Murphy Elementary School 5th graders and MSU students are teaming up to help others peer through "William's Window," a play about employing imagination to understand Shakespeare.
It's not just the MSU men's basketball team or the student body that felt like Friday's first-round loss to tournament Cinderella George Mason was a letdown. Local East Lansing stores planning for big MSU merchandise sales and restaurants expecting huge turnouts for Spartan tournament games in the later rounds are feeling the effects of the Spartans' second first-round exit in the last three years. "We're not even doing 5 to 10 percent of what we did last year," said Stacey Renfrow, assistant buyer of Spartan Bookstore, located in the International Center.
They say the playoffs are no place for a nervous person. Maybe that's the reason for the latest pregame ritual in the Spartans locker room, which involves a garbage can and plenty of hockey sticks. Aside from growing out the facial hair — as many players do in the postseason — the Spartans have begun to place their sticks in the locker room garbage can prior to games to signify the importance of the hard-working and far from glamorous "garbage goals." "I didn't know anything about it until I walked in the locker room one day, and I saw a stick in the garbage," MSU head coach Rick Comley said.
A $2 million face-lift is in the works for a Grand River Avenue shopping center. Everyone involved seems to agree that it's a great project — providing a much-needed cleanup and addressing traffic problems. But what they can't agree on is how it should be done, and now the owner of the property says that conditions imposed on the project might prevent it from happening at all. On Tuesday, the East Lansing City Council was slated to consider a redevelopment project at Brookfield Plaza, located at the northwest corner of Grand River Avenue and Hagadorn Road and home to the Country Markett grocery store.
With the score 2-1 and less than six minutes left to play in Saturday's CCHA playoff-clinching victory, MSU head coach Rick Comley sent out the fourth line to kill some time off the clock and recharge his other lines. Not only did the trio of sophomore Zak McClellan, junior Chris Lawrence and freshman Nick Sucharski eat the clock and protect the lead, but they outplayed the opposing Miami line while generating a scoring chance. "Every time he can put us out there, it doesn't really matter what time of the game it is, it gives us a lot of confidence — just being able to go out there and know that he has faith in us," McClellan said. "We go out there, and we know in our heads that we can make things happen." Mixed in with redshirt freshman Dan Sturges for much of the season, the fourth line has been trusted to go out and play in critical situations when most other college coaches could have them riding the bench. "I trust them to go out there and be responsible and play how we want to play and that's not unusual.
By Caitlin Scuderi For The State News Internet buyers beware: Someone might be phishing for your information. Phishing, or sending an e-mail falsely claiming to be an establishment in order to obtain personal information to be used for identity theft, is happening more frequently, MSU police Sgt.
I would like to thank the university for their new policy regarding overnight guests. Not only does it sound like a delightful hassle for students to surrender their ID and retrieve it the next morning, but it is an unfair and meaningless policy. For no logical reason, the university assumes all students will be tempted to "behave inappropriately" unless they surrender their IDs to the night receptionist.
• The women's basketball team takes on Duke in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday.
Erik Green, in "Differences must be known, embraced — not ignored by majority" (SN 3/21), reveals how affirmative action has become twisted during the years.
Mark Burnham switched teams mid-season when he accepted the position of MSU's associate vice president of governmental affairs Tuesday. Burnham, who holds a similar position with the University of Michigan, will start work in Washington, D.C., on April 1. "He's awesome," said Steve Webster, MSU's vice president for governmental affairs, of Burnham.
It's probable you've seen them, likely you've even been approached by them, and certain you've at least heard of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Concerned property owners have succeeded in halting an expansion of East Lansing's downtown, at least temporarily. The East Lansing City Council considered a proposal Tuesday that would have stretched the downtown district's border, which currently ends at Collingwood Drive, east along Grand River Avenue to Hagadorn Road.
Women's basketball reporter Ethan Conley offers his ramblings from Chicago, where the Spartans played the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. • Apparently every restaurant in the Chicago area serves "The best (fill in the blank) you've ever had." Sit down for a burger at Harry Caray's Restaurant, and they'll tell you it's the best burger of your life.
With one day down and one day to go for student government elections, Residence Halls Association officials hope students will pass their request for a $3 tax increase. Students who live on campus pay $22 a semester to the Residence Halls Association, or RHA. If students vote in favor of the increase, on-campus residents will pay $25. Only students who live in the residence halls can vote on RHA's tax increase. The election will be held until 8 p.m.
I am writing partially in response to Armon Mahajerin's letter, "'Crash' not great; doesn't stop racism" (SN 3/20). I agree with Stefanie Spiro's letter, "Brilliant films deserved recognition at Oscars" (SN 3/13), in that "Crash" was a well-written film that featured strong performances by a spectacular cast and delivered a powerful message.
Sen. Gretchen Whitmer, D-East Lansing, became the chamber's youngest member when she was sworn into her new position in Tuesday's Senate session. Whitmer defeated Vince Green in last week's special Senate election to fill the vacant 23rd District senate seat. Whitmer, 34, said she enjoyed the experience and felt welcomed by members from both parties. She went straight from the Senate session into her new committee meetings Tuesday. "There was no honeymoon today," Whitmer said. The committees Whitmer was assigned to were the Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism; Local, Urban and State Affairs; Judiciary Gaming and Casino Oversight; and the Health Policy committee, where she will serve as the Minority Vice Chair. Her major plans for this week are catching up on the bills and issues before her new committees, since she will be attending committee meetings during the week. "There will be a lot of reading bills and analyses," she said. Whitmer said she appreciated the welcome and offers of assistance made on the floor by Senate Majority Leader Ken Sikkema, R-Wyoming, and Senate Minority Leader Bob Emerson, D-Flint. "We welcome Gretchen to the Senate with open arms," Emerson said in a press release.
Headlights describes its sound as "Indie Pop with a Shoegazey aftertaste" on MySpace.com. And since the Internet never lies, especially MySpace, there's no reason to argue with Headlights' claim. The band rightfully takes on the role of an indie band since it isn't on a major record label and principally sings about depressing moments in life.
For a long time, I've aspired to be like my grandfather. He's a veteran of World War II, has a mean bowling average and almost never missed an election since he first started voting. He makes sure to get there every November, and for a long time volunteered at the polls. My grandfather of course, is a member of one of the largest voting demographic groups.
Name: Associate Professor Douglas Luckie Department: Physiology and the Lyman Briggs School Type of research: Acidity of cystic fibrosis cells Date of research: Luckie began this field of research about 15 years ago. Basics of the project: In his research at the MSU Cystic Fibrosis Lab, Luckie compares model cells that line both healthy and cystic fibrosis-infected lungs.
The MSU hockey team takes on New Hampshire in the first round of the 16-team NCAA Tournament 12 p.m.