MSU
CATA announces service changes
The Capital Area Transportation Authority will split Route 32 into two separate routes beginning March 24 due to construction on Farm Lane.
MICHIGAN
Former council member honored for contributions to E.L.
A crowd of more than 30 residents gathered to pay tribute to former East Lansing City Councilmember Beverly Baten on Wednesday at Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road. Baten, who graduated from MSU in 1966, served on the council from 1999 to 2007.
NEWS
Police Brief 03/20/08
A blue and silver Haro Extreme X1 bicycle valued at $1,500 was stolen from a bike rack in the Holden Hall parking lot sometime between 1 p.m. March 13 and 9:40 a.m. Friday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
BASKETBALL
Do's and dont's
Through a roller-coaster ride of a season, the MSU men’s basketball team has found ways to win and ways to lose. They’ve shown flashes of brilliance in games against top-10 teams and floundered against cellar-dwellers. Now, with everything on the line in the NCAA Tournament, here are three things the Spartans should and should not do to better their chances for a postseason run.
BASKETBALL
Tickets in Mile High City scarce for MSU students
As Danny Kulas wandered past Bailey Hall dorm rooms selling green-and-white T-shirts stating “This is madness,” the marketing freshman could only dream about making the trip to Denver for MSU’s first-round basketball game against Temple.
NEWS
Tasers could enter civilian market if Mich. bill passes
MSU students could have another way to protect themselves if a bill allowing civilian use of nonlethal Tasers passes in the Michigan House of Representatives.
MICHIGAN
Judge upholds Proposal 2
A federal judge has upheld the constitutionality of Proposal 2, dismissing a lawsuit Tuesday that challenged the measure passed by Michigan voters in 2006.
MSU
Report: Child care among issues for women at MSU
As a professor of mechanical engineering, Tamara Bush often finds herself surrounded by a sea of men and only a handful of women.
MSU
Range to stay warm in winter
Michigan golfers are used to hibernating from November to late March, but the university’s golf course soon will be offering a way for locals to keep swinging during the winter.
MICHIGAN
Fight for nomination may benefit Democrats
The jousting match between Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., could have mixed results for the Democratic Party in November’s general election, political experts said.
MSU
Scarlett payment bill could be reviewed
A bill that would pay an ASMSU official charged with sexual assault to continue planning the group’s $250,000 concert could be reviewed by at least one committees Thursday before a vote of approval.
MSU
MSU Muslim group sticks to its values
While the MSU Muslim Students’ Association is open to compromise, an organized trip to a casino wouldn’t be in the cards, Maweza Razzaq said.
NEWS
Police consider holiday weekend much calmer than past years
After all the hype of a double dose of St. Patrick’s Day revelry, police said this year’s holiday weekend was tamer than usual.
NEWS
Line of duty
When Ryan Buckley told his mom he had joined the U.S. Navy last year, he said three words crossed her mind: Afghanistan. Iraq. War. Buckley, a second-year osteopathic medicine student and ensign in the Navy, is part of the branch’s medical corps participating in the Health Professions Scholarship Program, or HPSP.
NEWS
War veterans at MSU adjust to campus life
Arriving on campus as an 18-year-old freshman can feel unnerving at times, especially if you don’t know anyone. But arriving on campus as a freshman in your 20s — as well as coming in as a war veteran — can be isolating, some MSU veterans said.
MICHIGAN
ASMSU official's pretrial delayed
The pretrial conference for Nigel Scarlett, the ASMSU official charged with sexual assault, has been rescheduled for April 8.
MSU
MSU reaches out through music
Lansing resident Aaron Wade, 14, normally plays jazz on his saxophone. But when an MSU student musical group opened its show Tuesday in Lansing with a piece by classical composer Pierre Max Dubois, he was fine with it.
MSU
ASMSU travels to D.C. to lobby for education
Payal Ravani has struggled with financial aid, and the ASMSU Academic Assembly vice chairperson for external affairs said many students share her concerns.
MSU
Former grad to talk narratives
David Blight, an MSU graduate and professor of American history at Yale University, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in Kellogg Center’s Big Ten Room C in a lecture titled Slaves No More: Newly Discovered Slave Narratives and the Legacies of Emancipation.
MICHIGAN
State may rely more on reusable energy
Michigan legislators, lobbyists and Gov. Jennifer Granholm said they expect a renewable energy portfolio standard to be passed by the end of March, which could bring future jobs for MSU graduates.