Every head was arched up toward one of the five large T.V. screens at Buffalo Wild Wings, 360 Albert Ave., Sunday during the Detroit Pistons' Game 7 in the playoffs against the Cleveland Cavaliers. "We expected at least this crowd," said General Manager Aaron Weiner amid the packed bar.
Attending the April 22 Nazi rally in the state capital gave me a lot to worry about. But the small group of quaintly clad National Socialists was not one of them. The really disturbing aspect of the event was the close-to-500, helmeted, black-clad and fully armored police force who used the event to showcase the new police state being built around us.
According to a public record of its most recent health inspection, Bravo Cucina Italiana was cited with eight critical violations, an amount nearly twice as many as health department officials consider a "failing grade." But some restaurant employees and health officials say that number of violations is not unique among restaurant health inspections. Bravo, 2970 Towne Centre Blvd., voluntarily closed its doors on May 11 after the Ingham County Health Department informed management that several Bravo customers had gotten sick.
The MSU women's basketball team is switching its talent this year. Freshman Tiffanie Shives announced that she will be transferring from MSU to Gonzaga.
It may be too early to tell, but festival coordinator Sharon Radtke estimated that 75,000 to 80,000 people attended the 43rd East Lansing Art Festival. While the festival's official estimate — made with the aid of aerial photography — was not available at press time, Radtke said "(on Saturday) the area was filled from noon to close." Radtke did have a way of measuring how many people visited the festival's children's area on Saturday, as 1,000 balloons were given away throughout the day.
Before putting the car in drive, remember the most basic tenet of driver's education. Buckle up. Police departments all over Michigan, including East Lansing and MSU police, will make it a priority to look for drivers not wearing their seat belts for the next two weeks. Officers will give tickets carrying a $65 fine to unbelted drivers. From today to June 4, which includes Memorial Day weekend, the "Buckle Up or Pay Up, Click It or Ticket" program will include about 800 areas with signs notifying drivers they are entering seat belt enforcement areas.
An attorney for The State News hopes to hear a judge's decision on the newspaper's lawsuit against MSU in about a week. Herschel Fink, a First Amendment and media attorney, filed a lawsuit on behalf of The State News Friday with the Oakland County Circuit Court. The newspaper is requesting the initial police report from an alleged Feb.
The State News editorial board has finally gone off the deep end. Now, I realize that, seeing as how this is a college newspaper, it's expected that its opinions will be slanted to the left.
Picture this — A woman is attempting to buy liquor. The salesperson asks for her license, and then for her pregnancy card.
The state Senate Judiciary Committee has approved a package of bills that would allow a person to use deadly force without criminal punishment against someone they reasonably believe could kill them, cause them great bodily harm or sexually assault them. The bills passed through the committee and will now be looked at by the full Senate.
Lansing — The Clinton Memorial Hospital "bed pan" drill team banged on bed pans and shook plastic jugs filled with pebbles. Three women decked out in cowboy hats and fringed leather jackets rode horses. And an Asian group wore traditional Korean clothing and beat on drums as it made its way down the street. These were just a few of the 95 diverse groups that marched in the 16th annual Michigan Parade on Saturday in downtown Lansing.
This season, the Spartans' home football game against rival Notre Dame will be nationally televised by ABC.
I'm writing in response to the "Immigration larger problem for U.S." editorial, (SN 5/18). I take issue with the notion that "much of the economy depends upon the work of immigrants," as if they are an intractable part of our societal fabric. These jobs were done before illegal immigrants arrived en masse, depressed wages and forced Americans out. Does anyone really believe that prior to the 1986 amnesty and subsequent explosion of illegal aliens entering our country, that there were no hotel rooms cleaned, no lawns mowed or no dishes washed? Also, the failure to embrace the Central American Free Trade Agreement, or CAFTA, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, by Latin American governments is irrelevant to this argument, as the massive waves of illegal aliens preceded these agreements. Nothing these governments do can create a better life for their people in those countries than they would otherwise have in the United States, and that is why they continue to come and why we should bolster our efforts to keep them out. Geoff Woliner 2002 graduate
Before addressing Professor Indrek Wichman's statements in both his e-mail to the Muslim Students' Association, or MSA, and his letter printed in The State News ("Prof.
MSU football player Cole Corey was sentenced Thursday to spend between two and 10 years in prison for possession of a controlled substance Thursday in the Lenawee County Circuit Court. Corey appeared in 11 games for the Spartans in 2005, recording six tackles and returning a kick on special teams.
Federal agents began searching for the remains of former Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Wednesday at a rural horse farm in Milford Township, according to an FBI official.
Your "snowball" ("Immigration larger problem for U.S.," SN 5/18), that you claim results from immigration is really just a puddle of water.
The construction mess on campus doesn't have to be such a huge hassle for folks. How? Ride a bike, and you can find lots of faster alternate routes through campus to that meeting or lunch appointment. Don't want to ride a bike to MSU for class or work?
Familiar faces and birdbath buyers are in crafter Cori Hoag's near future. As a returning vendor selling her cement garden statues, she anticipates seeing past customers at the 42nd MSU Arts & Crafts Show. It's also an ideal setting for her garden statues of rabbits, birds, dogs and cats.