Mark Ruhala’s teacher gave him two choices: join the cast of the musical at East Lansing High School or fail his 10th-grade English class. Although his teenage self had a “very narrow point of view” about theater and dance, he chose the former and found he loved it enough to make it a career.
If MSU Photography Club president Allison Pluda, an environmental geosciences and environmental biology junior ever starts a business, it will be named Seneca Creek Photography, after the Maryland site near her childhood home.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
“(I drink coffee) because I’m sleepy and it’s not easy getting up and being alert at 7 in the morning for work and then (going) to class and then (doing) homework all night, so it helps.” Ryan Landfair accounting senior
To me, coffee is like an edible cigarette. It stains your teeth, it gives you bad breath, it’s addictive. And really, it doesn’t even taste that good.
I’m a coffee addict. I’m not ashamed, I don’t feel guilty and I don’t plan to quit. You can hound me with statistics, tell me it’s bad for my health and my wallet, that I should be able to face the day as a reasonable person without downing a mug or two, but I probably won’t listen or care.
Sick of spending most of your income at Starbucks? So are we. With this recipe, you can make a delicious latte without leaving the comfort of your own kitchen.
The student Paula Lawrence, landscape architecture sophomore The crib Bailey Hall The State News What influenced your design taste? Paula Lawrence I just like (the plants), plus I’m going into landscaping. I like decorating with plants. I prefer that over clichéd room designs that already come together with typical patterns or dorm room setups.
Here is a list of what is in and out in pop culture this week: Marshmallow Peeps/Jennifer Lopez debuting her two new little peeps Perez Hilton with normal-colored bad hair/Perez Hilton with neon-colored bad hair
Dr. D., I thought I would contact you about a problem I’ve noticed frequently on campus when these young coeds return from spring break. The problem I speak of is their glowing red faces — that for a large part is from their “indoor suntanning” — not the natural kind. The information about how ultraviolet lights may cause melanoma is out there, but I guess they just aren’t reading or are concerned about it. Could you say something? -AP
Around the world, if a person finds him or herself in a public bathroom with a Sharpie marker and a minute of free time, it’s usually enough of an excuse to warrant a banal message to the world.
Some of the most clever quotes can come to you in the most unexpected places. For Doug Rice, a 2005 Oakland University graduate, the unexpected place was a bathroom of the Oakland University library.
Brook Mark doesn’t care about numbers. Give her a 4, 6 or 8. Her closet has them all.
For any sports team, practice is the foundation of a good performance. But when Susan Ewart started the MSU equestrian team as an undergraduate student in the early 1980s, it wasn’t unusual for the team to attend a competition without much preparation.
Despite growing up on a lake, underwater hockey was a foreign concept to Tricia Simon, a veterinary medicine graduate student who had plenty of experience with water sports.
When Josh Higginson watched “Back to the Future” for the first time and saw Michael J. Fox riding a skateboard, he knew he had to try it. “There’s a scene at the beginning where Michael J. Fox is being towed behind a truck and that was the coolest thing I’d ever seen,” Higginson said.
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.
Will Steger moved from Minnesota three years ago to dedicate his time to raising global warming awareness.