The political and commercial spheres are two arenas of human social relations in which the more people who are involved, the more organized and accepted insanity is involved.
When Cara Stiffler learned she would lose her job in fall 2003 for smoking, she never imagined she would wind up in the Michigan Legislature.
During her four-year career at MSU, senior guard Kristin Haynie has accomplished quite a bit and it is only fitting that she moves on to the WNBA, which is where she will be heading after the draft on Saturday in New Jersey. "I am just really excited to have the opportunity to play at the next level," Haynie said.
One day after the Recording Industry Association of America, or RIAA, filed 405 lawsuits for illegal file sharing at 18 colleges and universities - including 20 at MSU - members of the university community are beginning to react. "It's kind of ridiculous because I know a lot of people who do it," education freshman Colleen Goergen said.
The 2005 festival will be held Friday through Sunday at Wells Hall. Times are listed below. For film summaries, please visit http://rha.msu.edu/oop/sff.php. Check out Friday's edition of The State News for further coverage of the Student Film Festival. Friday Shorts Program I (7 p.m.) - Approximate Running Times Bulldog Joe - 5 minutes Reality - 5 minutes Requiem for a Kreme - 10 minutes Sleepers Awake - 5 minutes Sole Survivor - 10 minutes Life Guard - 4 minutes Quantum - 10 minutes Down - 12 minutes La Mano - 22 minutes Down the Dirt Road - 19 minutes Feature Film (9:15 p.m.
The East Lansing Public Library could operate with 5,000 fewer books in the next fiscal year if the City Council approves a budget that slashes funding by $50,000. The funds necessary to purchase books are at risk to be cut by nearly one third, said Sylvia Marabate, director of the East Lansing Public Library, 950 Abbott Road, adding the institution normally purchases about 15,000 books a year. "We will work hard to meet our community's expectations, but it may mean some have to wait a little longer for the bestsellers," she said.
The first of five provost candidates will mingle with the MSU community today. Virginia Sapiro, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will tour campus, meet with deans, students and other MSU officials and host a public forum at 4 p.m.
Forward Drew Miller was voted by his teammates to serve as the MSU hockey team's captain next season for his junior, head coach Rick Comley announced Tuesday. "It's a good group of guys coming back and the freshmen coming in are really talked highly of," Miller said. "I'm excited to lead the team, and I think I have three assistant captains that are all capable of being captain, too, so I think we have a good leadership for the team." Forward Colton Fretter and defensemen Jared Nightingale and Corey Potter will serve as assistants to Miller.
From the humid streets of Saigon, to the cold cement of an Iraqi prison, Bob Simon has lived the life of an international journalist.
Thursday is Donate Life Advocacy Day in Michigan. It will be celebrated at the Anderson House Office Building, 124 N.
Imagine 1.5 million vacant acres of lush, green land. Imagine this open space, rich with beauty, being roamed by herds of brown caribou.
"Melinda and Melinda" has all the elements of a classic Woody Allen film: glasses of red wine, philosophic dinner parties, neurotic romances and tongue-in-cheek dialogue.
"What the plan was before the police took action. Were they going to teargas and pepper spray everybody?" Ashley Jenkins journalism and sociology freshman "I feel the biggest thing that needs to be looked into is the film that students may have taken.
Twenty people from MSU were planned to be hit with lawsuits today by the Recording Industry Association of America for illegal file sharing.
A week and a half after the April 2-3 disturbances in East Lansing following the men's basketball team's Final Four appearance, officials still are unclear about the specifics of what happened that night. The number of chemical munitions used or officers trained to use tear gas who were available that evening is unclear, as well as the total cost of damage. The city has termed the events a riot based on the legal definition, and the university has used multiple terms. MSU President Lou Anna K.
Finding children to participate in on-campus productions can be difficult because of scheduling, hyperactivity and, well, a lack of children on a college campus. But these factors didn't hinder Bill Gordon's plan to direct "The Orphan Train," a play that follows the relocation of 15 parentless children from the East Coast to the Midwest. Gordon is a theater graduate student with an emphasis in directing and youth theater and said this student production was a great opportunity for him to combine his different interests into one play. The adult to children ratio is 7 to 15, but actor Tommy Sklut, a music education freshman, said having the younger crowd brought life back to theater. "To help these kids turn what can be this hard acting part into something that's believable and meaningful to people was amazing," Sklut said.
Boo! Those pesky kids and their going to the bar all the time! Why, I ought to do something about it.
During the April 2-3 disturbances students armed with camcorders, camera phones and digital cameras captured the action on record. In the police-estimated crowd of nearly 3,000 that gathered on April 2 in Cedar Village celebrating the men's basketball team, it wasn't difficult to spot small red dots and outstretched hands.
Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" overran state Sen. Virg Bernero's office Wednesday afternoon, prying and jesting him with questions about a privacy bill he introduced in the Michigan Senate earlier that day. Daily Show "correspondent" Samantha Bee served up the show's usual bantering style with quick quips and mockery aimed at the senator, who said he has only seen the work of the show's main anchor Jon Stewart - not any of the sometimes-satirical correspondent stories. "If it makes me look foolish or whatever, I can live with it," Bernero, D-Lansing, told The State News in his office Wednesday.
Calling all closet musicians: It's time to make those dreams of super stardom come true. OK, so you might not have the time, talent or moolah to move to a big city and get signed right away.