In 2003, Duke defeated the Spartans 72-50 at the Breslin Center. It was MSU's sole loss in the BigTen/ACC Challenge to date. MSU has an overall 3-1 record in its history at the Big Ten/ACC Challenge.
In this time of revisionist history, when all kinds of people become heroes upon death, I challenge people to take a step back. I feel for the family and friends of Ronald Reagan, especially for his wife, who cared for him so lovingly through the last few years.
Police in East Lansing and Sterling Heights are investigating a link between a series of bank robberies in East Lansing and Brighton and the fatal shooting of a Sterling Heights police officer. Timothy W.
MSU juniors, right fielder Travis Gulick and catcher Erik Morris were selected in the 2004 Major League Baseball draft, Tuesday. The draft spans over two days and 50 rounds. For Gulick, the two days of sitting in front of his computer listening to the 2004 MLB draft online seemed endless until his name was finally called Tuesday afternoon. Gulick was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 23rd round of the Major League Baseball Draft, the 686th pick overall. "It's been a long process," Gulick said.
It's not every day that Ron Dorr writes letters to his loved ones in anticipation of his death.
Piles of broken bricks and mortar surrounded the exposed backside of Marshall Hall on Wednesday as construction began this week on the $6.86 million renovation. Marshall Hall was constructed in 1902 and later named after Professor Charles Marshall, an eminent bacteriologist at MSU.
Venus will do something today it has not done in more than a century - it will line up exactly against the sun this morning, creating a black dot only visible through a telescope in what is called the transit of Venus.
Fighting hunger, frigid conditions and the death of several group members, MSU alumnus Dale Darling, 39, had to rely on his experience to take him to the summit of Mount Everest. Darling, who has been climbing mountains for 10 years, knew how to pace himself, thus he never was worried about death.
Like George and Louise Jefferson, the MSU Student Housing Cooperative is movin' on up to the east side. After 34 years in Student Services, the cooperative's headquarters has moved to 541 E.
Perhaps living in the politically correct bubble that is MSU has made me soft. Maybe it has incorrectly made me think that most people are relatively tolerant and understanding of the differences between people.
I'm concerned about the ongoing search to fill President M. Peter McPherson's post in the coming year.
In her column about Hawaii and the U.S. government, ("Hawaiian lifestyle sullied by outsider involvement, development," SN 6/1) Leah Singer mentions an apology to the native Hawaiians is in order.
A MSU patent on a cancer-treating drug is up and will no longer provide royalties for the university. The drug, Carboplatin, which has had a dramatic effect on the nation, was a modification of Cisplatin, a cancer-treatment drug also discovered by MSU researchers Barnett Rosenberg, Loretta Van Camp and Thomas Krigas in the 1960s.
Planning and zoning move to the forefront of today's East Lansing City Council work session. The council will review two applications to renovate and rezone city property to include new residential housing, as well as another measure to resurface a major road. Council members will review an application, which would rezone properties on West Grand River Avenue to allow for the inclusion of townhouses, retail stores and apartments. Developer Signature Associates would renovate the former Greyhound Bus Station and surrounding houses, located at the intersection of Hillside Court and West Grand River Avenue, into what city officials are calling "West Village." "Plans include a mixed use structure with retail space, apartments above and a building containing several townhouses," said Bob Owen, the city's planning and zoning administrator.
State legislators say offsetting the current fiscal year's budget deficit and balancing the budget next year is proving to be the omnipresent issue plaguing them right now. With the deadlines for getting both a new cigarette tax bill signed into law and balancing next fiscal year's budget fast approaching, state legislators are scrambling to get both done. Last week, Gov.
Wanted: Any male Americans who have an ounce of basketball talent for the USA Olympic men's basketball team. If you can shoot, defend, or even dribble a basketball, your country could use you this summer in Athens, Greece. USA Basketball is having difficulty finding players to fill its roster.
Polly Jean Harvey has been one of the most consistently talented female singer/songwriters in rock history. While the content of her seven albums, including the latest "Uh Huh Her," varies significantly from one to another - it's unique, dark and raw.
MSU students and professors will bring a bit of Spartan Stadium to the Athens 2004 Olympic Games this summer by helping to create a portable turf field for the event's main stadium. The Virginia-based GreenTech, a company that builds athletic field systems, has been working alongside crop and soil sciences professors Trey Rogers and James Crum and graduate students Matt Anderson and Tim VanLoo.
So, now you change your mind. After the Detroit Pistons beat the L.A. Lakers last night in Game 1, television sports analysts are starting to reconsider their opinions of the overrated Lakers dominating the court.
So there I was, standing right outside the MSU Dairy Store, waiting for my usual ride home. While I was waiting, a small child skipped along with his mother to the tune of "I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream." I was greatly amused by this Norman Rockwellian moment when all of a sudden I looked out into the street and saw a sickening display.