Mich. Legislature working on reducing overdraft fees
Black Friday might be a little brighter during future holiday shopping seasons if legislation to protect consumers from excessive overdraft fees makes it through the Michigan Legislature.
Black Friday might be a little brighter during future holiday shopping seasons if legislation to protect consumers from excessive overdraft fees makes it through the Michigan Legislature.
When Alexandria Henry found out she was named a vice president of the National Future Farmers of America, she couldn’t believe her ears.
East Lansing Police have released the name of the 22-year-old MSU student who died early Saturday morning. Environmental soil science and chemistry senior Brian McMillen was found dead at about 5:30 a.m.
As of Sunday night, police had not released the identity of the 22-year-old MSU student who died early Saturday morning after a roommate found him unresponsive on his bedroom couch at Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity, 432 Evergreen Ave.
The Community Relations Coalition will host a holiday coat drive from 6-8 p.m. Dec. 5 in the Lincoln Room of the Kellogg Center.
Downtown Lansing was illuminated with a holiday glow Friday as the streets were filled with light-covered trees, businesses and horse-drawn carriages. About 150,000 students and area residents gathered at the 25th annual Silver Bells in the City tree-lighting event to kick off the holiday season.
Although Cletissa Hogue’s personal stance on clean energy efforts remains uncertain, Hogue said the key to becoming a leading energy-conscious country remains in gaining independence.
ASMSU’s efforts to co-sponsor a December concert with Breslin Center have fizzled and the group now is working alone on a potential spring concert that likely will happen in February.
Finance sophomore Vishal Shah reenacts the battles of gods every week.
A 22-year-old MSU student who was found unresponsive early today in his Alpha Gamma Rho bedroom was pronounced dead later this morning at Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital, East Lansing police Lt. Kevin Daley said.
The All-of-Us Express Children’s Theatre received three grants to support children’s theater and a winter production of “How Reading Came Back to Nowhere” at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road.
A presentation by MSU associate professor of history Kirsten Fermaglich titled “Becoming Someone Else: Jewish Name-changing, Employment and Class Mobility in Mid-Twentieth Century New York City,” will be held at 12:15 p.m. today at the MSU Museum auditorium.
Grant Gillett, a neurosurgeon and philosopher from the University of Otago in New Zealand, will present a lecture titled “A Workshop on Ethical and Conceptual Dimensions of States of Minimal Consciousness” from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today in the Heritage Room of the Kellogg Center.
Despite Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s plea for students to actively fight for the Michigan Promise Scholarship, turnout of MSU students at a rally Wednesday was lower than at other university rallies in Michigan.
MSU students and East Lansing residents might have to trek to the Frandor Shopping Center to renew their driver’s licenses in upcoming years.
The first few minutes of Wednesday night in Ballroom B of the Kellogg Center could be best described as “hungry.” But by the end of the Fall 2009 Visiting Chef Series’ Taste of Michigan, reactions ranged from “extremely satisfied” to “ecstatic.”
One of MSU’s governing bodies is giving nonmembers a voice in MSU’s Academic Governance system. On Tuesday, Academic Council unanimously voted to allocate 10 minutes for public comment at the beginning of its remaining meetings this academic year. The time will allow up to five people to speak for up to two minutes each.
A group of Google applications for MSU faculty and students will make sharing information and working collaboratively on projects only a click away. Google Apps for Education at MSU launched Thursday and provides a suite of applications for the university community such as Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Calendar.
In the midst of two Taser-related officer suspensions within the past week in Michigan, East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said the city’s department has had no issues involving Tasers.
For Yuri Mishina, finding companies engaged in illegal activities doesn’t mean turning to the news.