MICHIGAN
Dorms promote voter registration
Campus organizations and city representatives are giving students a chance to exercise their voices in a voter registration drive from 5-7 p.m. today.
NEWS
MSU Business school falls to 18th
For Sumit Ray and J.D. Leichtman, a ranking is nothing more than a number. Both second-year master’s business students were surprised that MSU’s MBA program dropped in rankings for The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive Business School Survey.
NEWS
Finding funding
When former MSU President M. Peter McPherson and current MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon came up with the idea of a major fundraising campaign eight years ago, the economy was more accommodating to higher education. Now, the funds couldn’t come at a better time, with state provisions at a premium and the need for more research, projects and programs every year.
MICHIGAN
Commission vote on Hagadorn Road construction does not override previous vote
Editor’s note: An inaccurate version of this story was published Monday night. This is a corrected version of the article, which notes the commission’s vote does not reverse a previous decision made by the commission.
MICHIGAN
Fla. student tasered while questioning U.S. senator
A University of Florida student with a history of taping his own practical jokes was Tasered on Monday by campus police and arrested after repeatedly trying to ask U.S. Sen. John Kerry questions during a campus forum.
NEWS
Police briefs 09/19/07
Five $20 bills were taken from a bowl in a North Hubbard Hall dorm room Monday by an acquaintance of the resident, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU
Dining dilemma
Since her freshman year, political theory and constitutional democracy junior Raynika Brown has worked in Brody Hall’s cafeterias and never had a problem with her job. Until this year. MSU’s Housing and Food Services has made a few changes to the dining halls across campus. As a result, student cafeteria employees say they are understaffed and are struggling to adjust to the new dining hall schedules.
MSU
Student covers auto show abroad
When Eric Tingwall landed in Germany on Sept. 10, he didn’t realize it would only be a matter of hours before his work was published in an online car magazine. But the mechanical engineering and journalism senior’s 500-word essay won him the opportunity to do so.
MICHIGAN
Budget shortfall affects promised payments for MSU
Due to a $1.7 billion shortfall, MSU may not receive the $26.6 million funding promised by the state in October.
MICHIGAN
Vending vandals hit 2 more campus areas
The arrest of a Lansing man last week doesn’t appear to have stopped the recent flurry of vending machine vandalizations on campus.
MSU
MSU library receives Pulitzer Prize winner's literary archive
They almost didn’t make it, but David Cooper and Peter Berg survived a vehicle malfunction and safely brought Pulitzer Prize award winner Robert Coles’ literary archive to East Lansing.
NEWS
Transportation Commission votes against Hagadorn conversion
After months of deliberation and stockpiles of public input, the East Lansing Transportation Commission voted against the proposed conversion of Hagadorn Road from four lanes to a three-lane cross section with designated bike lanes between Grand River Avenue and Haslett Road.
NEWS
Same drinks, new name: Beaner's now Biggby Coffee
Daniel Ortega-Pacheco was sitting outside a Beaner’s Coffee shop in East Lansing two years ago when voices from a passing car yelled “Beaner! Beaner!”
MICHIGAN
Food drive feeds local children
To Carmen Turner, the sight of hungry children is more expected than surprising.
NEWS
Senate passes bills to buy more time to plan deficit solutions
The Michigan Senate passed two bills Monday evening to implement a continuation budget that would extend current spending plans into the next fiscal year, despite opposition from Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s office.
NEWS
Department of Defense grant fuels new MSU Arabic program
MSU students have the chance to begin a new four-year, intensive Arabic language program that promises fluency in a language highly sought by employers in national security fields.
MICHIGAN
4 rooms burned in motel fire
Four rooms were torched at the Super 8 Motel, 2736 E. Grand River Ave., today, resulting in no injuries and the shutdown of part of Grand River Avenue between about 2:15 and 3:30 p.m.
MSU
18 Nigerian leaders to tour Mich. cities
A group of 18 Nigerian delegates are visiting MSU this week in cooperation with the exchange program Responsible Governance, which offers training to Nigerian government officials, community leaders and university scholars.
MICHIGAN
Company eases trip from E.L. to Ann Arbor
Students making trips to Ann Arbor no longer need their own wheels. Michigan Flyer Inc., a shuttle bus company which takes passengers from its East Lansing base to Detroit Metro Airport, announced it will add an Ann Arbor stop to its daily route beginning Oct. 1.
MSU
Former SN cartoonist dies of brain tumor
For many in the 1960s, Phil Frank’s cartoons were something to look forward to when students opened The State News. Phil Frank, a political cartoonist and 1965 MSU graduate, died Wednesday from a brain tumor. He was 64.