Three MSU faculty members and an East Lansing official will travel to Africa and help further the democratic development of two nations.University representatives Robert Glew and Daniel Hester depart for Malawi on Thursday as part of a yearlong exchange program among MSU, U.S.
Lansing - The Lugnuts fell to the Quad City River Bandits 5-3 in a 12 inning battle Monday at Oldsmobile Park, losing control of first place in the Eastern division for the first time since May 18.Lansing starter Justin Jones (3-3) allowed only one earned and one unearned run during the first inning, though the Lugnuts (35-25) spent most of the game playing catch-up.Quad City (28-34) hurler Scott Tyler threw a no-hitter through five innings of work, keeping the Lugnuts off the scoreboard until the fourth inning.
Lansing Community College Police & Public Safety department will be hiring two more full-time police officers to protect its growing student body.LCC was awarded a $150,000 federal grant through the Community Oriented Policing Service's Universal Hiring Program to employ the officers.
An exhibit of the legendary 10-10 tie game between Notre Dame and MSU during the 1966 season was put on display Tuesday at the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind.The exhibit commemorates the highly controversial finish to the contest.
A 9-foot 7-inch ceramic statue celebrated its 58th birthday Monday. Sparty, considered to be the world's tallest free-standing ceramic sculpture, had a party thrown by him by Johnny Spirit.
On a public university campus, students have expected certain freedoms. But thanks to a government act, those freedoms no longer exist in places such as the library.With more than 40,000 students on campus, research is expected, whether it be in physics, biochemistry, microbiology or various other fields.
People who use Olin Health Center as their birth control provider got a shock to their pocketbooks when the campus pharmacy raised some of its prices. Olin officials say a variety of generic versions of the pill are now available and they are driving up costs for all types of birth control pills. Costs for different formulations of the pill rose by as much as $20.
Barbara Steidle is not used to being in the spotlight.As the university's consultant, she spends most of her time working behind the scenes making sure MSU runs smoothly.But on Tuesday, Steidle stepped out of the shadows and into the spotlight to receive the 2003 Distinguished Woman in Higher Education Leadership Award from the Michigan American Council on Education Network for Women Leaders in Higher Education."She's a woman pioneer at MSU and in the state," said Martha Tack, the state coordinator for the network.
Over at the state Capitol, Democrats and Republicans are doing something that doesn't happen too often: agreeing on an issue affecting Michigan residents.
Mason - A standing-room only crowd spoke out against Ingham County's policy of selling animals to research facilities at Tuesday's Ingham County Board of Commissioners meeting, which county officials debated whether to continue the practice. The board was expected to make a decision, but no call was made by press time. Prior to the meeting, more than 75 people gathered on the courthouse's steps to memorialize animals sold at the Ingham County Animal Shelter.
Lansing - With so much riding on Tuesday night's game, it appeared the Lugnuts were in danger of folding to the Quad City River Bandits.But Lansing designated hitter Donny Hood was not about to let that happen.With the Lansing (36-25) trailing 4-3 in the sixth inning, Hood hit the only home run of the night to put the Lugnuts ahead for good.The game started well for the Lugnuts when in the second inning, Lansing took its first lead of the night off a wild pitch by River Bandits starter Jason Miller.
The 2003-04 lineup of performances on campus are enticing theater-lovers with everything from Scottish kings to jazz age flappers in New York. These productions provide students with cultural outlets they might not otherwise have had access to. The Wharton Center is starting its Broadway Series with "Thoroughly Modern Millie," Oct.
Despite dwelling in a male-dominated sports world, several MSU women's teams made huge strides of their own last year, and the future continues to look bright for upcoming seasons. Field hockey continues to lead the pack in accomplishments.
The time has come for incoming freshmen to tour MSU's campus, take pictures with Sparty and get a crash course in major news events that rocked the university last year.
When the MSU hockey team takes the ice this fall, it will be looking to erase memories of the program's most disappointing season in a decade. The Spartans weren't bad - finishing 23-14-2 overall and placing fourth in the CCHA.
Everything people have told you about dorm food is true. That's why The State News has been on a quest to find good, affordable meals around East Lansing. But what's affordable?
Of all the male sports at MSU, football, basketball and hockey soak up most of the attention. But seriously, what makes those three sports any more important and entertaining than the other male sports? The answer: nothing. Despite the pre-season powerhouse football team plummeting into the nation's biggest laughingstock, a fall that included two embarrassing losses by a combined score of 110-10, football is football. Basketball will be one of the nation's top programs as long as Tom Izzo is at the helm and hockey, though it faded a bit in 2003, will get back on the map. But in MSU's smaller sports there is just as much of a winning tradition, if not more of one. The MSU baseball team entered the 2003 season after setting numerous Spartan records in 2002 en route to a superb 38-19 finish.
Let's face it, mid-Michigan is not exactly a Mecca for moviegoers. Our geographic location is one that tends to be too far off the radar for many of the better films released year-round.