Michigan State’s Summer Circle Theatre celebrated its 50th anniversary Thursday with a gala and fundraiser — complete with actors in wardrobe — at the Fairchild Theatre. Proceeds from the event will toward upgrading the performers’ audio equipment.
SADD hosted a noodle eating contest and fundraiser at Noodles & Company, 205 E. Grand River Ave., Thursday night, between 10 local police officers. Five members of the MSU and East Lansing police departments ate bowls of noodles one at a time in competition for the “Pig Bowl” trophy.
The smoke is set to clear Saturday when a statewide smoking ban goes into effect, and many East Lansing residents and establishments said they see a positive future for businesses and society. Restaurant owners said implementing the law in May instead of when it was passed in December will help customers adjust while the weather is conducive to being outside.
Under a revision to a university policy, appointments to fixed-term employee positions made on or after March 1 can be ended before contractual expiration dates for budgetary reasons. The policy requires written notice be given to the employee 30 days before the date of termination.
This year will mark the 14th annual Pack Up, Pitch In, Help Out program at MSU as students prepare to leave for the summer. The program helps to promote environmental sustainability on campus by providing easy ways for students to recycle plastics, white paper, mixed paper, wood and carpet.
One week after he was elected Student Assembly Chairperson, Eric Branoff has resigned. Branoff gave up his seat at ASMSU’s Student Assembly meeting Thursday night to accept a scholarship to study Arabic for a year in Amman, Jordan.
When he was ordained in December 2008 after recovering from serious health complications, a pastor in the audience came up and said Jacque McDaniel would one day have his own church. On Tuesday, that proclamation will begin to come true.
Students looking to squeeze one last learning experience from MSU can attend this year’s concluding Brown Bag lecture at the MSU Museum Auditorium on Friday.
For Tim Potter, being around bicycles — fixing them, selling them and riding them — was a big part of growing up in Okemos and his years at MSU. Potter, now the manager of the MSU Bikes Service Center, was part of the East Lansing Bike Co-op in the 1970s and has provided some of his past experience and advice to the newly organized Lansing Bike Co-op leading up to its Spring Launch Party held Wednesday.
East Lansing community members had one of their final chances to ask questions and raise concerns about the city’s 2011 budget at the final community-wide budget forum on Wednesday night at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
The fire that destroyed a building in the Trappers Cove Apartments, 3001 Trappers Cove Trail, in Lansing, is being ruled an accident, Lansing Fire Department Capt. Maggie Murphy said.
David Cooper, head of the sociology department at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, will speak at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday.
With the help of the MSU Product Center for Agricultural and Natural Resources, 11 Michigan cheesemakers will work together to promote and market local artisanal cheeses as the Michigan Cheese Makers Cooperative.
Ashley Morris, a 24-year-old MSU student pursuing a master’s degree in human resources and industrial relations and a second-year law student, was named the recipient of the 2010 Daniel Rosenthal Legislative Intern award.
The East Lansing City Clerk’s office will issue and accept applications for absentee voter ballots from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday as the city prepares for Tuesday’s special general election.
MSU colleges have collaborated to establish the Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing Inclusion Through Research Award. Interested applicants must be able to demonstrate personal effort, which includes King’s passion of inclusion. The application is due by 5 p.m. Nov. 1.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm plans to sign the three-bill package to ban texting while driving during a broadcast of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on Friday in Detroit. The ban will take effect July 1.
The East Lansing City Council discussed a staff recommendation Tuesday to secure up to $3 million in bonds for costs related to the Avondale Square. The Avondale Square project is a 30-home development located on the 600 block of Virginia Avenue.
For more than 10 weeks, hundreds of engineering students have worked on project designs they hope will wow judges from MSU and the engineering industry and earn them a decent grade.
More than 7,500 children in India will be vaccinated against measles thanks to a group of MSU students. After a study abroad experience at Shanti Ashram, a nongovernmental organization in Southern India dedicated to rural development, students created MSU Students Advancing International Development, or MSU SAID. They now have raised more than $15,000 for the community they worked last summer, said the group’s adviser, Dan Dutkiewicz.