Made up in feathered hats, white wigs and hoop skirts, the Elizabethan-transformed cast of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" will embody the characteristics of classic Britain, but with a modern twist on Thursday. "The exotic qualities of (Caribbean) music and culture is something everyone is familiar with, and it's modern," Director Mary Job said.
Senior forward Veerle Goudswaard was recognized as the Big Ten Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week.
Secured with a helmet and seat belt, Elliot Tippmann spun around the corner in his sliver Ford Focus at 50 mph, inches away from hitting a traffic cone and gaining a two-second penalty. Tippmann, a mechanical engineering sophomore and member of the MSU Racing Club, along with three other club members competed against about 100 racers in the Saginaw Valley Region Sports Car Club of America's last race in Midland on Sunday. On a course about a mile long, racers maneuvered their way around cones and sharp turns, hoping for a winning time. "The idea is to drive through as fast as you can without hitting a cone," said course designer Raleigh Boreen.
To educate the public on a highly controversial issue this election year, the Undergraduate Bioethics Society is hosting a presentation and panel discussion on stem-cell research called, "Science and Ethics of Stem-Cell Research." "The science behind stem cells isn't understood by the public, it hasn't been explained very well," said Annika Storey, a physiology senior and Bioethics Society executive board member. "By combining the hard science and what stem cells can do with the ethics, it can be a very comprehensive forum and increase knowledge and thought on these issues." James Trosko and Scot Yoder will speak at 7 p.m.
Delta Township - In the back of a large costume shop, a Halloween prop dangles from the ceiling.
Following a thumbs up from the planning commission, a plan to demolish a building on the corner of Bailey Street and Grand River Avenue will go before East Lansing City Council for approval tonight. The plan has struggled to gain support for months, but developers made numerous changes to accommodate city and neighborhood requests. Corey Partnership hopes to redevelop the buildings at 601-603 E.
Bath Township - A shooting at The Club at Chandler Crossings early Saturday left one man injured and a 21-year-old Lansing man facing up to 10 years in jail, Clinton County prosecutors said. Lansing resident Pedro Serna pulled out a gun during a fight involving several people in Building 11 of the apartments, located at 3850 Coleman Road, a Bath Township police report said.
The sound of hundreds of apples tumbling down conveyor belts and being ground by presses echoed throughout the rustic-barn house when Jennifer Rheaume took her 18-month-old daughter Seasan for her first visit to Uncle John's Cider Mill. "We stopped by for a snack," Rheaume, 20, an MSU building construction management junior said as Seasan scooped handfuls of a cinnamon-sugared doughnuts into her mouth and washed it down with a small cup of apple cider.
While MSU volleyball senior outside hitter Michelle Kopka might return to the court as early as Wednesday, junior middle Brooke Langston might be questionable now, head coach Chuck Erbe said. This past weekend, MSU played Indiana and Purdue, beating Indiana 3-0 on Friday night before falling to Purdue 3-2 Saturday. Kopka did not play in either match because of an injured ankle and was wearing a protective boot last week.
Tailgating will be restricted to five hours before game time and two hours after, and drinking games of all kinds will be prohibited on campus, according to regulations released by university officials Monday.
The U.S. Department of Education awarded the Lansing School District more than $1 million to develop smaller learning communities within the district's three high schools. The program, called Smaller Students, Parents, Administrators, Community, and Educators to Improve Student Achievement (Smaller SPACES), will focus on creating learning environments with smaller numbers of students.
Paper and book aficionados sifted through an original 1940s Red Cross Nazi Poster, first-edition classic novels and old postcards from their hometowns. The 40th Michigan Antiquarian Book & Paper Show took place Sunday at the Lansing Center, 333 E.
Television sucks. We all agree. Sure, we all say that. So why is it the first thing you turn on when you get home?
Lansing-area "starving artists" fought back against hunger this weekend, not just for themselves, but for others. Young musicians and artists collaborated in the "Starving Artists Concert" Sunday night at The Temple Club, 500 E.
St. Johns City Park will host the 10th annual Pumpkins in the Park Wednesday through Sunday. The event, sponsored by St.
For the past three years, scientists from MSU and the University of Pennsylvania have been studying the health of 97 search-and-rescue dogs exposed to toxic debris at the Sept.
Iraq is a disaster. Thus far, we've heard several justifications for it; the "threat" of Iraq is still a lingering argument.
Three MSU students were honored at the 11th Annual Prism Awards for their service within the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community.
Biosystems engineering sophomore Tara Franey was awarded the 2004 MSU Distinguished Scholarship. The scholarship includes full tuition, room and board, books and miscellaneous academic expenses for up to nine semesters of undergraduate study. "I feel like I don't deserve it," Franey said.