The sun glimmered off the fresh green paint of Chris Casey's tailor-made tricycle as he took his first spin. Equipped with a padded seat pulled from an Oldsmobile Achieva, an orange flag and a backpack with a built-in water bottle, Casey's favorite part of the cycle is its green-and-white color scheme. "They're MSU," the 21-year-old man said.
While some professional prospects might be motivated by fame and fortune, MSU wide receiver Charles Rogers plays the game of football for those who looked after him, and for those he now looks after. "My family and my kids come first," he said.
It was an unusually warm March day and nearly 1,000 people, myself included, thought it fit for a rally.
Brandon Lupp tries to do things differently. As a host for the last three out of four College of Agriculture and Natural Resources honors college banquets, he held a cooking show for guests and has taken them on a "trip" around the world. "That banquet required six costume changes," Lupp said, explaining the inspiration for that show came from more than 45 study abroad programs that are offered through his college. He even put on a giant chicken costume and rode a tricycle to make himself seem more approachable. But next week the agriculture and natural resources communications senior will trade the chicken suit for a cap and gown as he addresses students, faculty and staff at MSU's May 2 convocation. And again he will be doing things differently by adding twists to his speech. "I was going to pass out rubber bands to 10,000 people but they didn't think that would work," he said about his original speech plan.
Many Hollywood celebrities have recently been under attack by media sources and the public for simply verbalizing their anti-war opinions. While actors in Hollywood often get ahead of themselves when it comes to world issues, some also believe that just because they make millions of dollars then for some odd reason, everyone in America cares that much more about what they have to say.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson will depart in a matter of weeks for a 130-day mission to rebuild Iraq's economy, MSU officials confirmed Thursday. "They're going to need Peter there very quickly," said Howard Gobstein, MSU's vice president for governmental affairs in Washington, D.C.
One of Jacob Joseph Climo's favorite things to do was take long walks on the beach in Haifa, Israel, and appreciate the beauty of the Mediterranean.Climo, an MSU anthropology professor, died Tuesday after a yearlong fight with cancer.
After Michigan was the only state to receive all failing grades in a recent national study of mental health care, state officials are saying improvements are in the works.The National Mental Health Association report, which was released Wednesday, examined parity in services provided by private insurance plans and government programs, access to medications and protection against declining services that may result from managed care.
MSU faculty members fear an unprecedented number of students are using the Internet to cheat and plagiarize.
1. "In Da Club," 50 Cent, G-Unit/Shady/Aftermath. (Last week: 1) 2. "Ignition," R.
The East Lansing City Council accepted a list of noise recommendations Tuesday to push city staff to implement policies that might raise noise penalties.After gathering information from student and city groups and local commissions, council members instructed staff to continue combating noise in an attempt to tame problems in the fall."What we have now is a real product that achieves a working practice for the city," Deputy City Manager Jean Golden said.The issue arose last fall when noise violations increased 36 percent from the previous fall.
There are whistles and chirps of South Asian birds filling a part of the MSU Museum. But you won't see any fluttering overhead. Instead, the sounds are a recording to accompany the museum's "Birds of South Asia: History vs.
Wearing blue pants and tall black boots, MSU police Sgt. Alan Haller is ready to enter a new age in campus policing. Beginning next week, the MSU Department of Police and Public Safety will patrol campus for the first time with a set of Harley-Davidson Road King motorcycles. "I ran at this chance," Haller said, dressed in new cycling gear.
The Flaming Lips must love Hostess-baked products. Its new seven-song EP, "Fight Test," is packed full of ultra-sweet, Twinkie-esque goodness.
A technology wave is about to transform the MSU grading process. During finals week, professors for the first time will enter student grades by computer rather than the years-old standard of Scantron forms. With the new program, grades should appear on MSU's student information Web site the same day professors post their marks, Registrar Linda Stanford said. "We've done an extensive amount of training and some faculty feel they don't need training," she said. The system was tested out on two colleges before its implementation and the defects were eliminated before putting it to use, Stanford said. The new program offers faculty members several methods to update grades.
Well, it seems that I'm down to the last 30 seconds or so of my 15 minutes of fame. This is the last time I'll be writing to you as "The Beer Guy." When you put this article down, I'll just be "guy."Next year, there will still be a Beer Guy (or Girl, maybe) but I'll have moved to Boston for grad school.
1. "American Idol-Tuesday," Fox, 20 million viewers 2. "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 19.1 million viewers 3. "Friends," NBC, 18.2 million viewers 4. "American Idol-Wednesday," Fox, 18.1 million viewers 5. "Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS, 17.7 million viewers 6. "Law & Order," NBC, 15.5 million viewers 7. "CSI: Miami," CBS, 14.9 million viewers 8. "Law & Order: SVU," NBC, 14.8 million viewers 9. "Will & Grace," NBC, 14.7 million viewers 10. "Scrubs," NBC, 14.7 million viewers Source: Nielsen Media Research
MSU medical students and health-care professionals will rally for health insurance equality from 1-4 p.m.
By Ayranna Wheeler For The State News Students who plan on studying in the Main Library during finals week might want to bring their own chairs. The nonstop cramming sessions for finals in the library has already begun.