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.
Outside of Elderly Instruments, the thumping of bass guitars permeates the parking lot. Upon entering the store, 1100 N. Washington Ave., in Lansing, the low rumble fades into the picking and strumming of guitars, banjos and mandolins, mixed with the chattering of customers looking to buy new wares or simply browse and hang out.
After working as an emergency medical technician specialist and radiographer while earning a degree in management and organizational development, Mary Kueppers was looking for a job that fit her background. Her current position as director of the Willed Body Program works perfectly.
What started as a fun mother-daughter pastime is now a tasty career for 22-year-old Kelly Kobus, the new owner of A Piece O’ Cake Bakery, 4966 Northwind Drive.
Jackie Minkel always asks her clients three questions: Where they’ve been, where they ‘re and where they are going.Minkel’s business began 30 years ago as a typing service for students and eventually evolved into A-1 Resume Service, located above P.T. O’Malley’s, 210 Abbot Road. All along, she had been typing people’s r?sum?s, but when a student asked her to create a r?sum?, Minkel fell in love with the process.