A couple involved in Wednesday night’s plane crash in Meridian Township remain hospitalized. The crash landed Lansing residents Bob and Kathy Boyd at Sparrow Hospital where he Boyd remains in critical condition.
ASMSU has recovered most of the stolen equipment swiped during a Labor Day weekend burglary. Among the items recovered from the break-in of the university’s undergraduate student government offices were two computer monitors, three RAM chips, a computer tower, a hard drive and a video card.
This past week, campus organizations allocated $3,190.57 to various student groups, including: The Residence Halls Association allocated $500 to the RHA special events fund to help pay for the Sponsorship Network, a conference about raising money for corporate sponsors for student groups. The event took place Oct.
They arrived at 10:15 a.m. Wednesday to display pie graphs, set up tables brimming with free pamphlets and bread rolls, and to inflate giant plastic puppets - some 15 feet tall.The Bread Not Stones Peacefest, sponsored by Pax Christi USA, was at the rock on Farm Lane calling for a redistribution of 15 percent of the Pentagon’s budget - which is currently allotted to the military - to be used for human needs such as health care, education and Head Start programs.“We are the people who will redirect military spending - and we are on the march,” said the Rev.
Children in the tri-county area will get a chance to experience science hands-on Nov. 4 at the Elementary Science Olympiad, hosted by Lansing Community College. Unlike Science Olympiad competitions for children in older grades, the event isn’t competitive but just a chance for students to learn more about science, said Mary Brown, a biology professor at LCC and a Science Olympiad co-director at the college. “It’s an opportunity to get kids involved in science,” she said.
Rapper Lil’ Kim will not be making the trip to MSU this Homecoming weekend.The Oct. 15 show featuring the risqué song stylist has been cancelled because it took ASMSU, the event’s sponsor and university’s undergraduate student government, too long to seek insurance coverage to ensure safety of those attending.“We couldn’t get insurance from anybody,” said Kendall Sykes, ASMSU Student Assembly chairperson.The student government allocated $50,000 on Sept.
Meridian Twp. - When Jacobson’s reopens today at Meridian Mall, it will open its doors to more than just clientele.The new store, 1982 W.
The East Lansing City Council approved changes to the $50 million city budget late Tuesday night that will include more money for parks and recreational facilities. Residents will reap the benefits of the budget change by enjoying park improvements in such parks as Harrison Meadows Park and the East Lansing Soccer Complex.
This Homecoming weekend, visitors to the downtown area might hear a pair of familiar tunes chiming from the city’s new Central Clock Tower. The tower, on the corner of Albert and M.A.C.
Richard Dreyfuss will take “baby steps” to Case Hall on Thursday as part of the “Mr. Holland’s Opus Education” tour. Dreyfuss, the star of the movie “Mr. Holland’s Opus,” will visit schools in the Lansing area Thursday in support of political activism, said Norman Graham, associate dean of James Madison College. The Oscar-winning actor will visit Lansing’s Waverly High School, 5207 W.
After nearly a year in the making, Michigan’s first non-partisan educational research institute will open its doors at MSU. University officials will hold a grand opening ceremony for the Education Policy Center on Thursday.
A university report released Tuesday shows MSU enrollment at 43,336. The final enrollment tally is only slightly lower than the preliminary data released by university officials late last month.
The Council of Graduate Students will hold a formal vote on their referendum that would increase the tax it charges graduate students.If passed by the graduate student body in the spring, the tax would increase one dollar per semester, from $6.75 to $7.25.The recommendation was passed by the graduate student department representatives and the executive board, the members of COGS that hold voting seats in the council and represent each academic department in the university.
In the continuing debate over education in the state, a new voice has emerged.The Accountability Task Force was formed by the Michigan Association of School Boards in May and includes 21 education groups throughout the state.
Vehicles properly parked overnight in an on-campus lot are still susceptible to break-ins, stolen property and damage to windshields, outside mirrors or doors.What students may not know is that there is something they can do about it, thanks to the MSU police department’s secret weapon - the Lot Watch program.The 10-year-old program, made up of 25 to 30 student volunteers, monitors campus parking lots during nighttime hours to catch criminals in action.“We’re student volunteers who serve as the eyes and ears for the police department and work to combat the crimes that students most often face in the lots,” said criminal justice senior Nick Eisenlohr.
The East Lansing Police Department will not be the only ones regulating the amount of alcohol young adults drink.Bar and restaurant owners in East Lansing and Lansing have joined to form the Responsible Hospitality Council.
The voter registration deadline may be over, but now the City of East Lansing has to worry about finding students to work the elections.East Lansing City Hall is looking for people to work Nov.
Representatives from ASMSU’s Academic Assembly dodged a procedural bullet to keep alive the possibility of putting SIRS - Student Instructional Ratings System - evaluation forms online.At the Executive Committee of Academic Council meeting Tuesday, an item was placed on the agenda denoting a meeting of the Academic Senate, a group composed entirely of faculty members that supersedes Academic Council, to possibly vote on the SIRS proposal.“(The vote for SIRS) wouldn’t have had student input and that is not good,” said Steve Lovelace, undergraduate diversity division and ECAC representative for academic assembly.The group did not go in session, however, because Lovelace’s motion to cancel an Academic Senate meeting was approved.