Saturday’s verdict of Florida resident George Zimmerman, who was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin has resulted in MSU students and faculty weighing in on the high-profile ruling.
Imagine it’s your birthday. You and your friends want to go out for dinner. The question is, where do you go? Peanut Barrel? Noodles & Company? Georgio’s Pizza? Somewhere else in downtown East Lansing? Maybe head out to P.F. Chang’s in Eastwood Towne Center? If it was any other night, a super dub from Menna’s Joint might be enough, but what about a special occasion when you’re willing to spend a bit more cash?
With the Common Ground Music Festival wrapping up yesterday evening, the Lansing Police Department, or LPD, was able to end the festival on a good note.
Yesterday evening, a female victim was assaulted at the East Lansing Family Aquatic Center, 6400 Abbot Road, at approximately 5 p.m. The suspect, a male, was gone when the East Lansing police officers arrived on the scene. The police report has yet to be turned into the police department to be processed.
A man was arrested for using a stolen credit card to pay off charges at the Ingham County Sheriff’s Office Central Records Unit last week. The man came into the office on July 11 to submit court-ordered fingerprints on a charge of fraud out of the 55th District Court.
Downtown Lansing exploded with a rainbow of hues on Saturday morning as the famed Color Run made its way to Michigan’s capital.
State lawmakers are looking to bring greater transparency and safety to hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, which has become a lightning rod for controversy in recent years.
As an agricultural school, MSU certainly has been sticking to its roots during the past few days. The fifth annual Michigan Livestock Expo, or MLE, was hosted at the MSU Pavilion for the fourth-straight year this past weekend. The MLE started on Thursday and included competitions for lambs, swine, beef and goats throughout the weekend. The Swine and Beef market shows took place on Sunday, and the MLE will continue until Tuesday.
Tucked in among several of the oldest buildings on campus, there stands Chittenden Hall. It is not being used and has gone unused for more than a decade. Formerly known as the Forestry Building, Chittenden Hall has been vacant since 1999. The Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, has worked to bring the historic building back to life and use it for its own services.
A Viking Blue 1976 Cutlass Supreme won State Sen. Rick Jones’s favorite car choice this year at the 24th annual Ledges Classic Auto Show at Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge Saturday afternoon. Since 1989, Fitzgerald Park has hosted Grand Ledge’s annual auto show during the second weekend in July, where people can enjoy a few days of music, prizes, awards, food and classic cars, some dating back over 100 years.
July marks International Zine Month, and people gathered Thursday at the Main Library to create, share and celebrate during the 24-Hour Zine Thing. Event participants tasked themselves with creating a zine in 24 hours or less.
Lansing Community College student Lang Thai always considered photography a hobby, but he never thought his nighttime photo of Spartan Stadium would land him a $50 Meijer gift card. This July, Thai seeks to continue his successful photography run in the East Lansing Community Photo Contest, where community members of all ages are invited to display their photogenic talent by submitting up to five photos taken in East Lansing.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1954, and working for U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Levin as a law clerk, George T. Roumell Jr. joined the Detroit College of Law as an adjunct professor in 1957. Now, nearly 60 years later, Roumell Jr. is the longest-serving faculty member at MSU College of Law.
Seated on a lawn chair on the divider on Grand River Avenue, graduate student Joseph Harris single-handedly protested the verdict of the controversial Trayvon Martin case on Sunday night. As the New York Times reported, in February 2012, Martin, a 17-year old black male was shot to death by George Zimmerman in Florida.
MSU scientists recently made discoveries about the biology of insects that will aid in the ongoing fight against summer’s peskiest pests. Ke Dong, MSU toxicologist and neurobiologist and senior author of the paper, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has a lab in MSU’s Department of Entomology that has been dedicated to the study of insecticides for the past 15 years.
Child’s play takes on a whole new meaning at the Robotics and Nanotechnology Camp offered for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. The program, directed by Dean Aslam, MSU professor of electrical and computer engineering, strives to introduce children to cutting edge technology while allowing them to get a hands-on experience. “The idea is to teach these new technologies to children — future scientists, future engineers,” Aslam said.
This August, MSU’s campus will play host to a world of champions for the 2013 World Dwarf Games. The games will include more than 400 athletes, with more than half from the United States.
Here in East Lansing, 7-Eleven hosts the annual 7-Eleven Day, or what is more commonly referred to as Free Slurpee Day every year on July 11.
In a turbulent past few weeks for indebted college students, with federally subsidized student interest rates doubling on July 1 to 6.8 percent, the news from Washington, D.C., on Wednesday offers no relief for concerned parents and students. With a 51-49 vote, the Keep Student Loans Affordable Act of 2013 failed to reach cloture, which would have ended debate and allowed for voting on approval by the Senate, falling nine votes shy of the required 60.
As economics senior Ayush Gupta explored the streets of Egypt last month, a rebel tour guide in tow, he took in two things: the illegal street vendors who lit up the night and the contempt many Egyptian people had toward their government.