The room was instantly silent. The envelopes were about to be distributed, each one containing potentially life-changing content. Family and friends grew quiet, having anticipated this day for a long time.
Police on and off campus reported a relatively simple St. Patrick’s Day, despite the holiday keeping their departments slightly busier compared to last year. East Lansing police Chief Tom Wibert said his department made 20 arrests on Tuesday.
Students could keep some money in their pockets and off their utility bills next winter if East Lansing receives money from the $787 billion stimulus package to improve energy conservation in rental properties.
In the hope of reducing the workload of chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian position Tuesday to take on some of McDonald’s duties.
Starting today in Washington, D.C., MSU will lead a national celebratory conference for Title VI, the federal program that helped shift the university’s mission statement from “land-grant” to “world-grant” university during the past 50 years.
Keeping young, educated workers in Michigan has been touted as a key to getting the state’s economy back on track, and one MSU professor is studying how to make it a possibility.
The cooperative house known as the Beal House, 525 M.A.C. Ave., likely will have a completely new look next year after a vote by the Student Housing Cooperative Inc. to purchase and renovate the house in time for the fall 2009 semester.
ASMSU’s Academic Assembly created a parliamentarian officer position who will assume the duties of the internal vice chairperson Tuesday. The position was created to decrease the workload of assembly chairperson pro-tempore Brad McDonald, who had taken on the duties of chairperson after Christopher Kulesza resigned from the position Feb. 17.
Two female roommates returned from spring break to find their Case Hall room was broken into, apparently so the intruders could smoke marijuana, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Hurling beer cans at police and similar actions during a riot have now been defined as prosecutable acts after the East Lansing City Council on Tuesday night approved an ordinance that clarifies riot conduct.
Along with Wall Street executives and employees, the business schools that trained them are now under fire for their failure to avert a near-collapse of the economy. Instead of feeling burned, however, schools are using the recent meltdown as an example to teach students to avoid similar mistakes in the future.
Following the lifting of a ban on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research last week, MSU researchers could receive federal funding for their work for the first time in eight years.
East Lansing business owner Richard Hall has seen many businesses come and go during his 30 years in town. Lately, he’s seen a few more going than coming along Grand River Avenue. Hall, a co-owner of Campus Barbers Inc., 621 E. Grand River Ave., said he doesn’t believe the vacancies are caused purely by poor economic conditions.
Police received fewer reports of spring break home invasions and burglaries this year for the fourth consecutive year, according to numbers released by the East Lansing Police Department.
MSU researchers, as part of a new partnership with Michigan Children’s Trust Fund, or CTF, will examine the media’s effect on child abuse in today’s society. The CTF — a statewide child abuse prevention foundation — will work with MSU’s Children’s Central, a program that is part of the university’s Department of Advertising, Public Relations and Retailing.
There could be one benefit to the down economy this summer — low gas prices. The traditional summer spike in gas prices that contributed to last year’s $4 per gallon peak might be weathered in 2009 because of the global recession.
Take a 60-minute lecture and cut it down to 60 seconds. Remove some details, excess verbiage and anecdotes. Only the key concepts remain.
A 55-year-old female employee at the Shaw Hall cafeteria reported an envelope containing $300 stolen from her purse, which was stored in her office desk, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
As city officials prepare for a second public hearing and possible vote tonight on an ordinance that clarifies riot conduct, drafters of the ordinance said they continue to receive positive feedback from students.
The East Lansing Citizens’ Police Academy will be holding its graduation at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Courtroom 2 of the 54-B District Court, 101 Linden St.