If you can’t go to the Main Library, it can now come to you. Students have searched MSU’s databases from their homes since the library’s catalog went online.
The first chords ring out from the basement, carried upstairs by air tinged with smoke and the unmistakable smell of cheap beer.
They flip, dip, turn and twist on rails, concrete or any surface they can get their hands on.And they do it on four wheels.They are skateboarders - an increasingly popular sport that is taking over the East Lansing and Lansing areas.“I used to be a surfer, but since I’m stuck in Michigan, skateboarding is the next best thing,” MSU-Detroit College of Law junior Rich Decky said.
If you’re sick of Bell’s 89-cent pizza, maybe it’s time for a more upscale change. East Lansing has many fine-dining restaurants to cater to students’ and residents’ tastes. Evergreen Grill, 327 Abbott Road, offers a menu with selections ranging from fresh fish to pastas to poultry.
Security officials around the world could be better prepared for protecting the globe after participating in an online institute offered by MSU. The Global Community Security Institute is an online program that educates and certifies security officials and public servants to improve security and safety. The programs, stemming from some already existing and others newly formed, can be custom designed for individual organizations or communities. Community officials from across the nation have shown interest in participating in programs like the global institute, said Ed McGarrell, director of the School of Criminal Justice. “Obviously we want to first meet the needs of Michigan, but we’re thinking nationally as well,” he said. The program is funded entirely by federal dollars from the homeland security initiative, he said. “Every community within the state and country since Sept.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream, especially in the summer.While July was National Ice Cream Month and July 21 was National Ice Cream Day, local residents are still coming in droves to ice cream parlors to indulge in the tempting treats.“I love ice cream,” Okemos resident Nelu Azadnia said earlier this summer.
Thursday • The Lansing Lugnuts play Kane County at 6:05 p.m. at Oldsmobile Park, 505 E.
The home computer market has long been a two-sided coin, with consumers being divided into two groups - the proud PC camp, and the fiercely loyal Apple camp.
Okemos - The 3.5-foot-thick slab of reinforced concrete will ensure that materials being tested by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering won’t budge - even when they’re hit with simulated earthquakes, fires, explosions and pressures in the new Civil Infrastructure Laboratory.
If you’ve always sucked at sports but dreamed of playing for the Tigers, hitting the game-winning home run in extra innings or dunking over Shaquille O’Neal as the point guard for the Pistons, then you might be a video game player. Or maybe you just don’t have any friends, and the combobulation of pixels beaming with light make for a good replacement when the hours drag by. If you don’t play video games, get a friggin’ console already.
College students throughout the decades have long searched for ways to express themselves through music and spoken words.
The line stretches out the door, guys and girls draped in the latest fashions rhythmically bob their heads to the sound system resonating from within.Anticipation is high as 18-year-olds are about to get a taste of area nightlife.Once again, The Dollar Nightclub, 3411 E.
People looking for an early-morning caffeine boost or a sweet treat don’t have to head off campus.Barista Cafe, which opened in February 2001, is in a quaint little spot in the lobby of South Case Hall.
Students who are away from home for the first time often miss their families, friends and pets.The traditional cures for homesickness, of course, are a phone call or a trip home.But Fido can’t talk on the phone.So students who miss their beloved pets can turn to the MSU Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital.The hospital has a program that lets people check out a dog to walk for half an hour during the hospital’s normal business hours, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m, Monday-Friday.Gretchen McDaniel, who has worked as a vet technician for about 18 years, said the free program began gradually, with a few students coming in and asking if there were any dogs they could walk.McDaniel said the clinic can’t allow people’s ill pets to be sent out, but there are about six to 10 dogs used as blood donors that live there.“That’s kind of how it started,” she said.
“You are here.”The little red “X” on the map details your exact position on campus, yet everything surrounding that “X” looks foreign to you.
Allison Coleman may be a senior, but she remembers decorating her dorm room like it was yesterday.“We had everything from Christmas lights to a ‘Little Mermaid’ poster,” the 20-year-old psychology major said.It’s that time again when the dorms open up their lonely, dusty rooms and the local stores get ready to help freshmen make the small space livable, and even attractive.“I lived in Landon my freshman year and I won’t lie, the space was tight, but you have to make the best of it,” Coleman said.
Residents looking for a nearby outdoor adventure have a couple more weeks to consider canoeing on the Red Cedar River. During the summer months, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, MSU Concessions offers a canoeing service for the MSU community. “We offer this service because we feel that some things are just good for the community,” said Bill Kost, operations manager at MSU Concessions.
Sitting at a bank of monitors, an operator stares at his control panels. The monitors display dot graphs and a sterile white row of panels bristle with dials, switches and keys that the technician toggles and presses to get a stream of charged nuclear particles running again.
Hip-hop lover Jamil Buie stood on Toronto’s club-lined Younge Street one Sunday afternoon in early August, soaking in the music and the culture that he loves. “There’s people here from all over the planet,” the 1999 MSU graduate described over the telephone.
MSU could attract more than proteins and molecules if all goes as planned.Spartan leaders hope to make campus home to one of the largest magnetic spectrometers in the United States.“We also hope it will attract faculty,” said Shelagh Ferguson-Miller, co-director of the Center for Structural Biology.The machine, a 900-megahertz nuclear magnetic resonance instrument, is set to be paid for by the Life Sciences Corridor.Corridor officials approved the program’s budget for the this year, including $4.5 million for the instrument, in June.The Life Sciences Corridor is a grant program initiated in 1999 to spend more that $1 billion on biochemistry projects during a span of 20 years.The program links the research efforts of Van Andel Institute in Grand Rapids, MSU, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University and is funded by part of the state’s tobacco settlement money.The new magnetic instrument will join a team of eight others.