Gov. John Engler wants Michigan at the forefront of a project to streamline Internet sales tax collection nationwide.Engler wants Michigan to join a national coalition of states developing methods for collecting taxes on Internet purchases, said Matt Resch, an Engler spokesman.
ASMSU has been looking for the right person to fill its chief of staff position for three months.They finally found her.Ashley Grieve, a packaging junior, was officially hired as the new chief of staff of MSU’s undergraduate student government Thursday, beating out five other candidates.
For the last 15 years, Melinda Benson has spent many birthdays celebrating within the walls of MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety.With her September birthday falling right when students return to campus, it’s the only way she has the chance to see her husband, MSU police Chief Bruce Benson, on her special day.“He’ll always say ‘I know how to show my wife a good time,’” she joked.
Lansing - Secretary of State Candice Miller said she hopes the Legislature will approve plans for a new license plate to benefit the American Red Cross’s relief efforts in response to the Sept.
Clifton Haley, a 1961 graduate of the MSU-Detroit College of Law and board member since 1997, was unanimously elected president of the MSU-DCL Board of Trustees on Friday.Haley has served as vice president of the board under the leadership of Judge Richard Suhrheinrich since 1998 and since then has helped to increase the academic standards and enrollment at the law school.Haley said he has wanted to give something back to the university for some time.“It’s a tremendous honor to be elected by the same school that I graduated from,” he said.
A panel of faculty from James Madison College will lead a discussion today about the probable effects of the U.S.
Lansing - Two years ago Monday, 313 W. Kalamazoo St. was a pile of dirt with a silver shovel in it. After 22 months with an average of 42 workers on the site per day, the Ingham County/City of Lansing Veterans Memorial Courthouse, which grew from the pile of dirt, was dedicated Tuesday. “I know that there were many that questioned whether this could be done,” said Mayor David Hollister, who had discussed the idea as early as 1969.
U.S. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Detroit, was among 40 U.S. senators who toured the devastation in New York on Thursday in the wake of Sept.
It isn’t a Lite-Brite but East Lansing will be turning on the magical color light.Urban Options, 405 Grove St., has installed a new energy-efficient sign using fiber-optic light.By using fiber optics and a light pipe design system, energy is saved by using one bulb that transmits light over the distance of the outdoor sign.This is a more efficient use of energy because neon signs involve heating up neon gasses and keeping them lit.
For Robert Henderson, attending events with his family like the Fourth Annual Meridian Heritage Festival is a great opportunity. “I think it’s great that you can let people know the heritage of races,” said the Lansing resident, as his wife Taunya and daughters Alexis and Alana observed ducks nearby. “We try to go to at least one ethnic festival every summer.
Hitting those high notes and flaunting slick dance steps was all the rave Friday at the International Center.The annual event, Say Huh?
The university’s policy on undercover police surveillance of student groups was established Friday by the MSU Board of Trustees.The resolution said undercover investigations can only begin under “extraordinary circumstances” and with the approval of the university president.Board members expressed an interest in reviewing guidelines to be set by the Task Force on Student-Police Relations, which was created following the investigation of the placement of an undercover officer into a student group last year.“This affirms the university’s commitment to invoke such procedure only in extraordinary circumstances,” Trustee Dee Cook said.
Tucked among the e-mail from Sara Makowski’s friends and family was an unfamiliar message that made the pre-med freshman worry a little Friday afternoon.MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety sent out a universitywide e-mail asking students to help identify three Pakistani men who had been involved in an incident at the Business College Complex’s Eppley Center on Wednesday.“I was a little concerned at first,” Makowski said.
On-campus student leaders gathered at Brody Hall on Saturday for the second annual Residence Halls Association Leadership Conference.Nick Kovacic, RHA president, said the conference was a training seminar to help student leaders from hall governments and caucuses become better leaders.“We wanted to give them helpful information they could use when they go back, and I believe we succeeded at that,” he said.The conference, which was also sponsored by Residence Life, consisted of leadership sessions presented by RHA executive board members about their positions.Jeff Donofrio, RHA director of public relations, discussed how to get a group’s name out by targeting student issues during his session.“These student leaders came out of my session with the skills and resources they needed, and hopefully, they’ll be back next year,” Donofrio said.Rodney Patterson, director of the Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs who spoke at the conference, talked about leadership characteristics students need to excel in their various positions.“He said student leaders have to be able to understand the school system and administration - basically cutting through the red tape,” Kovacic said.David Demps, a psychology freshman and representative for North Campus Black Caucus, said he was surprised by the outcome of the conference.“I’ve been to conferences like these before, and I usually end up socializing,” he said.
Sometimes a silenced voice can become the loudest of them all. In 1998, Jim Cuddeback was tired of citizens’ concerns falling on what he considered to be deaf, indifferent ears and made it his personal job to have those voices heard in the East Lansing community. He began a grass-roots Internet newsletter and Web site called Public Response, providing an open forum for discussion among its subscribers.
Renovations to the library in James Madison College had Haley Sinclair saying the room may now be the most attractive place to study in Case Hall.A challenge issued by MSU Trustee David Porteous raised funds for $140,000 worth of library improvements.
Local environmentalists gave a hoot and cleaned up after those who pollute.The MSU Sportfishing Club, the Mid-Michigan Environmental Action Council, 416 S.
The Department of Economics has a new address. And students who wish to pursue their degree in the subject can take a new route.The department, which was formerly part of the Eli Broad College of Business, is now part of the College of Social Science.Charles Ballard, an economics professor, has been instrumental in “hammering the nuts and bolts out of the new curriculum.”“In terms of the curriculum, it changes things a little bit,” he said.