Roger Crane stood atop a wooden bridge at the edge of his cornfield, squinting into the mid-afternoon sun. The wind whipped around him, lifting his white hair and puffing out his shirt, drowning out his soft-spoken voice with every blustering gust. He faced his cornfield, 5 acres of which had been carved into a maze.
At its first meeting of the new school year, the MSU Board of Trustees appointed a construction manager to begin planning for the addition of a seventh residence hall in the Brody Complex. The hall will be the first new dorm built on campus since the opening of Holden Hall in 1967, and will include apartment-style rooms and space for 300 students.
The slight, 5-foot-2-inch East Lansing resident accomplished what countless burly football players could not. Patrice Marietta completed The Parlour on Campus' Dare to be Great Challenge.
Judging from the way he played in MSU's loss to Notre Dame, sophomore Drew Stanton appeared to be the more comfortable and more productive of MSU's quarterbacks. But head coach John L.
Concerned with women's issues at the early age of 14, Emily Malloy is now the youngest person on the Michigan Women's Commission. Malloy, now a 20-year-old English senior, said the commission will deal with such issues as: affirmative action, domestic violence, substance abuse, gender equality in education, unintended pregnancies and infant mortality and women's economic issues. Last summer, Malloy worked as an intern with the commission and soon after was appointed to it for a two-year term after executive director Judy Karandjeff encouraged her to apply. "It's really fabulous," Malloy said.
In the wake of an alleged rape at the hub of campus tailgating, university leaders are looking to make gameday partying "healthier and safer." Escalating problems at the Wilson tennis courts have MSU officials weighing the possibility of restricting alcohol use. The discussion about responsible celebrating, particularly around the tennis courts, has increased since an alleged rape near the Duffy Daugherty Football Building Saturday night, 20 minutes before the Spartans kicked off against Notre Dame.
Hundreds of MSU students walked or cruised the streets of East Lansing Monday night, looking for their brothers.
Students will have a chance to see government in action when East Lansing officials meet on their turf during tonight's on-campus city council meeting. "We feel that it is important for us to be on campus at least three times a year so students realize that we consider them to be citizens of East Lansing," Mayor Mark Meadows said.
The MSU Community Charitable Campaign officially kicks off its donation season 7:30 a.m. today with a breakfast in the Kellogg Center. The campaign is MSU's section of the United Way's charity program that raises money for those in need across the nation. Event organizers at the kick off will talk to people about making donations and volunteering time throughout the campaign.
Police have identified a woman killed early Saturday near Lucky's Bar, 400 Baker St., Lansing police Lt.
Video To Go is holding a grand opening celebration today for its new store location, room 107 of the Union. The video store, which officially opened Wednesday, will raffle off DVD players in honor of the grand opening, along with special offers for customers. Video To Go features new releases and also movies in categories such as foreign, cult classics and television. Playstation 2 and Xbox video games are also available for rent. The Union store also sells movie posters, books and popcorn. Video To Go is open 11 a.m.-11 p.m.
With nylon stockings tied around their waists and tennis balls hanging between their legs, four Spartan tailgaters waddled across a patch of grass near Munn field, trying to knock a beer can forward. Sometimes they missed, sometimes their tennis balls tangled, but eventually sociology senior Justin Wrobel's final pelvic thrust caused the tennis ball to nudge the can across the finish line - earning him a gold medal in the makeshift nylon and tennis ball game. "I was afraid I wasn't going to win," Wrobel said.
Having just returned from our road trip to East Lansing last weekend, we wanted to take the time to thank all of you for making us so proud of the Notre Dame family. Upon our arrival, we were met with ruthless remarks.
Exams have started, leaves are falling, and many MSU students are still crowded into overbooked residence hall rooms. Chuck Gagliano, assistant vice president for Housing and Food Services, said there are currently 130 over-assigned rooms. "This isn't something that the university staff did, it's something that occurred," Gagliano said.
A traveling club is offering an MSU junior the chance to spend the summer exploring the world. The scholarship, offered by the Michigan Chapter of the Circumnavigators Foundation, which is part of the Circumnavigators Club, is worth $8,000.
Every snowflake is unique, but at MSU they share a common admiration for 19th century London physician John Snow.
Votergasm.org might be rife with crude, sexually-explicit drawings, photos of scantily-clad women and promises of action for people who vote, but people who take the Web site too seriously need to re-evaluate why they don't think it's funny. No one is going to run home to their dorm, log onto the Web site, make a pledge to sex up other voters and dance around screaming, "I'm gonna get some" in front of their computer monitor.
A Stockbridge woman died in a two-car collision Saturday morning on Grand River Avenue in Meridian Township, police said. According to police reports, the head-on collision occurred just after 9 a.m.
What many people don't know about President Bush is that his sense of humor and acute sense of irony rival the senses of the greatest comics of generations past and present.