Sarah Lewis spends her Saturday afternoons splitting and gouging cane wood. She soaks it in water, takes a razor blade to it and makes sure it’s perfectly measured. Lewis, a music performance junior who specializes in oboe, isn’t building a house with that wood. She’s building a reed — and she has to get it right. Her pitch and sound quality depend on it.
Investigators from the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department are seeking the perpetrator in an armed robbery at a Lansing Burger King on Monday night.
Three residents of Knob Hill Apartments were robbed at gunpoint early Tuesday morning — the second local armed robbery in a five-hour span.
The East Lansing City Council is set to begin debating its 2008-09 fiscal year budget, which could mean cuts to services such as street maintenance and parks.
Flags were raised, greens were rolled and drivers were dusted off for golf’s opening day Tuesday. This year’s opening day in Michigan — the latest for some courses in six years — has been delayed because of late snowfalls and heavy rains in March, and Tuesday’s wet and windy conditions didn’t help.
Fresh footprints, strange sightings and mutilated house pets suggest a re-emergence of cougars in Michigan, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced last month.
Thirteen teams, 135 dancers and about $195,000. Greek Week at MSU was the fourth-largest fundraising event nationwide for the American Cancer Society last year, and Panhellenic Council President Julia Lyskawa is confident this year’s event will rival that sum.
As the end of the semester approaches, the standing committees of MSU’s Academic Governance system are assessing their agendas to determine what they’ve completed and what they have left to do.
An East Lansing man is facing three child sexual abuse charges stemming from a December 2007 incident in Grand Traverse County.
When many people think of interior design, they might picture reality shows on TV networks such as HGTV and TLC — the hustle and bustle of redoing a living space on a tight budget in a short amount of time.
Red wine aficionados and light beer drinkers might not have many things in common, but there is a place where they can go to break bread.
There’s no doubt in Zach Parten’s mind that the MSU dodgeball team gets some of its inspiration from “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.”
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.
Three down, two to go. The MSU women’s basketball team heads into the semifinals of the WNIT tonight against North Carolina State with one goal: to win a championship.
Americans know going to court isn’t always about the pursuit of justice. It’s more like hitting the jackpot. Cynical but true. Outrageous multimillion-dollar settlements or damage amounts awarded in lawsuits are normal in the U.S. judicial system. That’s because in civil lawsuits, there are compensatory rewards — to pay for medical bills or attorney fees — and then there are punitive damages, which are monetary punishments inflicted on litigants.
Lately, I’ve come to embrace my inner slacker. When it comes to all things academic — tests and papers, chapter readings and group projects — I’ve pretty much thrown in the towel.
After tweaking his knee in the last few minutes of a Thursday practice in preparation for Friday’s men’s basketball contest against Memphis, junior forward Marquise Gray clocked just one minute of playing time in the Sweet 16 loss. And it was released today by head coach Tom Izzo that Gray is expected to undergo knee surgery for a torn meniscus.
Who would you pick for a commencement speaker? “Barack Obama, because I think he’s going to be our president and I would like to say that I saw our president speak. I think that a lot of his message is about our responsibilities. It’s not what he’s going to do for us, but what we need to do. I think that’s the sort of thing we need to hear upon graduation – our responsibilities as adults.” Kate Leitch zoology senior
MSU professors fit a national trend among educators by donating more to Democratic presidential candidates than Republican candidates, even though Republicans nearly doubled the amount of contributions received from Michiganians.
The down spout of a drinking fountain in Hubbard Hall was broken off sometime between 8 p.m. Thursday and 7:30 a.m. Friday, causing about $50 in damage, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.