LANSING - Gail Harvey and Vicky McAree said they have always wanted to own their own business but never knew whether their dream would become reality.But this week, when the two former Olin Health Center nurses opened the doors of the Travel Wellness Clinic, 416 Frandor Ave.
MSU students, faculty and alumni now have a chance to win a 2002 Porsche Boxster for only $100. The Eli Broad College of Business, along with Porsche Cars North America Inc., are raffling off a Porsche in order to benefit the new Executive Development Center under construction on the southwest side of campus. Michael Rishell, senior director of development at Eli Broad College of Business, said the new center will greatly benefit MSU. “It’s really an extension of the land-grant mission,” Rishell said.
It has been said there are two things in this world that are absolutely certain: death and taxes. While it’s impossible to do anything about the first, the MSU-Detroit College of Law Tax Clinic, 541 E.
MSU police Officer Lorrie Bates traded in her department-issued blue cap for a cardboard party hat Wednesday.Police and Brody Complex officials surprised the community police officer with a farewell party.
Erin Ruth is still in school with the help of some friends.Ruth battled an eating disorder up to her departure for college.
While MSU’s undergraduate student government did not qualify to receive Community Development Block Grant funds from the city of East Lansing, ASMSU officials said they are not discouraged.Instead, ASMSU has been recommended to receive money from the city’s general budget by the Community Development Advisory Committee.“We would have had to track the audience that the (block grant) money is spent on,” said Joe Mignano, ASMSU director of Community Affairs and a member of the advisory committee.
Let the buyer beware. Area cops are teaming up to curb liquor sales to minors. The East Lansing Police Department, Meridian Township Police Department and Ingham County Sheriff’s Department kicked off their new Spotlight program Wednesday afternoon at Spartan Sports Den, 1227 E.
MSU student researchers will have a chance to strut their stuff at the ninth annual Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum on April 6. The event will take place on the second floor of the Union from noon to 5 p.m.
In Janna Gontcharova’s first photography class, she never expected to be in a worldwide exhibition.The international journalism exchange student’s image, “Profile,” was chosen to be on exhibit in the Photo Imaging Education Association’s Student-Teacher Photo Competition and Exhibition.Her image was chosen out of 4,711 possible pieces.
East Lansing city officials probably won’t mind the buzzing, whirring and crunching in the background as they celebrate the next step toward completion of the $30 million City Center Project today.A kickoff ceremony to mark the beginning of the deconstruction of the Byrnes Building and University Mall on M.A.C.
The Academic Council approved a change Tuesday allowing students to substitute new courses in place of the university’s first-year Integrative Arts & Humanities requirement beginning next fall.
After passing two bills concerning the green light emergency phones placed throughout campus, ASMSU’s Student Assembly is turning its attention to a different kind of illumination.The assembly will be considering a measure Thursday encouraging university officials to provide more consistent lighting on campus.“When I walk alone, or even with someone, on campus, it’s really creepy,” said Shauna Matlen, the Undergraduate University Division representative for Student Assembly who introduced the bill.
Through treatment of a common horse disease, MSU veterinarians look to make sure the April 27 Spartan Spectacular Arabian Horse Show will go off without a hitch.The disease, called strangles, was detected by MSU Farm Manager Paula Hitzler last November.
With tensions heightening between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbians in Kosovo, the U.S. military is preparing to send additional personnel to the area. Dr. Dean Sienko is prepared for the battle - medically. Sienko, medical examiner of the Ingham County Health Department, will command the medical forces in the Serbian Providence beginning March 8, and oversee medical health and assistance to Allied and U.S.
While St. Patrick’s Day is traditionally known for being green, this year’s Shamrock 5K “run, walk and roll” sponsored by the MSU Tower Guard will have participants racing for the gold. Tower Guard president Carl Oliver, who co-founded the event, said the race will give students more options for celebrating. “It’s a fun alternative to waking up and getting wasted for St.
When the Association of Michigan Universities’ first official session took place in November, Shane Waller wanted ASMSU to play an active leadership role in the organization right away.“There is a chance that AMU could do something big down the line.
Amy Cooke likes the idea of being paid $10 per hour for a minimum wage job. Fortunately for the German senior, a growing number of Michigan cities are making that a reality by instituting a living wage ordinance.These ordinances allow local communities to set a higher minimum wage and qualifications for employees to set such a wage.Cooke said she earned the $5.15 per hour federal minimum wage while working at an East Lansing day care facility.
The rock on Farm Lane wore a coat of recycled paper instead of its usual fresh coat of paint Tuesday morning.By early Tuesday evening, the paper was gone but students still gathered in front of the rock asking all university departments to begin using chlorine-free, post-consumer 100 percent recycled paper.The students held signs telling MSU to “Close the Loop” and to use “100% Recycled Paper.” The gathering was organized by ECO, a MSU student environmental group working to persuade MSU departments to switch paper by the end of the semester.“I think it is important in raising campus awareness about our campaign to get the university to use 100 percent recycled paper,” said Liisa Bergmann, an environmental policy sophomore and co-coordinator of ECO.