"Under the Tuscan Sun" is one of those films you're forced to watch when Dad is working late and Mom has control of what's going to be rented. It's an interesting diversion but a little too much of one woman's search for love for me.
After only being in East Lansing for about two weeks, MSU President M. Peter McPherson said he's ready to focus on the university and step out of the limelight created by his work in Iraq. His comments came after recently returning from a trip to Washington, D.C., where he briefed President Bush on the advancement of Iraq's economy. "I expect to periodically go to Washington on behalf of Michigan State business," he said.
How refreshing it was to see Nate Allen's cartoon in The State News on Monday. I'm glad that with all the problems and issues in the world, there's still time to make a crack at the Pope.
Renovations to campus buildings and the university's funding requests to the state are the main issues on the agenda for Friday's MSU Board of Trustees meeting.University Engineer Bob Nestle said he expects the board to approve construction plans to renovate the Brody Complex and the Clinical Center and Life Sciences Building.The Brody Complex renovations are expected to cost about $1.5 million, Nestle said, and the Clinical Center and Life Sciences Building costs are estimated at $740,000."There are two types of projects," Nestle said.
Wolverine Pipe Line Co., the local company that has fought for three years to build a new gasoline pipeline through Lansing, will present its case before the Michigan Supreme Court within the next two months. The company will argue it does not need permission from the city of Lansing to construct the new pipeline, which would stretch 65 miles long with about 22 miles running along I-96.
1. "School of Rock,"Total gross: $19.6 million2. "Out of Time,"Total gross: $16.2 million3. "The Rundown," Total gross: $32.6 million4. "Under the Tuscan Sun,"Total gross: $20.7 million5. "Secondhand Lions," Total gross: $30.6 million6. "Underworld,"Total gross: $44.8 million7. "Lost in Translation," Total gross: $14 million8. "The Fighting Temptations,"Total gross: $24.6 million9. "Once Upon A Time in Mexico,"Total gross: $53.1 million10. "Cold Creek Manor,"Total gross: $18.3 millionSource: Nielsen EDI
October: Saturday: Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines at the Creole Gallery, 1218 Turner St.
Dear Premium Cable TV, Life without you just isn't the same
The bruise surrounding Kat Superfisky's eye was a garish blue-green. She stood over a black T-shirt, taping a sexist slur onto the front with masking tape.The studio art sophomore was preparing for Wednesday's second annual Act Out, part of National Coming Out Days at MSU.The face-painted bruises would wash off at the end of the day, but from 8 a.m.
1. "Baby Boy," Beyonce feat. Sean Paul, Columbia (Last week: 1)2. "Shake Ya Tailfeather," Nelly, P.
Elaine Elias will perform at the Wharton Center Friday at 8 p.m. The Brazilian pianist-vocalist is the first Wharton Center World Premiere Commission artist.
Sam Finch said he is worried the medicine his Olin Health Center doctor gave him for bronchitis might make him more sick. After trying to battle a sore throat, nasal congestion, coughing and infection in his left ear without medication, the telecommunication, information studies and media senior said he decided he needed to go to the doctor.
After sitting out all of last year and catching only nine passes for 64 yards in the first five games this season, sophomore receiver Matt Trannon finally busted out of his shell last weekend. And his coaches and teammates couldn't be more excited. "First of all, you got to remember he hasn't gotten very much time on the field, and I think you'll see him begin to continue to steadily improve each week," senior quarterback Jeff Smoker said.
Students applying for The Ohio State University and MSU this fall will be the first class to go through new admission processes at both schools. Ohio State is the last school in the Big Ten to eliminate its race-based point system for undergraduate admissions, complying with a Supreme Court ruling in June on the use of race in admissions.
It's taken five years for MSU MATRIX coordinators and The Alliance for American Quilts to piece together a worldwide database to preserve hundreds of years of American quilt storytelling.The archive opened Monday and serves as a virtual collection to make the history and background of quilts across the nation available online."Quilts are folk culture, and over the last 20 years, we have come to realize that we can learn a lot about the time periods they came from," Mark Kornbluh, director of MATRIX, said.
Not many people know how it feels to wake up dressed in a Confederate flag or to be snuck up on and tagged with an electric dog collar.It may sound odd, but these are typical of the hijinks Ettison Clio employs while on tour.
If the MSU basketball team is lacking one thing, it would be depth in the post. The Spartans took a step in the right direction Wednesday when Lansing Everett senior center Goran Suton orally committed to MSU. "I'm going to stay here and be a Spartan," Suton said in Everett's Earvin "Magic" Johnson Gymnasium. With the early exit of freshman Erazem Lorbek last season and the possibility that sophomore Paul Davis might leave early if he has one or two spectacular seasons, the Spartans' most pressing need was at the center and power forward position. When Florida Air Academy star Alexander Kaun, who orally committed to Kansas, eliminated MSU as one of his potential schools, the Spartans put more effort into recruiting Suton.
This is in response to Dale Hitchcock's letter "Uniforms without names need to go". The removal of the names goes along with coaching genius Joe Paterno's belief that football is a team sport and should not single out certain athletes.
The State News can always be counted on for extensive MSU sports coverage. I found Monday's article demanding more noise from MSU football fans especially important ("Fans can't just come to games, need to be louder"), along with the blow-by-blow analysis of MSU's overwhelming defeat of the weakest football team in the Big Ten.
It's the question all seniors, or super-seniors, fear the most: "What do you plan to do once you graduate?" I despise this question, not just because I have no answer, but because the mere mention of it makes me feel I like I should have the answer.