The Spartans started practicing in full pads Saturday, only weeks away from their first game against Kent State. "This is the best first day we have had (in three years)," said head coach John L.
In your recent editorial, "Future fuel," (SN 8/11) despite marginal praise, you immediately rush to condemn President Bush.
Like white, there are different shades of black. In many movies, blacks are portrayed in prisons and ghettos, with boisterous attitudes, slick motives and other most commonly associated situations. "Barbershop," "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" and "Bad Boys," to name a few, all have a limited view of blacks. MSU Assistant Professor Jeff Wray, who is directing a film called "The Soul Searchers" this summer, is trying to move away from such hackneyed roles in the movie. "We rarely see black folks depicted in a way that's expansive about humanity," Wray said in Thursday's story in The State News.
Walking home as usual after interning at the MSU Plant Biology Laboratories, 16-year-old Detroit high school student Brenten Williams said he was stopped by an MSU police officer. "I was walking toward the bridge near Abbot and Mason (halls) and a cop pulled up in a motorcycle," he said.
Instead of letting obsolete cell phones sit dormant in a closet or drawer after getting them upgraded, people can donate their phones to charities that give them to people in need. The Charitable Recycling Program, located in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., collects phones for emerging countries with economic needs for cell phones, marketing manager Jonnie Sullivan said. "We clean them all up and make them look nice and put new batteries in them," she said.
When Mark Collins watches an MSU football game, he pays attention to something many others might give little thought - the grass. Collins, farm manager at MSU's Hancock Turfgrass Research Center, was involved in growing the grass that now sits in Spartan Stadium and said the results give him a sense of pride in his work. "I expect this will be the same way," he said Wednesday, standing in the 4-acre plot of grass that will become the new home turf of the Lansing Lugnuts this September. The field, planted last September, is being grown by MSU employees at the turfgrass center, a 56-acre site south of the main campus. The new field to be located in Oldsmobile Park is part of a long-term arrangement by both the Lugnuts organization and the city of Lansing, which owns the ballpark.
Two MSU men's basketball players, senior guard Maurice Ager and senior center Paul Davis have been named as two of the top 50 preseason players for the Men's 2005-06 Wooden Award All-American Team. The preseason Wooden Award list is composed of 50 student athletes who are the front-runners for college basketball's most recognized end-of-the-season trophy.
MSU women's basketball forward Liz Shimek led the USA World University Games Team with a double-double scoring 13 points and 10 rebounds in an 88-64 victory over the Czech Republic in the opening game of the World University Games. Shimek was a starter and shot 6-for-12 from the field and was 1-for-1 from the free-throw line.
Although it's called a folk festival, East Lansing's Great Lakes Folk Festival isn't just about the traditional idea of the genre - simply a singer and a guitar for instance - it encompasses all types of music, from Cuban to polka.
Last week, film director and Assistant Professor Jeff Wray pulled up to a dilapidated building in a white minivan to begin shooting another scene for his most recent film. Wray, who began filming "The Soul Searchers" on July 25, focused on various parts of East Lansing and downtown Lansing to tape scenes for his movie. "Lansing, just like the Midwest, is an undiscovered jewel," said assistant director K.I.
Four names - including one MSU student - will appear on the November ballot for East Lansing City Council candidates. Political theory and constitutional democracy senior John Fournier and former Planning Commission Chairman Kevin E.
A responsible energy policy backed by the White House - can it be true? In light of such things as Vice President Dick Cheney's closed-door meetings with energy company executives, and the Bush administration's suggestion to drill for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, it would come as a surprise if the White House walked the straight and narrow path on energy policy. On Monday, President Bush signed energy legislation that purports to take a long-term approach to solving problems such as reliance on foreign oil, high gas prices and the environmental effects of burning fossil fuels. Some of the main points of the plan include $14.5 billion in tax breaks for energy companies in hopes they will work to further development of renewable energy sources and the promotion of efficiency, an extension of daylight-savings time, new efficiency standards for commercial appliances, $1 billion for coastal environmental management for states where there is offshore oil drilling and a $1.8 billion program to promote clean coal research and development. At 1,724 pages, the bill is quite complicated.
MSU fans attending events at campus venues such as the Breslin Center and Spartan Stadium can now choose from a variety of Pepsi products. The Division of Housing and Food Services and the MSU Athletics Department announced Wednesday a new contract with PepsiCo Inc. for all campus concessions.
Former MSU All-American Alexandra Kyser was named the new field hockey assistant coach, MSU head coach Michele Madison announced last Wednesday. Kyser will work with the midfielders and defense.
Each year coordinators at the MSU Safe Place, a haven for victims of domestic violence, hire interns to handle services for the organization. Friday is the last day for this summer's interns, and 2005 graduate Hope Delecke and anthropology senior Kelly Nowicki said the experience at Safe Place will stay with them long after college. "After I graduate I plan to go to the Peace Corps and work in community health," Nowicki said.
Tonight, hungry students wandering Albert Avenue for something to eat will have a new option. Menna's Joint is opening a second location next to Harper's Restaurant & Brewpub, 131 Albert Ave. "We just needed to expand," owner Joe Conrad said. The opening at 7 p.m.
Friday M.A.C. Ave. • 6:00 p.m. Bob Seeley and "Boogie" Bob Baldori Dance Tent • 6:45 p.m.
It's with great sadness when I discovered that an old friend and colleague from MSU, Adrian Butler, had perished in Iraq.
In a constitutional democracy, there is no more important event than that of an amendment to the Constitution.
Video games will not only be a pastime for MSU students but also a degree specialization. Courses in video game design and development will be available for students to take in September as an introduction to a possible career. Brian Winn, associate telecommunication, information studies and media professor and co-founder of the program, said it's a four-course section that students can take in their junior and senior years.