Even as people prepare to send Valentine’s Day cards and presents, the United States Postal Service, or USPS, continues to sustain losses, according to its first-quarter report.
As a mother of three sons born with cleft palates, Joanne Green knows the challenges children with the disease face.
East Lansing officials are projecting about a $35 million total drop in the taxable value of the city’s residential homes for the 2012-13 fiscal year, a loss equating to about a 6.3 percent drop in overall value, according to city budget documents. The documents estimate the overall taxable value of homes in the city will drop from about $555.5 million in fiscal year 2011-12 to about $520.5 million in fiscal year 2012-13.
Before you think about grabbing a second bowl of cereal at the cafeteria, MSU dining officials want you to make sure you’re hungry enough to finish it. MSU Culinary Services officials are conducting a food waste study campaign this semester to show how much food is wasted after each meal and what could be done to reduce such waste. “What you take is what you should eat,” said Carla Iansiti, MSU Culinary Services sustainability officer.
Theatre graduate student Leslie Hull knew she would be playing the title character Anna Fierling for her thesis role almost a year before “Mother Courage” went into production. She traveled to Berlin to do research in preparation for the role, and while there, she watched a performance at Brecht’s Theater, named after playwright Bertolt Brecht, who wrote the play.
A 22-year-old male student reported his iPad 2 stolen between 5:30-6 p.m. Feb. 5 from the Main Library, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A handful of music stands and seven chairs were all that filled the set of “The Domestic Crusaders” on Wednesday night at the Kellogg Center’s auditorium. A seven-person cast of students performed a staged reading of the play written by Wajahat Ali depicting the troubles felt by a Muslim Pakastani-American family in the U.S. post-Sept. 11. There were few movements and no breaks between scenes during the reading.
To an outsider, the MSU Crew Club’s practice facility is no different than any other team’s. It has a collection of exercise machines, upbeat music playing on the overhead speakers and a bit of a musty smell. But to the about 40 members of the team, the practice space is more because after years of searching, they’ve finally found a place they can call their own — in an old meat locker.
The elaborate sets seen by audiences during MSU’s many theater productions no longer will be built at the Fairchild Theatre by the start of the next academic year after upcoming renovations.
Some details are emerging in future plans for renovations at Landon Hall cafeteria, which could see improvements in three to five years if proposed plans are fully developed, Associate Director of Residential Dining Bruce Haskell said.
MSU is one of the first schools to offer students the opportunity to take a recently developed aptitude test for students interested in careers in finance.
With presidential elections two weeks away, the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, spent part of its Wednesday night meeting opening up the nomination period.
An informational meeting for the newly-created MSU Club Golf team will take place 7 p.m. Feb. 15 at the Spartan Stadium Tower in Room W239.
The MSU Neuroscience Program is holding its second annual Neuroscience Fair at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the Biomedical and Physical Sciences Building.
City dwellers might have the potential to track police reports on their own if a proposal to implement an online crime mapping system for East Lansing comes to fruition.
When Emettra Nelson enters the classroom, the construction management freshman notices a lot more men in the classroom than women.
Starting with the 2012-13 fiscal year, the city of East Lansing is planning to stop funding some sidewalk repairs to address a budget shortfall.
The East Lansing City Council gave approval to the city’s finance director to analyze and examine financing options for a portion of the controversial City Center II development project during its Tuesday night work session, extending the debate regarding the project’s future. East Lansing Finance Director Mary Haskell now has the authority to determine the method the city will use to refinance four parcels of property related to the project and can authorize the final financing of the parcels without approval from city council, Haskell said.
The American Red Cross is pitting green and white against maize and blue to see who can collect the most red during its annual MSU/U-M Blood Challenge. The three-week competition began Jan. 30 and runs until Feb. 24.
In case you missed it … A student government group has passed a bill to address what some members feel is a cleanliness problem with campus cafeterias.