Flights to and from Lansing could be more expensive if a proposed merger between Northwest Airlines Corp. and Delta Air Lines Inc. is approved. The merger would create the world’s largest airline carrier and the Delta name would be retained.
For their final home game, seniors on the MSU club lacrosse team have more decisions to make than which plays to run.
A report released Tuesday attempted to clear the air about the economic impact from a potential statewide smoking ban in restaurants and bars, but mixed opinions resulted.
Today is the last day to register for MSU’s Take Your Child to Work Day, set for April 24.
Col. Roy Bierwirth has made a life out of being a hero, from his days as Sparty through his career in the U.S. Army.
Members of the East Lansing community are coming together to raise money for medical treatment for an East Lansing High School student who was injured on a spring break trip in Mexico.
After dissecting cow eyes, two fetal pigs, a shark and a sheep heart, cutting and stitching a pig’s foot didn’t phase human biology junior Kirsten LaFrance.
Breast cancer prevention begins with healthy lifestyle practices before puberty, a point that MSU researchers said fails to appear frequently enough in the media.
It’s evident MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo is a football junkie. With Saturday’s intrasquad spring game quickly approaching, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio made a couple of quick coaching additions – designating Izzo as a coach of the Green squad and men’s soccer coach Joe Baum a coaching member of the White.
About $200 in damage was done to a window in a Butterfield Hall dorm room at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Jaclyn Doroshewitz, 18 Landscape architecture freshman Charge: Disorderly conduct – obstructing, resisting or hindering an arrest; destroying, damaging or interfering with property, assembling for riot; minor in possession Maximum penalty: 90 days in jail and/or three $500 fines, MIP penalty dependent on prior offenses Plea: Not guilty Restrictions: No possession of alcohol or controlled substances, curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. enforced by tether, daily preliminary breath test
The East Lansing City Council will introduce ordinances and set public hearing dates for City Center II at today’s meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 410 Abbot Road.
A picket line along Grand River Avenue. Empty classrooms across campus. Exams going unproctored, homework ungraded and recitations abandoned. That will be the scene on campus for students should the Graduate Employees Union vote to stage a one-day walkout.
For the majority of people who attended Cedar Fest, the night had little consequence. They came, they saw and they left. But for a few individuals, Cedar Fest had a much bigger impact.
East Lansing police say the response to Cedar Fest shows they’ve changed since the April 2005 disturbances, which tarnished their image. And several local officials, who reviewed the 2005 melee, agree police have revised their practices.
Chicago native Lin Bergeron walked through the entrance of the Union on Monday with a group of other potential students and their parents to tour the university, and was confronted by a group of graduate students holding fliers.
A possible recession might be suitable comedic fodder for Campusfood.com’s marketing department, but it’s anything but funny to East Lansing businesses. Campusfood.com recently began offering “Recession Specials” on its Web site, which marketing director Julie Shimshack said was a tongue-in-cheek method to encourage sales.
The luster of the Great Lakes and Michigan’s natural beauty might not be enough to keep Michigan’s tourism sector from declining this year. Two MSU researchers, along with representatives from Michigan’s tourism sector, predicted the number of travelers will decrease by 2 percent in 2008, while travel spending will remain flat and prices for traveling will increase about 4 percent.
General management sophomore Michael Ueberroth said it was a “drunk dial” that changed his perspective on the world, in particular, Africa. “A friend called me up, drunk, at 3 a.m. and told me he wanted to do something that made a difference,” he said. “And something about the crisis in Darfur was on the television at the time.”
The MSU lacrosse team’s final home game of the season will serve as a fundraiser for MSU Stars, a student organization that raises money for Make-A-Wish Foundation.