An East Lansing home caught fire early Thursday morning, shooting smoke and flames into the air and leaving four MSU seniors without a home.The blaze began around 3 a.m.
Matthias Askew's decision to enter the 2004 NFL Draft has left both fans and analysts divided. The junior defensive lineman announced Monday he would forgo his senior season in order to pursue a professional career. Stewart Mandel, an online reporter for Sports Illustrated, said Askew will probably be a third or fourth-round pick, not faring as well as former Spartans who also left early.
When I read the article "Moore tackles gun culture with grim accuracy, dead-on aim" (SN 1/13), I have to say I was a little shocked.
A man unaffiliated with MSU attempted an armed robbery against two Emmons Hall residents Tuesday night. Lansing resident Deandre Deshone Hudson, 18, spent Tuesday evening harassing students throughout the building, looking for drugs and money, police said.
The No. 25 MSU women's basketball team gets back into Big Ten play tonight at Ohio State. The Spartans (11-3 overall, 1-2 Big Ten) know it will be another test in the tough Big Ten conference, but a welcome one for MSU after two consecutive conference losses to No.
Only in a Tim Burton film could witches, giants, war, a utopian society, conjoined twins, door-to-door salesmen, circus folk, a missing poet, robbery and a dying man all occupy the same space without being confusing, nonsensical or out of the ordinary. "Big Fish," Burton's long-awaited, highly touted dramedy, is a story as grand as any of those spat out by its title character and twice as appealing. This is imaginative storytelling as only Burton could do, and the end result is a tall tale mixed with family melodrama that entices wonder and disbelief.
Recently, I was recalling the stupidest news events of 2003. Obviously, Bush was a recurring figure, but the story I fixated on was the comical cloning saga trumpeted by the Raelians.
Ah, theater. The actors, the lights, the stage, the set. It's all so, so ? new to me. Before covering my first show ever last weekend, I had only been to see The Nutcracker once and had viewed a few Flint Youth Theatre shows I knew people in.
From still-life pieces, unique architectural landscapes and detailed portraits, MSU's Kresge Art Museum is one of only four museums in Michigan to feature the traveling collection from the Detroit Institute of Art's largest on-loan art assortment.
The East Lansing City Council continued to work on strategies for a traffic study on the intersection of Abbott and Chandler roads at a Tuesday work session. Two separate traffic studies are being conducted on Abbott Road.
Todd Dagenais has some adjusting to do. MSU's former associate head volleyball coach will be spending the next few weeks getting acclimated to his new home, Colorado Springs, Colorado. "The funny thing is, the biggest adjustment has been getting used to the altitude," Dagenais said, adding that the city is more than a mile above sea level.
President Bush is not stupid. Judging by the "Bushisms" desk calendars on mall shelves this Christmas, he is indisputedly inarticulate, but he definitely is not stupid.
Voter apathy, thy name is college student. In the 2000 general election, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that of the nearly 24 million United States citizens age 18-to 24, only about 8.6 million registered and cast a ballot four years ago this November.
When I peruse the never-ending list of courses offered, the profs who "teach" them, and the physical real estate they occupy, I cannot envision how so many of them in this floundering academic abyss contribute to the "excellent education" MSU President Peter McPherson professes the students receive. Further, I cringe to see the combined salary of Tom Izzo and John L.
Munn officials should stop trying to quiet the students. Earlier this season, members of Slapshots were asked to sit down during the game because it blocked other fans' views.
The mad cow scare might have prompted some Americans to second-guess their red meat consumption, but MSU officials say there's no need to panic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one cow in Washington state was diagnosed with the debilitating nervous system disease in late December. University officials say they are not concerned about the infected cow for national safety reasons, but hope to gain more knowledge about mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. "I'm concerned about any case of this type from a scientific basis because I would like to know the history of the animal that became sick," said Al Booren, food science and human nutrition professor and specialist in meat science.
Cooley Law School will host a full day of events in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Equal Access to Justice/MLK Day will take place at 3 p.m.
Changes in the MSU study-abroad program aim to increase student attentiveness while hitting the books overseas. Starting this summer, credits earned in co-sponsored study-abroad programs will appear on student transcripts with the course name and grade.
This weekend, the Potter Park Zoological Society will host a brunch promoting voluntarism at the zoo. The brunch, which takes place on Saturday at 10 a.m., will be held in Potter Park Zoo's Exploration & Discovery Center, 1301 S.