MICHIGAN
City leaders turn to state for aid
After six years of declining state aid, local government leaders are telling Michigan legislators that enough is enough.
MSU
Employees to receive computer training
More than 800 MSU labor employees without computer access on campus will be online and computer-literate in three years, MSU officials said.
MICHIGAN
E.L. man attacked in Mexico by 2 college athletes
An East Lansing man is recovering from numerous facial lacerations, missing teeth and a shattered jaw after being brutally beaten in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, early Saturday morning by two college basketball players.
MICHIGAN
Arraignment waived for Williams
Former sophomore cornerback-wide receiver T.J. Williams waived his right to an arraignment Wednesday at the Ingham County Circuit Court on charges of aggravated assault and larceny from person.
MICHIGAN
E.L. coffee shop to reopen as new cafe
Cornerstone Coffee, 515 W. Grand River Ave., will reopen as Grand River Coffee Cafe as early as Friday.
NEWS
Administrators aim to shorten Welcome Week
Citing concerns about student safety and health, MSU administrators are looking to cut Welcome Week down to two days and push back the academic year start date beginning in 2009.
NEWS
Instrumental craft
Sarah Lewis spends her Saturday afternoons splitting and gouging cane wood. She soaks it in water, takes a razor blade to it and makes sure it’s perfectly measured. Lewis, a music performance junior who specializes in oboe, isn’t building a house with that wood. She’s building a reed — and she has to get it right. Her pitch and sound quality depend on it.
NEWS
Police investigate armed robbery at local Burger King
Investigators from the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department are seeking the perpetrator in an armed robbery at a Lansing Burger King on Monday night.
NEWS
3 Okemos apartment complex residents robbed at gunpoint
Three residents of Knob Hill Apartments were robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning — the second local armed robbery in a five-hour span.
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E.L. City Council's proposed budget falls 8 percent below last year's
The East Lansing City Council is set to begin debating its 2008-09 fiscal year budget, which could mean cuts to services such as street maintenance and parks.
MICHIGAN
Weather causes delay for golfers
Flags were raised, greens were rolled and drivers were dusted off for golf’s opening day Tuesday. This year’s opening day in Michigan — the latest for some courses in six years — has been delayed because of late snowfalls and heavy rains in March, and Tuesday’s wet and windy conditions didn’t help.
MICHIGAN
Cougar sightings on rise near campus
Fresh footprints, strange sightings and mutilated house pets suggest a re-emergence of cougars in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced last month.
MSU
Greek week focuses on fundraising
Thirteen teams, 135 dancers and about $195,000. Greek Week at MSU was the fourth-largest fundraising event nationwide for the American Cancer Society last year, and Panhellenic Council President Julia Lyskawa is confident this year’s event will rival that sum.
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MSU committees wrap up semester goals
As the end of the semester approaches, the standing committees of MSU’s Academic Governance system are assessing their agendas to determine what they’ve completed and what they have left to do.
MICHIGAN
E.L. man linked to child pornography
An East Lansing man is facing three child sexual abuse charges stemming from a December 2007 incident in Grand Traverse County.
MSU
To bind a book
Lead letters are arranged on a “KWIK PRINT” gold-stamping machine. Unadorned white walls rise from the black laboratory surfaces where Eric Alstrom is working on his next book. His inspiration does not come from his work space, but from the fascination of what one person can create with a few sheets of paper, a leather binding and a sliver of gold leaf. “It’s a mixture of the hands-on, the artistic and the historical,” Alstrom said. Alstrom, the collections conservator in the Conservation Lab of Giltner Hall, has been conserving and creating books for about 20 years.
MICHIGAN
Patio rules leave local restaurants half-empty
On warm days when downtown East Lansing is bustling, the patio at Dublin Square Irish Pub is often at capacity. But because of a city ordinance many local restaurants want to see rescinded, the inside of the restaurant is half-empty.
NEWS
Police Brief 04/01/08
The down spout of a drinking fountain in Hubbard Hall was broken off sometime between 8 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday, causing about $50 in damage, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MSU
Word on the street
Who would you pick for a commencement speaker? “Barack Obama, because I think he’s going to be our president and I would like to say that I saw our president speak. I think that a lot of his message is about our responsibilities. It’s not what he’s going to do for us, but what we need to do. I think that’s the sort of thing we need to hear upon graduation – our responsibilities as adults.” Kate Leitch zoology senior
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MSU professors give to Democratic campaigns
MSU professors fit a national trend among educators by donating more to Democratic presidential candidates than Republican candidates, even though Republicans nearly doubled the amount of contributions received from Michiganians.