Groucho glasses in hand, Joe Kavanagh stood before his fellow East Lansing High School students telling them to prepare to enter the history books.Kavanagh and 799 of his fellow students at 509 E.
To call ASMSU (" ASMSU useless as student government," SN 5/22) a bunch of slackers shows your ignorance to what they actually do.
Summer session has begun and the world of MSU is truly different than that time we call the "academic year." That time between August 25 and May 1 when the population of MSU is in full bloom at 40,000-plus students and faculty members and support staff of more than 10,000.The summer session resounds with the light language of the birds and the rippling murmurs of the Red Cedar.
Hockey senior defenseman Brad Fast and senior swimmer Karl Sunryd garnered academic recognition last weekend, as both were named to the 2003 Verizon Academic All-American District IV University Division Men's At-Large second team.
Whoever said the color code ("Orange Alert," SN 5/22) was meant for you?
Lansing - In a game that closely resembled the final game of the 2002 Midwest League Championship Series, Lansing downed the Peoria Chiefs 7-6 on Monday.Last year's matchup saw the Chiefs (26-23) surprise the Lugnuts (28-18) with an eight-run ninth inning to steal the championship, 11-10.
It's sad to think racism is an evil difficult to eliminate completely. There will always be those among us who are ignorant enough to believe if someone belongs to a different race or ethnicity he or she is a lesser human being.
Movement, formerly known as the Detroit Electronic Music Festival, celebrated its fourth year during Memorial Day weekend. Featuring four stages, more than 75 acts and a massive merchandising area, the festival drew hundreds of thousands of people into Detroit's Hart Plaza. The festival's crowd was a grab-bag of people from all age groups and lifestyles, all of whom converged for the purpose of listening to music. "There are a lot of different people, but when you are all on the dance floor you're grooving to the same beat," said Minnesota native Sarah Gross, attending the festival for her first time. Music meshed in the plaza, from the stages as well as from independent DJs performing in merchandising booths, causing the area to come alive with a constant pulsing beat. Most of the festival's acts hail from the Detroit area, which is credited with spawning electronic music. "There's been some good classic techno here.
Lansing - A three-run rally in the bottom of the ninth brought the Lansing Lugnuts to a thrilling 7-6 comeback win over Peoria on Monday afternoon.Down 6-4 with two outs in their last at-bats, Lugnut second baseman Robinson Chirinos drilled a double to the wall to send pinch runner Ryan Theriot and center fielder Felix Pie across the plate and knot the game.Chirinos advanced to third when shortstop Buck Coats reached first on an error, and scored the winning run a moment later on a wild pitch from Peoria lefty Anthony Rawson.Rawson (0-2) took the loss for the Chiefs (26-23).But Peoria did not go quietly.
When you attend class at an institution of higher education, you go to learn. But society puts too much pressure on students, telling them a high grade-point average is everything.
At the count down East Lansing High School students sat poised and ready to put their school's name in the Guinness Book of World Records - but it wasn't for the most push-ups or the longest basketball game.The students at 509 E.
Not everyone at MSU shares The State News' sentiment about President McPherson's departure ("McPherson's appointment in Iraq is great for our president, but we hate to see him leave," SN 4/18). The McPherson administration at MSU is the triumph of self-promotion over good governance.
East Lansing residents might be belted with tickets during the next two weeks if they don't buckle up. The Michigan Office of Highway Safety Planning kicked off its "Buckle Up or Pay Up" campaign on Monday to raise public awareness about wearing safety belts. Extra officers will be placed on the streets in designated zones around the Lansing area to find drivers not wearing safety belts.
It's yellow, it's orange. Maybe a soft coral or an off-white. Thanks to Tom Ridge, secretary of the new Department of Homeland Security and creator of the five-level, color-coded terrorism warning system, we are now at the orange level, the second highest level, which means there is a high risk of terrorist attacks. This system can give people a feeling of infancy.
This is in response to the letter to the editor titled "Women belong in kitchen, not PGA," (SN 5/21). What on earth could have been going through Shaun Reed's head when he decided to write this piece?
I am an MSU alumnus and a Vietnam veteran. I certainly hope MSU students and faculty members have expressed their opinion about President M.
Kelley Hart watched friends do mock court competitions in the MSU-Detroit College of Law moot court room, but on Tuesday she was the one in front of the judge. Hart and eight other MSU-Detroit College of Law graduates were sworn into the State Bar of Michigan by Michigan Supreme Court Justice Steven Markman. "Usually when I go to the courtroom people are at each others throats," Markman said.
One day I hope to work at the New York Times, wait, let me rephrase that. One day I hope to write for the New York Times, hold on, allow me to add something else. One day I hope to present the news through my writing in a newsworthy and factual matter. I wonder where Jayson Blair falls in the above statements. Blair used to work for the New York Times.
Despite being tapped to help with foreign livestock diseases in the past, MSU faculty members and researchers said it's too early to know if they will be called to help out their Canadian neighbors after mad cow disease was discovered Tuesday. The U.S.