A 100-pound cylinder of chlorine gas, a substance that destroys the respiratory system if spilled on campus, could spread miles across MSU within hours.Depending on how the wind blows, getting out alive wouldn't be as simple as getting away from the contamination.
Plans for construction additions to the College of Veterinary Medicine and the Engineering Research Complex will be up for debate during the MSU Board of Trustees meeting when the 2003-04 budget and tuition increase will be decided Thursday.The College of Veterinary Medicine plans to add an Oncology Center and Isolation Facility.
Although interest rates have reached historic lows, university officials say MSU students will be seeing greater savings for the next academic year.On July 1, federal student loan interest rates are expected to drop from 4.06 to 3.42 percent.
Thelma Hoggard's bright smile from underneath her soaking wet poncho greeted East Lansing residents as they began their trek to get rid of their trash.Hoggard, an East Lansing resident, was one of the volunteers who braved cold and rainy weather Saturday at the ninth annual Project Pride.
The Master Gardener demonstration is scheduled for July 22-24 at the Ag Expo.The demonstration will focus on learning how to start and support container gardens, small-scale vegetable gardening and growing plants which fight pests when planted next to each other, also known as companion plants.A tent also will be a part of the demonstration, where guests can ask gardening questions to Master Gardener staff members.The demonstration will run from 9 a.m.
Six-year-old Stefan Lindahl wishes he had the help of a giant robot to save Spartan Village Elementary School from closing."We could make a big giant robot and have the robot pick up Spartan Village and move it, and put up a sign that says 'destroyed' to trick the guy who wants to close it," he said."We could move to where no one could find it."After nearly 50 years of elementary education on MSU's campus, the international school, 1460 Middlevale Road, is set to close its doors next week.
Ingham County Circuit Court will hear the cases of two more MSU students charged for the March 28-30 disturbances.Tony Warren waived his right to a district court preliminary examination Friday in the East Lansing 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St., before Judge Richard Ball.Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Marie Wolfe said Timothy Ricker, also being charged, would be waiving his right to a preliminary examination later this week.Both Warren and Ricker are being charged with unlawful assembly and preparing to burn less than $200 in property.The disturbances followed MSU's men's basketball team March loss in the NCAA tournament.
The East Lansing Family Aquatic Center will open its doors on Saturday, weather permitting. In past summers about 800 to 900 residents and guests have splashed around in the 375,000-gallon pool each day, East Lansing recreation coordinator Ken Elwert said. The Aquatic Center, 6400 Abbott Road, is open 11 a.m.
East Lansing is joining up with residents to help clean up the city. The city's recycling program, Project Pride, annually helps residents clear out their homes, garages and yards by setting up drop-off points for donated household items and recyclables. One hundred volunteers will help collect recyclables from 8 a.m.
The 35th annual Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop will be held from June 8 to July 19 at Van Hoosen Hall. The workshop is sponsored by the College of Arts and Letters. It will host six nationally recognized science fiction and fantasy authors including: • Howard Waldrop • Nalo Hopkinson • Richard Russo • Kelly Link • Scott Edelman • Maureen McHugh • James Kelly Editors from SCI FI and Science Fiction Weekly also will be on hand for the Writers-in-Residence workshop. For more information go to www.msu.edu/~clarion. Stephanie Korneffel
Empty seats in ASMSU's conference room will be a theme at the start of the fall, despite the reinstatement of 10 representatives to MSU's undergraduate student government. The All-University Elections Committee announced May 15 that they rejected the appeal of about 28 other ASMSU candidates after they were disqualified for being endorsed by political organizations in the March election.
You've got new mail. Students, faculty and staff members totaling 26,390 have upgraded to the new MSU e-mail system, mail.msu.edu, since its March launch. But the transition has been bumpy, computer lab officials say.
Groucho glasses in hand, Joe Kavanagh stood before his fellow East Lansing High School students telling them to prepare to enter the history books.Kavanagh and 799 of his fellow students at 509 E.
Kelley Hart watched friends do mock court competitions in the MSU-Detroit College of Law moot court room, but on Tuesday she was the one in front of the judge. Hart and eight other MSU-Detroit College of Law graduates were sworn into the State Bar of Michigan by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Steven Markman. "Usually when I go to the courtroom people are at each others throats," Markman said.
East Lansing residents might be belted with tickets during the next two weeks if they don't buckle up. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning kicked off its "Buckle Up or Pay Up" campaign on Monday to raise public awareness about wearing safety belts. Extra officers will be placed on the streets in designated zones around the Lansing area to find drivers not wearing safety belts.
An open forum was recently held at the Owen Graduate Hall lobby to discuss racial hostility after a graduate law student found offensively written remarks in the hallway. The student, who did not want to be identified, said he walked by a bulletin board on the hall's fourth floor when he noticed the comments, which were anti-Semitic and anti-Arab in nature.