Lansing-area recyclers might have a new way to keep Michigan clean. Freecycling, a system where people can exchange unwanted items - at no cost - through online postings, is getting attention as a way to reduce landfill trash from Ingham County and surrounding communities. "It's kind of like a garage sale where everything is free," said Aaron Liepman, the creator of the Mid-Michigan Freecycle Network.
When Richard Liscombe first laid eyes on a Birkenstock shoe in the early 1970s, he viewed the footwear as "uniquely different." "The vast majority of people who saw them thought they were ugly," he said.
The first of three public bicycle clinics hosted by the MSU Bike Project will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday in the ballroom of Demonstration Hall. The clinics will feature bike mechanics who will be offering minor repairs, adjustments to bikes and advice for major repairs.
A competition tonight will pit student teams against one another as they make arguments as to why their favorite multicultural hero deserves a special place in history.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, hopes to hold a forum with community members and MSU President M.
Magan Butler-Coleman's list of possible medical schools is getting longer, and she gets excited when she starts to talk about her future. "I want to be a doctor - I want to be the light in someone's life," she said.
U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Brighton, and Eugene Hickok will speak on campus at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Spartan Room in Case Hall. Hickok is an adviser to U.S.
Campaign supporters say the re-election effort for President Bush is in full swing, even though he doesn't have a definite opponent. Katie Allardyce, chairperson of MSU Students for Bush, said they have been working to recruit volunteers to spread Bush's message.
Like music to its ears, MSU's college radio station, WDBM (88.9-FM) was named College Station of the Year by Broadcast Music Inc. and the Michigan Association of Broadcasters.
Members of MSU's College Democrats and College Republicans issued a joint statement Monday requesting that ASMSU, MSU's undergraduate student government, re-evaluate its new election code. But ASMSU's new code was finalized Friday. Last year, almost 40 candidates were disqualified from ASMSU elections when the two college groups released unapproved candidate endorsements in fliers, postcards and e-mails.
Although 4:40 p.m. would not typically be considered peak business hours for a bar, almost 20 patrons sat in The Peanut Barrel Restaurant at that time Monday - a few eating one of the establishment's hamburgers, some simply perched at the bar for a drink. Among the latter was Johnny Stewart, who sat reading the paper with a large glass of beer in his right hand.
There's nothing different about Kellie Scopel. She has the same hair, the same clothes and the same shoes as all of her friends.
Morris Thomas sets aside grim textbooks when lecturing. Instead, the visiting geography professor opens a world of personal experiences to make class more realistic and interesting. In a room with 150 students or more, Thomas turns his class sessions into a hands-on learning experience by allowing students to see firsthand things he talks about and by rewarding them with suckers when they volunteer or answer trivia questions correctly. Dressed in a white and navy blue polo shirt with matching suspenders, Thomas wheels himself into a room full of chattering students.
As the struggle for civil rights stirred the nation in 1954, 17 black undergraduates at MSU pioneered a sisterhood and carved out their place in the university's culture for years to come.
Despite a student group's efforts to convince the university to join the labor-monitoring organization Worker Rights Consortium, MSU officials said there are no plans yet to make a decision.
· How to make advanced medical decisions will be the focus of "Getting It Together - Part 3: Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care," presented by the Women's Resource Center.
The second annual Barrister's Charity Ball for MSU-DCL College of Law students, faculty and staff will take place from 6 p.m.
Cortney Peissig's work on the farm is paying off. The Exxon Mobil Corp. recently named Peissig and three students from other agriculture schools as the recipients of its inaugural Mobilfluid 424 Scholarship.
Accounting senior Maria Goodfellow sat at a long table in the basement of Student Services and furrowed her brow, punching calculator keys to add a sum on Barbara Boillat's 1040 income tax form. Boillat rocked her 5-year-old son, David, in her arms as she patiently awaited the results of her income calculations. "I have absolutely no clue about taxes," the Haslett resident said.