Tom Dudzick's "Over the Tavern" is back for another run at the BoarsHead Theatre after sold-out showings last fall. The play, which opens May 18 and runs through May 29, was such a success that the full cast is back to revive this comedy.
After almost 30 years of adding and subtracting money to East Lansing's financial account, Finance Director Gary Murphy will retire Friday.
The MSU women's golf team opens play at the NCAA Championships at 9 a.m. today at Meadows Course in Sunriver, Ore.
J. Lo is looking for a relationship, but this time it's in the movies. The only difference is she and Mr. Right aren't having problems - it's Lopez and her future mother-in-law battling it out. Charlotte "Charlie" Cantilini (Jennifer Lopez) is your average city girl, working as a receptionist at a doctor's office, and has dreams of becoming a fashion designer.
There's no question that the MSU baseball team was going to "take some lumps" this year, as freshman center fielder Ryan Sontag put it. With five games remaining, a team that has 15 freshman and nine sophomores is getting better and has a 20-28 overall record and 9-15 in Big Ten play, good for ninth in the current standings. "We're just looking to get some more at-bats before we go to Northwestern," said MSU manager Ted Mahan.
The Spartans split with Penn State after dropping the final game in a four game set, 3-2, to the Nittany Lions at Kobs Field on Sunday. The Spartans (20-28 overall, 9-15 Big Ten) scored a run in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single by left fielder Ryan Basham.
The Michigan chapters of the American Red Cross have the lowest blood supply levels in a decade. MSU students leaving for the summer and high school classes coming to a close give the Red Cross fewer possible donors. A new campaign called "Strive for Five" started on Friday to help increase blood donations for the summer. It encourages sponsors to give five more pints of blood than their original goal, American Red Cross Marketing Manager Kelly Rogers said. The campaign began because this summer is projected to be the lowest blood-drive turnout in years, said Justin Looyenga, donor recruitment representative for the Mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross. "We're really going to be struggling this summer," Looyenga said. The summer always is a problem for the organization, Rogers said.
The Michigan Botanical Club will hold a trip to "KirkKelDEL," the Dynamic Ecological Laboratory at Olivet College, on Saturday. The group will meet at 10 a.m.
The city of East Lansing has made a positive step toward rebuilding good relations with MSU students by forming an independent commission to review the April 2-3 disturbances. However, upon closer inspection of the list of individuals on this commission, it seems the city has not gone far enough in its efforts to hear students' concerns.
The East Lansing City Council will meet Tuesday and is expected to decide on several housing and retail developmental projects for the city. One major decision involves choosing the lead developer of the redevelopment of the East Village area, in which several apartment complexes, rental homes and businesses in and around Cedar Village will be torn down within a few years and replaced with new businesses, student housing, condominiums and parks. The lead developer is expected to have complete control of the project, with some exceptions that the council will outline at upcoming meetings. At the council's first meeting of the month on May 3, council members approved parking agreements for some MSU faculty and staff members, discussed the 2005-06 city budget and honored East Lansing's finance director of 27 years, who is retiring Friday. MSU has begun construction on a parking ramp near Morrill Hall, which has caused some faculty and staff members to be left without parking.
Looking for a good movie this summer, but don't know what to watch? Don't worry, my movie friends, I'll be your guide for this 2005 summer film bonanza.
In a time when the media takes a great deal of blame for nearly everything it does, it's important to look objectively at the situation and try to find something the media is doing right. Take the recent story of bride-to-be Jennifer Wilbanks, a.k.a.
I'd like to offer a different perspective in response to Yusuf Macklai's "Popularity of highly violent video games can have detrimental effects." (SN 4/29) I support Yusuf's comments about how violent video games are popular among the kids and adults the past two decades.
E.L. library to hold estate-planning class An estate-planning program will be held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday at the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road.
With the recent graduation of thousands of MSU students, the job search has become more rigorous for some, according to MSU officials. Gov.
All beaches at Lake Lansing Park South, Burchfield Park and Hawk Island County Park opened on Saturday for the summer.
One "victim" of the April 2-3 disturbances in East Lansing is coming home, thanks to a University of Michigan student.
Like many others, Sparty can't stand the traffic on campus. Or stand in it, rather. "The Spartan" statue, mostly known as "Sparty," which stood in the middle of Kalamazoo Street, Red Cedar Road and Chestnut Road, was moved Wednesday afternoon to the lobby of the Spartan Stadium addition, much to the chagrin of some students and faculty. "We've been talking about fixing this intersection as long as I've been here," said Dennis Hansen, a site construction superintendent for Campus Park & Planning.
The independent commission formed to review a police report detailing police actions during the April 2-3 disturbances will hold its first formal meeting at 4 p.m.