Members of Climb for Hope, including two MSU graduates, left for Tanzania Sunday to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, as a way to raise money to find a viable treatment for breast cancer by 2009.
Lauren Walters, a music education junior, said she still hasn’t been billed for the hole her roommate put in the ceiling of her Gilchrist Hall dorm room. Other MSU students haven’t been as lucky.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order Monday activating the Michigan National Guard for the first time in nearly a year, to assist jurisdictions operating under a state of emergency because of storms that swept through the state earlier this month, according to a press release.
Although tree climbing could be thought of as an ordinary summer activity for some, high school students will be reaching for the highest limbs as a way to learn about German culture. After all, the world champion tree climber is German.
MSU Board of Trustees member Faylene Owen will be one of Sen. Hillary Clinton’s, D-N.Y., 69 delegates from Michigan heading to the Democratic National Convention in August, but she isn’t planning on supporting Clinton much longer.
Michigan residents believe juvenile offenders deserve second chances such as rehabilitation or parole, according to surveys conducted over two years by MSU associate professor of social work Sheryl Kubiak.
The first time he was on a sailboat, Alex Clark said he was 2 months old. Now, he and his brother, Tim Clark, a 2007 MSU graduate, have carried on the family tradition, teaching classes at the MSU Sailing Center, as their father did before them.
Even as the MSU Board of Trustees approved a 6.8 percent increase in tuition for in-state undergraduate students, much of the meeting’s talk Friday centered around trying to reduce costs.
Those within the MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences are mourning the death of a man who led the way in the journalism field.
The East Lansing City Council will hold its June 17 meeting at a different time and location.
As many families think of fancy restaurants for the celebration of Mother’s Day, it was golf courses that saw the influx of patrons Sunday, as local residents flocked to the greens on Father’s Day.
Students and residents interested in becoming more involved with city government, or expanding their leadership skills, can take part in the second annual East Lansing Emerging Leaders Program.
Within the next month, Michigan legislators could override of Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s decision Friday to veto a ban on partial-birth abortion, said Rep. Rick Jones, R-Grand Ledge.
East Lansing police Officer Tresha Rodriguez, who was named Woman of the Year by the Lansing State Journal’s Greater Lansing Woman magazine in May, will be recognized by the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday.
The Board of Trustees voted to increase tuition for the 2008-09 school year by 6.8 percent for in-state undergraduate students at their meeting Friday.
MSU’s minority enrollment was down slightly in 2007, but the minority graduation rate rose to 61.8 percent, its highest in the last 10 years, according to a report to be presented to the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday.
Eric Winter was a 12-year-old boy who always wanted to go to summer camp — but since he was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a baby, he never got the chance before his unexpected death in 2003.
Potter Park Zoo officials hope for a stampede as Lansing-area residents are invited to participate in the zoo’s 18th Annual 5K Rhino Walk on June 14.
East Lansing residents and students may have to cut back on their use of air conditioning this summer, due to an increase in electricity rates.