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Festival brings frost to Lansing

During Valentine’s Day weekend last year, Lansing celebrated its 150th anniversary of becoming a city. This year, the directors of the Lansing Principal Shopping District decided to expand on last year’s success and created a new winter festival: Frost Fest.

COMMENTARY

V-day should be met with optimism

No matter which category you belong to, Valentine’s Day should have been a meaningful day of celebration. What it shouldn’t have been, however, is what so many of us choose to make it: a superficial 24-hour period with forced restaurant reservations, cheesy cards purchased at CVS, hoping you put enough effort into the day to make your better half somewhat satisfied with your performance as a romantic.

COMMENTARY

Granholm reviving a very different 'Promise'

The governor wants a way to stop the brain drain, but this isn’t the best way to clog the pipe. Michigan needs a program that will help young people pay for college as they go along, not a $4,000 prize for weathering the storm of Michigan’s economic climate.

NEWS

Simon, trustees discuss Spartans logo

MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon on Friday said the university would move forward with registering variations of the Spartan helmet logo as part of a branding and identity project to be unveiled this spring. Simon said MSU will move forward with registering variations of the current logo so other institutions have little to no options to mimic it.

BASKETBALL

DeHaan ties NCAA all-time blocks record

Senior center Allyssa DeHaan tied the NCAA Division I career blocks record Thursday night when she swatted Michigan center Krista Phillips 13 seconds into the second half at Crisler Arena, tying the previous record of 480 held by Texas Christian’s Sandora Irvin (2001-05). Later Thursday night, St. Mary’s junior forward Louella Tomlinson, who came into her game with Gonzaga needing three blocks to break the record, tied and later broke the record with five rejections.

NEWS

Police brief 02/12/10

A 24-year-old male MSU student reported items stolen Feb. 8 from his locker at IM Sports-West, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

MSU

Fiscal fluctuations

Electric, water, gas, cable and don’t forget groceries. Managing everyday expenses can get messy, and when Michigan lawmakers develop the state’s annual budget, items more significant than milk might get cut from the list.

MSU

NPR, AP guests to speak Feb. 18

Associated Press reporter Kathy Barks Hoffman and National Public Radio correspondent Don Gonyea will speak at the MSU School of Journalism’s annual Frederick S. Siebert Lecture at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday in Room 147 of the Communication Arts and Sciences Building.