The city has hit yet another barrier in its attempt to revamp the 600 block of Virginia Avenue. And this time, it's a barrier made of industrial steel that's reinforced with concrete up to 10 inches thick. A contractor is requesting almost $8,000 from the city to finish demolishing 673 Virginia Ave.
A proposal to hand over a Detroit hospital to MSU's College of Osteopathic Medicine should not be considered by university officials, one MSU trustee said. Trustee Colleen McNamara blasted St.
The entrance to Scavenger Hunt, 321 E. Grand River Ave., showcases a mannequin with a feathery electric blue wig under a sign that reads "Rainier Beer." The entrance to Valueland on 5400 S.
I spent last summer interning with a newspaper in Greensboro, N.C., so MSU's first-round NCAA Tournament game in Winston-Salem, N.C., is a homecoming of sorts for me.
I found Richard Lund's letter "MIP charges necessary to protect E.L.
On Feb. 28, I participated in Legislative Education Day with the Michigan Fitness Foundation in advocating to save the Healthy Michigan Fund.
Senior wrestler Nick Simmons snagged the top seed in the 133-pound weight class Monday for the NCAA Wrestling Championships this weekend, his second consecutive No.
MSU is looking at a proposal that would add gender identity to its anti-discrimination policy. The change will be discussed at today's Faculty Council meeting. Considering that the proposed change would do nothing but protect the rights of a certain segment of MSU's population, there is no reason why the university shouldn't adopt it. The proposal must be approved by both the Faculty and Academic councils, then it will go on for decision by the MSU Board of Trustees. As it stands, MSU is one of five remaining Big Ten schools that does not list gender identity as being protected against gender discrimination.
In February, an interesting conversation took place in the letters to the editor section of this paper, originating with "Christianity doesn't need column to incite reaction" (SN 2/7). The author of that letter imagined atheism and religion as two bars of metal.
The intricate topic of the restructuring of MSU's governance system will be brought up again today at Faculty Council. This will be the council's second discussion and overview of the proposed Faculty Voice Task Force 1. "This is a complex topic, clearly," Provost Kim Wilcox said.
Lung cancer, emphysema, nicotine-stained fingers and a hole in your pocketbook. There are several reasons not to smoke, and MSU researchers just added one more to the list. James Trosko, along with a team of colleagues and students, recently published a study that linked smoking to pancreatic cancer.
Thank you, Mike Ramsey, for speaking out on the necessity of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney in "Bush's errors as president call for impeachment proceedings" (SN 2/22). They do seem hell-bent on destroying life on this planet, and if they actually carry out their plans to nuke Iran, they just could do it. The spineless Democrats in Congress are fiddling while Rome burns.
It couldn't have been scripted much better. MSU vs. Marquette. Tom Izzo vs. Tom Crean. Teacher vs.
MSU shouldn't have any trouble slipping past the Joe Louis Arena metal detectors entering Friday's semifinals matchup against Michigan. The Spartans failed to receive nominations for CCHA individual and team honors, which will make Thursday's CCHA awards banquet at the Fox Theatre in Detroit a forgettable one. But the Spartans maintain that lack of recognition makes their performance in the CCHA tournament and their national ranking more impressive from a team perspective. "We didn't have a single player who made the top three in any of the league awards or any of the all-star teams or anything," MSU head coach Rick Comley said after Saturday's 4-1 win over Nebraska-Omaha.
With St. Patrick's Day just a few days off, Dublin Square Irish Pub, 327 Abbott Road, is opening its doors Wednesday. The restaurant, ordained with authentic Irish decor, plans to offer live entertainment and music four nights a week, following the dinner hour.
SALEM, N.C., settled as a city in 1766 and merged with nearby tobacco and textile community high in 1913.
Some of the suspense of Selection Monday already had been taken away from the MSU women's basketball team. After all, the Spartans knew they would most likely be in the field of 64.
Standing in a warehouse of secondhand clothes, Nicole Muster is contemplating a white Hanes T-shirt that reads in green lettering "Fortunate are they to whom gardening is a joy." It's not exactly what one would think of as a great vintage find, but then again, it's only $1.99 — fitting comfortably inside her $20 budget — and personifies Muster's self-described eclectic, chameleon style. "If something's way ugly, it could fit really well and then it's not quite as ugly as it used to be," the business administration and apparel and textile design freshman explained, as she plopped the top in her basket. Muster's quirky fashion sense worked to her advantage during this excursion to Volunteers of America Thrift Store in Lansing, as she and four other innovative students were on a mission proposed by The State News: To create complete secondhand outfits for $20 or less. Scouring the racks alongside Muster were two students who had, respectively, seldom and never been to a thrift store — Ashley Stewart, a classic-slash-trendy apparel and textile design senior, and Sonia Manjeshwar, a retailing graduate student who designed T-shirts and women's corporate wear in India before coming to MSU.
The tall spines of green safety phones are a familiar sight to the thousands of students who stroll by more than 150 of the campus pillars daily. But with cell phones becoming more prevalent, the safety phones easily blend into the background as decorative ornaments rather practical devices. "Most reasonable people would feel that, in this day and age of everyone having a cell phone, they're probably used less than they used to be, but not everyone has a cell phone," said MSU police Assistant Chief Mike Rice, who leads the employees who take care of the phones. Callers can phone any campus number for a five-minute talk, reach the Capital Area Transportation Authority's Night Owl when they need a ride and contact 911 in an emergency. Because of high costs, Rice said the number of calls made on the phones can't be tabulated, but some students agree that it's reassuring to have the phones available, although they've never used them for an emergency. "I'm glad to know they're there just to make sure everyone's safe," international relations senior Brittany Struble said. Physiology senior Jesse McAllister said the phones create a handy solution for those who may not have another option. "I know that they're there for help, but I guess a cell phone would be just as effective," he said.