MSU
Lacrosse supports MSU Stars
For their final home game, seniors on the MSU club lacrosse team have more decisions to make than which plays to run.
MICHIGAN
Northwest-Delta merger could increase airfare
Flights to and from Lansing could be more expensive if a proposed merger between Northwest Airlines Corp. and Delta Air Lines Inc. is approved. The merger would create the world’s largest airline carrier and the Delta name would be retained.
MSU
MSU alumnus honored for service during Desert Storm
Col. Roy Bierwirth has made a life out of being a hero, from his days as Sparty through his career in the U.S. Army.
FEATURES
2 alumni-owned bars bring Spartan spirit, draw graduates, fans to Chicago
Downtown Chicago and downtown East Lansing don’t bear many similarities. One has tall skyscrapers and is bustling with tourists and business professionals. The other sports small, local hangouts and the comings and goings of college students.
FEATURES
Cooperative creativity
For some artists, a studio is a place to work in privacy without interruptions or distractions. But that much solitude was unfamiliar to Gretel Geist Rutledge, which is part of why she joined Grove Gallery Co-op, 325 Grove St., an East Lansing artist cooperative opening in early May.
FEATURES
Freshman fifteen Q's
College is a whole new world for many freshmen traveling campus for the first time. The State News sat down with one of these brave explorers to get a glimpse, in 15 questions or less, at a new face on campus and her perspective on her new frontier.
FEATURES
Graduate students adjust to family life on tight budget
Jana Simmons’ day usually starts at 7 a.m. After dressing and feeding her 15-month-old daughter Angela, she drops her off in a Lansing daycare before returning to the MSU biochemical department where she works as a research assistant.
MICHIGAN
City looks to help injured students
Members of the East Lansing community are coming together to raise money for medical treatment for an East Lansing High School student who was injured on a spring break trip in Mexico.
FEATURES
Hello, my name is Matt Murray
Rock climbing, hiking and caving are just a few of Matt Murray’s regular activities. As co-president of MSU’s Outdoors Club, the history and economics junior said he came to college wanting to meet other people who shared his interests.
MSU
Clinic teaches suturing tips
After dissecting cow eyes, two fetal pigs, a shark and a sheep heart, cutting and stitching a pig’s foot didn’t phase human biology junior Kirsten LaFrance.
NEWS
Study: Cancer media coverage falls short
Breast cancer prevention begins with healthy lifestyle practices before puberty, a point that MSU researchers said fails to appear frequently enough in the media.
FEATURES
Tropical-themed room brings warm weather year-round
The student Sarah Meyer, a communication and apparel and textile design senior, brought tropical flair to her Grove Street room.
ICE HOCKEY
Lerg takes first step toward NHL dream
Mere hours after the MSU hockey team’s season-ending loss to Notre Dame in the West Regional final, senior captain Bryan Lerg got a call from his family adviser. He had been offered a contract by the NHL’s Edmonton Oilers.
COMMENTARY
Treatment of animals shouldn't be secretive
The events of this week especially should make people question what “humane” treatment of animals really means. Students Promoting Animal Rights, or SPAR, took the opportunity this weekend to protest the Royal Hanneford Circus at Breslin Center. Members of the student group claim the circus employs cruel practices and treatment of its animals, despite the circus’s denials.
COMMENTARY
Smoke-free restaurants, bars a logical step for Mich.
I support House Bill 4163, legislation that could make all workplaces smoke-free, including bars and restaurants. As a college student, I like to go to local bars and restaurants to enjoy myself. I do not appreciate the overbearing, indiscreet stink of cigarette smoke on dry-clean-only clothing that cannot be dispelled by a douse of perfume. Nor do I appreciate having to inhale clouds of secondhand smoke.
COMMENTARY
Arrested rioters shouldn't be plastered in newspaper
I picked up The State News today with one hope in my mind: Please, let there not be a cover story about Cedar Fest plastered with pictures of police dolled up in riot gear, or a crowd fleeing from tear gas.
COMMENTARY
Controlling caffeine habit good for health
It was a tensely silent moment. There I was, sitting in an Olin Health Center examining room a couple of months ago answering the doctor’s perfunctory questions regarding my general health. One question, however, said it all.
BASKETBALL
Izzo, Baum made coaches for Saturday's intrasquad football game
It’s evident MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo is a football junkie. With Saturday’s intrasquad spring game quickly approaching, MSU football head coach Mark Dantonio made a couple of quick coaching additions – designating Izzo as a coach of the Green squad and men’s soccer coach Joe Baum a coaching member of the White.
NEWS
Police Brief 04/15/08
About $200 in damage was done to a window in a Butterfield Hall dorm room at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
MICHIGAN
Cedar Fest arraignments
Jaclyn Doroshewitz, 18 Landscape architecture freshman Charge: Disorderly conduct – obstructing, resisting or hindering an arrest; destroying, damaging or interfering with property, assembling for riot; minor in possession Maximum penalty: 90 days in jail and/or three $500 fines, MIP penalty dependent on prior offenses Plea: Not guilty Restrictions: No possession of alcohol or controlled substances, curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. enforced by tether, daily preliminary breath test