As this weekend's Final Four basketball games draw near, MSU and East Lansing officials want to get one message across - celebrate responsibly.
Detroit has Hockeytown. Could East Lansing be the home of the nation's best basketball? MSU's two teams combined have won 58 games and only experienced the pain of losing nine times.
When students set their clocks forward an hour for daylight-saving time this Sunday at 2 a.m., there are health, safety and practical issues they should be thinking of too, experts say. Although an hour is lost with the change, daylight-saving time is meant to help people, Bill Mosley, spokesman for the U.S.
I am writing on behalf of all the Izzone members who will be driving down to St. Louis this weekend - especially on behalf of those who faithfully sacrificed time and class Sunday night and Monday morning while waiting in line for Final Four tickets at the Union. We all received great news in our inboxes Wednesday afternoon.
Students, faculty and administrators gathered at the library Thursday during the state's second annual day to honor the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Chavez is best remembered for his role in organizing the National Farm Workers Association, which would later become the United Farm Workers.
Corinne DeVries Special for The State News Every day, fisheries and wildlife sophomore Mark Williams studies in what is popularly known as "the polar bear room," a student lounge in the Natural Resources Building.
Now that both the MSU men's and women's basketball teams have advanced to the Final Four, the MSU Dairy Store has found its own way to commemorate the event. A new flavor of ice cream, Final Four Fudge Dribble - a mixture of vanilla ice cream, fudge swirl and chocolate malted milk balls, which are supposed to look like basketballs - is being introduced today, said John Engstrom, dairy plant manager. "I tried to find basketball (candy), but I couldn't find any in that short of time," Engstrom said.
Staff of the East Lansing Film Festival, which is set to hit campus this weekend, said the event will be made possible by a large supporting cast - including many members of the MSU community. The festival, which brought about 8,000 people from across the country to the MSU campus last year, will show dozens of independent, foreign and student-made movies in Wells Hall, which has been its primary theater since 1998. "It's really become a destination point for a lot of people," said Susan Woods, director of the festival.
Families looking for some spring break fun can go to the East Lansing Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, on Monday through April 8.
Any future changes in the organization of liberal arts and sciences will not come from the administration, but will "bubble up" from the faculty, MSU officials say. Last week, acting Provost John Hudzik released a report updating members of Academic Council on the status of multiple university initiatives, including the reorganization of the liberal arts and sciences. "I thought people needed to know in a thorough way where we were on various initiatives," Hudzik said.
In May, the University Stores and Mail Processing departments will switch to a paperless format when issuing statements and reports. Billing statements from departmental charges made by mostly faculty and staff will be affected. April statements will be the last received on paper, and May's statements will be available electronically in June. AIS Document Viewer, already used on campus, will allow members of the MSU community to view their statements and reports.
All Izzone season ticket holders who applied for Final Four tickets have been chosen to get them, the athletics department announced Wednesday. Eligible students also will be receiving better seats, but at a higher price.
I am so tired of outsiders coming in trying to bash the city of Detroit. Adam Wright is just an outsider looking in, and all of the information he presented were statistics that he has heard from the media ("Detroit has many faults it must fix" SN 3/30). Every city has its flaws and downfalls.
The R-word. It has four letters and can be used in both verb and noun form to describe a particularly aggressive or hazardous manifestation of human emotion.
The women's basketball team has made history - again. The Spartans achieved the program's best performance in the NCAA Tournament when they made it to the Sweet 16.
After watching enough National Lampoon movies, we realized our college experience was lacking. With the end of college looming, we decided to start our own fraternity.
I am writing in regard to the parking structure to be constructed near Morrill Hall. The parking structure, as reported in "City, MSU agree on access to structure" (SN 2/24), is to hold 725 vehicles, solving the parking deficit on north campus. By building upward, this solution represents the easiest way of increasing the parking capacity on campus, a problem that is more troublesome to the university every year. I applaud this move by the university, as it seems a logical choice.
After ASMSU's efforts to increase voter turnout, the number of undergraduates who voted this year were the same as last year. About 5 percent voted in the election, after student government officials attempted to raise voter interest by hosting a pre-election pizza party, handing out free T-shirts and running several ads in The State News. Undergraduates had the opportunity to vote online on several issues in last week's election, including the renewal of ASMSU's tax, additional seats being added to the assemblies and a tax increase to fund a scholarship that students voted against. Of 26 seats available on the Academic Assembly, nine students were elected to represent colleges.
Who said Easter egg hunts are just for kids? There will be an Easter Egg Hunt for Dogs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.