Updating your closet can be an expensive and stressful task. Instead of buying a new piece of clothing, new looks can be made within that old closest of yours — or your boyfriend’s.
According to the 2010 U.S. Census, more than 5.2 million people identified themselves as part of the American Indian and Alaska Native category, whether alone or in combination with other races — a 27 percent growth from the 2000 Census.
The Lansing and East Lansing metropolitan area has been ranked top in the country among 100 metropolitan areas for job creation in manufacturing, goods producing and transportation and utilities, according to data from The Urban Institute released last week.
The kooky characters and supernatural scenarios of a creepy American classic have come together once again to tell the tale of an unusual family. The musical comedy “The Addams Family,” which focuses on the life of the family many remember from Charles Addams’ cartoons and the classic TV show, opens Tuesday night and will run until Sunday in Wharton Center’s Cobb Great Hall.
This year’s freshmen are working harder and playing less compared to previous years, according to a national survey. The 2011 Cooperative Institutional Research Program, or CIRP, Freshman Survey shows first-year college students are entering college showing attitudes reflecting higher study priorities, less desire to party and more behaviors leading toward better academic success, said Linda DeAngelo, assistant director for research at CIRP. The survey polled more than 200,000 students nationwide and was administered by CIRP — the research arm of the Higher Education Research Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.
RHA Director of Movie Offices Justin Love said at last week’s RHA meeting, despite looking into fixing the problem, only Akers Hall remains open for rental.
When junior Mallory Londeck first got involved with MSU’s student radio program Impact (89FM) as a freshman, she never expected it would lead her into a future in broadcast journalism.
This time last year, Shanthi Teike had the world in front of her. Then a sophomore on the MSU gymnastics team, Teike was a rising star in the Spartan ranks coming off a freshman season, which made people take notice. As a sophomore, Teike competed as an all-around gymnast in seven of the team’s 12 matches and finished with three first-place, five second-place and three third-place honors leading into the NCAA Corvallis Regional.
With the MSU women’s basketball team (13-9 overall, 5-4 Big Ten) sliding from first to sixth in the conference after losing four straight games, head coach Suzy Merchant said her team needed a game to turn the tides.
For the second game in a row, the No. 9 MSU men’s basketball team likely will be without the services Travis Trice. The freshman guard sustained a groin injury in a loss to Michigan on Jan. 17.
The column by Craig Pearson (“Empathy, passion make us human,” SN 1/17) about empathy is enlightening.
A few weeks ago, millions of concerned citizens gathered to topple a great injustice in their government. However, this gathering did not occur in Cairo, New York, or any other city around the world for that matter — it happened in cyberspace.
Athletics Director Mark Hollis is making improvements to Spartan Stadium and the MSU football program, but the program’s gain could be fans’ financial loss.
The consensus among East Lansing City Council members was clear during discussions last Friday: the best candidate for the city manager position worked right down the hallway.
MSU’s College of Human Medicine is continuing its expansion in Grand Rapids with the $12 million purchase of the Grand Rapids Press headquarters and surrounding parking lots.
Gov. Rick Snyder and MSU administrators both showed support for President Barack Obama’s call to suppress the rising cost of college, which he outlined in a speech at the University of Michigan last Friday.
The first phase of construction for the multimillion dollar Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, was approved by the MSU Board of Trustees at their meeting last Friday, along with several other campus construction projects.
A 43-year-old female MSU employee reported a wooden step stool stolen from the Main Library between 10 p.m. Jan 14, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
In MSU athletics lore, Kirk Gibson and Earl Morrall stand head and shoulders above most for their time in East Lansing and beyond. Nearly 600 people came out to honor Morrall and Gibson at the 2012 MSU Baseball First Pitch Dinner Saturday at the Kellogg Center.
Last year, Derrick Nix and Garrick Sherman made for a unique friendship. This season, with Sherman now at Notre Dame, Nix — a junior center for the No. 10 men’s basketball team — has paired with sophomore center Adreian Payne to make up a new age Bash Brother combination. Nix and Payne have utilized their vastly different styles of play to help the Spartans (17-4 overall, 6-2 Big Ten) stay atop the conference standings.