The No. 12 MSU women's basketball team has played five of the first seven games this year on the road and has shown no signs of fatigue from the travel. "This team is tough and we were focused throughout the game," MSU head coach Joanne P.
The MSU athletic department named Cathy George, former Western Michigan volleyball head coach, to take the spot vacated by Chuck Erbe just one week ago due to retirement. "When you have a person almost in your backyard who meets and exceeds many of the qualifications we had set for the volleyball coach here, it's kind of a no-brainer," MSU Athletics Director Ron Mason said. George has coached collegiate volleyball for 18 years, including 11 seasons at Western.
The No. 12 MSU women's basketball team had little trouble picking up its seventh win of the season as the Spartans rolled over Eastern Illinois, 85-45. The Spartans (7-1) got out to an early 24-10 lead behind eight points from senior center Kelli Roehrig.
When East Lansing City Manager Ted Staton landed his college-town position about 10 years ago, he said his wife, Carol, wasn't too thrilled about moving to the Great Lakes state. "Mid-Michigan did not look like a garden that day," he said recalling the rainy morning when they moved to East Lansing. Now, Staton said his wife can't imagine living anywhere else. This attachment influenced Staton when he recently withdrew his application to become city manager of Evanston, Ill., the home of Northwestern University. "At the end of the day, if you make a decision to uproot everything in your life ... it's got to be pretty close to perfect," Staton said.
In response to Bradley Wilson's letter on Wednesday defending Bryan Dahl's editorial regarding the public school system in Michigan ("Columnist's writing style is appreciated" SN 12/8), there is good reason to respond to this attack on not only our public schools, but to the wonderful teachers we have in this state. For as long as I can remember, public school teachers and their unions have been used as a scapegoat for the flaws in a school district.
During the past year's session, state legislators tackled issues ranging from affirmative action to same-sex marriage to gambling. They passed a cigarette tax increase, a partial-birth abortion ban and agreed to increase the number of drug courts in the state, all amidst a budget shortfall that remains to be resolved. "This has been a very challenging year.
What do John Mayer, Jason Mraz, Keaton Simons, Gavin DeGraw, Jack Johnson, Tyler Hilton and Oval Opus all have in common? They're just a few of the many artists in 2004 who added to the genre of horrible, male-driven, guitar-schlock music.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson, who has spent 11 years as the president, saw the university through state budget cuts and rising tuition costs.
In his last official press conference of the year, MSU head football coach John L. Smith talked about everything from the Hawaii game to recruiting players. Overall, Smith tried to stay positive about what happened and the future of MSU football.
When MSU President M. Peter McPherson came to the university 11 years ago, he stepped right out of the banking world and was thrust into the academic spotlight. Widely known for his financial and political experience, some members of the MSU community doubted his ability to run a major research university. "Before I came to MSU, I was at Bank of America," said McPherson, who managed $600 million as the bank's executive vice president.
Joyce Draganchuk, the incoming Ingham County 30th Circuit Court judge, said she is excited to start her new role - so much so she tried on her new judge's robe as soon as it was delivered. "It was sent to my house while I was cooking dinner," she said.
Do our sports writers actually bother to watch the games they write about? Over and over, I've seen nonchalant columns with a pretentious level of caring and thoughtfulness about football games. I cannot imagine a single soul who is not outraged by the enormous disparity in officiating fairness experienced by the Big Ten in the last two Saturdays.
There's a long tradition of superstars receiving special treatment just because they're famous, especially when it comes to legal matters.
Although Santa receives letters throughout the year, he gets a plethora of requests in December. Well, little does that jolly, red-hatted man know, I've been intercepting some of the hottest, juiciest notes this side of the equator.
"Alexander" An epic bomb from director Oliver Stone, this overlong yawnfest slates bad boy Colin Farrell as the greatest conqueror of all.
Students planning the Pow-wow of Love for February 2005 say raising funds is especially stressful this year because the event is being held a month earlier than usual.
The No. 12 MSU women's basketball team returns home for a one-game stint against Eastern Illinois.
Wednesday's feature piece on coffee ("Perfecting the drip" SN 12/8) was long on style and a bit too short on the costs.
Students might think twice about pulling all-nighters for final exams with the news that sleeping for five hours or less per night could cause weight gain, according to a psychiatry and behavioral sciences professor from Stanford University. Emmanuel Mignot, who conducted the study in connection with the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, said the study included about 1,500 subjects divided equally by gender.
I was very upset upon reading the article, "RHA to dump recycling," on the front page of Friday's edition of The State News.