Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page A3

OCAL TATE EDITOR: AL WILSON 377-1154 WWW.LSJ.COM WEDNESDAY MARCH12, 2014 3A Six inches of snow could it area by this morning Winter done with us et. he Lansing area and most southern Michigan are und er a winter storm watch with a many as 6 inches of snow ossible by noon today in Ing- am County. emperatures will hover a round 20 degrees this morn- i ng and drop to near zero by hursday, said John Kowal eski, a meteorologist with the ational Weather Service. The good news is that this i a short, two-day cold blast a nd then by Friday be ack up to 40 Kowal eski said. uring the peak of the torm, snow could accumulate a quickly as an inch per hour, he weather service said.

4Lansing men charged i weekend police chase Four Lansing men have een charged in connection ith a police chase Saturday the south side. he incident began about 5 :25 p.m. when officers respond ed to shots-fired calls in the 9 00 block of Long Boulevard, ansing police Public Informa- ion Officer Robert Merritt aid in a news release. fficers located a vehicle atching the description of ne being used by possible articipants in the shooting i ncident at South Cedar Street a nd Miller Road and tried to top the driver. olice pursued the vehicle est on Miller.

The chase end- within seconds when the ehicle struck a treenear the i ntersection of Miller and chafer roads, Merritt said. A ll four occupants ran from he vehicle but were later aught. No injuries were eported. arrion Lamon Caston, 18; arcell Davis, 18; Mario ante Ricks, 25; and Charles illiam Pops, 19, are charged ith felony resisting and ob- tructing a police officer. A investigation continues, a nd more charges are possible, erritt said.

A hearing to de- ermine whether they will tand trial on the charge is set or March 20 in 54A District ourt. staff reports IN BRIEF EAST LANSING Michigan tate graduate rograms in elementary and econdary education topped News World ankings for the first time in 1 995 and for the 20th time his year. A big part of this milestone i the consistency that een able to said onald Heller, dean of ollege of Education. he quality of a raduate programs typi- ally swing wildly from one ear to the next, but 20 consec- tive years, he noted, is still a reat run. I was predecessor, arole Ames, who led the col- ege through most of those ears.

In an interview shortly efore she stepped down as ean in 2011, she called the No. 1 ankings side You actually do hings to try to keep rankings, ut if doing the ight things, it comes along ith she said. lot of it is A nd it is. This year, 40 per- ent of a score omes from assessments by ducation school deans and chool superintendents. he balance of the calcula- ion is research activity 30percent), student selectiv- i ty (18 percent) and faculty re- ources (12 percent).

ut if the rankings are a side ffect, they also have become i ntegral to the College of Edu- identity. Certainly one of my goals is prevent those (rankings) rom dropping to No. Heller aid when he took the ob in 2012. noted on Tuesday hat they are important for ecruiting. When we meet with pros- ective graduate students, one the things we find is that hey are very aware of our he said.

verall, U.S. News ranked College of Education 1 5th in the nation. The univer- ity had a number of other ighly ranked programs. A mong them: Nuclear physics No. 1), industrial and organiza- ional psychology (No.

1), sup- ly (No. 2) and A frican history (No. 3). 20 YEARS AT THE HEAD OF THE CLASS gradeducation program shines U.S. News again anks program No.

1 By Matthew Miller Since 1965, Eva Evans has een a leader in education. he served in a number of a dministrative ositions in the ansing School istrict, from irector of ele- entary educa- ion to being the irst female dep- ty superintend ent of schools. vans was appointed to erve on the Michigan Council or the Humanities and was hairwoman of the Michigan epartment of Civil Rights. he worked to build part- erships with the community a a member of the Lansing oard of Water Light and as resident of the board of the nited Way. She developed a artnership with the American ed Cross to educate people a bout and to inc rease the number of black A mericans on the bone mar- ow registry.

Evans was the 2 4th international president of he Alpha Kappa Alpha Soror- i ty from 1994 to 1998. ISTORY MONTH Eva Evans a leader i field of education Eva Evans General Manager J. Peter ark updated Board of Water ight commissioners Tuesday ight on the city-owned rogress in implementing hanges to ensure customers ever again endure the hard- hips that accompanied the out- a ge caused by the December ice torm. 54 recommendations ade in response to the outage, ark emphasized: Increased tree-trimming Development of a crisis ommunications plan Repair of the outage man- a gement system The addition of an interact ive outage map New contracts for mutual a id from other utilities and ontractors And the hiring of more line orkers, dispatchers and potters trying to get the bot- lenecks out of the Lark old his board members. ree-trimming is so import ant, Lark said, that BWL is run- ing 18 crews indefinitely to try catch up on trimming after alling limbs from the Dec.

212 2 storm downed 2,400 lines and eft 40,000 customers without ower, some for nearly two eeks. WL had been trimming on a ive-to-seven-year cycle, he aid, but now will strictly ad- ere to a five-year schedule and ill consider going to a three- ear cycle. WL also is monitoring work tree-service contractors on a ICE STORM POWER OUTAGE BWLcitesprogressinlessonslearned Lark touts outage ap set for website By Steven R. Reed EATON Anthony Ianni strolled back and orth in the middle of the Eaton Rapids Middle School ymnasium Tuesday afternoon proof, he told the roup of 620 that anyone can exceed xpectations. he former Michigan State University basketball layer was 4 years old when he was diagnosed with a utism spectrum disorder.

At age 5, Ianni said, his pare nts were told by specialists: expect much for is much for that prediction. Before graduating rom MSU, Ianni would play NCAA college basket- all. Under coach Tom Izzo, Ianni was part of the 2010 a nd 2012 Big Ten regular-season champion and the 2 012 Big Ten tournament championship teams. He a lso went to the Final Four with the Spartans in 2010. ow, the Okemos High School graduate is an are the No.

1reason why life an go from terrible to terrific Former MSU basketball player Anthony Ianni speaks to Eaton Rapids students on Tuesday. MATTHEW DAE THE LSJ Ianni shares autism awareness, anti-bullying message By Rachel Greco Fae Owen, a sixth-grader at Eaton Rapids Middle chool, listens Tuesday to former MSU basketball layer Anthony Ianni as he discusses the importance family and friendship, and the importance of a wareness of autism and problems of bullying..