State Rep. Mike Murphy is hopeful state lawmakers won’t take a dicing approach to budget cuts after today’s revenue estimating conference.The Lansing Democrat said the state will need to tighten its spending but should use caution in setting priorities for appropriations.
Members of the greek community will meet with representatives of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations today to discuss improving relationships between the two groups.The meeting will be at 8 p.m at Lafayette Square in Brody Hall.Assistant Director of Student Life Billy Molasso said the meeting will be a good opportunity for students to voice their concerns about relations between police officials and students.But the meeting will take place in a smaller setting with the hope that students will feel more comfortable talking with the task force, Molasso said.“As opposed to 400 people, we’ll have a small number of task force members and a small number of greeks to really talk about what’s out there and talk about what’s on students’ minds,” he said.The meeting is aimed toward relations between police officials and greeks, but any interested students can attend, Molasso said.“I suspect that the issues that we talk about are going to be greek-related, whether about tailgating or security issues for greek events,” he said.Ginny Haas, executive director of the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, said the intentional small size of the meeting will help students open up about issues of which they are concerned.“We have the public forum that the entire task force attends,” she said.
A student environmentalist group is urging MSU to go the full 100 percent. ECO met with President M.
East Lansing will be getting a little cozier.Cosi, a new restaurant entering the East Lansing City Center Project, is scheduled to open in the beginning of next year at 301 E.
Justin Ritz lives in a large, three-story home just outside of Cedar Village with eight other people. Ritz, a mechanical engineering junior, transferred to MSU from Western Michigan University this fall and chose to move into the nine-bedroom home with his sister and seven other strangers.
Lansing - Science was trying to make an impression on some children Saturday. Impression 5 Science Center, 200 Museum Drive, along with the MSU Chemistry Department and MBI International, 3900 Collins Road, sponsored Chemistry Day for children and parents. “Chemistry Day celebrates Chemistry Week and we have been celebrating for 15 years,” environmental engineering Professor Susan Masten said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers wasn’t allowed to enter his office in Washington, so he took Mideast politics to MSU instead on Sunday.The Brighton Republican spoke to members of the Michigan State Israel Alliance about U.S.
Smokey Bear may have lost some of his notoriety, but East Lansing children can still have fun while learning the importance of fire safety.For the second straight year, the Phi Delta Theta fraternity teamed up with the East Lansing Fire Department to host an afternoon of fire safety awareness for area children.About 200 people came to tour the ambulance and fire truck in front of the fraternity house at 626 Cowley Ave., to try their hands at spraying a fire hose, check out a variety of fire safety booths and see the fire department’s musical performance skit, “Pumper & Pals.”“This month is Fire Safety Month,” East Lansing firefighter Bill Drury said.
Books may be its business but more room and other departments will make this new store very popular.Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 2299 W.
Michigan businesses may not be prepared to protect employees or cope with production loss from bioterrorism scares, a recent study suggests.A survey conducted by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at MSU found 73 percent of Michigan corporations have crisis management teams.
MSU alumna Heather Keiser is taking time for herself during an unexpected five-day vacation from the U.S.
Lenny Kohm’s pictures were worth 1,000 words.And all of those words summed up the idea of protecting wildlife.Kohm, a wildlife photographer, spoke to members of the Central Michigan Group of the Mackinac Chapter of the Sierra Club and MSU’s Resource Development Undergraduate Organization on the problems of oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.The speech included a sideshow with pictures of the area the petroleum industry wants to drill.“In 1987, I went up there on a photo assignment, ever since I have been going around talking about it,” Kohm said.He has been touring universities and clubs speaking about the ecological damage oil drilling can have on the area.“We don’t need the oil, it would be 10 years before it would even come online,” he said.Kohm said just searching for the oil would destroy the area.“I’m not going to give in on what I consider America’s treasures to those criminals,” he said.Ken Smith, a member of the Gwich’in peoples, calls the area home and also spoke.Smith said if the petroleum industry does drill in the area, the caribou herds would disappear.“We depend on the caribou herd and there is a cultural significance of it,” he said.
The Capital Area United Way announced this week $17,188.26 was raised from their local 9/11 Response Fund and will be given to the American Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund in New York.After the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept.
It may not be a dog eat dog world anymore now that Heather Buckley opened a vegetarian restaurant in East Lansing. Green Cuisine, 1135 E.
For 30 years, East Lansing residents were able to buy cards for loved ones from a local shop.But now customers will have to look elsewhere to wish their brother a happy Halloween or to send a niece their best on a graduation day.Gina’s Hallmark Shop, 539 E.
Members in the House Appropriations Committee may decide the fate of the tuition tax credit today. Legislators met in a workgroup to discuss alternatives to legislation that would repeal the tax credit Wednesday.
The city of East Lansing survived a recent bout of growing pains and could be extending its northern borders in the coming weeks.East Lansing City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to pass a resolution to annex a 66-acre section of Meridian Township at the corner of Park Lake Road and Saginaw Highway, as well as an urban cooperation agreement between the township and city.“This annexation resolution is consistent with the township interests to protect the integrity and quality of life of the people of their township living in the area,” East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows said.
East Lansing residents looking for a way to get involved in the decision-making processes of the city have about two weeks left. Applications are currently being accepted for 13 of the city’s 18 advisory boards and commissions dealing with the arts, environment, city government and numerous other issues. Several of East Lansing’s boards and commissions are looking to fill vacancies created by terms expiring in December as well as some already existing empty seats, creating a total of 26 open positions. The role of boards and commissions is to advise the city council on issues and the actions they should take and direct involvement assures your ideas and concerns are heard, said Darryl Svochak, who chairs the Housing Commission. “It doesn’t take all that much time, and while you don’t get paid, you have an opportunity to present your viewpoints to council and get them heard,” he said. City advisory boards and commissions currently seeking applications are: Arts Commission (two), Board of Review (one), Building Board of Appeals (one), Cable and Telecommunications (three), Commission on the Environment (four), East Lansing Recreation and Arts (one), Historic District Commission (three), Commission on Housing (four), Human Relations Commission (two), Planning Commission (one), Seniors Commission (one), Transportation Commission (two) and Zoning Board of Appeals (one). Applications for appointment and descriptions of the duties of commissioners can be picked up at City Hall, 410 Abbott Road, in City Clerk Sharon Reid’s office or the city council office. And Svochak said in the continued city effort to improve relations between the student population and the city itself, he personally would like to encourage students to apply. “Students live in East Lansing too,” he said.
As 11,500 people across the nation prepare to carry the torch to the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games, about 140 selected from Michigan are being honored as heroes. The 65-day relay, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola Company and Chevrolet, Inc., will be led by everyday heroes who are believed to be worthy of carrying the torch by the friends, family or co-workers who nominated them. The flame will be carried by train, ship, skis, ice skates, snowmobile and other methods as it travels more than 13,500 miles across the country. Rudy Serra will carry the torch for one-fifth of a mile when it arrives in Detroit on Jan.
Lansing - Pro-lifers and pro-choicers didn’t let rain get in the way of debate Tuesday at the state Capitol. Michigan Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League planned to rally on the Capitol steps, but rain forced gatherers - and rivals - indoors. The pro-choice organization addressed such issues as female health funding, contraceptive equity and abortion clinic violence.