Marsha Rappley loves walking around campus during the first week of classes, especially in the cool mornings. "You can smell all the leaves and trees," the new acting dean of the College of Human Medicine said.
MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon will unveil a series of plans for university growth during a public address Thursday, with the goal of making the university the leading land-grant research institution in the United States by 2012. The announcement of a new strategic initiative Simon has titled "Boldness by Design" will come as part of a two-day academic convocation celebrating the university's sesquicentennial - or 150th anniversary - that kicks off this afternoon in the Kellogg Center. Simon's speech, scheduled for 12:30 p.m.
Even though he never expected it, Eugene Levy is now playing principal roles in large blockbuster films.
"Mojados: Through the Night" is a riveting documentary about the voyage of four Mexican men illegally immigrating into the United States for improved economic opportunities. Written, directed and produced by daring young filmmaker Tommy Davis, the documentary was shot on an intense 10-day shooting schedule during a 120-mile journey across the Texas desert.
The American Advertising Federation, or AAF, is inviting interested students to its first meeting at 7 p.m.
There are a few recurring themes in former MSU President M. Peter McPherson's work - agriculture, land-grant universities, and national and international politics. McPherson, who stepped down from the top job at MSU in 2004 after 11 years, will renew his involvement with land-grant institutions when he takes over as president of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, or NASULGC, in 2006. He has spent the past year working with the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa, an organization he co-founded to encourage agriculture and rural development in African nations. McPherson said he has begun meeting with the group's executives, but his main focus will be the Partnership for the remainder of the year. "I've got a lot to do here over the next few months," he said from the Partnership's Washington, D.C.
Kids do the darnedest things. Apparently, if they see their parents buying liquor and alcohol, when given a chance to go imaginary grocery shopping, they'll come back with a pack of Marlboros and some Colt 45. At least this is what a recently released study conducted by Dartmouth Medical College in New Hampshire says. The study found adolescent children whose parents drink and smoke were more likely to have children who emulate these behaviors. According to the study, children were 3.9 times as likely to buy cigarettes if their parents smoked and three times as likely to choose wine or beer if their parents drank alcohol at least once a month. Using dolls in a role-playing game with children 2 to 6 years old, the kids were asked to take the dolls shopping because there was no food in the dollhouse.
MSU officials are refuting a report in The Honolulu Advertiser that MSU coaches refused to send game film from the Spartans' win against Kent State on Saturday. The article, published Tuesday, said MSU's coaching staff showed poor sportsmanship and also claims Hawaii's video coordinator left four messages with MSU to send the game film but none of the messages were returned. MSU associate athletics director for communications John Lewandowski said it was a "mutually agreed upon situation" not to exchange game film. Hawaii lost to Southern Cal this past weekend.
For millions of armchair quarterbacks, fantasy is about to become reality again. The NFL season kicks off tomorrow night at 9 p.m.
We know you've seen them. Just walk down Grand River Avenue on any given night - or day, for that matter- and dozens of look-alikes grace the streets wearing the latest trends.
The editorial on Plan B emergency contraception, "Backup plan" (SN 8/30), was so remarkably ill-informed that I am led to believe that there was political motivation behind it.
U.S. Appeals Judge John G. Roberts Jr. was nominated to take the place of William H. Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court by President Bush on Monday.
Move over Hilary Duff and Lindsay Lohan: 17-year-old R&B singer Kaci Brown will most likely become the next big thing among the 13-17 age group.
A step inside Absolute Gallery in Lansing's Old Town will offer visitors the chance to glimpse inside Brazilian printmaker Sônia Menna Barreto's imagination. An exhibit of her lithographs, called "Realism Surrealism" opens at 307 E.
Dear Dr. D., Where can I get free condoms? Protect and Serve Dear Protect and Serve, A question which tugs at my health education heart strings.
Is anyone concerned with the potential political battle surrounding the vacancies in the Supreme Court? We should be. Though low on the media's radar because of Hurricane Katrina coverage, the death of Chief Justice William H.
Fewer than 100 cars were parked in the newly implemented student-only tailgate area near the tennis courts on Saturday - a noticeable difference from past years, when about 400 cars and thousands of people would fill the area on football game days. "They've effectively killed tailgate," biochemistry senior Shankar Arul said while he tailgated at the tennis courts.
The annual Strides for Change walk will be held at 9 a.m. on Sept. 10 beginning at Hawk Island County Park, 1601 E.
After six weeks of closure, the Capital Area Humane Society reopened its services to dogs and puppies on Friday. The shelter closed to canines due to several health problems among the dogs, including the parvo virus, distemper and kennel cough. "The issue was that people have been surrendering animals to us that were sick and unvaccinated," Gretchen Couraud, spokeswoman for the Humane Society said. The closure came when a case of distemper was found in one of the dogs, Couraud said.
By Norrel Hemphill Special to The State News It was hard to miss the three men walking around in white Old Spice bathrobes, camera crew in tow, during Saturday's tailgating festivities at the tennis courts. Representatives from Old Spice were filming a commercial with three MSU students as leads in search of America's Cleanest Comic.