Ah, the Super Bowl. The biggest event of the year for many sports fans. The best of the gridiron pitted against one another in the ultimate football game. Although the Super Bowl is an event viewed as an intense and honorable athletic competition, it is also a monument to consumerism.
I am compelled to answer the superficial, subjective and embarrassingly ignorant letters that have appeared in The State News in response to Matt Treadwell's recent column ("America's unalienable rights include selfishness, greed, power," SN 1/15). To Jonathan Strong: Treadwell is not a "liberal America-hater." The fact you surmised this from an essay written to promote nothing more than peace and understanding makes me cringe at the thought that you are studying to one day be a lawyer.
Capital Area United Way President Bob Berning intends to submit his resignation in the wake of a $1.88 million embezzlement scandal.In a statement released today, Tom Chirgwin, chairman of the Capital Area United Way's board of directors, said Berning will submit his resignation from the chapter at a special meeting Feb.
Although health officials say meningitis is a rare disease, the lethal sickness has become a common guest at MSU. There have been six cases of meningitis on campus since 1996, three resulting in death.
MSU loaded up its offense with two more commitments last weekend. Tecumseh (Mich.) High all-purpose back Cole Corey and Palm Beach (Fla.) High wide receiver Irving Campbell each picked the Spartans, both high school football head coaches confirmed the verbal commitment Monday.Tecumseh football head coach Randy Hutchison said Corey was committed to Western Michigan, but de-committed after MSU hired its football head coach - John L.
MSU has taken the first step into expanding on-campus housing. The university is possibly adding a seventh residence hall to the Brody Complex within three to five years.
The audience already knew what to do.But Latour, a disc jockey on Lansing's hip-hop radio station WQHH (96.5-FM), just wanted to make the rules clear."Now if it's good, you clap.
An anti-sweatshop student group that wants MSU to switch its labor-monitoring organization will meet with administrators today to discuss its campaign.
MSU's left-wing activist groups have been making a lot of noise in opposition to war with Iraq.
South Bend, Ind. - Like an old fisherman, the MSU hockey team will be talking about "the one that got away" for at least the next week.The Spartans led Notre Dame 3-1 with less than five minutes separating them from a seven-game winning streak, but the Fighting Irish stormed back with two goals within 18 second to force a 3-3 tie Saturday night at the Joyce Center.The tie, coupled with MSU's series-opening 2-1 win Friday, gave the Spartans a three-point weekend in South Bend.
Ann Arbor - It couldn't have been much closer or more evenly matched, but the MSU men's basketball team was edged by Michigan this afternoon, 60-58 in front of a frenzied Crisler Arena crowd. It was the Spartans' (10-8 overall, 2-4 Big Ten) fifth consecutive road loss and the sixth of their last eight.
A hallwide meeting in Hubbard Hall was held Friday night to discuss what happened to a female resident who had contracted meningoccocemia, a disease similar to bacterial meningitis.About 200 students packed a classroom to listen to Olin Health Center representatives discuss the prevention and consequences of meningitis.
Early Saturday morning Shaw Hall's ground floor was flooded by two inches of water after a fire sprinkler was damaged.
The Lansing Community College Board of Trustees appointed a new member Friday to replace former Trustee C.
MSU might add a seventh residence hall to the Brody Complex within three to five years, university officials say. The hall, which would be MSU's first new dormitory since the opening of Holden Hall in 1967, is proposed to be built between Emmons and Butterfield halls. A 300-person residence hall might become crucial as the university continues renovating larger halls across campus, said Angela Brown, executive director of MSU Housing and Food Services.
Tori Amos will be playing at DeVos Hall in Grand Rapids on March 12. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. today. Amos rekindled the piano in rock 'n' roll with her 1992 release "Little Earthquakes" and expanded it even further with her sophomore album, "Under the Pink." Amos is one of the few singer/songwriters who have successfully fused the lyrical onslaught of alternative rock with the mellow orchestral approach of the '70s. The Scarlet's Walk Tour promotes Amos' latest album of the same name, released Oct.
Taxing items sold on the Internet should not be used as a quick fix to repair a seriously injured state budget.
If you're on the market and looking for a date, head down to the Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity Inc. Pi Alpha Chapter's date auction, called "Obsesi
What is going on around here? Nowhere else in the world could a flier posted by some idiots gain front page standing.
Health officials say only those in close contact with a journalism sophomore admitted Thursday to Sparrow Hospital for a meningitis-like illness need to be worried about their health.The student, who lived on the ninth floor of South Hubbard Hall, is being treated in intensive care for meningococcemia, a bacterial infection that affects the blood.