MSU
Leader speaks on campus
Thursday at the Kellogg Center, Bobby Seale, co-founder and former member of the Black Panther Party, lectured on race relations in the 21st century.
MICHIGAN
Recently demolished E.L. nightclub holds various possibilities for new property owner
After the Dollar Nightclub was demolished Jan. 5, the Ingham County Land Bank is seeking to sell the space for future development.
MICHIGAN
ELPD honors former cadet with posthumous valor award
Although he left the East Lansing Police Department in 2005, Mason Samborski had such an impact on his colleagues that, after his death three-and-a-half years later, he received the department’s highest award.
MSU
Low-energy X-ray machine kills bacteria
MSU researchers are working on a way to help prevent food-borne illnesses such as the E. coli strain that hit campus this fall.
NEWS
Police Brief 01/15/09
A female student was cited for possession of marijuana after she admitted to having the drug in her purse during a traffic stop at about 11:30 Monday night, MSU police officer Anthony Willis said.
BASKETBALL
Spartans sneak by Nittany Lions, extend win streak
The lead dwindled from 17, to 10, to four, until the MSU men’s basketball team found themselves in familiar territory — another tightly contested game at Penn State’s Bryce Jordan Center.
NEWS
Pushing the limits
When MSU Cyclotron director Konrad Gelbke was told the university had been selected to be the home of the federally funded Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, he was speechless.
MSU
MSU officials ban circus from Breslin
Concerns over animal cruelty led MSU administrators to disallow the Royal Hanneford Circus to bring animal entertainers to Breslin Center for the first time in 16 years.
MSU
Black Panthers co-founder to speak at Kellogg Center today
Bobby Seale, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on race relations in America at 5 p.m. today in the Kellogg Center. Jennifer White, chairwoman of the Bobby Seale planning committee, worked to get Seale to speak at MSU because of his role in the civil rights movement.
MICHIGAN
New store set for downtown E.L.
A new East Lansing-based company, Campus Street Sportswear, has purchased two former Steve & Barry’s locations — one of them in East Lansing — and plans to open retail businesses in the near future.
MSU
Children's choir teams with orchestra
The MSU Children’s Choir will perform with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, or DSO, this weekend for the first time since 2006. Being selected to perform with the DSO is an honor and a challenge in itself, but the Children’s Choir also will have to learn a new language to perform.
MSU
ASMSU attempts to keep bill idea for future implementation
The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, looked into getting free textbooks for a few students and making revisions into oversight of its financial operations during a meeting Tuesday.
NEWS
E.L. gets grant for bigger fire ladder truck
If the top floors of some residence halls were to go ablaze, the East Lansing Fire Department doesn’t have a ladder truck able to reach them. That will soon change, as the department learned earlier this month it had been awarded a $531,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. The department will use the money to buy a 100-foot aerial ladder truck.
NEWS
City Council sets date for development district hearing
East Lansing City Council members took a first step in bringing industrial growth to the city by setting a Jan. 20 hearing date for the creation of an Industrial Development District at Tuesday’s council meeting. The district would designate facilities at unspecified locations for future tax incentives in an effort to lure industries to the city.
NEWS
MSU professor debunks couple’s Holocaust hoax
Theirs was a love story that could rival Romeo and Juliet. He was a boy trapped in a Holocaust concentration camp. She was a young Jewish girl in hiding who threw him apples over a fence. Years after the boy was liberated and the war ended, a chance blind date in New York City brought them together. They would marry months later.
NEWS
MSU, IBM partner for computer tech center
As part a new partnership between IBM and MSU, students and graduates won’t have to look farther than south campus to find a job. A new computer programming center scheduled to begin operations on campus this spring is expected to create 1,500 new jobs during the next five years. The center is the first of its kind in the U.S. and will work in conjunction with MSU’s recruiting, education and research, IBM and MSU officials said.
MICHIGAN
Granholm signs tuition funding plan into law
A new college tuition funding plan enacted Tuesday could make secondary education significantly more affordable for Michigan students from low-income areas. Legislation signed into law by Gov. Jennifer Granholm will allow up to 10 communities to create “Promise Zones,” where funds can be collected from private donors and state education tax breaks to pay for graduating students’ college tuition.
MSU
2 MSU trustees get 2nd term
Two familiar faces will continue to hold leadership positions on the MSU Board of Trustees, after members of the board elected Joel Ferguson and Melanie Foster to serve their second consecutive terms as chairperson and vice chairperson, respectively.
MICHIGAN
New pizza joint hopes to bring ‘freshness’ to E.L.
In a world of pizza places using premade crusts and frozen ingredients, one newcomer to East Lansing is turning to freshness to set itself apart. Marco’s Pizza, 3498 Lake Lansing Road, prides itself on quality ingredients.
MICHIGAN
E.L. recycles Christmas trees into mulch for use in city parks
During the holiday season, evergreens symbolized joy and the spirit of giving, but now, in East Lansing, they symbolize wood chips. Sanitation workers spent the past two Mondays collecting Christmas trees from curbs and chipping them to mulch in an effort to recycle and ease landscaping costs. The mulch from the discarded trees will be spread in local parks this summer.