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Folks find festive beat

Kate Jacobson
August 9, 2009

Rain, shine or humidity, people flocked to the Great Lakes Folk Festival this weekend in East Lansing. The festival, produced by the Michigan Traditional Arts Program at the MSU Museum, offered festivalgoers an opportunity to partake in a multicultural experience of food, music, arts and dance. For three days, downtown East Lansing was transformed into a cultural center with heritages ranging from African to Scandinavian.

COMMENTARY

Clunkers program immoral, not benefiting economy

I’m writing in response to the editorial “Clunkers program success proves need for extension”:http://www.statenews.com/index.php/article/2009/08/clunkers_program_success_proves_need_for_extension (SN 8/3). I would like to offer readers another opinion of the program. First, the article explains the program as a success, and hardly expands on what its original goals were.

COMMENTARY

U.S. economy needs major overhaul

We have found ourselves debating whether or not the government should take over our health care system and our industries; we should instead look to solutions that actually work and will give us the best chance to retain our world standing.

COMMENTARY

Mich. film incentives creating jobs, aiding economy

Despite the success of Michigan’s push to draw filmmakers into the state with incentives like tax credits, some in the state Legislature still aren’t pleased. After only a year with the country’s biggest tax credit to the film industry, there are opponents claiming that the credits cost the state too much and that spending should be capped.

NEWS

Search for suspects in explosions closes in

Kate Jacobson
August 5, 2009

The East Lansing Police Department has narrowed its search for suspects involved in four suspicious explosions that occurred in East Lansing since May. The explosions occurred during an almost two-month span, with the first incident May 25 at the intersection of Grove and Elizabeth streets and the most recent July 16 in the intersection of Evergreen Avenue and Fern Street.

NEWS

40 years after Woodstock

Zane McMillin
August 5, 2009

What started off as a musical festival 40 years ago on farmland near Bethel, N.Y., ultimately became a symbol of an enormous movement within America’s youth culture. Woodstock, a four-day series of musical performances in August 1969 that attracted about 500,000 people to watch performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker and the Grateful Dead, was a pivotal point in American history that marked a break from the tradition-based society of the 1950s, said Gary Hoppenstand, an MSU professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures.

NEWS

MSU research finds TV raises blood pressure

Kayla Habermehl
August 5, 2009

Kids who watch more TV are more likely to have high blood pressure, according to findings published by MSU researchers. MSU professor of kinesiology Joe Eisenmann co-authored the study — which was published in the August edition of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine — and said the most surprising result was a “null finding.”

NEWS

Folk Festival offers vast array of cultural heritage

Kate Jacobson
August 5, 2009

Musicians from across the country and around the world will come together to partake in the Great Lakes Folk Festival this weekend in downtown East Lansing. Since its inception in 2002, the festival has brought together a myriad of cultural heritage through the form of food, music and art.

NEWS

MSU helps foster youth transition

Megan Hart
August 5, 2009

After living with eight foster families and in two girls’ homes, 18-year-old Champagne Cook is looking to settle into MSU. She is one of 26 high school students in foster care who are attending a camp to help prepare them for college, held Wednesday through Friday in Snyder-Phillips Hall.

FEATURES

Music, activities offer fun for entire family

Krystle Wagner
August 5, 2009

The Lake Lansing Park South in Haslett has more to offer than a place to enjoy a cookout and spend time outdoors. On Friday, the Doowops will take to the bandshell stage at 7 p.m. to entertain families with their 1950s and 1960s music. The event and parking are free.

FEATURES

Square dance club aims for fun, exercise

Krystle Wagner
August 5, 2009

Boys run, couples circulate, pass the ocean, promenade, bow to your partner and yellow rock. Square dancing is more than “swinging your partner round and round” and “do-si-do.” The Grande Paraders, the Lansing-area square dancing group, started in 1972 and has 32 members.

FEATURES

Students dive into local scuba supply shop

Mallory McKnight
August 5, 2009

Purchasing books for class at MSU inspires a diverse spectrum of emotions in students. Some feel excited, some feel shocked and even more feel outraged. There is one class on campus, however, where your supplies will not be found on a bookshelf or even an electronics store, but run more along the lines of fins, masks and air tanks.

COMMENTARY

MSU still deserves to be listed among top party schools

Through my three-plus years on and around MSU’s glorious campus, I’ve had many memorable experiences. From days wasted throwing a Frisbee to hours of studying in buildings all over campus to Durrell Summers’ dunk, every occurrence has been an unofficial proclamation of my pride in this university. To most of my friends outside of MSU, the real attractiveness lies in the stories created late at night.