MSU’s oldest Chicano student group, Movimiento Estudiantil Xicano de Aztlan, or MEXA, is sponsoring its first annual Brown Pride Picnic to reach out to students interested in the organization.
Students are crossing paths in a new apartment complex in East Lansing.Residents at the Crossing Place Student Apartments, 3636 E.
Minorities face greater challenges obtaining quality mental health care, a recent report conducted by U.S.
Bill Knapp’s Restaurants might be closing a location back home. Eleven Bill Knapp’s restaurants in Michigan and five in Ohio have closed because of a lack of customers. “Like any other restaurant, they looked at each location to see what the market is,” said Nick Thole, a spokesman for Bill Knapp’s Restaurants. Thole said in the majority of the cases, the company felt it would be good to pull back and let business matriculate to the others. Local Bill Knapp’s locations in Lansing, Okemos and Delta Township, however, are still safe, he said. “Right now I would say those restaurants are very strong for the company,” he said. Whether other locations will also close is still unknown. “I don’t know the future plans for the company, it is just an ongoing thing and they make the determinations on whether this is the right move,” Thole said.
This is the last in a three part series about the Michigan House and Senate reconvening. State Sen.
Techno music fans will soon be addicted.After specializing in independent hip hop, indie rock and punk, Vinyl Addict Records, 503 E.
The East Lansing City Council will discuss the status of the Hannah Community Center construction project during its work session tonight.
This is the second in a three part series about the Michigan House and Senate reconvening. When the Legislature reconvenes in a few weeks, Gretchen Whitmer wants to give students a tuition refund. Whitmer, D-East Lansing, said when the session begins on Sept.
They are not Neil Simon’s “The Odd Couple,” but their partnership is still a little curious. Regardless of school rivalries, MSU student Paul Chambers and University of Michigan student Ryan Deyer joined forces for NetX, a networking business.
It’s a new semester and that means new faces, goals and attitudes for MSU’s Residence Halls Association’s executive board. The university’s RHA is the largest residence hall association in the country and the second largest student organization on campus behind ASMSU, the university’s undergraduate student government. Jeff Donofrio, the new director of public relations for RHA, said its main goal is to address the concerns and to be the voice for more than 14,000 undergraduate students throughout the 20 residence halls on campus.
Orange construction barrels have marked the landscape of East Lansing for the past several months and now will be no different.Fountain Square, the plaza area on the corner of M.A.C and Albert avenues, will be revamped immediately following Labor Day weekend.
Kelly Downey racked up $53 in parking ticket charges while moving in this Welcome Week.Oops.But MSU’s Department of Police and Public Safety introduced a system to warn and inform parents and students about illegal parking without the cost: the “oops ticket.”“I’d rather have that on my car than a ticket,” said Downey, an advertising sophomore who ended the week with four parking tickets.
A grant from the Michigan Office of Services to the Aging is helping a Lansing law school change seniors’ lives.Sixty Plus, Inc., a legal clinic of Thomas M.
Even though unemployment is on the rise nationally, a spokesman for Gov. John Engler says Michigan is doing just fine.“We’re building the economy through tax cuts and job training,” said Matt Resch, a spokesman for Engler.
To kick off the school year, minority organizations are welcoming students with programs that will allow them to gain information about their groups.Asian Pacific American Student Organization will be sponsoring a Welcome Back Banquet today at 6 p.m.
The freshman class is getting snap-happy this week.As this year’s freshman class will graduate in 2005 - the university’s 150th year - the department of Libraries, Computing and Technology gave each incoming freshman a disposable camera to capture their first moments at MSU.“These pictures will literally be a snapshot of the class that will mark (the 150th) benchmark of the university,” said Don Straney, assistant to the provost for faculty development.
For MSU students, greek chapters are among the most popular organizations on campus.According to the 2002 edition of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 331 Colleges,” MSU is the sixth highest college in the nation for a “major frat and sorority scene.”“I think it’s a good thing that people recognize that we’re here,” said Billy Molasso, assistant director of Student Life.
ASMSU is taking the first of what would be many steps in creating a voting student seat on the MSU Board of Trustees tonight with a forum discussing the possibility.The bill was introduced during an August 8 academic assembly meeting, but was tabled until this session.