As the state waits for Gov. Jennifer Granholm to announce her final budget proposal, officials from the East Lansing Public School District say they're prepared for whatever comes their way.
A presidential candidate's daughter told students Tuesday they should take a look at all of the candidates and decide who can do the best job, rather than cheering for front-runners in the Democratic race.Vanessa Kerry, who is the daughter of presidential hopeful Sen.
Lansing - Placing two human-sized green coffins on the Capitol steps during a rally Thursday afternoon, students, administrators and lawmakers sent a message to legislators about proposed budget cuts to MSU. Chanting "No more cuts at MSU" and displaying dozens of placards, the crowd, spearheaded by the Coalition of Labor Organizations, marched down Michigan Avenue to the Capitol to protest what they call the looming "death of Michigan State." "It's very realistic, truth be told," Scott Henkel, president of the Graduate Employees Union, said.
The office of the first black electrical engineering doctorate in the nation reveals little about his colorful past.One of the only distinguishing features in Percy Pierre's office in the Engineering Building is his dry-erase board, useful for recording ideas and making plans.This balance of creativity and sensible planning is what has helped this vice president for research and graduate studies for the College of Engineering in his commitment to innovatively solving problems."One of my best friends in grad school was an artist," Pierre said.
When Tom Dutch first arrived in Pearl Harbor, there was no memorial, nor tourists or a souvenir shop.
MSU Provost Lou Anna Simon and an advisory committee selected Chuck Salmon as the acting dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences.The recommendation will be voted on by the MSU Board of Trustees at its meeting today.Salmon, the associate dean for the college, will replace Dean James Spaniolo, who will become the seventh president of the University of Texas at Arlington on Feb.
Olin Health Center's health education services coordinator Nancy Allen was named the new director of Healthy U, MSU's health promotion program, this week.
The East Lansing Parks, Arts and Recreation Department will offer winter break childcare at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road. The program will provide several activities, including indoor and outdoor games, art projects, dramatic play activities, swimming and free play.
More than 4,000 green, red and white lights sparkled at the Potter Park Zoo on Wednesday night as visitors wandered through the zoo for Wonderland of Lights. The annual light display, which runs through Dec.
Mid-Michigan community service projects will receive more than $300,000 for drug and violence prevention programs as a result of a grant from Gov.
With schedules that often are incredibly hectic, politicians running for office have turned to mediums more lively than television or radio as of late: Their daughters. MSU will get a taste of this campaign tactic today as Vanessa Kerry, daughter of presidential hopeful Sen.
After several months of postponement, the East Lansing Planning Commission could soon make its decision on a new development proposed for the Northern Tier.
Members of the MSU community are highly interested in learning about diversity programs and services available on campus, evaluations of October's Best Practices in Diversity conference indicated. The conference aimed to share ideas on increasing diversity and multiculturalism between colleges and programs at MSU.
The City of Lansing will be collecting leaves and yard waste raked to the curbside this week. Residents can dispose of leaves and grass clippings in any large 30-gallon paper bag or 30-gallon rigid metal or plastic container that has a composting identification sticker. It's illegal for residents to rake leaves into streets, and all bags and containers must weigh less than 30 pounds or they will not be picked up. Identification stickers are available for free by calling the Waste Reduction Services Hotline at (517) 483-4400.
Graduate Employees Union officials said they fear a loss of jobs and the quality education because university officials could soon cut 40 teaching assistant positions. With a $920 million deficit in the state and the university removing $60 million from its budget, Assistant Provost Bob Banks said the future of about 1,200 TAs is uncertain.
Students Protecting And Representing Education, or SPARE, will hold a rally to maintain state funding for higher education at 9:30 a.m.
As students finish up their final exams, sell back their books and prepare for the long winter break, chances are a few of them will take part in another semester-ending ritual - drinking.According to a study conducted by the Olin Health Department, the Department of Communication and the Institute for Public Policy & Social Research in 2002, more than 24 percent of students will drink an average 6.2 drinks in celebration of the end of the semester.The study is part of a three-year, $300,000 research project funded by a grant from the Social Norm Research Center to identify whether celebratory drinking is truly a phenomenon on college campuses.Celebration drinking is drinking that involves occasions where there is a climate encouraging students to drink, to drink in excess.
Susan Swanson will serve four and a half to 15 years in prison for the hit-and-run death of a 40-year-old man on Grand River Avenue in Okemos last year, a judge announced Wednesday.Swanson, 42, was sentenced by Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Brown on Wednesday, nearly two months after a jury found her guilty of drunken driving and leaving the scene of an accident causing death, said Joyce Draganchuk, an assistant county prosecutor.On July 31, 2002, Swanson's Cadillac struck Alejandro Salinas as he walked along Grand River Avenue to his brother's home.