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FEATURES

Camping in Michigan

Liz Kersjes
April 21, 2008

Tahquamenon Falls State Park On the northern coast of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is one of the state’s most beautiful landmarks. The Tahquamenon River and its falls are at the center of the state park which is nearly 50,000 acres. While staying in the park, you can go canoeing, hiking, fishing and hunting. Rental boats also are available. Campgrounds range from rustic sites to sites with electrical service and functioning restrooms. The cost ranges from $2 per person for a rustic site to $23 for a modern site.

FEATURES

Prepare grocery list before going camping

Maggie Lillis
April 21, 2008

Just because you’re roughing it doesn’t mean your taste buds have to suffer. From tent to glamorous RV, packing the right amount and kinds of foods will not only save you from starving, but also save you money and energy in the long run. Here are some tips for what to bring, how to prepare and how to store camping foods so critters won’t get greedy and your stomach won’t get needy.

FEATURES

Roughin' it

Liz Kersjes
April 21, 2008

Fisheries and wildlife associate professor John Schwartz said he loves getting close to nature. He owns a cabin on an island in the Florida Keys and calls himself an avid hunter. He has traveled to every state in the U.S. and 36 other countries, including student trips he led into Nepal and northern India. When he’s not traveling the globe, he teaches a class about outdoor preparedness. “I teach the class because I enjoy this kind of thing,” he said.

MSU

Graduate union approves 1-day walkout

Pete Nichols
April 21, 2008

MSU students could see their teaching assistants deliver a different kind of lecture today — one led not from podiums and chalkboards, but from bullhorns and banners. Following a 24-hour online vote, about 81 percent of the Graduate Employees Union’s nearly 900 eligible members voted in favor of staging a one-day walkout if a contract was not reached early this morning.

BASEBALL

Senior pitcher gives MSU stability on mound

Joey Nowak
April 21, 2008

Before this season, Chris Cullen bounced around the MSU baseball team’s pitching staff without any firm role. But with a little help from pitching coach Tom Lipari and some offseason work, the senior right-hander has developed into arguably the team’s most dependable starting pitcher, a place head coach David Grewe plans to keep him.

SPORTS

Izzo gets second recruit for 2009

Joey Nowak
April 21, 2008

MSU men’s head basketball coach Tom Izzo has landed another recruit for the 2009-2010 season. Six-foot-9, 275-pound center Derrick Nix verbally committed to MSU, according to the scouting Web site Rivals.com.

COMMENTARY

Options exist in place of animal testing, entertainment

There is plenty of documented information about how animals suffer in circuses and why experiments on animals are not only cruel but dangerous, as results from one species can’t be accurately transferred to another (see Circuses.com and StopAnimalTests.com for cited fact sheets).

COMMENTARY

Youth use web as source of action

Every time I hear a sentence that starts with “Kids these days ? “ a negative assumption about Generation Y is sure to follow. Some parents, professors and peers think society has taken a dive into immorality rather than into progress within the past 20 years.

COMMENTARY

U-M doctoral student supports MSU's TA's strike

Having just finished up negotiations here in Ann Arbor, I have watched with interest the escalating tensions in the Graduate Employees Union negotiations at MSU. I also find the indifference and contempt with which MSU’s administration is treating the university’s teaching assistants appalling.

COMMENTARY

Earth Day must be more effective to be useful

Guess what today is. Apart from the obvious “Tuesday,” many people might not know what falls on April 22. After all, unlike major and secondary holidays that receive a lot of fanfare when individuals might enjoy a day off, Earth Day doesn’t do much. Not a lot of guidance from Hallmark this time.

FOOTBALL

Green slides by white

Sean Ely
April 20, 2008

In an instant, it all changed — a positive swing for half of the MSU football team but a negative one for the other 40 Spartans. The Green team caught a late surge from senior kicker Matt Haughey’s two field goals Saturday afternoon at Spartan Stadium en route to a 23-21 victory over White in the intrasquad spring game that hosted about 27,000 fans.

MSU

Relay funds cancer awareness

Justin Harris
April 20, 2008

With Breslin Center’s outdoor thermometer reading 75 degrees before 6 p.m. Friday night, the stage was set for the 2008 MSU Relay for Life. The event raised $63,000 and will be combined with Greek Week’s Relay for Life activities, setting MSU’s total at $274,000.