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MSU hockey’s Charlie Stramel signs contract with Minnesota Wild
Michigan State hockey’s senior center Charlie Stramel is headed home. Stramel, a Minnesota native, signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Minnesota Wild, beginning with the 2026-27 season. He will not play for any of the Wild’s affiliates as he broke his ankle in the first period of MSU’s final game; a 4-3 overtime loss to Wisconsin. He remains out for the rest of the 2025-26 season. Stramel finished his senior season with a career-best 44 points (19 goals, 25 assists). He posted a plus-29 rating and tied for the national lead in game-winning goals with seven. Stramel ranked second nationally with 483 faceoff wins this season, leading the team. He was a dangerous net-front player who regularly generated offense for the Spartans. Stramel was a first-round draft pick to the Wild in the 2023 NHL Draft. He was selected 21st overall and will sport his MSU number, 15, when he plays for the Wild.
Proposed Lansing data center scrapped hours before council meeting
The company behind a proposed $120 million data center in downtown Lansing has scrapped the project. In a post shared to Facebook Monday afternoon, Lansing City Council President Peter Spadafore announced that Deep Green, the United Kingdom-based technology company that had proposed constructing a two-story, 25,000-square-foot facility, withdrew their proposal mere hours before Monday’s city council meeting. The council was set to vote to rezone a parcel of land to allow a data center. It’s not immediately clear why Deep Green withdrew the proposal. On Monday afternoon, CEO Mark Lee wrote in a statement to WKAR that the company’s “commitment to building data centers the right way has never been stronger.”
‘Tipflation’ a drain on students’ wallets
It’s a common dilemma for many Michigan State University students ordering a cup of coffee, grabbing a sandwich to go or purchasing any host of items on Grand River Avenue: Your cashier turns a small tablet to face you, forcing you contemplate whether to tip 18%, 20% or 25%. Some students say the price of continually tipping is starting to catch up. The phenomenon of rising tip costs isn’t just a figment in the imaginations of students, however. It has a name: Tipflation. As inflation has pushed prices for consumers upwards, the value of tips has increased, too. The sizes of tips have also grown in recent years, and consumers are being asked to tip more often. Michael McCall, a professor in MSU’s school of hospitality and business, is an expert on tipping culture in the U.S. He says the phenomenon of Tipflation brings together the social and technical. Researchers like McCall have attributed the increasing price of tips to a variety of factors, though no single cause is solely responsible. Tipping culture is becoming more commonplace, tip amounts are changing and new checkout systems are adding more social pressure to tip. “You are doing something for me, so I feel like I should return the favor. A lot of us have worked as servers before. We know what it’s like. And a good part of it is social norms,” said McCall.
