Lansing - This toy story might be more of a horror story. Public Interest Research Group In Michigan released a report Tuesday highlighting various toys that can be considered harmful and fatal for children. The report focused on possible choking hazards and toys made with toxic chemicals. Chemicals such as nail polish with toluene in teething toys are harmful for children younger than 3-years-old.
With the help of students, for the third time in eight years, the MSU-Penn State Blood Challenge victory was won by MSU.
Events Medical Yoga Club of MSU: Yoga classes and meetings, 5:15 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., Friday, D214 Fee Hall, 12:10 p.m.
Although emergency rooms may have the same number of patients as they did a decade ago, the population of nurses is lacking. Information released by The American Hospital Association said 75 percent of hospital employee vacancies were for nurses.
Amanda Audo travels to a few miles to a Lansing church each Tuesday to help The Lost Boys, a group of Sudanese refugees who have spent most of their lives traveling to get to Michigan.The pre-vet sophomore and about 90 other Residential Option in Arts and Letters students help tutor, play sports, do crafts and chat with about 130 refugees in their late teens and early twenties.“Some of the boys that are in high school are not keeping up with their subjects so we are going to try to help them,” Audo said.
For students going home this Thanksgiving, the next four days may seem more like a hassle than a vacation.
Michigan motorists will see more than 10,000 new patriotic license plates on the road this Thanksgiving. Since initiating the patriotic “Proud To Be American” license plate Oct.
MSU’s student population makes East Lansing the place for a pizzeria, said the owner of the new spot in town. Cottage Inn Pizza owner George Hoover said the new location in East Lansing was in part because of MSU.
Despite university efforts to promote multiculturalism on campus, an incident last week displayed intolerance for minorities in residence halls. Social relations sophomore Kalaethia Hawkins is a member of Case Hall Black Caucus.
A vacant building with dirty windows and some old newspapers will be getting a new summer look.Douglas J.
A ceremony at Kellogg Center welcomed three new unit directors within Student Affairs and Services on Monday.Kelley Bishop of Career Services and Placement, Marti Ruel of the Department of Student Life and Renee Sanders-Lawson of the Office of Supportive Services ventured into their new careers at the beginning of this semester, each coming from different backgrounds.Lee June, vice president for student affairs and services, said he is very pleased with the performance of the directors so far.“Each one, in their own ways, has looked at the issues in their units and are moving forward with great progress,” he said.June said the directors have also taken initiative to welcome themselves to the community, but he thought Monday’s event would help since all three were together.Ruel, who has lived in Kansas for years but grew up in Ohio, said coming to MSU is like being home.“I feel like I’ve really been welcomed well,” she said.
As Michigan motorists take off for the holidays, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is reminding drivers not to mix booze with navigating roads.MADD initiated its 15th annual statewide Red Ribbon “Tie One on For Safety” safe and sober driving holiday public awareness campaign Monday at the state Capitol.Red ribbons will be tied to automobiles to serve as reminders to drive alcohol-free in response to the campaign.“This is a memorial to families who have lost loved ones to drunk drivers, and it continues to get the public support to enforce the laws tightly,” said Chuck Hurley, a former national board member of MADD and vice president of the National Safety Council.“Many have likened drunk drivers to terrorists, randomly killing innocent people.”Hurley said the National Safety Council is predicting 532 people will be killed in traffic accidents during the Thanksgiving Day holiday, and about 40 percent of those deaths will be alcohol related.“Some events are hard to predict and hard to prevent,” he said.
Tonight’s East Lansing City Council meeting will mark the first meeting of Councilmember Vic Loomis and Councilmember Bill Sharp’s new term.It will also feature a full agenda, because it is the first council meeting in nearly a month.Among the issues to be discussed or acted upon during the 7:30 p.m.
Two students and two nonstudents treated for jimson weed poisoning are expected to recover, but the near-death state the men were in Saturday in Akers Hall is cause for concern, police say.
Packaging senior Salimah Turner always spends her Sunday afternoons studying. But this past Sunday, she joined members of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in the Wonders Hall Kiva to help raise money for a charity and scholarships during their Study-A-Thon, which is held twice a year. More than 40 students were expected to participate in the study day, which was from 10 a.m.
The city of East Lansing is getting into the holiday spirit.For several weekends in November and December, parking in the downtown lot ramps and at meters will be free. Ami Field, assistant community events director for the city, said this program has been going on for several years as a way to lure people into doing their holiday shopping downtown.“It’s basically to encourage people to come downtown to do their holiday shopping, it’s an incentive,” she said.The free parking days kick off Friday through Sunday and return Dec.
Ned Shure, co-founder of Ned’s Bookstores, died Nov. 10 of cancer in Ann Arbor.Shure, 58, began selling books in 1967 at the University of Michigan.
The city of East Lansing will hold a workshop tonight for area resident groups interested in receiving matching grants for community projects. The grants, awarded by the city through the Community Improvement Challenge Program, allow community organizations like neighborhood associations or churches, to complete expensive programs they would not otherwise be able to afford. During the meeting at 7 p.m.
ASMSU wants to provide more entertainment and services for the student body. But to do so, the undergraduate student government could have to increase the per semester student activity fee by $2.