East Lansing business owner Richard Hall has seen many businesses come and go during his 30 years in town. Lately, he’s seen a few more going than coming along Grand River Avenue. Hall, a co-owner of Campus Barbers Inc., 621 E. Grand River Ave., said he doesn’t believe the vacancies are caused purely by poor economic conditions.
Police received fewer reports of spring break home invasions and burglaries this year for the fourth consecutive year, according to numbers released by the East Lansing Police Department.
MSU researchers, as part of a new partnership with Michigan Children’s Trust Fund, or CTF, will examine the media’s effect on child abuse in today’s society. The CTF — a statewide child abuse prevention foundation — will work with MSU’s Children’s Central, a program that is part of the university’s Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing.
There could be one benefit to the down economy this summer — low gas prices. The traditional summer spike in gas prices that contributed to last year’s $4 per gallon peak might be weathered in 2009 because of the global recession.
Take a 60-minute lecture and cut it down to 60 seconds. Remove some details, excess verbiage and anecdotes. Only the key concepts remain.
A 55-year-old female employee at the Shaw Hall cafeteria reported an envelope containing $300 stolen from her purse, which was stored in her office desk, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
As city officials prepare for a second public hearing and possible vote tonight on an ordinance that clarifies riot conduct, drafters of the ordinance said they continue to receive positive feedback from students.
The East Lansing Citizens’ Police Academy will be holding its graduation at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Courtroom 2 of the 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
City residents looking to get their game on can sign up for the East Lansing Department of Parks, Recreation and Arts spring and summer adult softball leagues.
Aspiring artists or residents with an interest in art still can apply for the East Lansing Arts Commission’s upcoming project after the commission extended the registry deadline to the end of April.
While East Lansing revelers fill their cups with green beer today, police and a student group will work to keep drunken drivers off the city’s roads.
ASMSU hopes to ban exotic animal acts from MSU. Its Student Assembly passed a bill at a joint meeting March 5 to mandates this goal. The bill will be presented to Academic Assembly at a meeting today.
In what the U.S. Department of Education has called “a historic investment,” President Barack Obama proposed expanding financial aid offered to college students. And although the stipulations of the proposal — which include an expansion of funding for the Federal Perkins Loan Program from $1 billion to $6 billion per year — would not go into effect until 2010, MSU officials agreed current high school seniors should not take a year off in hope of saving money.
Having early morning classes Wednesday might deter students from drinking green beer and wearing shamrock paraphernalia today, but the economy most likely won’t. The number of people going out has remained the same, but instead, many are spending less, said Paul Stewart, general manager of Crunchy’s, 254 W. Grand River Ave.
The Council of Graduate Students will hold its first Graduate Academic Conference at 9 a.m. Friday, on the second floor of the Union.
When Tom Luster left to visit family members in Chicago last weekend, he brought along a bunch of bananas to the Windy City for his father. Luster knew his dad loved to eat bananas and worried his hotel wouldn’t have any at breakfast.
Several MSU research projects will receive more funding after President Barack Obama signed a controversial $410 billion spending bill last week packed with billions of dollars in earmarks.
Although charitable giving to higher education in the U.S. reached an all-time high in fiscal 2008, MSU officials don’t expect that trend to continue this year. Last year, $31.6 billion was given to the nation’s universities and colleges, according to the Council for Aid to Education.
A second MSU football player pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges originating from an October brawl at an off-campus party, officials from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court said.
A debate that has raged for several years within Michigan during the existence of a breeding population of cougars will come to East Lansing next week. Dennis Fijalkowski, a wildlife executive who has spoken to residents in the past, will be at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, on March 26 to talk about cougars.