On Wednesday, the Potter Park Zoo, 1301 S. Pennsylvania Ave., in Lansing, officially welcomed in its newest animals — Seba’s short-tailed bats. Seba’s short-tailed bats are small, fruit-eating bats native to South and Central America, said Melissa Lincoln, one of the two primary caregivers for the bats.
From the knit German flag pillow lying on Kate Freiberger’s sofa to her excited talk of trips to Mexico, Costa Rica and Germany, Freiberger’s craving for diversity is shown in every aspect of her life.
Council of Graduate Students, or COGS, announced the discounted MSU vs. University of Michigan hockey game at Joe Louis arena deal sold out earlier this week. The package included transportation and ticket to the Feb. 2 rivalry game for $7. At the meeting, COGS also announced it will be a co-sponsor for the next Taste of East Lansing at its monthly full-council meeting Wednesday.
Warm weather might have been a factor in the high number of assaults and underage drinking arrests last weekend. East Lansing police arrested six minors for carrying alcohol, wrote nine minor in possession citations, and answered calls for three assaults, seven fights, nine thefts and one stolen vehicle, according to the weekend report. “For a winter month, coming back after break … it is a little higher than normal,” East Lansing police Capt.
For MSU Union Operations Supervisor Jeff Gooch, the Union has been a comforting home away from home for the past 32 years.
In 2011, almost 30 percent of the cigarettes smoked in Michigan were smuggled from other states, according to research from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which factored information from 47 of 48 states. Michael LaFaive, director of Morey Fiscal Policy for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said the high smuggling rate is partly because Michigan currently has the 10th highest tax rate at $2 per pack, according to statistics from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Well into Tuesday night, the East Lansing City Council discussed before a crowd of residents the future of the formerly proposed City Center II property, an ordinance that would allow those looking to sell their homes to rent them for a short period of time and approved the contract of East Lansing and Lansing Fire Department Chief Randy Talifarro. The council decided to send the proposition back to the planning commission for review and recomendations for the future of the site as well as attempt to solve the parking issue.
On Tuesday morning, Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., visited Lansing to speak about the future of agriculture, statewide and nationally, at a breakfast hosted by the Michigan Agri-Businesses Association. Stabenow said part of this comes from the support for Michigan’s universities and research institutions, such as MSU.
Most college students take out loans, earn scholarships or borrow money from family members to cover the cost of tuition. But according to recent studies, numerous MSU students also have turned to websites in search of “sugar daddies” to help pay for college. In 2012, MSU was ranked as the 16th fastest growing university for students to find sugar daddies — older men who pay to date younger women — on www.seekingarrangement.com. In 2011, MSU was ranked No. 9.
At the Tuesday Steering Committee meeting, some faculty voiced their opinions and objections to a requirement for all staff to provide documents verifying dependents on university health plans. Since the “Jan.
Economics senior Adam Mitchell said hasn’t been serious about quitting smoking before, but this time he quitcold turkey.
Chemical engineering professor Bruce Dale’s contributions to alternative energy only begin with the driving of his Chevy Volt.
East Lansing and Lansing Fire Department Fire Chief Randy Talifarro works between 40 and 50 hours a week, receives 100 or more emails a day and treks between East Lansing and Lansing daily. Adding time spent outside of work at city council meetings and other community events, his work week sometimes can stretch to nearly 70 hours.
When professional writing senior Brooke Hawkins first saw the new River Trail Neighborhood Engagement Center, she was amazed. Although Hawkins no longer lives in the residence halls, she works at the River Trail Neighborhood’s Writing Center. “If this had happened when I was living in the dorms, I probably would have been happier,” Hawkins said.
From age six, Allison Koning knew she wanted to be a nurse. The accelerated BSN program is a consecutive 14-month undergraduate nursing program in the College of Nursing.
After Eastern Michigan University police began using Tasers this month, MSU police and students are joining the debate of when and how they should be used on campus. MSU police have about 55 to 60 Tasers for all officers assigned to the road who complete a four-hour training, with renewed training every two years, said MSU police Sgt.
A Michigan law that required police to obtain a warrant before forcing State Rep. Bob Genetski to take a blood test for evidence of drunken driving now might be implemented nationally, pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The Supreme Court held oral arguments last week, but are expected in June to reach a decision on whether or not police should be able to draw blood samples from suspected drunken drivers without a warrant or consent from the driver, which currently is illegal in Michigan.
Sitting next to a table of board games and a bookshelf stocked with titles such as “The Gender Frontier” and “Lesbian and Gay Voices,” psychology senior and queer student Jennifer Wallsteadt made herself comfortable in the LGBT Resource Center, located in room 302 of Student Services.
The addition of a meditation room as part of the Butterfield Hall renovation project was announced at the Residence Halls Association, or RHA, media general assembly meeting last Wednesday. Residence Education and Housing Services Assistant Director of Communications Ashley Chaney displayed a board with the plan and images of the meditation room at last week’s meeting. The room is set to open in August of 2014.
America’s Tea Party movement might be losing its influence and followers, a recent survey shows. Rasmussen Reports released a poll last week that shows the Tea Party movement is at its lowest popularity ever. The poll, conducted Jan. 3 and 4 from 1,000 likely voters, found 8 percent of respondents identified as members of the Tea Party movement, down from a high of 24 percent in April 2010.