Students might not to have to serve their jury duty during college semesters if the state Senate approves a new state bill the House OK’d last Wednesday. Rep. Kevin Cotter, R-Mount Pleasant, introduced the bill, which would let full-time college students postpone duty until the end of the school year.
The year 2003 was a rough one for East Lansing resident Ricard Taylor. He was going through a rough divorce when his older brother, Taro Taylor, convinced him to try street performing with him in Detroit.“He said, ‘Let’s try it for a year. See what we can do, see what we can make of it,’ and we did it on the streets there and we got a lot of love shown to us,” Ricard Taylor said.
MSU officials are looking to encourage creativity and entrepreneurship among students across multiple colleges with the renovation of Wilson Hall room C108 into a creative commons.
In 2009, MSU alumnus Ryan Riess started his job sitting in a booth, collecting loose change from people paying for their parking on campus.
As East Lansing Mayor Diane Goddeeris adjourned the city council meeting on Wednesday, the sun set on a city council that has had a varying legacy. On Wednesday, the council finished the mandatory five-year code review as part of the comprehensive plan, passing five ordinances to finish the process. It’s the group’s last meeting before newly-elected members Ruth Beier and Susan Woods fill the seats of Kevin Beard and Vic Loomis, both of whom chose not to run for reelection.
A group of MSU students known as the Nate Woodring Trio jazzed up (SCENE) Metrospace Wednesday night, bringing musical life through the drums and bass East Lansing. The show featured jazz studies senior Nate Woodring on drums, jazz studies sophomore Runere Brooks on bass and jazz studies graduate student Corey Kendrick on piano.
As November settles in, MSU students and faculty members will come together to raise awareness about American Indian Heritage Month. MSU’s North American Indigenous Student Organization, or NAISO, will be hosting a series of events to spread awareness of the culture and key in on issues usually associated with the American Indian culture.
Okemos resident Connor McCowan was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison Wednesday morning for the murder of MSU student Andrew Singler. McCowan was convicted of second-degree murder last month for fatally stabbing Singler, his sister’s boyfriend, during an argument on Feb. 23 that came to physical blows. Singler, 23, was left with two wounds in his heart and arm. Defense attorney Chris Bergstrom asked Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Clinton Canady III to remain lenient on McCowan’s sentence. Bergstrom maintained McCowan acted in self-defense that night, fearing for his life after Singler struck him in the head.
The Energy Transition Plan’s central goal is for campus to have a renewable energy portfolio of 15 percent by 2015, and MSU officials say they’re more than halfway there.
If it wasn’t for Jeff Nardone, professional writing sophomore Emily Cervone would not have come to MSU. The MSU alumnus, also the adviser for Grosse Pointe South High School’s weekly student newspaper “The Tower,” saw Cervone’s writing abilities when she was a staff writer for the paper and encouraged her to study at MSU. “He was just so vibrant and passionate about not just teaching journalism, but life,” Cervone said. “I learned so much in that class — how to handle people, handling deadlines, just like a regular job.”
Following a second-degree murder conviction, Okemos resident Connor McCowan will be sentenced Wednesday morning. After an argument between two friends turned violent on the morning of Feb. 23, McCowan, 19, fatally stabbed MSU student Andrew Singler, 23. It is possible McCowan could receive life in prison. Given McCowan’s lack of prior offenses, his attorney, Chris Bergstrom, said he plans to ask the judge for the lightest sentence possible.
Tuesday, squads of military units were sent out on a tactical mission in Okemos, Mich. Luckily, this only was a training exercise. The MSU Army ROTC held one of their many training exercises on a large woodland area off Dobie Road. While their field exercises can focus on many things, such as navigation, this exercise was a combat mission.
The committee created after English professor’s anti-republican rants to address the best practices on the use of social media and technology in classrooms, has begun its research — with few findings so far. Committee Chairman William Donohue said he’s looked at about 12 universities and none of them have policies on how to use social media in a classroom.
What students don’t know might hurt them when it comes to the critters looking to cuddle under the covers late at night. The MSU College of Law Housing Clinic hosted a free bedbug seminar on Tuesday night at the East Lansing Public Library for local landlords, tenants and the public after concern for the widespread bedbug epidemic arose in students’ own backyard.
Lansing voters have approved a proposal to decriminalize recreational use of marijuana within city limits, according to unofficial election results from the Ingham County Clerk’s Office. With all 43 precincts reporting, about 63 percent of voters approved the initiative, which would allow the use, possession and transfer of less of less than one ounce of the drug when on private property for those 21 and older.
Ruth Beier and Susan Woods were victorious in their bids for seats on the East Lansing City Council, according to unofficial counts from the Ingham County Clerk’s Office. With all 17 precincts reporting, Beier took the lead and secured a spot on the council with 1,231 votes. Woods came in a close second to claim the other available seat with 1,085 votes, defeating candidates Ben Eysselinck and Sam Artley by more than 500 votes.
Student voter turnout in East Lansing local elections is historically dismal, and there’s scant evidence to suggest Tuesday’s East Lansing City Council election will be any different.
Election day for the East Lansing City Council has arrived and MSU faculty, students and community members will be heading to the polls.
Legacies can be a tricky thing to discuss. It’s hard in a community of different viewpoints for a consensus of what a public servant means.
Many fall weekends are marked by the influx of cars onto MSU’s campus: tents are erected, grills fired up and tailgates opened. It’s an eagerly anticipated ?ritual close to the heart of MSU football. But many tailgaters might be unaware of the mark they leave on MSU’s landscape.