A recent MSU graduate and a pair of experienced leaders will help usher East Lansing into the future through 2011. Diane Goddeeris, Nathan Triplett and Roger Peters will join Mayor Pro Tem Vic Loomis and Councilmember Kevin Beard on the East Lansing City Council after the three were elected to four-year terms during Tuesday’s City Council elections.
Lawyers clashed over whether the state’s gay-marriage ban prohibits same-sex domestic partner benefits Tuesday before the Michigan Supreme Court.
During the off season the MSU basketball program completed a $1.3 million project to upgrade the home locker room and lounge. After Friday’s 85-82 double overtime exhibition loss to Grand Valley State, however, men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo gave players the boot from the state-of-the-art facility.
A lane shift was implemented on westbound Michigan Avenue near Harrison Road on Tuesday, so city officials could repair an 8-inch water main break that occurred near the intersection.
Pete Fleck, upon coming to MSU, knew that he would most likely go somewhere else for graduate school. He knew he wanted to eventually become a pharmacist, and MSU doesn’t have a pharmacy program.
Since a stroke temporarily paralyzed MSU jazz studies professor Wess Anderson this summer, the music he played all his life has helped bring him back to health.
Despite losing its final three regular season games, spirits are high for the MSU men’s soccer team as it heads into the Big Ten Tournament. It also doesn’t hurt that the Spartans will host the tournament starting at 9 a.m. Thursday at Old College Field.
As members of the Writers Guild of America step away from their computers and out to the picket lines, we’re forced to face the reality of life without television and film writers — that is, a life of reality TV. That’s right, as the “The Daily Show” airs reruns, Fox is gearing up to run “American Idol” for six of the 15 hours the network has to fill every week.
So MSU is a research institution, right? It would be nice if some smart, tenure-seeking MSU professor conducted a study to determine why Spartan football — no matter who the coach is — simply can not hold on to a first-half lead.
Jessica Byrom poses an interesting question in her letter Only legally married couples deserve benefits (SN 11/4). Byrom wrote, “If we start allowing people to carry whomever they want on their health insurance, where is it going to stop?” Well, I hope it doesn’t.
Humans have long attributed acts of nature to unseen entities. Ancient pagan mythologies were particularly rich with stories of gods representing personifications of natural forces. The Norse, for example, believed that thunderstorms resulted from the activities of the god Thor, and lightning was caused by Thor’s use of Mjolnir, his mystical hammer.
MSU police have determined that a report filed by a student who said she was assaulted twice in the same night is false.
MSU police are investigating whether the attempted assault of a female by an unknown suspect Monday is related to three other attacks in the past three-and-a-half weeks.
In 1976, Coleman Barks was handed a book of scholarly translations from poet Robert Bly and told “these poems need to be released from their cages.”
A student attending Saturday’s football game was punched in the face twice after being harassed by a 24-year-old student, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.
Student leaders and faculty members have been contacted by the university regarding actions that allegedly violated the university’s anti-discrimination policy.
East Lansing residents will have the opportunity to determine the city’s next generation of leaders today during the 2007 City Council elections. The event features four candidates — incumbents Beverly Baten and Diane Goddeeris, and challengers Roger Peters and Nathan Triplett — vying for three vacant four-year terms.
When Anne Rauscher isn’t tilling her own garden at her Mason home, she’s helping others acquire fresh produce from gardens throughout the Lansing area.
Eighty-six years ago, it was purely a beauty pageant — its purpose was to get Atlantic City tourists to stay past Labor Day.
From working at Ford Motor Co. to Blue Cross Blue Shield three separate times, DeWitt photographer Richard Johnson has had more than 20 different jobs — and hated each one.