Projects put Michigan deeper in debt
Michigan is borrowing more money to fund government building projects, instead of paying upfront.As a result, the state has gone deeper in debt.
Legislators offer solutions to tuition hike criticisms
It’s been more than two weeks since Lt. Gov. Dick Posthumus sent a questioning letter about tuition increases to university presidents around the state.In response, many of the presidents have called or written with arguments for their increases.“Everyone has a different answer,” Posthumus said.
City hopes to aid at-risk youth
College may not be a long shot for at-risk teens in Lansing, who can earn scholarships by staying in school. The Helping Other People Excel Scholarship Program will aim to provide two-year Lansing Community College scholarships to 500 at-risk seventh-graders in Lansing schools each year. “H.O.P.E.
Professor heads pop culture association
It was 1962 when the Main Library decided to expand its collection beyond agricultural studies and Shakespeare.Nearly 40 years later, more than 250,000 popular culture pieces rest in the library’s growing Special Collections - and pop culture studies at MSU keep growing.Gary Hoppenstand, an American Thought and Language professor and associate department chairman, was elected president of the Popular Culture Association, a 3,000-member organization dedicated to the scholarly study of pop culture of all kinds.“It entails quite a bit,” Hoppenstand said.
Classic cars compete for zoo charity event
LANSING - Children could ride the ponies while car fanatics could check out the Mustangs.On Sunday, the Capital City Corvette Club hosted a benefit car show at the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S.
Glass art exhibit heats up gallery
On a hot Sunday afternoon, people were doing their best to stay out of the 90-degree heat. But some stopped to watch a man play with 2,000-degree molten glass anyway.Art Allison, from Pottsboro, Texas, was demonstrating the art of glassblowing to spectators outside of Mackerel Sky, 217 Ann St.“I’ve been doing this for 22 years now and this is what I like to do,” Allison said.Allison was in East Lansing for a demonstration that was part of the First Sunday Gallery Walk, which is a coalition of East Lansing and Lansing galleries that hold exhibitions for the public on the first Sunday of every other month.Allison started working with glass while a student at Kent State University in 1979, and since then has made a living out of it.“All it is is just blowing a bubble and then decorating it,” he said.
Candidates hope for voter turnout increase in primaries
Candidates for East Lansing City Council are encouraging residents to vote. The primary election, which will send four of the eight candidates to the Nov.
Camp bridges technology gap
Michigan area middle-schoolers have been trying their hands at new technology during the third annual Kids Learning In Computer Klubhouses, or KLICK, Leadership Camp, held on MSU’s campus this week. The KLICK program is an after-school program designed to teach middle-schoolers of low economic backgrounds or communities how to use new technology.
GED test evolves to comply with current high school standards
The last time the General Educational Development test was rewritten, the New Kids on the Block had a hit album, John DiBiaggio was the president of MSU and the Berlin Wall was still standing.Like music and history, high school education has changed, and come Jan.
Garden Day offers creative workshops
At MSU Garden Day, participants’ imaginations will run wild, with new ideas to make their gardens a work of art. The all-day event, which will start at 8 a.m.
Night Out seeks to clear crime from neighborhoods
Neighborhoods in Lansing are stepping out.From 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Lansing Police Department, Neighborhood Watch and city of Lansing are coming together for National Night Out.The night serves as a way for neighbors to get to know each other and helps promote police-community relationships against crime.
Kids enjoy art at 4-H garden
Soaked from head to toe, 4-year-old Mason resident Adrienne Hough grinned from cheek to cheek.“I like the frogs,” Hough said, as she danced under the squirts of water coming from cement frogs, one of the features in the Michigan 4-H Children’s Garden.Hough was one of about 50 children who enjoyed art under the hot sun during the garden’s “Art Day.”Mason resident Karen Krepps said she took the morning off from work to spend the day with her grandchildren, Jacob and Faith Krepps.“It’s great,” the elder Krepps said.
Panera Bread says community kneads it
The smell of fresh bread baking will be wafting through Meridian Township next month. Panera Bread, a bakery-cafe, is expected to open Aug.
Black heritage to be celebrated in Lansing pride parade
This weekend, some Lansing streets will be flooded with a showcase of pride.The second Annual African American Pride Parade will be held at 11 a.m.
Report claims college dating is near-extinct
The music’s blaring, and college students are practicing their mating call - grinding. From across the bar, boy meets girl who’s hoping for Mr. Right, but instead she will settle for Mr. Right Now.
U alumnus, artist dies at 69
MSU alumnus Italo Scanga, an internationally known sculptor and painter, died Friday from a heart attack.