Okemos shoppers may soon have one less fashion-franchise to cruise through as legal matters threaten to affect a department store in Meridian Mall.Jacobson’s Stores Inc. is expected to make a decision within the next few weeks on whether to sell the franchise or go out of business.The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 16.
Area nonprofit organizations have to deal with program cuts every summer when MSU student volunteers leave campus. But some groups who rely on volunteers say this year is worse. John Tucker, executive director of Lansing-based Youth Development Corp., said the group had two volunteers working 40 hours a week last summer, but this year there are none. “We use MSU students as mentors for kids, but (summer) reduces our program a good 75 percent,” he said.
Associations across the nation are joining voices in a call for blood as supplies have reached a critically low point.Alicia Mitchell, spokeswoman for the American Hospital Association, said she believed a possible explanation for low donations may be misinformation about who can donate and statistics say she’s right.
A recount Monday agreed with what chance had decided in the race for a seat on the East Lansing school board.After recounting the ballots cast in the East Lansing school district election, William Donohue defeated Randy Bell by three votes for a seat on the board of education.
For the second year in a row, MSU students will witness their tuition jump higher than usual. For the fourth year in a row, faculty members will witness an salary increase as part of the 2002-03 MSU budget approved by the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday. The increased tuition fees may also return next year might, MSU officials say. “It’s going to be a rugged year,” Provost Lou Anna Simon said.
An MSU student and staff member died after suffering from a heart attack while helping his friend with home repairs Wednesday night. Larry Green, 56, re-enrolled at MSU last fall in an attempt to finish the degree he began in 1963.
The roaring ring from the familiar manila phones will not echo down dorm halls this fall.Rather, students will have to provide their own phone.Increased cell phone use among university students is leading to a decrease in the use of university-provided long distance services.MSU is seeing a decrease in the commission it receives from its long distance company, AT&T, said Tom Koch, telecommunications coordinator at University Housing..The drop is not substantial enough to change University Housing operations or reduce services to students, he said.But MSU will no longer provide phones for dorm rooms, though they will still offer them upon student request.
Time’s up, put the No. 2 pencils down. The SAT may undergo some changes. The College Board today plans to announce revisions to the test in the math and English sections, as well as the addition of a writing section.
After debating environmental issues for two-and-a-half hours, the Central Michigan chapter of the Sierra Club was unable to endorse one of three candidates for the 29th District state Senate race.State Rep.
On July 1, exactly three weeks after the initial election, East Lansing school board candidates Randy Bell and William Donohue will finally know who wins the one available seat. After the two tied with 1,259 votes in the June 10 election, a hat drawing Friday named Donohue the official winner.
The director of MSU Libraries was appointed Thursday by Gov. John Engler to the Library of Michigan Board of Trustees.Clifford Haka will replace Thomas J.
MSU students have pulled bicycles, trash cans, radios and manhole covers from the Red Cedar river in an attempt to clean up the campus landmark.But fisheries and wildlife graduate student Jo Latimore was looking for something else in the water Thursday - fish.Latimore hopes she can determine the condition of the river by measuring its fish population.
Kayaking, roller hockey, climbing and repelling.They may not be the first things that come to mind when people think of 4-H, but that’s what nearly 3,000 students and chaperones are doing on campus to celebrate the agricultural organization’s 100th birthday.The students will spend until Friday in Akers, Holmes and Hubbard halls for 4-H Exploration Days, an annual youth conference.“Kids and chaperones come from all over the state,” said Judy Ratkof, conference coordinator for Michigan 4-H Youth Development, which is based at MSU.
Leadership on MSU’s debate team helped a 2002 graduate become the first person from the university - and only the sixth ever - to land a prestigious Washington, D.C., internship at a nonprofit think tank.Austin Carson, who graduated with a degree in international relations, begins the yearlong William J.
The “hands-on” philosophy of MSU’s forensic anthropology program brings prominent cases and serious students to the university. Anthropology Professor Norman Sauer’s current investigation at the campus lab could reopen a 7-year-old missing person case.
The State News Board of Directors approved a $2.16 million budget for the newspaper for the 2002-2003 fiscal year.About $80,000 of that budget is covered by a $1 increase in student taxes approved in March, State News General Manager Marty Sprigg said.
Industrialized nations should fight hunger in Africa through increased aid and efforts to develop agriculture on the continent, according to a report by a coalition of African and U.S.
An MSU professor left for China on Friday as part of a six-month research project to study a 27-year-old panda reservation. The panda project, headed by fisheries and wildlife Associate Professor Jianguo “Jack” Liu, began in 1998 to study how humans impact the environment of panda bears. Researchers hope the information can be applied to areas in the United States to prevent the extinction of plant and animal species. “We’re just trying to use this species as an example with how humans impact wildlife,” Liu said.
Criminal justice students may want to be able to ask, “Usted hablas Ingles?”Experts say bilingual officers are in demand in many metropolitan areas .“There is a need for officers to work with different cultures,” said Edmund McGarrell, director of the School of Criminal Justice.
Margarita Lara won a free month of rent Tuesday night for planting free flowers and grass seed. The fisheries and wildlife graduate student entered a raffle for the University Apartments Council of Residents’ beautification project. “It was a really good opportunity because I like flowers,” she said. The council, made up of residents from all three on-campus apartment communities, offered the free rent as an incentive to increase participation in the activity.