New York quartet Longwave's new album "The Strangest Things" takes its audience on a tour of astral sky-scrapping epic guitar sounds. With warm atmospheric drums, dissonantly murky basslines and spacey floodlight guitars, Longwave has a sound that's graduated from the U2 college of epic rock balledry.
New sidewalks and lighting will soon enhance the streets leading to the apartment complexes of the Northern Tier under a plan by East Lansing and Bath Township officials. Officials and residents say the additions to the newly constructed student housing district will make the area safer for its more than 2,700 inhabitants. Without necessary safety measures in place, Melrose Apartments resident Kelly Hurley says Northern Tier roads are "really dangerous" for runners as cars speed through poorly lit areas. During her daily runs, Hurley says she fears being struck by a car.
Winner from the first season of "American Idol," Kelly Clarkson's debut album "Thankful" is out in time to be forgotten while people watch the second season.
MSU men's basketball assistant coach Mike Garland is expected to be named Cleveland State's head coach this week, senior forward Brian Westrick said.Westrick said the seven-year MSU coaching veteran told him this morning that he was leaving for Cleveland State."He seemed pretty upbeat," Westrick said.
Two former state senators will receive honorary degrees at MSU commencement ceremonies on May 2. Harry Gast and George McManus Jr.
In response to Jason C. Miller's column about the anti-war liberals being wrong, I must point out that Miller makes many mistakes in criticizing the liberal stance ("Protesters were wrong on Iraq; now it's time to help out" SN 4/14). Just because liberation of the Iraqi people is the shoe that fits, that does not mean it is the shoe the Bush administration was shopping for.
Here's an idea: Musically inclined siblings forming an act to produce 20-something poppy beats with rhyming lyrics and infectious whining. OK, so it isn't an original idea, but throw an actress into the mix and the duo known as Boomkat is formed, creating an upbeat mix of hip-hop, electronic sounds and Gap commercials. Kellin and Taryn Manning make up the group and were raised by musically influential parents.
Oh mediocrity, why do you plague talent so? Look what you've done. You've taken Adam Sandler - whose early films "Billy Madison" and "Happy Gilmore" struck chords of pure, insane laughter - and taken over his career. It started with "The Waterboy," and last year we all hoped it would be over after "Mr. Deeds," but no.
In Michigan, nothing is certain. The Red Wings can lose and it might snow in April, but everyone knows April 15 is tax day.Students and area residents will be scampering around the city to finish their taxes today, hoping to postmark them as tonight's midnight deadline rapidly approaches.Li Xiong, a graduate international student, was busy copying forms at the East Lansing Post Office, 1140 Abbott Road, on Monday.
When Courtney O'Neill drove away from her apartment near Cedar Village to study in the Main Library on the night of the March 30 riot, she thought she had made a smart decision. What the biosystems engineering junior didn't know was that hours later, her gold 1994 Mazda 626 would become the focus of a disorderly crowd that tore through the city and campus, overturning cars and setting fires. About 2,000 people took to the streets after MSU's loss to Texas in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, causing at least $10,000 in damage to private property - which included O'Neill's car. When O'Neill left the library, she spotted a tow truck in the parking lot.
Alas! The 2003 WNBA Draft was canceled Monday, and this just might be a prelude to tough times ahead for the ugly duckling of the sports world.
Former MSU star Charles Rogers found himself under the microscope of NFL executives Monday after it was revealed he used a substance to dilute his drug test at the NFL combine in February. The news left Rogers' agent, Kevin Poston, on the defensive, claiming the consensus top-three pick in the April 26-27 NFL draft drank an excessive amount of water because he had difficulty urinating on the day of the test. During the pre-draft combine, potential draft picks often participate in drills for NFL scouts and submit to drug testing.
It's probably fairly difficult to make a film about a man who is to many a living legend, especially one who would likely pull a gun on you were you to approach his home to ask a question. Such is Hunter S.
Regarding the lengthy campustruth.org opinion statement in The State News ("Ads present often neglected viewpoint" SN 4/7), I would like to offer a reply on behalf of the Students for Palestinian Human Rights at MSU.
Three years of changes to a document that governs graduate students were approved by the MSU Board of Trustees on Friday. The Graduate Student Rights and Responsibilities Document cements the rights of graduate students, lays out the steps for filing grievances and explains the processes for theses and dissertations. The document was created in 1971 and had not been modified since 1984. Among the changes to the document is a mention of the Graduate Employees Union, which was formally recognized in April 2001. Council of Graduate Students President Jim Ciszweski was relieved to have this document passed. "It has taken several years to get this far," he said.
Normally, it's pretty hard to find hip-hop fans and jam-band fans hanging out together in large numbers. But that wasn't the case during Friday evening's unity concert at the rock on Farm Lane. Several hundred local students and residents gathered on both sides of the Red Cedar River for Project East Lansing Unified Music. Sponsored by the Angel Wing Foundation and JTD Enterprises Inc., the event brought together local jam and rock bands Killer Miller and Jebus, area hip-hop artists 3rd Deggree, Alias and DJ Owen and masters of ceremonies Legacee, Pistone, Detritus and Big Perm. Admission was free, with proceeds from drink sales going to help terminally ill children through Angel Wings, a relatively new group based out of Adrian. It acquired the stage used for the concert, donated for the evening by Stage Express, and sold soda pop - donated by Pepsi - to raise money for their cause. Killer Miller manager Aaron Dare, who helped organize the operation, said his motivation for doing the show at the rock is because there is a lack of venues in the area. "We couldn't find any venues for 18 and up so we just wanted to do it ourselves," the communication junior said. "We wanted to bring local rock and hip-hop together for some good exposure.
Lansing - Recent budget cuts resulting in 17 layoffs and the elimination of five staff positions for Lansing Community College were needed in order to keep tuition low, Trustee Todd Heywood said. "We're at a place where really tough decisions have to be made to avoid increasing tuition rates so that they are affordable," he said.
Augusta, Mich. - As the bus passed through the gate house at Ft. Custer on its way back to MSU, the exhausted cadets fell asleep to the low hum of the motor. As it neared Demonstration Hall, Sgt.
After years of seeing issues of great importance to the university community tabled by trustees, we applaud the hundreds of students who gathered together to let the board know they won't back down. Congregating in a large cluster outside the Administration Building last Friday, a number of student groups, including the Alliance of Lesbian-Bi-Gay-Transgender and Straight Ally Students and Coalition for Social Responsibility, came together to protest during the final Board of Trustees meeting of the semester.
To those students who took part in the riots - even those who were only "watching" - you should be ashamed.