about 3 a.m.

MICHIGAN

Police pay out $2K of $20K reward for information on December 'civil disturbance'

Katie Abdilla
January 27, 2014

East Lansing police have only awarded $2,000 in reward money so far to informants with information regarding December’s “civil disturbance” in Cedar Village, officials said Monday. It’s a comparatively small amount of the $20,000 allocated to rewarding those who came forward and assisted police with identifying key players in the chaos following the MSU football team’s win over Ohio State in the Big Ten Championship game.

NEWS

Proposal could appropriate 50K work visas to immigrants

Michael Kransz
January 26, 2014

Gov. Rick Snyder announced a proposal Thursday to revitalize Detroit by appropriating 50,000 work visas for skilled immigrants willing to work in the city. The visas would be doled out over five years, with an intended effect of reversing Detroit’s slumping economy and shrinking population, Snyder said in a statement.

MSU

Local tattoo artists host Lansing fundraiser

Juliana Moxley
January 26, 2014

Local Lansing tattoo artists collaborated on Sunday evening for Artonica, an event meant to benefit the Greater Lansing Food Bank and Capital Area Humane Society.

MSU

Changes made in annual Miss Greek beauty pageant to improve stereotypes

Sara Konkel
January 24, 2014

A philanthropy event once associated with drinking and provocative dancing was a wholesome pageant at the Kellogg Center Thursday night. Sigma Pi fraternity hosted the thirteenth annual Miss Greek beauty pageant, which raised more than $2000 for the American Cancer Society. Sigma Pi’s philanthropy chairman Spenser Frania said they did things differently this year to alleviate some of the Greek life stereotypes. “In past years it’s been at a bar or club, which was not good,” Frania said.

MSU

MSU reacts to Obama's comments on sexual assaults

Simon Schuster
January 23, 2014

A prominent issue in the MSU community, sexual assault, received attention on the national stage this week when President Barack Obama addressed the issue directly in a speech delivered to the White House Council on Women and Girls. A White House report on the issue estimates 20 percent of female college students are sexually assaulted, while only about 12 percent of victims report it. In an October interview with The State News, Sexual Assault Program Coordinator Shari Murgittroyd said she estimated only one in five assaults at MSU ever reach official ears. Jayne Schuiteman, interim director of the Women’s Resource Center at MSU, said she thought the president “hit the nail on the head” with his remarks, but acknowledged the issue was not a new one. “It would have been ideal to have this addressed sooner, but I think Vice President (Joe) Biden has a great track record at looking at issues of violence against women,” Schuiteman said.

NEWS

Voices of Dissent

Nolly Dakroury
January 22, 2014

On the first day of his visit to Istanbul, Turkey, biology and psychology sophomore Ryan Farrick woke up to an unusual smell.