MSU
MSU tries to ease stress for Muslims during fast
Ramadan is an Islamic 30-day fasting period that some MSU Muslims describe as an important yet stressful religious holiday.
MICHIGAN
EL high school marching band raises money
Many East Lansing-area residents opened their doors to live music Sunday evening when members of the East Lansing High School marching band performed on front porches and accepted donations.
MICHIGAN
Narrowing of Hagadorn Road, Trowbridge Road sound wall topics of upcoming City Council meeting
The potential conversion of Hagadorn Road and the proposed construction of a sound wall near a local neighborhood will be among the topics discussed at Tuesday’s City Council work session.
MICHIGAN
LBGT students seek spiritual support
Father Mark Inglot sees St. John Student Parish, 327 M.A.C. Ave., as a microcosm of the world, inclusive of all MSU students, faculty and staff. Their support group, One Spirit, is a way for them to reach out to the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community looking to strengthen their spirituality.
NEWS
Auto union walks
LeAnne Franke thumbed a text message to her son, premedical freshman Thomas Franke, that said she was walking away from her job Monday at General Motors Corp.‘s Lansing Delta Township plant.
MICHIGAN
Mich. citizens unhappy with state budget progress
With Michigan facing a $1.75 billion shortfall and the start of the new fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, the state risks a government shutdown if a solution is not reached in time.
NEWS
Iranian president speaks at Columbia University
New York — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ruffled American feathers Monday afternoon when he spoke out about the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and cast doubt on the Holocaust at an appearance at Columbia University.
NEWS
Mich. public turns against Legislature over budget
Despite the Michigan Senate passing about $950 million in cuts on Monday and negotiations floating between both chambers, citizens are losing faith in a government that is facing an impending budget deadline.
NEWS
Democrats and Republicans debate budget
“No real progress.” After a weekend of little movement and a failed vote on an income tax increase Thursday night, those were the words of Phyllis Washburn, spokeswoman for House Minority Leader Craig DeRoche, R-Novi.
MSU
Center gives MSU taste of Japan
Dressed in happi, a traditional Japanese workman’s festival clothing, four drummers crouched low to the stage, extending their front legs while pounding two miya taiko, or barrel drums. Their movements were inspired by the movement of fishermen pulling in nets of fish on the Japanese island of Miyake.
MSU
Clinic to teach medical technique
Dr. Adam Feinstein will teach participating MSU students how to use Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, or OMM, as a therapeutic technique. The clinic will take place beginning at 7 p.m. today in E106 Fee Hall.
MSU
$3.5M grant to aid MSU farming
With the help of a $3.5 million grant, MSU is hoping to expand the market for environmentally friendly food grown on Michigan farms. The grant, awarded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, will help the university establish a facility where researchers will study the effects of cows grazing on pastures rather than on corn. The center, located at the Kellogg Biological Station, will also help establish markets for products produced from the pasture-grazing animals.
MICHIGAN
Calif. college offers students YouTube class
With film of a baby laughing hysterically or a bawling fan blubbering about Britney Spears, videos on YouTube.com tend to lure students away from their studies. For a class at a private, liberal arts college in California, students’ entire grade depends on posting, watching or commenting on such videos.
MSU
Islamic school observes Ramadan
Ramadan at the Greater Lansing Islamic School, 920 S. Harrison Road, means double recess time for sixth-grader Mohamed Hassan and his friends to play soccer and swing on the swings. Since he is fasting — like many other Muslims during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan — he doesn’t need his lunch hour.
MICHIGAN
Graduates flee state as Mich. jobs disappear
A week after Ana Almonte graduated with a civil engineering degree in May, she left the state for a job with an engineering firm in Florida. “There’s just not too many opportunities in Michigan right now because of the economy,” said Almonte, who began working with CH2M Hill, an engineering and construction management company in Orlando.
MSU
MSU students hold protest to support cause of Jena Six
Hundreds of students, dressed in black and green to show their solidarity, gathered at the rock on Farm Lane Thursday to show their support for the six black teenagers charged in a school fight in Jena, La.
MICHIGAN
Republican candidates address Mich. issues
Republican student leaders migrated to Mackinac Island during the weekend for the Republican Leadership Conference, which featured many of the 2008 presidential candidates.
MSU
MSU names new media director
During the time he spent at the United States Military Academy at West Point, Kent Cassella was known for being on the cutting edge of media communications. Cassella was named MSU’s director of media communications last week, a position that has been vacant since January. He worked at West Point from 2002-07 as chief of media relations and public information, then as director of public relations.
MICHIGAN
Convicted murderer to have new trial
A motion for a new trial has been filed by Ingham County Prosecutor Stuart Dunnings III in the case against convicted murderer Claude McCollum.
MSU
Fasting shows sign of faith
Samantha Dresser, a psychology senior, sees fasting on the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur as a cleansing tradition. For 25 hours beginning tonight at sundown, she will abstain from eating and drinking in order to finish out the Jewish High Holiday season, which began last week with Rosh Hashanah – the Jewish new year.