On April 1, 2009, President Barack Obama signed a bill that raised federal taxes from 39 cents to $1.01 — the hike snuffed out teen smoking by 10 percent, lowering the rate to 13 percent, according to a USA Today analysis released earlier this week.
The fall budget was approved for a total of about $527,700 and the total summer expense report came to about $20,000.
The goal of the Office of the Ombudsperson is to help protect student rights at MSU, and about 70-80 percent of issues he handles are “academic problems,” such as a wrong grade on a test or other assignments.
Meyers led a team of MSU Campus Archaeology graduate students around North Neighborhood for the last two weeks digging shovel test pits, or “big holes,” in hopes of uncovering history that literally went unwritten.
Vice President for Academic Affairs Emily Bank will be presenting on the policy at the next University Committee on Undergraduate Education meeting on Sept. 20. The policy also will be discussed at ASMSU committee meetings on Thursday and their general assembly meeting.
During the East Lansing City Council work session Tuesday night, councilmembers discussed the regulation of two celebratory substances: alcohol and fireworks.
Dozens of students gathered at the rock on Farm Lane on Tuesday to reflect on the day and to honor those who lost their lives.
After the series of invasions, the ELPD is advising residents to keep doors and windows locked, issuing a media release Tuesday morning. The robberies occurred in the Homestead Apartments, 426 W. Lake Lansing Road, and two other apartment complexes on Rampart Way and East Pointe Lane.
MSU cafeteria employees are on the decline, despite the record-setting numbers of the incoming class. Although many MSU Culinary Services Residential Dining faculty are proud of their organizations’ work, some are debating whether this fall’s worker shortage is problematic. Associate Director of Residential Dining Bruce Haskell, said throughout his 40 years working at MSU, he has noticed a new-hire shortage each year and one factor could be the timing of recruitment. “We at MSU make a strong commitment to hire student employees,” Haskell said.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon addressed the issue of accepting the largest class in MSU history at Tuesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, reiterating this was an error on MSU’s part but the university plans to solve it.
Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder proposed sweeping changes the state’s largest insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, unveiling a plan today that would change the company to nonprofit status.
Waves of matching T-shirts, grinning girls and colorful bows flooded the rock on Farm Lane Monday evening for the final event of Michigan State’s sorority Rush — Bid Day.
Although ancient Greek history depicts Spartans and Trojans at war, MSU hopes soon to unite the two.
Students eager to study and practice law are up against increasing competition and a difficult job market, which just got larger this fall.
As part of an ongoing police investigation concerning the assault of advertising junior Brandon Carmack, a State News staffer has submitted a statement to the East Lansing Police Department.
Song, dance and laughter filled the streets of East Lansing on Sunday afternoon as members from the MSU and Lansing Jewish communities carried a freshly scribed Sefer Torah Scroll from the Union to its new home at the Chabad of Lansing/MSU, 540 Elizabeth St. — a monumental event for the Jewish community.
As doctoral student Behnaz Ghaffari patiently waited for the route 31 Capital Area Transportation Authority, or CATA, bus to Brody Complex Neighborhood to arrive, she couldn’t help but feel thankful — the bus stop she stood at in front of Olin Health Center included several improvements from last year.
For MSU Bikes Service Center manager Tim Potter, his commute to work can be a difficult one if there isn’t a bike lane. Between sharing the road with motorists, who often yell at him for riding on the shoulder, to a couple of close calls with CATA buses, biking without a proper lane isn’t ideal. “Bicyclists do venture out into riding in the road; it’s pretty scary,” Potter said.
On Thursday night, as President Barack Obama officially was accepting his party’s nomination for another term in the White House at the Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, N.C., I was holed up in a hotel lobby three blocks away scrounging for public Wi-Fi to watch the speech — sadly, on C-SPAN, because a student journalist is last on the VIP list for exclusive presidential access. For the past three days, I had been running all over the city covering events that are pivotal to the Democratic Party platform and the President’s re-election efforts, including caucuses targeting a specific demographic of voters and rah-rah gatherings by legislators who have devoted themselves to Obama.
Students who walked past the former Barnes and Noble, 333 E. Grand River Ave., did not see an empty building on Saturday, but rather a room filled with families bonding through art.