After a tight race for the single open Lansing City Council seat, Brian Jeffries rose as the winner early Wednesday morning. The 47-year-old ASMSU Legal Services attorney won 14,480 Lansing votes, or 51 percent, over Kathy Pelleran’s 13,752 votes, or 49 percent.
The Mount Hope United Methodist Church women present their annual Cookie Walk with crafts and collectibles from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
More MSU students are choosing not to light up a cigarette compared to two years ago, according to a recent MSU study. The National Collegiate Health Assessment Survey was conducted in 2000 and 2002, and sighted a decrease of MSU smokers from 30 percent to about 20 percent.
It started out as just a little idea, but grew into an altar that stands nearly 10 feet tall, decorated with small skulls and red and white candles. Candy was set on the altar as an offering to ancestors, and pictures of the dead are mounted on its backboard. Education sophomore Blanca Gamino and social work sophomore Rocio Vera offered to create the altar in Baker Hall as part of an effort to promote cultural awareness about their Mexican heritage and a holiday they've celebrated since childhood - Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. The effort is supported through the Student Organization of Latino Social Workers. "It's to remember all our ancestors and those who passed away that we love," Gamino said.
Groups to sponsor parenting programs The MSU Child and Family Care Resources and the MSU Women's Resource Center are co-sponsoring a two-part parenting series.
Ken Wachsberger's first political arrest was in 1970 as part of an MSU protest - after 32 years, a published book series and many more protests, he continues to fight for the freedom to read. Wachsberger, the editor of a book set on banned books, was surrounded by challenged paperbacks at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, as part of East Lansing's One Book, One Community program Monday night. "The First Amendment is America's most precious gift in the world," he said.
Lyman Briggs School is presenting a guest speaker at 7:30 p.m. today in C-106 Holmes Hall.Edward Burger, a mathematics professor at Williams College, will be hosting a presentation called “The Texas Cake Cutting Massacre: Can Conflicts be Resolved by Making Piece?”The lecture will discuss negotiating skills and the Middle East, relating the ideas to cakes.
Student groups on campus are playing a game that is causing others to call the police.The game is called a variety of names, including “Assassins” and “game of elimination.”About five MSU police officers approached Criminal justice freshman Michael Klopp and two friends were after they were seen walking into Akers Hall with what was thought to be a handgun last week.A Capitol Area Transportation Authority bus driver reported the situation.
On a night filled with witches, ghosts and devils, children had a lot to be scared of this Halloween.
A 3-on-3 basketball tournament will take place at 3 p.m. Nov. 23 at IM Sports-Circle to raise money benefiting St.
After weeks of writing letters to local and state politicians, Amber Johnson reached her goal Monday night. A trio of students from MSU’s service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega, received a proclamation from Lansing Mayor David Hollister declaring this week as Alpha Phi Omega National Service Week in Lansing. “It’s great when a high-ranking politician cares about things on a more intimate level,” said Johnson, an environmental biology senior and vice president of service for the fraternity. The MSU chapter is part of a national service fraternity that created National Service Week, which runs from Nov.
East Lansing Mayor Mark Meadows will hail the victors at the City Council meeting Wednesday night, after losing a wager with Ann Arbor Mayor John Hieftje. As a result of the loss to the University of Michigan, Meadows agreed to wear maize and blue and sing the Wolverine fight song at the 7:30 p.m.
Imagine playing video games for hours, and as a result, gaining the ability to speak Chinese fluently.An MSU professor says the idea is in development.Yong Zhao, associate professor of educational psychology, is leading the design on a new platform that will incorporate teaching Chinese in the United States.
Plates full of cookies and jugs of juice were placed on a table in the Bailey Hall lounge Monday. Red and blue lawn chairs were strategically placed around the rest of the room as American Red Cross workers in white lab coats patiently waited for students to come in and donate blood. The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge began Monday and will run until Nov.
A proposal by state Rep. Paul DeWeese could bring enough funds to MSU to help the school reach its $1.2 billion fund-raising goal, but critics say the proposal is untimely with next year’s budget woes. DeWeese’s proposal would add a new section to the Michigan tax code to provide a tax credit to individuals and corporations contributing to the endowment funds of state institutions of higher learning. The Williamston Republican is running against state Rep.
She’s already a racial ethnic student aide at Hubbard Hall, working an outside job and taking 15 credits toward her criminal justice degree. Now add to sophomore Faye Higgs’ schedule: four hours of practice, five nights a week. “I have 300 black students to be there for, 20 meetings a month and an outside job,” she said. But Higgs said it’s worth it to be a dancer in the 12th annual Fake the Funk at the Breslin Center, where more than 9,000 cheering attendants checked out her moves Saturday evening. “It’s time-consuming,” she said.
MSU’s two largest student governments - who have not always been on the best of terms - have taken steps to improve their working relationship this year. “Quite a few years ago, RHA and ASMSU did have some major communication problems,” ASMSU Student Assembly Chairperson Matt Weingarden said.
In the final day before elections, gubernatorial candidates Republican Dick Posthumus and Democrat Jennifer Granholm plan to campaign in the Lansing area today.