Following a strong performance at this past week's Meyo Invitational at Notre Dame, the MSU men's and women's track and field teams will travel to Ames, Iowa this weekend to compete in the 14th annual Iowa State Classic.
After listening to nearly two and a half hours of testimony from the developers and the public, the East Lansing Planning Commission voted 4-1 against approving a recommendation to rezone a local abandoned property. The commission also voted 3-2 to approve a recommendation to grant Strathmore Development Company a special-use permit to redevelop the property as general office space. The recommendations are given to the city council, who will officially vote on the future of the property, located at 1427 W.
The MSU Board of Trustees approved several university building renovations Friday, including a $3 million addition to the Cyclotron.The board also discussed a proposal to renovate and expand the MSU Clinical Center, but no decisions were made.Construction to the Cyclotron will begin soon and should be completed by December, according to University Engineer Bob NestleThe Board of Trustees also discussed hiring an architect for clinical center renovations.
Ann Arbor - Junior guard Kristin Haynie only scored one basket against Michigan Thursday night, but her timing couldn't have been better. Haynie's 3-pointer with 3:05 left in the second half gave the No.
Nothing says love like "Basket Case" by Green Day. Or, for the more traditional wooers, maybe a selection by Nat King Cole.
Commitment - a word we're all a little weary of. This being the eve of Valentine's Day, commitment seems an appropriate topic to discuss.
The Great White North. No, not Canada - Alaska. It's where the MSU hockey team has been since Wednesday, gearing up for its weekend series against Alaska Fairbanks starting today at 11:05 p.m. Adjusting to the time difference - Alaska is four hours behind - prompted MSU head coach Rick Comley to hit the road two days ago despite MSU holding a 10-2 advantage at Alaska. "Players are so tired when you get there - they want to sleep constantly during the day," Comley said. "It's what you do with the trip mentally.
As news of the first cloned embryo in South Korea circulates around the world, an MSU professor and researcher can take credit for helping to prove the clones were, in fact, authentic. South Korean scientists Woo Suk Hwang and Shin Yong Moon published a study Thursday in the research journal Science revealing their findings on cloning a human embryo for medical purposes. "My role was to guide them on the forensic work and to prove to them that the cell line was really from a human," said Jose Cibelli, a professor in the departments of Animal Science and Physiology. Cibelli has been a researcher in the MSU Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory for a little more than a year.
Where Izzo has a will, Izzo has a way. The MSU head coach repeatedly told his players prior to Tuesday night's pummeling to Illinois that offense won't get a team anywhere without a partner - that partner being defense. MSU's foundation over the past eight seasons has been hitting the glass and tough defense.
Patrick Quinn is as Irish-American as it gets. His father is from Ireland, and Quinn has visited the country nearly 20 times throughout his life.
So Gov. Jennifer Granholm thinks raising taxes on cigarettes will help raise money to offset the state deficit and deter tobacco smoking?
Well, well, well, Don Jordan, "Mr. Repentant Parking Man" (
Orlando's Orange County National Golf Course will hold the dual match between MSU and Northwestern this weekend.
It didn't have music, supermodels or a catwalk, but that didn't stop human biology senior Dave Mitchell from strutting his stuff in a "fashion show" Thursday afternoon in the Union.
It has come to my attention that the reputation of MSU sorority girls cannot escape slander in so much as one day.
For anyone who has ever had to pay a $25 parking ticket for leaving their car on an East Lansing street overnight, you know how aggravating East Lansing's "fund-raising" can be.
This morning, a certain percentage of this university's student body is on its way to a math class, probably dreading this requirement as much as potentially going to a lecture on the production of elevator buttons. That is how I feel about the math requirement here at MSU.
February: 12: Barenaked Ladies with Gavin DeGraw and Butterfly Boucher at Breslin Center 12: Bump at Rick's American Cafe, 224 Abbott Road 13: Newport Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour, featuring Cedar Walton, Howard Alden, James Carter, James Moody, Lewis Nash, Peter Washington and Randy Brecker at the Wharton Center 13: The Sights, The Waxwings and The Avatars at The Blind Pig in Ann Arbor 13: Rocking For Paws benefit for Friends of Ingham County Animal Shelter featuring Killer Miller, Elastic Eight Track, Wanderjahr, The Pusherz and The Hush 14: Diamond Rio at the Wharton Center 14: Honest D and the Steel Reserve at Mac's Bar 14: Aretha Franklin at the Music Hall Center in Detroit 14: Cyndi Lauper at the Stranahan Theatre in Toledo, Ohio 15: Sunday Jazz Vespers Concert Series featuring Cyrus Chestnut at the Okemos Christian Center, 2630 Bennett Road in Okemos, starts at 3 p.m. 15: Henry Rollins at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor 17: Dweezil Zappa and Lisa Loeb at the Magic Stick in Detroit 18: The Von Bondies at the Union Ballroom 19: Dope, Mushroomhead and Twisted Method at The Machine Shop in Flint 20: The Hard Lessons at Mac's Bar 20: The Sounds with Kill Hannah and IMA Robot at the Magic Bag in Ferndale 21: The Fags with Back In Spades and Tiny Steps at the Magic Bag in Ferndale 21: Annie Quick at Mac's Bar 24: Robben Ford at the Magic Bag in Ferndale 25: Switchfoot at the Union Ballroom 27: Gil Mantera's Party Dream, Russian and SAH at Mac's Bar 27: Ekoostik Hookah at The Temple Club 29: Ludacris, Chingy and I-20 at Breslin Center March: 4: The Walkmen at the Union Ballroom 5: Wanderjahr with Delicious at Mac's Bar 11: Fat Possum Juke Joint Caravan with T-Model Ford, Kenny Brown and more TBA at the Magic Bag in Ferndale 12: Savoy Brown and Wishbone Ash at the Magic Bag in Ferndale
Once upon a time, there was a place in East Lansing where people under the age of 21 could go nearly every night and hear live music.