A black mask that collects dirt and monitors air quality while someone travels around a city is the newest of Natalie Jeremijenko's inventions.
Students enter Abrams Planetarium clutching all sorts of things. Some grip a textbook for the astronomy-oriented lab held in the planetarium several times a week.
Residents might not have any say in the approval of a pipeline set to be built along Interstate 96 on the city's south side under a measure approved Wednesday in the Michigan House. By a 61-44 vote, the House agreed to take away cities' veto power on pipelines passing through their borders on state-owned land and give it to the state government.
I am writing in response to Chris Hansen's letter "Izzo's arrogance readily apparent" (SN 11/9). It became apparent to me when reading this letter that it is OK to be a supporter of the basketball team only when it is convenient. This should not be the case, and that was head coach Tom Izzo's message Sunday night.
Although Lansing accounts for a good portion of the increase in Michigan's minority population in the last census, that change isn't reflected in the local theater community. At least 36,000 minority members make up the nearly 120,000 people that live in Lansing. At MSU alone, minorities compose more than 16 percent of the nearly 45,000-student population. I wonder, then, why this diversity hasn't been at all mirrored on stage. This past season, there have been plays about all kinds of topics.
Rep. Craig DeRoche, R-Novi, won the nod of Republican state representatives for speaker of the House on Wednesday, going unchallenged. But the majority of Republican state representatives already supported DeRoche before the election, said Rep.
I completely disagree with the editorial "Smooth Sailing" (SN 11/9). As one of the loyal few who stayed up until 5 a.m., waiting for those last few states to be called, I was one of many, many people along both party lines that were screaming at Wolf Blitzer to call Ohio for the Republicans already.
Sorority members posed on a small, crowded stage in mini-skirts, halter tops and high-heeled shoes Tuesday evening, as audience members whistled and cheered. People packed inside The Temple Club, 500 E.
MSU didn't lose its exhibition opener Wednesday night to Division II Grand Valley State, but the outcome proved the Spartans have a couple wrinkles to iron out. Namely, defense and rebounding, two areas head coach Tom Izzo has said MSU must improve on this season. "The defense was kind of good in the first half," senior guard Kelvin Torbert said.
Dancing with legs and arms perfectly aligned in the air is not an easy task - but to professional ballerinas, such moves are mastered with exquisite posture.
A mariachi singer tapped her stark white boot to the music as she sang a traditional song begging her lover to return.
It was 1910. The port city of New Orleans was on the brink of developing a spicy new musical collaboration.
Jazz is hard to define. The sound incorporates piano, drums, trumpets, trombones, saxophones and clarinets to give listeners a syncopated rhythm that can either be fast and loud, or soft and relaxing.
A 19-year-old kinesiology sophomore fought back from an alleged attack at knifepoint on the Red Cedar River trail Monday night, MSU police said. Christina Sterner said a man covered her mouth, held a knife to her back, and told her if she screamed or made any suspicious noises he would kill her.
At its Friday meeting, the MSU Board of Trustees will discuss a variety of campuswide changes, including renaming a board committee and restoring part of Spartan Stadium. Up for approval is renaming the board's Finance Committee to the Finance and Audit Committee and making minor changes to its responsibilities. "Across the country, you see corporations, both public and private, enhancing and stressing the important role that audit committees play," board Chairman David Porteous said.
There's a whole world of cinema Mid-Michigan is missing. No, not obscure animated films or underground foreign flicks.
Walter Mears spent his fair share of time in political reporting. The retired Pulitzer Prize winner covered nearly 40 years of presidential campaigns for the Associated Press, and after four decades of reporting, he shared his anecdotes from the inside. Mears spoke to about 30 people in the Communication Arts and Sciences Building on Wednesday as part of the Siebert Lecture series. In the first election since his retirement, Mears said sitting on the sidelines this year wasn't easy. "I missed it a lot, but there comes a time when another generation needs to take over," he said. The retired journalist spent the first 20 minutes of his speech criticizing President Bush, and was almost relieved in saying that his reporter's obligation to be objective was relinquished after retirement. Mears said even though politicians are more accessible now than any other time, much of the coverage is superficial and insubstantial. "While images and sound bites from political candidates are more accessible, they're packaged and sold as supermarket products," he said. In his early days, when a journalist's questions weren't answered by politicians, "it would get nasty," he said. "Right now, there's almost none of that and it's a loss to the political readers," Mears said.
MSU hasn't had a problem with hazing this year. The University of Michigan, on the other hand, has. At U-M, a number of greek chapters went under investigation last month.
In Tuesday's paper, we rhapsodized on how we as voters should try and restore our faith in the Electoral College before we condemn it for the after- effects of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections.
Grand Rapids, Mich. - A brooding black steam engine stands waiting on a dark, cold night. The passenger cars lined up behind it glow with yellow lamplight and children's laughter.