There's a lazy, beat-down feeling to every electric note on Built to Spill's new album — "You in Reverse." Released on April 11, all of the songs are drawn-out without a sense of originality.
High school students in Michigan could soon learn Chinese language and culture through an interactive video game due to a partnership between MSU and the Chinese government. MSU will announce the venture today with China's National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and the China Central Radio and Television University in Beijing, to create the Michigan State University Confucius Institute.
In 2005, MSU's special teams were anything but special. Senior John Goss and sophomore Matt Haughey combined to go just 5-of-16 on field-goal attempts last season, and senior punter Brandon Fields averaged about six yards less per punt in 2005 than the year before. The feeling this spring is that someone other than Goss or Haughey will be the kicker come fall. At Friday's spring scrimmage, sophomore Todd Boleski handled all the field-goal duties, connecting from 23 yards, 32 yards and twice from 52 yards, which drew the loudest crowd eruptions at Spartan Stadium. Boleski, who shared kickoff duties in 2005 with Fields, also was good on all of his extra points Friday, sailing two over the net behind the goal posts. "He's had a pretty good spring," head coach John L.
In the tiny room down the hall from where dozens of student government officials deliberated about who would lead them into the next semester, ASMSU's Student Assembly election candidates were full of laughter and nervous jitters. On Thursday evening, Student Assembly members asked each person about how they would improve the organization and manage their time and priorities, as well as for their thoughts on increased racial tensions on campus. While they waited for the results, the candidates discussed the HBO television show "Big Love," among other things.
In the past few weeks, my friends and I have been scolded, reprimanded and harassed for doing the one thing I love the most: skateboarding. In each case, both on and off campus, we are treated as children and criminals at the same time. Police officers rarely have the respect to get out of their vehicles when talking to us, and drunkards in downtown East Lansing continually shout, "Do a 900!" from a distance.
Kimberly Worpek, 22, was playing a computer game in her Gunson Street apartment early Friday morning when she heard a speeding car.
Lansing — With the way the rain was coming down at Oldsmobile Park on Sunday, it looked like the Lansing Lugnuts and Beloit Snappers might not even take the field. After a 30-minute delay the two teams did finally get out on the dampened grass and play a game. In fact, they nearly played two. Holding a 1-0 lead in the top of the seventh, the Lugnuts surrendered a tying run the Snappers' Andrew Thompson scored from third base on a sacrifice fly by Paul Kelly. The teams remained deadlocked at 1-1 through the bottom of the ninth, and the game stretched into extra innings. The Lugnuts found themselves in a hole in the bottom of the thirteenth, trailing 3-2.
Lansing — Neo-Nazis were outnumbered more than 10 to one by police and protesters at a rally in downtown Lansing on Saturday. About 75 members of the National Socialist Movement, who describe themselves as America's Nazi party, lined the steps of the Capitol just after 2 p.m. Streets were closed in a several-block radius around the Capitol, and police estimated about 500 to 600 protesters passed through security checkpoints, while others opted to stay outside the police perimeter. "From our standpoint we thought it went well," said Lt.
Lansing — Plans are in motion for today's National Socialist Movement rally at the Capitol Building, as well as many other counter-protests, to go as scheduled. Several hundred police officers are in place throughout downtown Lansing, including those from the Michigan State Police and the Lansing police. The National Socialist Movement, or NSM, rally is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m.
Lansing — Plans are in motion for today's National Socialist Movement rally at the Capitol Building, as well as many other counter-protests, to go as scheduled. Several hundred police officers are in place throughout downtown Lansing, including those from the Michigan State Police and the Lansing police. The National Socialist Movement, or NSM, rally is scheduled from 2 to 4 p.m.
After losing standouts Jimmy Chestnut and Andrew Ruthkoski at the end of last season, the MSU men's golf team is in the midst of a season with a young, inexperienced roster. The eldest members of the team are three juniors, but seventh-year head coach Mark Hankins said the group is slowly making headway. "As we go along, these guys continue to learn and get better as the season progresses," Hankins said.
Scott Rutter said he lost more than 10 great soldiers under his command in Iraq. Since then, Rutter, a retired U.S.
Most incoming college athletes have to deal with lack of playing time and balancing academics with athletics. For Sarah Andrews, a junior on the MSU women's tennis team, the biggest concern was getting a Social Security number. Andrews is from Australia and never had been to America before coming in August 2003 for MSU's International Orientation Program.
By Erik Adams For The State News Drive-By Truckers certainly picked a good title to represent its latest album. The songs on "A Blessing and A Curse" are a mix of raucous anthems for the night of and regretful ballads for the morning after.
Take Back The Night is an annual event at MSU as part of a broader, international movement to help raise awareness about sexual assault, domestic violence and other violence against women. Marches have been held as far back as the 1970s and were often spearheaded by the radical feminist movement.
In thousands of instances across Michigan, polluted ground isn't being cleaned up, and there's not much the state's enforcement officers can do about it. A lack of funding and legal authority are making it hard for the short-staffed Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, or DEQ, to hold polluters accountable. "There's a long list of sites that need immediate attention," said Tom Simpson, a DEQ project manager who oversees all gas tank leaks in Ingham and Clinton counties. Michigan's varied geology and history have left the state with a legacy of environmental problems, officials say. "We have been a manufacturing center for more than 100 years," said Phil Schrantz, chief of field operations in the DEQ's Remediation and Redevelopment Division.
Tiny toys on fishing wire hang down from the ceiling. The cash register has a small fortune from a fortune cookie taped to the front of it that reads, "You love Chinese food." Tucked away in Kresge Art Center, the Spartan Art Store, also known as the Kresge Art Store, has been a crucial part of art students' lives since 1969. Much like an MSU book store sells everything a student could need, the Kresge Art Store sells almost everything artistic, from canvas to paints to sketch pads. "They have most everything you'll need for class in stock," art education senior Arielle Popkey said. Popkey said she comes into the store a few times every day and gets coffee every morning. Last year, she bought her roommates toys from the store for a gift exchange, Popkey said.
Very few athletes get the chance to close out a professional career at the way Igor Larionov did in "Farewell From Moscow: The Igor Larionov Farewell Game." After hanging up his skates following the 2003-04 season, the former Detroit Red Wing took advantage of the 2004-05 NHL lockout season and invited his friends and former teammates to Moscow, Russia on Dec.
The spread offense has been a continuous force of production for MSU's offense since John L. Smith took over the head coaching job in December 2002. The spread offense all starts with the quarterback. Former signal-caller Jeff Smoker had a career senior year in 2003 with the passing-style offense, and Drew Stanton is set to become the next great product of Smith's football philosophy as he enters his senior year this fall. But aside from Stanton, redshirt freshman Domenic Natale and sophomore Brian Hoyer are competing for the backup spot this spring and for the starting spot in 2007. "There's no problem with that because it'll bring out the best in both of us," Hoyer said of the competition with Natale. As of now, Hoyer is the backup.