Online dating service Web sites might have to disclose whether they conduct background checks on their customers, if a bill introduced by state Sen.
There's just one thing that can make 12-year-old Andre Vanpoelvoorde travel all the way from Hamburg, Mich.
The 4-H members of the Capital Kids Club in Lansing is hosting a charity walkathon benefiting Habitat for Humanity Lansing.
When he returns from spring break, East Lansing High School student Tyler Whitney will be allowed to distribute his conservative newspaper at school. Whitney said officials stopped the distribution of Right Way in March because they did not agree with its content.
Every pot of coffee brewed in MSU residence halls will soon help Nicaraguan farming communities build bridges and roads, develop health care programs and construct schools. Beginning next year, the house blend in all MSU residence halls will be fair trade coffee, which is certified to meet certain production standards and to provide fair prices and decent working conditions for the farmers who produce it. The decision, announced at Wednesday's Residence Halls Association meeting, will make MSU the largest campus food-service program in the country to use fair trade as its primary coffee. The announcement was greeted with applause by members of The Real Food Group, which has been petitioning for locally grown, organic and fair trade products on campus. "It caught me completely by surprise," said Shawn Wozniak, an MSU alumnus, a member of The Real Food Group and a former State News columnist.
The MSU fencing club's attempt at swashbuckling supremacy was foiled by the United States Military Academy in the third USA Collegiate Fencing Club Championship.
As students hurried across to their teammates, eggs fell from spoons onto the floor. Any question as to whether they had been hard-boiled ended as they splattered into yellow goo on the ground. The relays consisted of three stages - first was a wheelbarrow race, followed by carrying an egg on a spoon, before finishing with a three-legged race. Members of MSU's greek community stood on the sidelines, cheering for their teammates during Relay For Life on Friday, held at Jenison Field House during the annual Greek Week. The relays were only part of the event, in its third year as part of Greek Week, said Lauren Palmaccio, director of Relay For Life. Money raised during the event will be donated to the American Cancer Society. "It is a really good cause," the accounting senior said.
Staff of the East Lansing Film Festival, which is set to hit campus this weekend, said the event will be made possible by a large supporting cast - including many members of the MSU community. The festival, which brought about 8,000 people from across the country to the MSU campus last year, will show dozens of independent, foreign and student-made movies in Wells Hall, which has been its primary theater since 1998. "It's really become a destination point for a lot of people," said Susan Woods, director of the festival.
Now that both the MSU men's and women's basketball teams have advanced to the Final Four, the MSU Dairy Store has found its own way to commemorate the event. A new flavor of ice cream, Final Four Fudge Dribble - a mixture of vanilla ice cream, fudge swirl and chocolate malted milk balls, which are supposed to look like basketballs - is being introduced today, said John Engstrom, dairy plant manager. "I tried to find basketball (candy), but I couldn't find any in that short of time," Engstrom said.
Corinne DeVries Special for The State News Every day, fisheries and wildlife sophomore Mark Williams studies in what is popularly known as "the polar bear room," a student lounge in the Natural Resources Building.
Students, faculty and administrators gathered at the library Thursday during the state's second annual day to honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Chavez is best remembered for his role in organizing the National Farm Workers Association, which would later become the United Farm Workers.
When students set their clocks forward an hour for daylight-saving time this Sunday at 2 a.m., there are health, safety and practical issues they should be thinking of too, experts say. Although an hour is lost with the change, daylight-saving time is meant to help people, Bill Mosley, spokesman for the U.S.
MSU fans who swept up men's basketball apparel this week might have received more than a college keepsake. One Nike T-shirt design splashed with a Final Four logo that had Michigan spelled "Michgan," could turn out to be a collector's item, said Howard Ballein, owner of Student Book Store, 421 E.
Members of the African Student Union will bring the sights, sounds and tastes of Africa to the community this weekend at their annual gala show, which caps off this year's African Culture Week. The event is titled "The Faces of the Motherland" and is free for MSU students.
Electric Engineering sophomore Vikram Singh doesn't understand how he missed the small print in the "No Late Fees" rental policy of the unlimited rentals program at Blockbuster.
Automobile connoisseur and collector Wade Leonard of Clinton Township flipped open his wallet Wednesday inside Archives Book Shop to show off his baby - a 1922 Ford Model T. The 65-year-old social studies teacher spent the afternoon scouring the shelves for old Ford Motor Co. advertisements. But Leonard is not a dealer.
The Capitol was closed for about six hours Wednesday after a water main broke on Allegan Street. A contractor working on the Capitol Loop reconstruction project hit a water main with a piece of excavating equipment shortly after 7:30 a.m., said John Strickler, spokesman for the Lansing Board of Water & Light. It took about three hours to fix, Strickler said.
The Liberty Tax Service in Lansing is offering a "Dancing in the Streets" roadside party from noon to 4 p.m.