Although you visit MSU buildings every day, do you know where their names come from? Here’s a list of some buildings and their namesakes.
From Texas to Chicago, to searching for vinyl in East Lansing, Jessica Cohen knows how to get around in comfort and style. She forgoes the latest trends while keeping an up-do-date, unique style.
Former president Bill Clinton is calling on college students to tackle both local and global problems to make the world a better place with his newest initiative, the Clinton Global Initiative University, or CGI U.
With one slip onstage, Ruth Fisk ended her modern dancing career with a sprained neck. But when her former instructor recommended trying yoga, Fisk took one class and never looked back. “The class was physical, it was internal, it was emotional, it was spiritual — but it all was rolled into one,” the Okemos resident said.
Many MSU students would love to spend their bleak winter weekends on the ski slopes. Juliette King, an agribusiness management and horticulture senior, and about 50 other members of MSU’s Alpine Ski and Snowboard team do that.
Kalli Halpern likes to draw customers into her art gallery with an array of color in the window. Her medium of choice? Greeting cards.
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 fewer, at a new face on campus and her perspective on her new frontier.
The art of letter writing might be lost, but the elegance of letter embossing is not. Although the look is classy, embossing – the process of adding a 3-D embellishment to stationary or envelope – isn’t cheap.
Could you please tell me what the most “satisfying sexual act” was that women reported in your survey, which you referenced in a column a few weeks ago? You said to wait for an upcoming column, so I’ve been waiting, but would like to know.
The stages are torn down, the models are back to eating and Marc Jacobs can finally stop visiting the tanner. New York Fashion Week has come to a close. The fall 2008 ready-to-wear fashions were unpredictable and had virtually no common theme.
Amanda Stephens’ Lansing apartment is not what you would expect from a college student. The interior design senior’s Dover’s Crossings digs feature multicolored walls and hand-painted detailing to mimic wallpaper.
Letters have played a quiet but important role in mankind’s history. Famous writings such as Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, Napoleon Bonaparte’s love letters to Josephine de Beauharnais, and Ronald Reagan’s letter to the United States’ citizens announcing he had Alzheimer’s disease, show letter writing has existed in Western culture from the earliest known literate communities to the present.
In 1844 Samuel Morse sent the first telegraph message, which said “What hath God wrought?” I’m pretty sure that’s the 19th century equivalent of sending a text message to friends reading “OMG!”
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, many people are putting away the keyboard and picking up the pen and paper to scroll love notes and cards for their sweeties. In honor of the holiday, we asked MSU students if they still write letters.
Pretending to be Oscar the Grouch, acting like an Amish out-of-towner in New York City and dressing up like a pirate might sound like three years’ worth of Halloween costume ideas. But for Jason Wilder Evans, that’s just a typical Thursday night.
Lauren Dykstra only needed one honest critic when she picked out her first pair of glasses three years ago.
Ron Burgundy. Tom Izzo. Little Orphan Annie. Two out of these three characters may be fictional, but Tuesday night, all three of them graced the stage of Breslin Center for “Will Ferrell’s Funny or Die College Comedy Tour.”
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 fewer, at a new face on campus and his perspective on his new frontier.