The MSU kicking game took a hit Tuesday when senior punter Jason Daily injured his ankle during practice. Daily, the starter last season, lost his job earlier in fall practice to redshirt freshman Brandon Fields.
After nearly four months of attempting to rebuild the Iraqi economy, MSU President M. Peter McPherson might see a familiar face this week. U.S.
Rancid's latest album, "Indestructible," might not live up to its maximum potential, but it's a nice blend of the group's progression from all-out punk to having tinges of ska and folk. It also shows off the band's variety in songwriting on the 19-song, nearly 54-minute album. The Californian quartet sets the tone right from the start with the guitar-charged, punked-out title track.
Students arriving at MSU during Welcome Weekend are used to dealing with unfamiliar faces, stacks of boxes and crowded parking lots.
Another Welcome Week at MSU has come and gone. If you've done it properly - and since you signed up to come to MSU, why wouldn't you - congratulations and thank you for picking up this newspaper. If you didn't do it properly, or were just perhaps unlucky, be sure to thank the prison guard for supplying you reading material as you await your arraignment. But, this weekend past is just that - the past.
Last week, I left East Lansing behind for a few days to go watch Oxford-based, English rockers Radiohead in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
Friday was a character-builder for the MSU women's soccer team. Virginia, ranked No.
The MSU field hockey squad learned during a preseason scrimmage Saturday that a return trip to the Final Four is going to take a lot of work. "I think sharper is a good word," senior back Alexandra Kyser said.
Students who were at MSU for last Thursday's power outage never had to skip a shower - the university didn't lose power or water. Despite the fact that the lights stayed on at MSU, some still followed state guidelines for water and electricity conservation throughout Welcome Weekend. "Students kept showers to a minimum and conserved energy as best they could," said D'andra Mull, assistant director for Shaw Hall.
A string of computer viruses infected thousands of campus computers last week and left students scrambling to remove them before classes began today. Students took a number and waited in the crowded MSU Computer Center Thursday before their computer problems could be fixed, and staff worked until midnight taking phone calls from disgruntled computer users. Four worms have been infecting computers nationwide, with three known culprits affecting MSU.
Cowboy flicks have been around since the first days of film. Sometimes they are a formula for success and sometimes it's just a shoot 'em up, cornball movie - and Hollywood's newest western "Open Range" seems to be a pretty good mixture of both. Beautifully shot with excellent performances and a script that could have been just an updated Roy Rogers' movie, Kevin Costner starred and directed in this mediocre western. The story follows Costner, Robert Duvall, Diego Luna and Abraham Benrubi who play free grazers, cowboys that roamed the prairies allowing their cattle to graze upon the open fields.
For months, I have been wondering about the hidden motivations for the preemptive attack on Iraq. Our addiction to Saudi oil and the opportunity to pull our troops from the "holy land" played a large and unspoken role.
Summer isn't over yet for students in the East Lansing Public School District. Students, teachers and administrators were expected to return to classrooms today, but with construction continuing at East Lansing High School and MacDonald Middle School, school officials decided to delay the beginning of the school year by as much as two weeks. "We need safe and appropriate working conditions for the kids," East Lansing Superintendent Thomas Giblin said.
The days of lounging outside on the sofa are over for East Lansing residents. On Aug. 19, city council members prohibited the use of upholstered furniture to be placed outside.
What if I said I didn't want tax dollars to pay for a religious studies class at MSU on non-Christian religions, because that would support sinners who chose not to be Christian? It sure sounds ridiculous to me.
The MSU Department of Theatre is on the scene again. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. today in the Arena Theatre, the department will kick off the year with its annual open house.
It was with one eyebrow raised that I read your page one article "Board discusses how to deal with funding problem" (SN 8/11). I was struck by the irony of the trustees mulling over MSU's financial bind while on "retreat" at an exclusive resort in Bay Harbor. Before my drive through northern Michigan this weekend, I wouldn't have given it a second thought, but my first-hand glimpses of the area's yacht club, equestrian club, and golf courses made me wonder just how much this meeting cost the university.
Fans of MSU or Kentucky basketball without tickets to the schools' Dec. 13 matchup are officially hard-pressed to find a ticket because "The BasketBowl" is sold out.After season-ticket-holders and university donors from both schools claimed the first 50,672 seats, the remaining 19,028 tickets allotted to the general public on July 8 sold out in a span of four days, according to the Ford Field Ticket Office.But there are 5,000, $14-tickets being held for MSU student season-ticket holders, said John Lewandowski, MSU assistant athletic director for media relations. Of that total, 4,000 will be seated next to the court on field level, said Matt Larson, MSU assistant sports information director.Those tickets will be sold in late August, Larson said.
MSU will look like a very different team on offense this season. Gone are offensive stars, including All-American receiver Charles Rogers and the top two running backs Dawan Moss and David Richard.
What fits in your back pocket, plugs into your ears and is as useful as a jukebox? Many students say it's an mp3 player, an increasingly popular alternative to portable CD players. Winston Glass, a telecommunication, information studies and media senior, said he has two mp3 players. "If I go on a trip, I pack light, I take my laptop and this," Glass said pointing to the Apple iPod attached to the waist of his blue jeans. A MSU Computer Store employee, Glass said he sees lots of students coming in wanting to buy the small handheld music player. Most mp3 players cost $99 for about 64 megabytes of memory.