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.
City residents looking to get their game on can sign up for the East Lansing Department of Parks, Recreation and Arts spring and summer adult softball leagues.
Aspiring artists or residents with an interest in art still can apply for the East Lansing Arts Commission’s upcoming project after the commission extended the registry deadline to the end of April.
While East Lansing revelers fill their cups with green beer today, police and a student group will work to keep drunken drivers off the city’s roads.
ASMSU hopes to ban exotic animal acts from MSU. Its Student Assembly passed a bill at a joint meeting March 5 to mandates this goal. The bill will be presented to Academic Assembly at a meeting today.
In what the U.S. Department of Education has called “a historic investment,” President Barack Obama proposed expanding financial aid offered to college students. And although the stipulations of the proposal — which include an expansion of funding for the Federal Perkins Loan Program from $1 billion to $6 billion per year — would not go into effect until 2010, MSU officials agreed current high school seniors should not take a year off in hope of saving money.
Having early morning classes Wednesday might deter students from drinking green beer and wearing shamrock paraphernalia today, but the economy most likely won’t. The number of people going out has remained the same, but instead, many are spending less, said Paul Stewart, general manager of Crunchy’s, 254 W. Grand River Ave.
The Council of Graduate Students will hold its first Graduate Academic Conference at 9 a.m. Friday, on the second floor of the Union.
When Tom Luster left to visit family members in Chicago last weekend, he brought along a bunch of bananas to the Windy City for his father. Luster knew his dad loved to eat bananas and worried his hotel wouldn’t have any at breakfast.
Several MSU research projects will receive more funding after President Barack Obama signed a controversial $410 billion spending bill last week packed with billions of dollars in earmarks.
Although charitable giving to higher education in the U.S. reached an all-time high in fiscal 2008, MSU officials don’t expect that trend to continue this year. Last year, $31.6 billion was given to the nation’s universities and colleges, according to the Council for Aid to Education.
A second MSU football player pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges originating from an October brawl at an off-campus party, officials from East Lansing’s 54-B District Court said.
A debate that has raged for several years within Michigan during the existence of a breeding population of cougars will come to East Lansing next week. Dennis Fijalkowski, a wildlife executive who has spoken to residents in the past, will be at the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbot Road, on March 26 to talk about cougars.
Regions where people have “old-fashioned values” have discovered a way to have some newfound fun. People in states that tend to be politically and socially conservative subscribe to pornography Web sites more frequently than their more liberal counterparts, a Harvard study concluded.
Speaking out could have potentially unwelcome consequences for faculty participating in academic governance. A California case in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could define whether faculty speech during governance proceedings is protected under the First Amendment, said Steve Sanders, an attorney with the Mayer Brown law firm in Chicago, who is representing the American Association of University Professors, or AAUP, in the court case.
The case against former ASMSU official Nigel Scarlett, accusing him of sexually assaulting a woman on campus last year, was dismissed Tuesday, court officials said.
MSU and Michigan Tech scientists will partner and use $1.4 million in federal funding to solve complex issues surrounding the biofuel industry.
The MSU College of Nursing will receive $1.1 million in grants to address a shortage of nurses and nursing educators.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon presented the university’s budget to ASMSU at a joint meeting March 5 and explained how a shortage of state funds has affected it.