Three MSU students were arraigned Wednesday after police discovered a pound of marijuana and other drugs in their East Lansing home.The students charged were Michael Puretz, 20; Adam Vielea, 21; and Ryan Webster, 20.
Lansing - Community leaders and Lansing area residents gathered Thursday at a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new Lansing fire station located off East Miller Road in south Lansing.The $1.75 million station will be the second that will be funded through voter-approved bond initiatives.
Michigan residents will not officially know who their attorney general-elect is until Nov. 25, election officials say.
The Black Poets Society is presenting “Bum Rush the Stage,” from 7-10 p.m. on Saturday in the Erickson Hall Kiva.
Jennifer Granholm and Dick Posthumus weren’t the only ones sweating bullets this week in elections. Members in 21 of MSU’s 29 Interfraternity Council groups selected new executive officials Wednesday night at Lafayette Square in Brody Complex. “I feel very good about the process,” said Amy Radford, assistant director of Student Life.
ASMSU can rest easy now.Tireless efforts from several members of MSU’s undergraduate student government culminated Tuesday when Proposal 4 - a proposal they had been opposing since May - failed in the general election.The proposal would redirect about $8.5 billion obtained by the state in a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies.
Although Paul DeWeese lost to Virg Bernero in Tuesday’s 23rd District state Senate race, he remains optimistic about the community’s involvement in politics.The two state representatives faced off in pursuit of the senate seat currently held by term-limited Dianne Byrum, D-Onondaga.
Lansing - Children’s shirts and shorts overflowed from a large suitcase in Gretchen Cochran’s living room.
MSU could lose more than just a football game when it goes up against Penn State next week.The ninth annual MSU-Penn State Challenge launched Monday, but officials say blood drive donations are lower than expected.“A lot of people haven’t been coming out,” said David Bosman, the challenger’s chairman.The planning committee for the challenge had estimated a collection of 1,960 pints of blood - 300 pints more than last year.Bosman said “Defending Our Title, Defending the Blood Supply,” had a low turnout Monday at Bailey Hall, Communication Arts and Sciences Building and the Red Cross Donor Room, 1800 E.
“HOO-HA.” “Cool kids.”“89 PAT VS. BEAKER.”All phrases - and perhaps thousands more - are immortalized on the graffiti-laden walls of Shaw Hall’s Totally Takeout.
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.