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.
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.
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.
During the last few weeks, stress had me stabbing at the darkness like a crazed, drunken knife-fighter in search of an answer. How does a student shake off the foul beast of school-induced stress?
WHAT IS IT? A comfy set of couch pillows made from your old favorite T-shirts that you might have outgrown or accidentally shrunk in the wash.
Whoever wrote the "Hurtful Mascot" (SN 11/8) editorial needs to get off his or her high horse and the politically correct bandwagon all at once. There was a rash of name changes in the early 1990s, and many teams and communities are lamenting them.
For Army Sgt. Brian Brooks, coming back to MSU for classes means taking a break from assault rifles, 100-degree heat and guarding prisoners. After five years in the military, Brooks said he's ready to finish his degree so he can become a dentist in the military as a career officer. "I've got a long time to go," the 24-year-old said jokingly.
Once again, we're devoting a column to answering questions from our obsessive fan base. OK, our fans aren't obsessive.
"The Lady and the Duke" is a lot like "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" in that it puts its characters in front of computer-generated backdrops. The only difference is that this foreign flick is about the French Revolution - not a robotic army. The 2001 film, from French director Eric Rohmer, is about one woman's attempt to stay alive amid the rampant violence against the French aristocracy during the late 1700s. The story is based on the memoirs of Grace Elliot, a Scottish woman living in Paris during the revolution.
Lyrics by Attorney General John Ashcroft: "Let the eagle soar/Let it soar like she's never soared before/From rocky coast to golden shore/Let the mighty eagle soar." Lyrics by The State News: "With you clutched tightly/ in her mighty talons/taking you far, far away/from any position/of civil service." As attorney general, Ashcroft did more to limit our freedoms and liberties than he did to expand or celebrate them.
Two MSU football players were arrested Tuesday for a prank - plain and simple. Irving Campbell and Terry Love, both redshirt freshman wide receivers, did not intend to threaten or hurt anyone.