For the first time, MSU Department of Theatre and the MSU School of Music will collaborate to bring Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's classic "Carousel" - a musical that embodies and challenges dance, opera and music. "This is not your typical happy-ending musical," said Melanie Helton, director and assistant music professor.
For anyone tired of the same old East Lansing scene and seeking a more diverse crowd, look no further than Lansing's gay bar scene. Lansing four "gay bars" - Spiral Video Dance Bar, Club 505, X-cel Lounge-Dance Bar and Esquire Bar - are not strictly gay.
The MSU Federal Credit Union broke ground on a new branch in southern Lansing last month, which is slated to open in late summer 2005. Builders started developing the site at 200 E.
The "Spartan nation" is still puffing out its chest after one of the greatest weekends for the Green and White in a long time. "It was nice to be a part of, in a small way, the great weekend for the Spartan nation," wrestling head coach Tom Minkel said at a press conference.
The election might be over, but candidate criticism is not. Prominent environmental lawyer Robert F.
Several MSU volleyball players moved forward in the record books with the team's 3-0 victory over Iowa on Friday night.
International Education Week is a time when students can explore other cultures by tasting, saying or seeing things they've never tried before. During its fifth annual celebration, this year's International Education Week is complete with dancing, music, language classes, food, film, lectures and other educational activities.
This has nothing to do with what has been in the paper, but rather it's a statement about the campus. How one person can express so much hatred toward a group of people is beyond me.
Poor little Ashlee Simpson. Caught lip-synching on national television. What's a no-talent hack living in her no-talent hack sister's shadow to do?
Along Grand River Avenue, in the heart of downtown East Lansing, a wide variety of business and shopping is offered to consumers, even as the mix of stores constantly changes. Corporations such as Gap and Starbucks Coffee mingle with small, independent businesses that sell everything from posters and vintage clothing to used books and music. At a time when it seems like mom-and-pop establishments are fading away, downtown business owners and community planners say the longevity of such independently-owned businesses sustains the city's individuality. "I like having independently-owned small businesses (downtown)," said Ray Walsh, owner of Curious Book Shop, 307 E.
Trouble getting visas, education opportunities in other countries and uncertainties about the atmosphere in the United States are factors lowering applications from international students to MSU and other U.S.
This letter is in response to "Spartan fans gave poor 'U' portrayal," (SN 11/16) sent in by a University of Wisconsin-Madison student.
The East Village Master Plan Team has invited the residents of East Lansing to come forward with their own vision for the Cedar Village area. Residents can show up and speak their mind regarding the city's proposed $16.3 million transformation at 5:30 p.m.
Those rubber bracelets now come in more colors than yellow. Wrists are donning colors of the rainbow: green, pink, yellow and blue.
Each morning, hundreds of Lansing-area homeless people wake up preparing to face another day of searching for a way out of their situation. As they leave their temporary shelters, they face social stereotypes and other factors that make it difficult to improve themselves. And 28-year-old Ezra Nelson has had to do just that. Nelson came from California to Michigan in 2001 after meeting a woman on the Internet.
The treatment that I received this past weekend was beyond unacceptable. I was appalled by the fans' hostility and ridicule.
As its lights flashed and siren blared, an East Lansing Fire Department's ambulance sliced through the crowd of football fans on their way to Spartan Stadium on Saturday. After reaching a popular campus party spot, East Lansing firefighters and paramedics Alan VanStempvoort and Dan Renner hopped out of the ambulance to tend to a tailgater.
President Bush's appointment of Alberto Gonzales as our next attorney general shows that his call for unity and bi-partisanship early last week was a sham.
A poetry collective called Batey Urbano excitedly warmed up in a back room of the Erickson Kiva before several Latino and Chicano urban poets hit the stage to perform poetry with a purpose. "Is-La Mind," or "Ease The Mind," showcased the Batey Urbano poets as part of Puerto Rican Culture Week, put on by the Puerto Rican Student Alliance this week. "Our performances are a collaboration of our culture and hip-hop," Chicagoan group member Jiovani Vargas said. Batey Urbano is an outlet for people to express themselves, Vargas said.
U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham's resignation on Monday won't affect progress to bring the $900 million Rare Isotope Accelerator project to the university, MSU officials said. Abraham, a 1974 MSU graduate, was formerly one of Michigan's two U.S.