MICHIGAN
Best Buy set to sell musical instruments
As a local Best Buy location prepares to begin selling musical instruments Nov. 14, a customer experience manager says one of the main goals is to offer resources to students with a variety of skill levels.
MICHIGAN
Utility co. sends workers to gulf
Consumers Energy sent 96 of its employees to the Gulf Coast region Sunday to help residents recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike.
MICHIGAN
Protester pleads guilty to arson
Marie Jeanette Mason, one of four people charged with setting the 1999 New Year’s Eve fire in Agriculture Hall, pleaded guilty Thursday in the U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids to involvement in the arson.
MSU
Schools run applicant background checks
In the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings in April 2007, colleges across the country have begun to implement background checks for students living on campus to prevent violent attacks.
MSU
Suspected E. coli strain sends students to hospital
Ten MSU students were admitted to area hospitals over the past week all reporting similar symptoms of bloody diarrhea.
FEATURES
Make healthy food choices on student schedule
The stomach growls have been growing louder since the beginning of class, and something needs to subside them. But class gets out at 12:20 p.m., and the next one begins at 12:40 p.m. Although grabbing a snack from the vending machine is easy, it also can be a very unhealthy way to eat on the go. There are healthy alternatives when it comes to eating in a hurry.
FEATURES
Student makes Cedar Village apartment cozy, cool after 2 years
Advertising senior Jessica Howe knows all about Cedar Village’s reputation for less-than-standard living areas, at least when it comes to cleanliness. It’s been a work in progress, but several bags of cleaning products and two years later, Howe has turned her apartment into what her friends say should be the model for Cedar Village pamphlets.
BASKETBALL
Student tickets now on sale
The Spartan Athletic Ticket Office is accepting requests-with-payment for student men’s basketball admission through Wednesday.
FOOTBALL
3 Spartans earn weekly honors
The Big Ten Players of the Week were announced Monday and three Spartans made the list. For the second straight week, football senior running back Javon Ringer was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. Ringer ran the ball 43 times and had 282 yards during Saturday’s game — both were career highs.
VOLLEYBALL
Spartans prepare for final nonleague tilts
The MSU volleyball team will finish its nonconference schedule this week with matches against Oakland and Central Michigan, the first of which will be played tonight at Jenison Field House.
SOCCER
Grounds crew works to restore DeMartin Stadium
With water streaming down from the sky and piling up on the sidelines and corners of DeMartin Stadium at Old College Field on Sunday afternoon during the MSU women’s soccer game, MSU sports turf manager Amy Fouty knew the effects from Hurricane Ike that blasted through campus wouldn’t be an every-weekend event.
COMMENTARY
Obama helped, hurt by hip-hop
The relationship between politics and hip-hop has been an unsteady one to say the least. You can draw parallels between it and a family reunion — politics being the well-to-do success story families rave about, while hip-hop settles into a role of the talented yet troubled youth whose potential is squandered by several character flaws.
COMMENTARY
College consultants provide unfair advantage
Many MSU students remember their time in high school, counting down the days to graduation and planning their next stage in life. That’s how all of MSU’s students ended up here.
COMMENTARY
Demolishing Morrill Hall affects environment, history
After reading that the MSU Board of Trustees voted to tear down Morrill Hall in Trustees approve demolition of 108-year-old Morrill Hall (SN 9/15), I was deeply concerned.
COMMENTARY
Competition for new research facility needs student support
Editor’s note: This letter was corrected to fix an error regarding MSU’s affiliation with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory. MSU is competing with Illinois’ Argonne National Laboratory to bring the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, to our campus.
MSU
1999 arson suspect to plead guilty
Another link in a nine-year-old MSU arson case will close today. Marie Jeanette Mason, one of four people charged with setting the 1999 New Year’s Eve fire in Agriculture Hall, will plead guilty to involvement in the arson.
NEWS
Biden visits Mich., holds rally in Flat Rock
Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden will make two campaign stops in Michigan today.
NEWS
Ike pours into Mich.
Hurricane Ike wreaked havoc along the Gulf Coast last week, but the storm also can be blamed for a deluge of inconveniences that reached the Lansing area. The price of gas skyrocketed over the weekend amid rumors of price gouging, and rain caused many students not willing to brave the elements to miss the MSU football game. Local businesses also reported rained-out sales, and the level of the Red Cedar River climbed to flood potential.
MICHIGAN
Obama campaign holds registration contest
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has created a new incentive for MSU students to register to vote.