Sept. 25: Chris Owen (the Shermanator) turns 22; Catherine Zeta-Jones (actress) turns 34; Will Smith (actor/rap artist) turns 35; Scottie Pippen (basketball star) turns 38; Heather Locklear (actress) turns 42; Christopher Reeve (actor) turns 51; Mark Hamill (actor) turns 52; Michael Douglas (actor) turns 59; Barbara Walters (journalist) turns 72. Sept.
A new co-ed MSU student organization called the Competitive Cheer Club has been created for students with previous cheerleading experience. Carla Colbeck, president and founding member of the club, said she hopes to recruit between 20 and 25 members for a competitive team that will create dance choreography for statewide competitions. Excluding money for uniforms, there is no fee. Colbeck said the club, which will meet for two hours, twice a week, will also be participating in community events. "This is a really great club that is going to take off and get students interested," Colbeck said. The first meeting of the MSU Competitive Cheer Club will be at 6 p.m.
Tonight, teachers and aspiring teachers won't be grading students' poetry - they'll be sitting back and listening to it. The National Council of Teachers of English is sponsoring a poetry slam from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
The days of sitting outside in shorts and a T-shirt, playing some basketball and enjoying a cold one at a barbecue are narrowing down - the leaves have already started to fall from the trees. And while I am not one to rush the season as the holiday mall displays do every year, I do realize that these cold Saturdays and Sundays can be boring - when it's raining, all you want to do is lie on the couch. With those days in mind, I've compiled a list of good movies to pop in your VCR or DVD player to avoid inevitable boredom. 10. "The Magnificent Ambersons" is probably overshadowed by that other little Orson Welles movie "Citizen Kane." But in my opinion, this one is just as brilliant.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm spoke to about 200 higher education officials Wednesday promoting strategies that encourage universities to research ways to boast economic and job growth in Michigan. Granholm stressed the importance of Michigan's colleges and universities in research and technology and using them to find ways to enhance the state's economy during her speech at MSU's University Club. "Universities have always had an essential role to play in our economy," Granholm said in her address. Officials from the state's 15 public colleges and universities, state business representatives and the state agency Michigan Economic Development Corporation recommended to use universities' research to help the state's struggling economy and unemployment rates. The recommendations work on ways to get universities involved with state government.
Imagine a world without Harry Potter, Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer, and then envision a literary land configured only of rainbows and puppy dogs. This is no laughing matter - at one time all of those fictional characters were banned in the United States. Way Station Books & Stuff, 223 S.
When the MSU football team ventures to Minnesota this October, it may need to alter its travel plans. Big Ten officials announced Wednesday the conditional change of MSU's scheduled game against the Golden Gophers at the Metrodome in Minneapolis from Saturday, Oct.
Picture this: It is a sunny afternoon and you are driving in your car when you notice that the gas tank is almost empty.
Lansing's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union believes that East Lansing's four-week-old heightened policy on party noise might violate the rights of residents. "We are concerned about this," said Henry Silverman, the president of the Lansing Branch of the ACLU.
Is anyone else upset about the change to the radio station 92.1 The Edge, or, excuse me, MY 92.1 as it is called now?
In a remote corner of the Lansing Public Library, among notebooks, worksheets and a Winnie the Pooh backpack, the noses of 13-year-old Mushirah Thomas and finance senior Pablo Alleyne are buried deep in a textbook.
East Lansing police arrested two men who apparently attacked a man and broke into a car in East Lansing neighborhoods late Tuesday.The latest episodes are the fourth and fifth in a string of aggressive robbery attempts in East Lansing in the past three days.
Had it not been for Michigan State swooping in and offering Eric Smith a scholarship to play in a BCS conference, the Groveport, Ohio, native might be playing football in the Ivy League right now."I thought about (playing for an Ivy League school)," Smith said.
Take The Cure and Talking Heads, put them into a blender and you've got stellastarr*.And that's a good thing.The group's first full-length, self-titled album is a wonderful collection of powerful songs, most of which play upon an '80s rock sound.
I don't know about you, but when I think about fall, I focus on the food.Mmm-mmm, fall is the season with the best food, no contest.From warm apple cider to homemade pumpkin pie, fall is the season for good eatin'.Here are some of my personal favorites:• Caramel applesMost grocery stores have these convenient little kits to make your own caramel apples at home.
East Lansing police arrested a man Thursday afternoon they believe to be responsibilities for a "rash" of recent convenience store and gas station robberies.It is unlikely the suspect is responsible for the three gunpoint robberies of MSU students in the city this week, East Lansing police Lt.
As MSU students have been moving in during the last several weeks and getting back into the swing of things, a crucial bill in Washington D.C., has been slowly dying.
After a fast-paced war with Iraq, President Bush is right to address the United Nations on the importance of a well-thought-out plan to transfer power to the Iraqi people. Currently, the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council does not have the necessary authority in the country.
"American Splendor"The real-life story of Harvey Pekar, writer of the underground comic "American Splendor." This film tells the struggle of the blue-collar worker.Rated R ****"Cabin Fever"There's plenty of fun, gore and sex in this salute to the horror films of Hollywood's history.
Summer is officially over. Pack away your bathing suit and dig those sweaters out from underneath the bed.