Sparty has a home in Romeo. The MSU mascot is one of the featured attractions at Westview Orchards and Cider Mill of Romeo. And this Sparty is made from 5 acres of cornstalks and endless rows of dirt, that when seen from an aerial view, show the mascot's intimidating stance.
The baseball season was supposed to bring joy to me this year. This was the year the Cubs were supposed to win it all. Oh, wait. That's every year. Unfortunately though, this year is turning out to be the worst possible season ever.
A middleman store helping potential eBay sellers reach buyers around the world has moved into East Lansing and plans to open in two weeks.
Members of Students for Economic Justice, or SEJ, held a fashion show featuring MSU apparel Tuesday in front of the Administration Building. The event was meant to show students and staff that merchandise bearing the MSU name and logo might still be made in sweatshops.
George Clooney captures the second wave of the "Red Scare" in high contrast black-and-white film. "Good Night, and Good Luck" documents the years between 1953 and 1958 when celebrity journalist and television personality Edward R.
Scandals and politics mix together like oil and water. In other words, they don't — they shouldn't be allowed to. Tom DeLay, Karl Rove and I.
Business: Preuss Animal House, 2119 Haslett Road in Haslett Names: Rick and Debbie Preuss, owners and married 22 years History with business: 23 years.
Where are you? Where are the students who were affected by the April 2-3 disturbances? Where are the students who were bleeding from the impact of a tear gas canister or the 43 students who were arrested that night? Wednesday is the last chance for you to tell your side of the story to the independent commission. On Friday, the independent commission released its latest draft report on how the city and university should handle future student celebratory events.
Since 2002, Cody Dawson has called a mansion his home. The 4,752-square-foot brick structure, with sprawling lawns and a backyard overlooking the Red Cedar River, has housed more than 2,000 men in its 73-year history, including about 30 of the economics senior's closest friends that live there now. And he's not ready to give it all up. Dawson's bedroom in the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house, 1218 E.
As part of Wednesday's Campus Sustainability Day, a hybrid car display will be held from 11 a.m.
When David Stepien converted to Islam in September, he knew it would raise a few eyebrows in his hometown of Pinckney, Mich. "I can tell you the number of Muslims there and it's zero," he said.
East Lansing Fire Department officials are encouraging residents to change the batteries in their smoke detectors on Sunday, along with setting clocks back an hour for daylight-saving time. The vast majority of fire deaths occur in homes without a working smoke detector, and people might not smell smoke, a press release from the city of East Lansing states. Working smoke alarms can double the chance of survival in a house fire, the release states.
The MSU volleyball team earned a split this weekend, losing to No. 7 Wisconsin on Friday, then beating Northwestern on Saturday in a five-game thriller at Jension Field House. The Spartans (10-10 overall, 3- 7 Big Ten) snapped their five-game losing streak when they defeated the Wildcats (12-8, 3-7). Starting Homecoming weekend off, the Spartans dropped a five-game nail biter to Wisconsin (16-2, 8-1). The Spartans had controlled most of the game but the Badgers would make plays at key moments to give them the 3-2 edge to win the game.
• We were going to apologize that the Musings disappeared mysteriously last week. But now we're not going to until the MSU football team apologizes for doing the same thing this weekend. • An Oklahoma man received a 30-year prison sentence this week, but convinced prosecutors to lengthen it to 33 years to match Larry Bird's jersey number. Let's hope Saddam Hussein's a big fan of Wayne Gretzky — No.
Having a city or university sponsored celebration and using less tear gas are some of the suggestions made by the independent commission reviewing the April 2-3 disturbances in a draft report released Friday. The group is preparing to release a complete draft report on how to plan for and handle celebratory events to the public before its meeting at 7 p.m.
Why is our team notorious for snatching defeats out of victories? How many more losses are we going to endure when we actually outplay the opponent?
I was appalled at the juvenile way in which the two reporters presented a local Armenian restaurant in "Reporters tackle Armenian eatery" (SN 9/23). The headline alone makes one think that the reporters started out with a confrontational attitude even before they reached the House of Kabobs restaurant.
The MSU men's soccer team was shut out for the sixth time this season as Penn State scored a late goal in double overtime to beat the Spartans 1-0 and clinch the Big Ten title. The Spartans (5-4-5 overall 2-2-1 Big Ten), outshot the Nittany Lions 11-7 but squandered the chances that were given to them. "We can't win if we don't score, so we didn't deserve to win," head coach Joe Baum said. Forward Simon Omekanda fired a shot past junior goalie Jason Tillman to give Penn State (8-6-2, 5-0-0) the victory. "He made a move and hit it hard," senior defender Steve Doster said. "It was a good finish.
The good news: MSU scored the first and last touchdowns of the game. The bad news: Northwestern scored seven touchdowns in between. The Wildcats, after allowing a three-play touchdown drive to start the game, showed they should be taken for real in the Big Ten race as they sprinted past the Spartans in a 49-14 blowout Saturday at Spartan Stadium. "They had a lot of answers for what we were trying to do," MSU head coach John L.
With all the pressures college students have, the government reading their e-mail shouldn't be one of them. A new proposal by the federal government is attempting to make hundreds of institutions across the nation — universities, cities and online communication companies — modify their networks to make them more accessible for surveillance purposes by spring of 2007. Institutions are being forced to make these modifications and will have to pay for it.