State lawmakers are hoping that a new state law is reducing drunken driving and sparing some intoxicated bargoers unsafe walks home, but police and state officials remain unsure of the law’s effects.
Painted horses and newly hatched chicks were highlights of Saturday’s Small Animals Day, an educational event sponsored by the MSU College of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Marti Heil was appointed interim vice president for university development at the MSU Board of Trustees meeting Friday.
When it comes to Alex Fike’s fraternity house, change is a bad thing. In 30 years, Fike said he hopes Delta Sigma Phi still resembles the “architectural masterpiece,” built in 1931.
The Graduate Employees Union took one step closer to their proposed one-day walkout Sunday by approving a ballot sent to all members that could authorize the job action. If approved – and if a contract has not been reached before then – the walkout would take place at 6 a.m. Tuesday, with members present at nine picket lines placed strategically around campus.
ASMSU’s Student Assembly was unable to approve its 2008-2009 budget despite spending more than seven hours meeting Thursday. Although the assembly named its Student Assembly chairperson, vice chairperson for external affairs and vice chairperson for internal affairs, members tabled the budget until its meeting Thursday.
The MSU Board of Trustees has voted to raise room and board rates for all students a rate of 5.25 percent. It will now cost $7,026 annually for a double room and unlimited meal plan in on-campus residence halls – $350 more than last year.
A maroon 1998 Chevrolet Monte Carlo parked in the ramp adjacent to the Communication Arts and Sciences Building was totaled Wednesday when it caught fire at about 9:45 a.m., MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
A 48-hour arts marathon will kick off tonight with a 5 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony in the courtyard between Kresge Art Center and the Auditorium.
It took more than 100 years, but Old College Field is getting a face-lift. Since 1900, the home of MSU baseball, softball and men’s and women’s soccer has remained relatively untouched, causing it to fall behind the standards of NCAA facilities around the Big Ten and Midwest.
St. John Student Parish, 327 M.A.C. Ave., will conclude its 50th anniversary celebration by hosting MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon to speak at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Three community members and the MSU Federal Credit Union were honored by the city of East Lansing on Thursday night during the 21st annual Crystal Awards for their impact on the city.
Green hard hats and posters represented Michigan’s energy future Thursday at the Capitol, where students from several state universities rallied for stronger energy legislation.
The MSU Board of Trustees will conclude the spring semester with a meeting today that’s more about celebration than hard decision-making, board members said.
The slumping national economy seems unable to harm Lansing-area shopping centers. Even with a wave of recent national retail chain bankruptcies and closings, including Sharper Image Corp., local malls and strip malls aren’t worried about the economic impact on their shopping centers.
After watching Africa’s tallest mountain on the big screen at age 13, Britt Larson made conquering Mount Kilimanjaro her personal goal. “You always hear about Mount Kilimanjaro, but after I saw an Imax film when I was around 13 years old, it’s been on my to-do list ever since,” the zoology sophomore said. “For the last five or six years I’ve really wanted to climb it.”
Charlotte Wilks knows firsthand that railroad crossings can be dangerous. She once saw a fellow employee climb between the cars of a stopped train near her laboratory in the Life Sciences Building. The employee’s daughter had gotten sick while in day care on the other side of the tracks.
Housing and Food Services has begun a training program to educate employees on how to respond if there is an active shooter in their work place, one that could soon spread to the rest of campus.
Members of MSU’s lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community wouldn’t let the anti-gay slurs marked on 10 buildings last week in Lansing’s Old Town affect the 36th annual Pride Week festivities.