With a variety of fitness options available, students and city residents can take their pick among apartment centers, professional gyms and campus intramural centers.
People in business attire sit at tables in the Union basement, quietly chatting with one another over their food.Servers in white aprons distribute helpings of roasted turkey and potatoes onto plates.It's just another day in the Heritage Café.From 11 a.m.
State Rep. Susan Tabor, R-Delta Township, is speaking up against an MSU-Detroit College of Law professor's animal law Web site, claiming it provides support to anti-hunting views."In a time of tight budgets when Michigan schoolchildren are being asked to do with less and MSU students are seeing steep tuition hikes, the last thing we need is a new, highly controversial program of dubious practical value," Tabor said in a statement. The site, www.animallaw.info, includes information about 120 statutes and 100 cases involving animal rights.
MSU gained money from endowment investments during the 2001-02 fiscal year, while many universities around the United States spent the year trying to recover losses.Glen Klein, director of investments and financial management for MSU, said the university saw a 2.3-percent return in 2001-02, compared with the national average college endowment loss of 6 percent, as surveyed by the National Association of College and University Business Officers.Endowments are funds donated to the university but not spent all at once.
The MSU and East Lansing communities are invited to speak out in a panel discussion about a variety of issues at 8 p.m.
During their first session of the year Tuesday, the state Senate made two unanimous approvals. Lansing Mayor David Hollister was one of two department heads to be approved - he will serve as head of the new department of labor and economic issues.
Lansing - Brothers Corey and Rudy Robinson waited in anticipation to begin their jobs at the Youth Service Corps. The two Lansing residents are students at Pattengill Middle School and are signed up to visit Allen Neighborhood Center, 1619 E.
Those interested in the Red Cedar Chapter of the Michigan Botanical Club can attend a meeting at 7:30 p.m.
A proposal to split the Department of Romance and Classical Languages into two smaller units moved on to the next stage of debate.The Executive Committee of Academic Council decided Tuesday to send the plan to the MSU Board of Trustees.
Audrey Brockhaus walks to class with socks on her hands. The advertising junior lost her mittens and said she can't stand the cold without her hands covered. "That's how I keep warm," she said.
MSU's Residence Halls Association members are planning to finalize the organization's budget today.
The lobby of Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre was full of anxious people waiting for the doors to open for the one-woman performance of "Faces of America."The show, which only ran on Tuesday, starred Fran de Leon portraying six different people.
Big Ten Commissioner James E. Delany will be speaking about commercialism in intercollegiate athletics at 1:30 p.m.
Former Gov. John Engler is moving from the executive branch of Michigan government to an executive position with the state's largest high-tech employer. Engler announced Monday he is Electronic Data Systems Corp.'s new president of state and local government and vice president of government solutions for North America. As governor, Engler created the Department of Information Technology, which worked to provide new online government services on the state's award-winning Web site, www.michigan.gov. "This position allows me to draw from my technological experience to meet the needs of state and government business and the citizens who depend on those government services," Engler said in a written statement. Engler, an MSU alumnus, will be responsible for directing the services EDS offers in government-based information technology.
Lansing's Capital City Airport experienced record passenger travel during the month of December, although totals for 2002 were lower compared to the previous year, officials announced Wednesday.According to the Capital Region Airport Authority, 47,405 passengers made their way through the airport in December - an increase of 15 percent compared to the same period in 2001.However, total passenger travel for 2002 declined just less than 2 percent.Robert Kolt, spokesman for Capital City Airport, said business was poor at the beginning of last year, but the airport recovered by slowly gaining more travel each month."The numbers dwindled toward the end of the year, but we had a really strong December," he said.
Anyone who has to venture to the south side of campus knows what it's like to wait.The university estimates about 60 trains, sometimes up to two miles long, chug along the CSX and CN railroads on tracks crossing Farm Lane between Trowbridge and Mt.
Vikas Menon is full of ideas.As the new director of human resources for ASMSU, the computer engineering junior said he plans to streamline the way MSU's undergraduate student government operates."I want a human resource department, not just a person who hires and fires people," he said.Menon recruits students, coordinates hiring committees and maintains a database of applicants."I just love human resources," he said.
Attorney Geoffery Fieger will be speaking at 8 p.m. Thursday in Room 343 of the MSU-Detroit College of Law Building. The program, "Champion and Advocate: Reflections On My Life as a Trial Lawyer," is part of the Geoffery Fieger Trial Practice Institute lecture series. Fieger, a 1979 DCL graduate, ran for governor of Michigan in 1998 but lost to then-Gov.
Lansing - To some MSU students, Martin Luther King Jr. Day means a day without classes and a chance to sleep in - but the volunteers at Monday's Into the Streets community service project made the day mean much more. "We felt that since we didn't have classes we should make good use of our time," communication freshman Stephanie Gooch said. Gooch joined about 280 student volunteers to donate time to various locations around the Lansing community, said English senior Andrea Hart, chairwoman of the Into the Streets group. "We were really pleased with the turnout," Hart said.