Jon Thomas recalls taking advertising classes at MSU and his love of sports on campus. Twenty-six years after he left East Lansing, he’s combined those interests to create his own national licensing business.
In about 30 years, winning the Latino vote will be the easiest path to the White House. The U.S. Census Bureau released a report in August that said Latinos will comprise the new United States majority demographic by 2042, displacing whites of European descent for the first time in the nation’s history.
MSU’s recruitment information will go head-to-head with more than 200 other universities this academic year. The Web site CollegePortraits.org gives prospective students an opportunity to compare data from about 225 four-year public universities involved in the Voluntary System of Accountability.
Petroleum prices are on the decline, providing welcome yet minimal relief from the sinking national economy. Pumps across the state averaged $2.55 a gallon Tuesday after decreasing $1.09 from last month, according to AAA Michigan.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, of Brighton, has been in office for four terms, and he’s done it as a Republican. Rogers’ opponents and detractors would like to position him alongside Republican Party colleagues such as President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney during his run for a fifth term as the 8th District’s U.S. representative
A sign reading “Now hiring experienced servers” in the window of El Azteco serves as a quiet reminder of what happened at the East Lansing restaurant 10 days ago. Four people were arrested Oct. 19 at the restaurant, 225 Ann St., Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesman Mike Gilhooly said.
The Michigan secretary of state has announced another way for first-time voters who registered by mail to obtain an absentee ballot after the state attorney general condemned a similar initiative by Michigan county clerks.
The religious right has been an influential group in American politics throughout the last 30 years, and increasingly so with the Bush administration.
The East Lansing City Council will receive a presentation on results of a community survey, receive a comprehensive investment report and discuss a nonmotorized transportation plan at its work session tonight. The work session is scheduled to be held at 7 p.m. in Courtroom 2 of 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.
Almost 3,000 plastic bottles. More than 200 pounds of newspaper. Almost 100 magazines and more than 550 cans and bottles. These numbers reflect the amount of recyclable materials left scattered about lawns, on front porches and crushed into the sidewalks around East Lansing and MSU last week.
The aroma of butternut squash soup and smoked turkey, freshly prepared with organic meat and produce from the new Yakeley hoop house, filled the air of the tent at the first Farm to Fork Fair.
ASMSU will not give $35,055.08 more in funds to its Programming Board, despite complaints from the board that it was expecting to receive the funds and was already planning on using them.
Delia Koo, for whom the MSU International Academic Center is named, died last week at the age of 87. She first made her appearance at MSU by donating $3 million to the university to assist international students in 2000.
Black graffiti defaced the Main Library’s pedestrian bridge for the third time in a month, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
The four-week investigation of a Wright Township quadruple homicide involving an MSU student has turned a corner, but is far from being finished, Ottawa County sheriff’s Lt. Mark Bennett said. Troy Brake, a 31-year-old Grant man, was officially named a suspect Friday in the murder of Katherine A. Brown, 18, an agribusiness sophomore, and three others.
After MSU’s 35-21 victory over Michigan on Saturday, Brian Hoyer and Javon Ringer entered the postgame media room, a square cement area under Michigan Stadium. The room was filled with cameras, media members and a table with three chairs set up under the only decoration in the room: a black, vinyl covering with the U-M block “M” and Big Ten Network logos scattered all over it. “Take it down!” said someone in the media.
After receiving lower than expected appropriations from the state this year, the MSU Board of Trustees voted Friday to increase tuition for spring semester. Tuition will increase 1.2 percent in the spring, but students won’t notice a difference on their bills until the summer semester. MSU will cover the tuition increase in the spring with money from its general fund.
During the 2004 presidential election, the terms “moral,” “social,” “traditional” and “family” values were interchangeable and unavoidable. Riding high on support from religious conservatives, incumbent presidential candidate George W. Bush benefited from the political climate that gave him four more years in the White House.
An open kitchen and large seating area will greet customers of Sushi Ya, which opened Friday in a new location at 529 E. Grand River Ave., and becomes the third sushi bar to open along a one-block stretch of Grand River Avenue. The sushi restaurant serves the same kitchen food, seafood and sushi, but an expanded kitchen should contribute to kitchen food sales, said Nathan Carney, a store manager.
Spirits were high and water levels were even higher Saturday as volunteers attended the Red Cedar River Cleanup. About 50 volunteers, working on sections of the river ranging from the Kellogg Center parking ramp to Hagadorn Road, pulled several bikes, as well as a futon, shopping cart and desktop computer, from the river.