Locals to visit China, add sister city
MSU faculty and members of several local Lansing groups will travel to China to exchange research methods and form a sister-city bond.
Students have mixed feelings about dorms in summer
About 300 students unloaded their clothes, alarm clocks, computers and minifridges from cars, trucks, trailers and minivans this weekend, carrying the items to their new rooms.Mason, Abbot and Owen Graduate halls are the only dorms offering housing for students taking summer classes.No-preference sophomore Alyse Cleaver and her friends on the MSU crew team moved into Abbot Hall on Thursday.Cleaver, who previously lived in Wonders Hall, said moving in without elevators made it difficult.The dorm doesn’t offer elevator service in the three-floor building.Cleaver also had problems with older dorms’ bathrooms.“It’s hard to adjust to the community bathrooms,” she said.But Cleaver’s friend, communication sophomore Lauren Hamel, disagreed, saying the bathrooms are not that bad.
Families await judges decision to exhume body in possible mix-up
Antonio Planas The State News A judge will decide whether or not to exhume the body of Kyle Karp to determine if he was switched with his friend Thomas Schneider. The decision is scheduled for today, but Ingham County Medical Examiner Dean Sienko said he thinks it will be postponed. Sienko is currently conducting an investigation on events that occurred the night of April 6, 2001, when a drunken driver killed Karp and Schneider, both 13-years-old, as they were walking home from a skate park on Lake Lansing Road.
Rezoning manufactured housing gives schools, city officials hope for profit
By Katie Byrne The State News In a move to rezone a manufactured housing development to bring more students and taxes to East Lansing, city officials say “everybody wins.” Bob Owen, East Lansing’s planning and zoning administrator, said building 453 single-family homes on 278 acres currently zoned for manufactured homes would reach a broader market. “This will be more attractive for first-time home owners,” Owen said.
GEU contract increases pay, benefits
One hundred and eighty-seven members of the Graduate Employees Union voted in favor for the ratification of the first contract developed by the union and the university Tuesday.
Eatery opens shop in E.L.
By Katie Byrne The State News A new restaurant rounds out the soon-to-be completed City Center Project with its non round bagels. Cos
U may use Cheney visit to lure students
MSU officials may use the appearance of Vice President Dick Cheney at graduation as a promotional tactic to entice prospective students. MSU spokesman Terry Denbow said that the university could use Cheney’s visit to promote the university in brochures as well as the alumni magazine.
Michigan Pride to host march, rally
After months of doubt, Michigan Pride will have its 14th annual Gay and Lesbian Pride March.The event, scheduled for June 15, became an uncertainty in January after the organization experienced budget cuts and a New Year’s Eve benefit was canceled, Michigan Pride spokeswoman Sarah Mieras said.“Never have we said in 14 years that this may not happen,” she said.The organization budgeted $72,000 for this year’s event, but only raised $62,000 prior to March 12 and owed $4,500.When the fund-raising campaign began, Michigan Pride targeted $15,000 as a goal.
Campus briefs
Work continues during summer for ASMSUASMSU officials will be working on issues such as setting tuition and reviewing campus safety guidelines during the summer.Although the newly elected undergraduate student government’s summer hours are half of what they are during the spring and fall semesters, the organization has a summer agenda to prepare for the upcoming 2002-03 academic year.
U debates what to do with elementary building
MSU administration hasn’t made a decision on what will be done with the Spartan Village Elementary School building if it closes next year.The university owns the building and shares in the cost of running the facility with East Lansing.East Lansing announced it may close the building this week.“We have got to cut $3.5 million - without closing the school we have to find $430,000 somewhere else,” Superintendent Tom Giblin said.Chuck Gagliano, vice president of housing and food services said the announcement was a surprise.“This whole thing has come up fairly quickly and I am not really sure what use we would have for it,” he said.
After 52 years, alumnus, mentor to retire
When 77-year-old Tom Dutch dropped in at the Evans Scholars house Wednesday, not one resident walked by without saying hello.There was a level of respect for the man who helped bring housing to the former golf caddies that isn’t easily matched anywhere else on campus.It was Dutch’s birthday and one of last times he will visit the house in an official capacity, but he will be missed. He has been a fixture in the house, not only as a mentor and adviser, and every now and then, at the parties the residents hold.More than five decades ago, Dutch, the Housing and Food Services personnel administrator, finished his master’s degree in student personnel at MSU and started his career in the universities placement office.
Bill could keep prescriptions private, pharmacists quiet
When Matthew Bridges received his prescription from a pharmacist, he felt self-conscious. He said he wishes the pharmacist would have handed him the prescription confidentially instead of calling it aloud.“I think this is a problem that needs to be looked at,” the computer science junior said.
Early packing, recycling, donating help stop stress
Although Leslie Madden only is finishing up her first year away from home, she knows how to move. The physiology freshman moved her belongings home last weekend so she wouldn’t have to think about it during finals week. “I kind of wish we had a week after finals to relax and move out our stuff,” Madden said.
U awaits commencement speaker announcement
Konrad Kulacki doesn’t mind that the speaker for MSU’s May 3 Student Convocation has not yet been announced - he’s not going. “If, in fact, it is Dick Cheney, campus is going to be crazy,” the environmental management senior said.
City briefs
Summer flea market looking for vendors The East Lansing Spring Flea Market is open from noon to 4 p.m., Sunday on the corner of Albert Avenue and Charles Street, east of the Marriott East Lansing University Place, 300 M.A.C.
Day lets high schoolers try on government roles
Lansing - By simulating House and Senate sessions, high school students voiced their opinions about issues facing Michigan legislators in the 53rd annual Michigan Youth in Government Conference. Twice each spring, more than 700 students from 130 high schools around the state converge on the state Capitol in this YMCA-sponsored program.
Billboard inspires residents to donate to fund
Lansing - Sharon Banks’ eyes welled up with tears as $100,000 was donated to the Helping Other People Excel Scholarship Program. “I was a HOPE scholar without the name and it’s rough when you don’t know if it’s possible,” said the Lansing superintendent at a campaign kick-off on Thursday.
Officer grills meals for students
MSU police Officer Khalil Wasson arrived at Yakeley Hall at 5 a.m. Thursday morning in uniform - his apron and chef’s hat. “People wondered how I stayed clean working back there,” he said while cooking on two long charcoal grills outside the residence hall.