MSU medical students and local health professionals flocked to the 4-H Children’s Garden on Saturday to man X-ray machines, give eye exams and operate MRI machines.
As people wandered around the Bestmaze Corn Maze of Williamston, Mich., completely lost, they helped find a way to make a child’s wish come true. On Saturday and Sunday, Bestmaze donated half of the revenue from ticket sales to the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan, an organization that raises money to grant wishes for children with life-threatening and terminal illnesses. “We wanted to give back to the community but we didn’t know which fundraiser to do,” said Mark Benjamin, owner of Bestmaze. This is the first year that proceeds from Bestmaze will be donated to the foundation.
It was his friend’s 21st birthday and David Truax had offered his house for the celebration. On the porch with a dozen or so people — some Truax knew, some he didn’t — he went inside for about half an hour.
MSU students might lose the opportunity for insurance coverage on prescription contraceptives, but be saved from paying an extra tax at their job in restaurants if three more bills awaiting for the attention of the state House of Representatives are not taken up before the legislative session ends Dec.
Three MSU students were victims of separate but similar attacks this weekend in East Lansing. The three reports of strong armed robbery had several similarities. They occurred between 7:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., there were multiple attackers, and all victims were traveling alone, East Lansing police Capt. Tom Johnstone said.
MSU students living in the East Lansing community can now find information regarding transportation, city laws and other resources at the Community Relations Coalition’s, or CRC’s, new Spartan Big List website.
Leading state lawmakers and the governor reached a tentative agreement on aspects of the 2010-11 fiscal year budget, which needs to be passed by Oct.
All Saints Episcopal Church, 800 Abbot Road, will host a reading of the Quran from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday. The reading is in response to a planned Quran burning at a Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., also slated for Saturday.
Seven local properties are now licensed rental properties and a request to add additional properties to an overlay district was deferred at the East Lansing City Council’s Tuesday night meeting at the 54-B District Court.
MSU students might have a reputation for being partiers, but less than half of the 280 people arrested this past week were MSU students, according to a report from the East Lansing Police Department, or ELPD.
Students and fans attending MSU football games can now report crime via text message through a new program offered by MSU Police.
Hundreds of zombies with blood dripping down their pale, decrepit skin staggered through downtown Lansing to benefit a local food bank Saturday afternoon.
Gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder will continue to spend as much money as necessary for his campaign, said spokesman Bill Nowling after a report was issued showing how much money each gubenatorial candidate spent on their campaigns through Aug.
A proposal to expand a neighborhood’s overlay district to prevent permanent residences from becoming rental houses will be presented to the East Lansing City Council at its Tuesday night meeting at East Lansing’s 54-B District Court.
Students have a new option for everything from hangover cures to midterm stress in the recently opened Wanderer’s Teahouse and Café.
A retired MSU professor is looking to put an end to high illiteracy numbers. Lois Bader, who also is the executive director of the Capital Area Literacy Coalition, is recruiting MSU students to become tutors for Read to Succeed, a program that focuses on the literacy of children and teens in the area.
When Capt. Bryan Miller is involved in a police chase, he begins not by flooring the gas of a cop car, but by urging his horse into a gallop. Miller is one of 18 members of the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office Mounted Unit.
A drug that many MSU students use as a legal alternative to marijuana could become illegal if a bill passed unanimously by the state Senate on Aug. 24 becomes law.
MSU’s chapter of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity has downsized to a smaller house in East Lansing to rebuild a stronger membership.
For many students moving to MSU in the past week, it can be stressful to make the transition to campus life. Tiffany Russell understands this stress and has modeled her new dance studio, Spartan Dance Center, 217 Ann St., to serve a young clientele of dancers in the area who want to get away from the pressure of school.