For a few hours, users of MSU's Pilot e-mail system had a new option for checking their messages. A new Web site that will replace the 10-year-old Pilot system was unofficially launched Wednesday afternoon.
The East Lansing Film Festival is a grab bag of great films that defy mainstream convention. A large number of the films are deserving of mass viewing, but the only thing holding them back is the fact that, unlike most mainstream films, they have voices.Take, for example, "Horns and Halos," a documentary about the book "Fortunate Son," a biography about President George W.
"About Schmidt" Jack Nicholson steals the show as a man who, upon his wife's death, realizes he's wasted his life.
From living in downtown Chicago to being sidelined by a stress fracture earlier this season, Rashi Johnson's road to playing Big Ten basketball has been rough.While playing street ball at the age of 12, he was shot in the leg.
With many different interpretations of and reasons for celebrating St. Patrick's Day, it becomes inevitable that a variety of activities will surround the day.Unfortunately for most people, March 17 falls on a Monday this year - but hey, that's not stopping anyone from having fun.Traditionally in America, St.
This is in response to the editorial "One-man show" (SN 3/11). Why should the president "choose his statements with more caution" when our nation's security is at risk?
Chicago - The Big Ten Tournament again appears to be anyone's ball game. While No. 1 seed Wisconsin and No.
The protests of campustruth.org are acceptable but do not refute the truth behind these pictures. Regardless of the light in which it paints Palestinians, these pictures are accurate. I charge the protesters to disprove the pictures of Israelis mourning on Sept.
MTV has its hands full this week, but the recording of "Spring Break 2003" is only part of the reason. Lansing's own sarcastic, hell-raising teenage group Hyperbole, which is notorious for flashing truck drivers, harassing businesses with backdoor bells and starting hotel wrestling matches, will have two of its members take the stage in the all out, game-show-meets-reality series "Girl Makes Band." Drummer Andrew Ash and bass player Tony Hernandez will be controlled by three female contestants who try and make the best sounding band for their chance at an all-expenses-paid vacation.
My father has always blamed downriver Detroit for producing flaky drummers. Time after time I noticed different drummers walk into our home studio and then out the same door they'd come in. Over the past few years I've started to see what he's always been preaching about - no longer just in my home. The trend among Detroit-area bass players soon seemed to follow, and then so did a larger portion of the guitarist population. As I've gotten to know the Lansing scene a little bit more, I've started to believe I might have carried the virus with me when I moved.
Snell stands ahead Freshman defensive specialist Kristy Snell is MSU's latest Freshman Student-Athlete of the Year.
I strongly support Michael Perez's criticisms of your publication of campustruth.org's advertisement in the same issue, in which Israeli and Palestinian responses to the Sept.
After more than 25 years of business in East Lansing, Wazoo Records closed on a sad note. Owner James Patrick Lindsey, 58, died Thursday after suffering a heart attack in his home. Rebecca Lindsey-Kennedy, who was once married to Lindsey, said the fate of the music store doesn't look good after the death of its founder. "There is no one to really run it now," she said.
At Christmas time, most 4-year-old girls ask Santa Claus for dolls - but Melissa White had her eye on another toy.Twelve years ago, after watching a violinist appear as a guest on "Sesame Street," White begged her mom, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy for her very own stringed instrument."I thought it looked like the perfect instrument for a person to play because your chin fits so perfect in the chin rest," she said.
Several members of a state House subcommittee expressed their frustration with Gov. Jennifer Granholm's proposed cut to the Michigan Merit Award Scholarship today at the Capitol.Granholm proposed reducing awards from $2,500 to $500 last week in her budget proposal.
I would like to commend Michael Perez for his column, "Running ads could incite violence, perpetuate discrimination" (SN 3/10). The State News is irresponsible for running ads which reinforce false stereotypes about Arabs.
Tim Hearon is ready to close the book on his hockey career - one year earlier than most people expected.The versatile junior forward from Southgate decided last month to skip his senior season, choosing instead to take his finance degree into the real world.
Big Ten coaches and media unveiled choices for the top players in the conference Tuesday, tabbing sophomore guard Chris Hill and sophomore forward/guard Alan Anderson for Big Ten honors.Hill was named to the All-Big Ten Second Team while Anderson picked up an honorable mention from the media.