This St. Patrick's Day, being a designated driver gets you more than just a carful of loudmouths. To curb drunken driving, Spartans Against Drunk Driving, or SADD, and the East Lansing Police Department are teaming up to persuade students to find or become designated drivers. Students can receive a free T-shirt from local bars if they present a coupon from today's edition of The State News.
There are plenty of reasons why MSU making its 10th consecutive NCAA Tournament this season is significant. It keeps MSU among the national powerhouses — only Arizona (23), Kansas (18), Kentucky (16) and Duke (12) have longer current streaks. "I'd say that I can accept that we've got a pretty good program that's lasted the test of time," head coach Tom Izzo said Sunday after the Selection Show. It was a tie to the past for current players, who talked about the streak at length before the season and felt a sense of obligation to keep it alive. "It just meant a lot to this program, to former players," sophomore guard Travis Walton said. Sophomore forward Marquise Gray added: "I'm just glad that we're not going to be the team to break it." But perhaps the greatest significance of this bid is that it was earned in a down year in which few expected MSU to have much postseason life beyond the NIT.
Although a resilient minority continues to refute the scientific consensus that global climate change exists, researchers have moved past the debate and are now discussing solutions to the crisis. Experts from across the continent gathered Thursday for the "Climate Change in the Great Lakes Region" symposium at Kellogg Center.
I'm going to do my bracket in reverse order this year. I'm going to decide ahead of time which teams match the criteria of a potential champ.
Lake Superior State Relies on goaltender Jeff Jakaitis, who posted a 2.17 goals-against average and .935 save percentage on the season.
If it wasn't for his Palm Pilot, Peter Spadafore wouldn't be able to survive. His list of activities includes being the chairman of the James Madison College Student Senate, working in the college's admissions office and being a teaching assistant for an honors research seminar in public policy. And in February, the social relations and policy senior added to the list — becoming a student member of Academic Council. "I found it as a way to get involved and get my feet wet and explore university governance a little bit more than what I was doing from my college perspective," Spadafore said. Academic Council is the final step of approval for many university programs and policies before they appear in front of the MSU Board of Trustees.
By Julie Deardorff McClatchy Newspapers If you ordered extra Girl Scout cookies this year thinking they were trans fat-free, brace yourself. Although all 11 varieties are marketed as having "zero trans fats per ser ving," they still contain partially hydrogenated oils, or trans fatty acids. Technically, the claim doesn't breach the venerable Girl Scout Law that promises honesty.
Auburn Hills — Senior wrestler Nick Simmons didn't pile up points in his quarterfinal win at the NCAA Wrestling Championships this morning. But the top seed in the 133-pound weight class was in control the whole way.
Boston College 84, Texas Tech 75 Boston College shot 52 percent from the field to knock out Bobby Knight and his 10th-seeded Red Raiders in the first round.
Winston-Salem, N.C. — The familiarity between Marquette and MSU led many to believe Thursday night's first-round matchup would be tightly contested.
Lulu Fall, who has been singing since she was 8 years old, decided to try drumming when she was in the eighth grade. "So many people told me that the drums weren't ladylike, so eventually, I quit," the jazz studies senior said. She said she wishes someone would have told her that instruments don't connect with a specific gender — music is about how passionate someone is about the instrument or songs. Fall is a vocalist for the Women in Jazz concert, which will promote women's involvement in the arts and music performance in celebration of Women's History Month. The show is at 8 p.m.
Suzanne Cross gave her American Indian foster children more than just a safe place to live — she provided them one rooted in tradition and culture.
Auburn Hills — MSU wrestler Nick Simmons worked his way through the first day of the NCAA Championships on Thursday with relative ease. But the top seed in the 133-pound weight class was not happy at all. "I'm winning.
In contrast to David Garlock's letter "MSU associate professor fights government power" (SN 3/15), John D.
Earlier this year, volunteers throughout the nation asked local municipalities a simple question — What is the community's Comprehensive Emergency Response Plan? The plan, which every municipality is required to have, was instated by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act in 1986. Yet many of those volunteers looking for the information were denied access, according to a comprehensive report of this year's Sunshine Week audit. Sunshine Week ends Saturday and is a national test of the openness of government information. "What we've tried to measure as much as anything else is, first of all, how effective have we been as media in doing our job in educating the public about the issues," said Pete Weitzel, coordinator for the Coalition of Journalists for Open Government. "That was the initial intent — to energize the media across the country to focus on the issues of access to information and meetings during one week," he said. Out of 404 audits in 37 states and Puerto Rico, 177 requests were filled.
The women's NCAA Tournament is coming to East Lansing for the first time ever this weekend, and students are hard at work to make sure it runs smoothly. While fans from across the country plan trips to the city in order to cheer for their respective teams, the Breslin Center staff has worked to transform the arena from MSU's home court into an NCAA neutral site. The tournament will be in town for the first and second rounds, which will feature four games Sunday and two games Tuesday.
I almost spilled my coffee Thursday morning when I read the news that the Young Americans for Freedom were under attack by a bigoted hate organization in the South in "Law center lists YAF as 'hate group'" (SN 3/15)! YAF is anything but extreme.
The green 2006 CCHA Championship banner that hangs from the rafters at Joe Louis Arena bears great significance to the MSU hockey team.
Auburn Hills — Andy Simmons came into the NCAA Championships with the goal of winning a national wrestling title. That goal vanished Thursday night in a matter of seconds. The eighth seed in the 141-pound bracket suffered an upper leg injury late in the first period of his second-round match, causing him to forfeit in a default by injury decision in the third period.