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Gas prices are pinching young adults in East Lansing

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Data from https://gasprices.aaa.com/?state=MI

If you’ve gone to fill up your tank at the gas station recently you would’ve noticed that the final receipt was a lot higher than usual. Russia supplies about 10% of U.S. gas and with the new sanctions on barrels of oil coming from Russia the prices are only expected to rise.. As of March 23 the average gas price in East Lansing is $4.13 per gallon. This has been a dramatic change from this time last year when it was just $2.70 a gallon on average. For young adults and especially college students it has been a struggle paying for gas.

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Artist displaying at Hannah inspires, is inspired by others

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Owen OszustYvette Robinson got an early start in a home filled with art. Yvette Robinson has been creating art for a long time. Her passion for it started when she was just a little girl. “When we were getting out of the bathtub at night, my mom had a room with all sorts of crafts, music and books. Before you knew it was a room with an artsy type of communication,” said Robinson.

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MSU super fan gets support from the Spartan’s sports teams with his battle with cancer

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MSU women’s basketball head coach Suzy Merchant, Steven Divietri and MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo

The motto for the Michigan State football team this past season was to “Keep Chopping.”  For East Lansing native Steven Divietri it was a similar mindset with his battle with cancer. “It keeps me going and keeps me level headed,” said Divietri

“When I first met Mel Tucker, he looked at me and did the chop sign,” said Divietri. After a while of talking, Tucker, the MSU head football coach, invited Steven to a Spartans practice. Divietri, father of two, was just recently diagnosed with aplastic anemia and has been getting blood transmissions regularly. “I have six months to live if I get tired of treatment,” said Divietri, who has been a Michigan State fan for life.

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Curving path through snow on campus.

Positives of the pandemic: we’re prepped and ready to work online

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Owen OszustUnshoveled path on MSU’s North Campus on Thursday evening. The snow continued to pile up Wednesday morning in East Lansing, leading to uncertainty for both students and faculty on how they would continue their work or school. There haven’t been very many positives to the pandemic, but it has allowed a majority of the East Lansing community to stay on track and not fall behind. Marina Scott is an executive staff assistant with MSU’s government relations office, one of many workers who worked fro home Wednesday. “We can just move a lot of our meetings over Zoom and stay up to date,” said Scott.