Wharton Center has extended its $25 student ticket discount for "The Phantom of the Opera" to three additional shows.Tickets at the discounted price now are available for performances on Tuesday, Wednesday and Feb.
With his team stuck in a whirlwind of losses and inconsistency, Aloysius Anagonye decided it was time to assert himself as a leader.The senior forward paced the Spartans, as MSU (10-7 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) massacred Penn State 70-36 Wednesday night.After recording his first double-double this season on Saturday with a 12-point, 11-rebound performance against Minnesota, Anagonye dropped in 11 points while adding five rebounds, two assists and a pair of steals in 24 minutes of work.
Female rap artist Eve has dropped out of the Ja Rule U.S. Tour, including a stop in East Lansing scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Freshman tailback David Richard confirmed earlier today he will leave the Spartan football team.Richard led MSU in rushing yards last season."It's true," Richard told The State News.
State Rep. Susan Tabor, R-Delta Township, is speaking up against an MSU-Detroit College of Law professor's animal law Web site, claiming it provides support to anti-hunting views."In a time of tight budgets when Michigan schoolchildren are being asked to do with less and MSU students are seeing steep tuition hikes, the last thing we need is a new, highly controversial program of dubious practical value," Tabor said in a statement. The site, www.animallaw.info, includes information about 120 statutes and 100 cases involving animal rights.
The following are the answer's to The State News' Jeff Daniels quiz:1. Which TV show did Daniels not make a guest appearance in?• Home Improvement2.
Following a disappointing three-game road swing, the MSU men's basketball team took out its frustrations on a team with no conference wins. The Spartans (10-7 overall, 2-3 Big Ten) soundly drubbed Penn State on Wednesday 70-36 at Breslin Center, halting their three-game conference losing streak and holding the Nittany Lions (5-10, 0-4) to their lowest point total since joining the Big Ten. The Spartans' win stemmed from a 19-3 MSU run to end the first half after an offensive stalemate early on.
Although the racist flier found in Shaw Hall was terrible, I'm glad to see the university is taking action.
People in business attire sit at tables in the Union basement, quietly chatting with one another over their food.Servers in white aprons distribute helpings of roasted turkey and potatoes onto plates.It's just another day in the Heritage Café.From 11 a.m.
Jeff Daniels is a Hollywood rarity. With nearly 50 films on his résumé, including two director's credits, the veteran actor has managed to maintain his career despite the industry's short attention span. "It's great to have been around for a long time, because in Hollywood, careers are very short.
MSU President M. Peter McPherson was right Tuesday to criticize a hateful flier posted in Shaw Hall as "reprehensible, cruel and degrading." There is no room for racism on this campus and blatantly racist acts should not be tolerated. The flier, which was found on Jan.
With a variety of fitness options available, students and city residents can take their pick among apartment centers, professional gyms and campus intramural centers.
For a team that has struggled on the road, it may be a relief the MSU women's basketball team returns home.Though No.
Fossil fuel energy on University Farms might be history if students decide to front the money to make the transition to environmentally-friendly energy.Students will vote in March on whether to add a $5 student tax to fund environmental initiatives.ASMSU passed a bill allowing students to vote on the tax after the environmental organization ECO proposed the bill to MSU's undergraduate student government in November.The farms purchase fossil fuel energy from Consumers Energy, but would start shifting to solar and wind turbine energy if the tax passes, said Terry Link, a representative for the University Committee for a Sustainable Campus."There's only so much fossil fuel we can burn," he said.
The ripple effect of the $1.88-million Capital Area United Way embezzlement scandal fuels the trend of less trust in charities, local charity officials say.Since the Sept.
Matt Treadwell's article criticizing America was misguided, full of lies and shamefully inaccurate ("America's unalienable rights include selfishness, greed, power," SN 1/15). Perhaps equally shameful was the fact it was published.
Brad Fast and John-Michael Liles get more ice than Jay-Z's girlfriend. The multitalented senior defensemen have been MSU's main workhorses this year, logging far more minutes than any other Spartan not wearing goalie pads. Fast and Liles are MSU's top defensive pairing in that they play most of the important 5-on-5 shifts every game.
Despite the fact abortion is, and always will be, a heavily debated issue, both sides can agree on one thing - each can curb unwanted pregnancies. The case of Roe v.
Microbiology junior Jonathan Lenz knows the taxes he owes Michigan from Web purchases could start piling up. Six percent sales and use taxes are levied on Internet and mail-order purchases made in Michigan, but little of it is collected, according to the nonpartisan Senate Fiscal Agency.
Going against the grain has been key to the growth of Chicago-based jam band Umphrey's McGee. Relying heavily on bootlegging - highly debated and frowned upon by the corporate music industry - for its musical distribution, Umphrey's often finds itself defying critics and the odds, playing to sold-out crowds in towns where the band has never before stepped foot. After a packed performance in Lansing last year, Umphrey's McGee is making its second appearance in a more familiar place. "Our show in Lansing was fantastic last time," keyboardist and vocalist Joel Cummins said.