Students looking to travel do not need not to look very far for a game plan. East Lansing is home to more than 10 travel agencies, a study abroad office and other various plane, train and automobile stations students may look to make travel plans.
Since becoming the first woman to win the Detroit Newspapers Michigan PGA Tournament of Champions on July 23, former Spartan Stacy Snider has been taking things easy. "I haven't been up to much, I've mostly been packing and getting ready to leave for Florida on (Aug.
The NHL is welcoming two more Spartans to the professional ranks. But not before they suit up in green and white, and skate out onto Spartan country ice.
So you've finally made the transition to MSU. The dreaded orientation period is done, and now you're left on your own to figure things out.
When thousands of students and faculty members flock back onto campus in August, they might notice a change to MSU's green and white Web site. The university officially launch its updated Web site on Aug.
A new aggressive approach on the defensive side of the ball has the MSU football team puffing up with confidence. Last year, the MSU defense that ranked 83rd overall out of 117 Division I-A teams was hard-pressed to stop the run or sack opposing quarterbacks.
The MSU field hockey team is not satisfied with last year's trip to the Final Four - this year, they aim to take it all.The 2002 season was an exciting one for MSU, as the squad set a school record for most wins in a season (23), went undefeated on its home turf and captured its first Big Ten Field Hockey Tournament Championship with a thrilling 3-0 win over arch rival Michigan, a team they hadn't defeated since 1997.
On a midsummer morning in the Dominican Republic, Felix Pie left behind a small, dirt-floor home he shared with his mother, father, sister and three brothers as he decided to spend his day shining shoes at a baseball diamond instead of attending school."It was 7 a.m.
Bath - Jane Briggs-Bunting sat in the middle of her new condominium surrounded by open space, a few boxes filled with pictures and a rocking chair - one of the two places to sit in her canary yellow living room.
As a 20-something, Jim Cunningham ventured to Nigeria as a Peace Corps volunteer in the mid-1960s, furthering an interest in carpentry and sculpting under a local wood carver.
Grand Rapids - Josh Vance plummets to the earth from 20 feet in the air, tucking his legs and executing a flawless double-flip with a half-twist just inches before meeting the platform that sends him rocketing toward the ceiling.
The following sporadic thoughts and rants have been building up in my head for the summer, forcing me to spew forth a column on what makes me lift my butt off the pot. To begin with, I will no longer eat at a Subway.
For college students, a 12-by-12 space serves as their kitchen, living room and bedroom all-in-one. Not a whole lot of room for furniture, let alone two people. And Welcome Weekend can sometimes be spent looking for decorations to turn their bland dorm room into the space of their dreams - and on a small budget, too. Drafting Professor Mary-Margaret Munski says in order to get the most out of their dorm room, students should focus on space-saving techniques. "Any time you have a small space and a lot of clutter, it makes your space look smaller," she said. Munski suggests buying crates or storage shelves that can be stacked to save space and are useful for storing anything such as books, food, clothes or shoes. Having a "design conference" with roommates also can make decorating easier, Munski said. "Sit down with your roommate, come up with a theme, budget out some money and go shopping," she said.
For many, a typical trip to a hardware store consists of buying plywood, tools and home fixtures. But for two MSU students, their shopping cart included 500 surgical masks intended to help prevent the spread of SARS, a deadly virus.
Twenty-four years after Earvin Johnson brought the "Magic" to MSU with its first national championship, the Spartans plan to honor the NBA Hall-of-Famer with a trophy of his own.A larger-than-life statue of the former Spartan will be erected in front of the Breslin Center and unveiled Nov.
Usually I don't watch "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It's not that I dislike the show or anything, but it's just not on my must-see TV list. But a few weeks ago "Oprah's Favorite Things for Spring" caught my eye. After the segment on neon pink flowered flip-flops, Oprah introduced a new gadget to her millions of viewers. It was the Apple iPod - a small mp3 player that stores thousands of songs.
Cult movie fan Andrew Bishop knows he has to keep with up the times if he wants to maintain his cinema collection."A lot of places only sell DVDs, they don't even sell VHS movies anymore," the merchandising management junior said.
Get ready to kick up your heels and enjoy some of fall's upcoming flicks coming at a theater near you.
Going away to college means making new friends, lots of studying and of course, parents coming to visit.
You walk down the dank, musty corridor past room 433 and hear your neighbor watching "Commando" at full volume on a surround-sound system bigger than his room.