I agree with Tina Reed's column "Take time to participate in splendors of fall" (SN 9/16). I think fall is a great season and I think Halloween is a great holiday.
The 55th Annual Emmy Awards were held Sunday night and though they were laced with bits of comedy and drama, the overall feel of the yearly television award show was quite somber.I'm not one to normally catch four-hour-long, boring award shows, but since my favorite television comedy, "Sex and the City," was up for a handful of awards, I thought I would tune in to see if the leading ladies from New York City would walk away with a golden statue or not.And in case 'U' didn't catch it, the raunchy, laugh-filled comedy about four women's out-of-this-world lives only took home one Emmy - outstanding casting for a comedy series.Boo-hoo!
Recently, 40 percent of our metered parking spaces increased hourly rates from $1.25 to $1.50. This incited much commentary from enraged students who enjoy waking up five minutes before class expecting to rightfully land an open parking spot right next to the building where they have lecture. Yet despite the fact that all my classes are conveniently located at the farthest point imaginable from my house - somewhere near Canada, I think - I could care less about the increase, because I walk to class.
Donors and workers from MSU's Capital Campaign gathered Friday at the President's Cabinet meeting to discuss the status of the five-year $1.2 billion fund-raiser. The all-day event at The James B.
As of this week, it is OK as a student-athlete to take money from an athletic booster, who is looking to launder money out of his illegal lottery business, and lie about it.
It's no surprise that college-age people party, but it's comforting that while MSU officials encourage responsibility, students are paying attention. The Office of National Drug Control Policy released a survey Tuesday which showed 21-year-olds are the leading group of 11 million people ages 12 to 65 who have driven under the influence of drugs.
We were all affected by the new, questionably constitutional policy that was implemented in the city regarding noise violations.
Thousands of hoop enthusiasts flocked to downtown East Lansing this weekend to christen the city's asphalt courts during the city's first 3-on-3 Howard Soifer Memorial Gus Macker Basketball Tournament.Albert Avenue was closed off from Bailey Street to M.A.C.
This is in response to The State News column "Booing unnecessary at football games" (SN 9/17). Let's remember one thing - this is college football.
By Scott Cendrowski Special for The State News Max, a blue-eyed, 74-pound bulldog, panted on Saturday morning as Mariah Dersham came in for a kiss.
South Bend, Ind. - Greg Taplin has traveled a long way. But the 40-yard jaunt after his interception in Saturday's win over Notre Dame were the final baby steps he needed to get himself out of John L.
With all of the uproar over the newly approved noise violations, one must ask themselves, 'Self, what is the best way to be heard?' So I did this and came up with a great way.
A 19-year-old MSU student told police she was the target of an attempted sexual assault early Saturday in a parking lot near Fee Hall. MSU police Sgt.
While some people slouched in their chairs or guzzled beer in the beverage tent at Lansing's Old Town BluesFest, freshmen Emily Olenzek and Heidi Dowding bounced up and down, left and right, jamming to the sounds of Sam Cockrell and the Groove.
How about they throw some of those millions going toward the Spartan Stadium renovation into a photocopying and technology budget so students don't have to sit in outdated computer labs reading 200-page course packets that have been scanned onto the Internet?
The MSU Computer Laboratory is warning students and faculty that another "virus storm" could strike campus at any time. Laboratory staff spent parts of the weekend scanning and securing campus networks in preparation for an attack on newly-discovered "vulnerabilities" in Windows operating systems.
It had all the makings of the biggest battle of the season. The country's top team, with a 25-game win streak on the line, hosted the squad it bested in the Final Four last season.
Budget reductions, a proposed amendment to the university's anti-discrimination policy and course and program changes will all be issues addressed at the MSU Academic Council's first meeting of the school year Tuesday.Provost and Interim President Lou Anna Simon said her report on the university will be more elaborate than normal because of McPherson's absence.
First off, Kris Colpean's letter to the editor "Students shunned by E.L.
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean is planning to visit MSU in October to gain momentum in Michigan and with young voters. The former Vermont governor is scheduled to be in the Lansing area Oct.