I am glad I don't have kids. That's not to say I won't have them someday, but today, I am petrified of bringing children into this world. Safety is a thing of the past, replaced with Amber Alerts and school shootings.
Evanston, Ill. — It takes a lot to overcome a 35-point deficit in less than 22 minutes.
A.J. Sturges will have bragging rights at this year's holiday dinners. Sturges, a 6-foot-4, 185-pound defenseman and the brother of MSU sophomore forward Dan Sturges, helped the U.S.
Detroit — At a hot dog stand on a downtown street corner, just blocks from Comerica Park, Jeremy King reached into his wallet and pulled out two weathered ticket stubs. The tickets are saved from two 1999 Detroit Tigers games against the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.
Before college, all of Emily Thomas' attempts at community service were duds. "I tried to organize raking leaves for senior citizens, and only three people showed up," Thomas said about her senior year of high school in Berkley, Mich. But this weekend, Thomas wasn't the only person motivated to improve her community.
James Andersen For The State News The Red Cedar River might be a little bit cleaner after Saturday. In an effort to promote cleanliness and environmental awareness of the river, several environmental groups took part in the annual Red Cedar River Cleanup. Eighty-three student volunteers participated, some donning waders and wielding rakes to pick up trash in the Red Cedar.
An MSU employee is wanted for his alleged involvement in the death of his wife, who was shot and killed Friday in the parking lot of an Okemos MSU Federal Credit Union, Meridian Township police said. Donald Holmes, 64, was seen after the shooting traveling westbound from the credit union, located at 1775 Central Park Drive near the Meridian Mall.
How quickly the tables have turned. MSU has earned significant negative attention in the national spotlight the last couple of weeks.
Starting next season, several Major League Baseball teams will sell caskets marked with their team colors and insignia. Among the early buyers: The Kansas City Royals, who will use the caskets to house their playoff hopes once the season is a month old. Almost half of baseball fans want Barry Bonds to fall short of Hank Aaron's home run record, according to an Associated Press-America Online poll released last week. Worse for Bonds, almost 98 percent of fans hope he doesn't break Placido Polanco's record for biggest head in the league. In other baseball news, MLB players and owners reportedly have reached a tentative agreement for a new labor contract.
The Detroit Tigers jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning, with a home run from Craig Monroe and an RBI single from Carlos Guillen. It was just enough as the Tigers tacked on one more run to defeat the St.
Mike Rogers' comment in The State News that Michigan is in a single-state recession is an attempt to blame Gov.
Students who cheat could receive a scarlet letter of sorts on their academic transcripts if university officials decide to permanently record academic dishonesty.
As the demand for students with technology management skills increases in the job market, prospective employers are looking for college graduates who possess some experience. To help students gain that necessary job experience, a class offered at MSU provides students with an opportunity to work one-on-one with clients. "It's good to know about information technology.
A Democratic staffer was suspended by the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee last week under suspicion of leaking classified information. Chairman Pete Hoekstra, a Representative from Holland, said Friday that the staff's suspension was a precaution until the committee investigates. Concern centers around a leak to The New York Times last month regarding a National Intelligence Estimate on global terror trends.
Earlier this summer we sadly said goodbye to Lansing's premier booking agent Steve Lambert, and now the city to our west is losing another music mainstay.
Come and get it. The race to find housing for the 2007-08 school year is on, with students flocking to leasing offices across East Lansing, scrambling to get a house or apartment that's close to campus, yet still affordable. Having already signed a lease for a house this year, Scott Dunn, a political science and pre-law junior, said Sunday afternoon that he and his roommates began looking for another place to live as soon as school started because they wanted their own bedrooms.
Democratic state Sen. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican challenger Frank Lambert will debate live at 7 p.m.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dick DeVos announced a plan on Friday to revitalize Michigan's urban areas if he's elected in November. DeVos' plan proposes specific ways to help urban areas, such as creating an urban jobs director, acquiring a federal block grant for job training, putting more police officers on the street and giving students from urban areas a chance to go to college.
Two MSU students will put on their boxing gloves, so to speak, to debate about the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, or the MCRI, which is an initiative that would end preferential treatment of minorities and abolish affirmative action.