NEWS
MIDDAY UPDATE: Lansing police look to younger generation for recruits
The Lansing Police Department recently launched a recruitment campaign aimed at middle and high school students.
NEWS
Crichton novel comes alive
Michael Crichton movies have been a hit with the box office and sometimes a miss with critics.This time, the popular author is teamed up with action film director Richard Donner ("Lethal Weapon," "Conspiracy Theory") for a big-budget time-travel flick."Timeline" is about a group of archaeological students trapped in 14th-century France while trying to save their professor.The group must survive one of the bloodiest battles in history and try to make it back to the 21st century.
NEWS
MIDDAY UPDATE: 'U'-built Web site helps determine lead poisoning risk level
Determining the lead poisoning risk level of children in the United States can now be done over the Web, as MSU researchers have developed a new site that aids in the process. The site allows users to enter contributing factors of lead poisoning, including the children's address, housing condition, family history of lead poisoning and socio-economic status and provides the user with a risk-assessment evaluation. The Web site already has gained acceptance from various Michigan lead poisoning awareness groups, including the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, a group that supports the coordination of lead poisoning prevention programs in Michigan. "The ideal result would be that medical clinics use this as the means of deciding who should be tested," said Stan Kaplowitz, MSU professor of sociology and one of the Web site's creators.
MICHIGAN
Mitch Albom to sign books in E.L. store
New York Times best-selling author and columnist Mitch Albom will visit Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 333 E.
MICHIGAN
Tree-lighting, Santa highlight celebration
Downtown Lansing will be lit up from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday as the city hosts the Silver Bells in the City celebration.The festival, in its 19th year, is designed to welcome the upcoming holidays.
MSU
English center holds meeting on Thursday
The English Language Center is hosting a meeting for provisionally admitted international students interested in admission to a U.S.
FEATURES
Old-school games offer rainy day, school-skippin' fun
Perhaps Byron and I have spurred you on to invest in a retro video game system. So, if you're ready to do the Goomba shuffle, pay attention, and let us entice you into picking up 11 games to start (or re-start) your Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System or Super Nintendo Entertainment System collection."DuckTales 2," NES:Scrooge McDuck is back in the follow-up to the highly successful first game.
NEWS
MIDDAY UPDATE: 'U' dean to become University of Texas at Arlington's president
James Spaniolo, MSU's dean of the College of Communication Arts and Sciences, has been named the seventh president of the University of Texas at Arlington.Spaniolo confirmed the decision Wednesday evening via a telephone conversation from Texas."I felt very honored and excited about this opportunity," Spaniolo said.
NEWS
Bills seek to limit tuition increases
Two bills recently introduced in the U.S. House hope to curb increased tuition hikes at higher-level institutions. The College Affordability and Accountability Act introduced Tuesday by U.S.
MSU
Professor speaks on freedom of speech
School of Journalism Associate Professor Folu Ogundimu will host a forum titled, "Freedom of Speech, The Media and Democracy in Africa," on Thursday.Ogundimu was an award-winning journalist with Nigeria's WNBC and the Nigerian Television Authority.
MSU
TV personality Jeff Corwin on campus
Conservationist and television personality Jeff Corwin brought his charm and expertise to MSU, speaking in front of a packed Auditorium on Tuesday night.The lecture is this year's second installment of the M.
NEWS
WEB ONLY: Spartans receive oral commitment for next season
The Great North continues to be kind to the MSU football team.Tom Kaczmarek, a 6-foot-5-inch, 250-pound defensive lineman from London, Ontario's Catholic Central High School, gave an oral commitment to the Spartans' football program last weekend.
COMMENTARY
Wisconsin game was disappointing
I'm a recent graduate who's now living and working in Madison, Wis. Last Saturday was a game I'd been looking forward to all year.
FEATURES
Local honky-tonk musicians bring show to Temple Club
If you've got a hankerin' for honky-tonk music, head out and walk the floor tonight with Lansing's own Honest D and the Steel Reserve.The four-piece group, which draws its sound heavily from the swinging country style of the 1930s and '40s, will perform at 9 p.m.
FEATURES
Retro gaming reloaded
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, b, a, b, a, start.It was an afternoon of alien slaughtering with a friend when you first figured out that cheat code.And people still are blowing aliens away or climbing construction sites to stop an oversized gorilla with a penchant for blondes with their Nintendo Entertainment System games, or just firing up the long-forgotten Sega Genesis for a hot game of "Battletoads."It's a resurgence in the retro gaming field, and some companies are capitalizing on the boom."We certainly recognize certain nostalgia values," said Nintendo spokes woman Beth Llewelyn.
MICHIGAN
Study links shopping, music
Jazzy tunes and fast beats are for more than just listening pleasure - they're also designed to influence consumer spending habits, according to music distributors and business owners. PlayNetwork spokesman Ryan Risenmay said there's definitely a connection between music and consumer behavior, based on informal observations from retailers. PlayNetwork, a company based in Redmond, Wash., distributes thousands of songs from jazz to pop to retailers, including Abercrombie & Fitch, Cosí, Finish Line and Starbucks. "Research found that some softer music can put people at ease and some faster pace music can pick up the pace of the shopping experience," Risenmay said.
NEWS
Evolution of a theory
More than 150 years separate Charles Darwin's evolutionary research efforts from an MSU plant biology professor's, but in many ways, the debate is the same as Darwin left it. Creationists - those who believe that a god created life - and evolutionists have yet to reach a consensus on the theories. And Doug Schemske's research then goes on to differ from those theories.
MICHIGAN
Credit union hosts free theft seminar
Residents wishing to receive information regarding identity theft are invited to attend a free seminar at the MSU Federal Credit Union, 600 E.
COMMENTARY
Equal rights
As humans, we should all have the same basic rights. Sexual orientation shouldn't hold any basis for how people are treated.
FEATURES
'MacBeth' update gives fresh perspective
The MSU Department of Theatre's "Macbeth" demands the audience consider a fresh perspective to the play's usual rendition.Opening in pitch black to the sound of spooky music, the audience is greeted by four witches - not three - crawling about the stage.