U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., introduced legislation Friday that will allow families and friends to send letters and packages to armed forces overseas without paying postage. "With troops on extended deployments, mail is an essential link between our troops on deployment and their families back home, but the cost keeps adding up," Stabenow said in a written statement.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded MSU nearly $1 million to establish an Agriculture Innovation Center. MSU's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources will work with the Michigan Partnership for Product Agriculture to head one of 10 centers located throughout the nation. The center will help farmers and processors learn to compete in the global economy and provide technical assistance and business planning advice to assist agricultural producers in developing value-added agriculture commodities.
A line of children, students, senior citizens and Lansing area residents stood silently along Grand River Avenue on Sunday afternoon holding signs with messages stating "Abortion Kills Children" and "Life, the first inalienable right." Participants were instructed to meditate and pray during the Life Chain demonstration, an international pro-life movement that takes place annually the first Sunday of October in cities throughout the United States and Canada. East Lansing high school senior Isabelle Mann stood quietly with her two friends in front of Barnes & Noble, 333 E.
Local author Andrea King Collier will discuss her book "Still With Me: A Daughter's Journey of Love and Loss" at 7 p.m.
The MSU College Republicans recruited 271 members this year for the Michigan Federation of College Republicans . Recruitment in September drew 171 more members than the group brought in last year.
Jack Black simply rocks. In the family-friendly "School of Rock," Black shows why his popularity is rising so fast - he's charming. In the film, Black portrays Dewey Finn, a well-meaning, but far too enthusiastic, guitar player in a struggling rock band.
The fifth annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk will take place Saturday in Lansing. Making Strides is an American Cancer Society's program, that works to raise awareness and money to fight breast cancer.
MSU's defense left the door to its backfield wide open for the first three games of the season. Then the secondary found the key to closing that door halfway through the Notre Dame (1-3) game - communication. Ever since their discovery in South Bend, Ind., the drastic improvement by the defensive backs has paid off huge for the No.
Scott Cendrowski For The State News The MSU men's soccer team played a tough Big Ten matchup against Ohio State on Sunday, narrowly winning 2-1 halfway through the second overtime period. "It was a huge, huge win for us," head coach Joe Baum said. The sunny afternoon game yielded no scoring in the first half, with both teams struggling to find an offensive rhythm.
He's back, and now there is little doubt that Jeff Smoker is better than ever. The senior quarterback seemed to own the spread offense Saturday when MSU crushed Indiana, 31-3. After enduring a 16-19 record in his first three seasons, the Spartans playcaller has his team ranked No.
By Joshua Carr Special for The State News Performer Umenosuke Onoe closed out Japan Week on Friday with his rendition of the ritualistic transformation and traditional Kabuki Onnagata performance to the nearly packed Kellogg Center auditorium. Hiromi Maenaka, assistant director at MSU's Asian Studies Center, worked with an official from the Japanese Consulate in Detroit to bring the show "Kabuki, Onnagata, and Creating a Feminine Ideal" to campus. Onnagata is a term referring to when a man performs a female role, and the technique stems from the 400-year-old art form Kabuki, Onoe said. "I chose Onnagata when I was 16 years old in high school," Onoe said through a translator. During the show, Onoe walked the audience through the painful makeup and wardrobe process he endures as a Kabuki performer to transform from a man into an Onnagata woman.
How bracing it is to see at least a handful of MSU students putting themselves on the line in their idealistic quest for a better world.
Howie Day showed his mixing capabilities Friday during the Homecoming Jam as he switched tracks from his usual singer-songwriter performance to try out his talents as a DJ. Many high school students meshed with the college crowd at the International Center to gaze dreamy-eyed at the 22-year-old musician, who periodically took the stage solo to mix his own tunes. Day even threw an East Lansing line into one of the songs, making it clever and interesting.
Absolute Gallery in Old Town is holding "Absolute Pfleghaar," a sculpture and painting exhibition by artist Michael Pfleghaar, until Oct.
A team of 50 MSU faculty members will use a $35 million grant to work to improve math and science teaching and achievement for K-12 schools in Michigan and Ohio.The grant took effect Friday and was awarded by the National Science Foundation, an independent federal agency supporting research and education in science and engineering.
A brightly colored male peacock at Lansing's Potter Park Zoo looked at 35 students sitting on picnic tables, waiting for a John Deere cart to deliver them to pick up brush Sunday afternoon.The group, minus the blue-and-green bird, was participating in the National Gandhi Day of Service, an event celebrated by 7,000 students at 500 universities nationwide.The Coalition of Indian Undergraduate Students sponsored the event.
MSU played its most efficient game of the season on both sides of the ball en route to a Homecoming victory over Indiana, according to head coach John L.
I am going to try to give The State News a bit of advice regarding the column "Life of a college student can lead to one gigantic headache". The doctor was right, you just need to relax.
Who are those impostors in the green-and-white uniforms with "Michigan State" written across the chest and the helmets with the Spartan on it?
No. 9 Michigan at No. 23 Iowa U-M can consider itself 1-0 with six games remaining - each one a necessary conference win. For the Wolverines (4-1 overall, 1-0 Big Ten) to cling to any of their preseason hopes of a national championship or BCS bowl berth, a road win this Saturday in Iowa City is mandatory.